The figure of Alan arrived on the steps of his parents' house, drenched from rain as it seemed. When his Mother saw him, standing in silhouette at the midsection of the white-painted steps leading to the front screen-door, she nearly fainted. She immediately dropped her iced-tea to the floor, shattering the glass cup and leaving a streaking puddle of sweetly concocted beverage strewn about the floor and sliding off the marble kitchen counter. The reaction of her husband, Alan's Father, was much more subtle yet still riddled with utter shock. The reason for their reactions to seeing their son on their doorstep was for the simple reason that Alan should have been dead.
Just two days prior to Alan's arrival, his Mother and Father received the most dreaded notice they could have ever laid eyes upon. The standard Army death certificate. Saying it that way makes the notice of their son's death in combat sound very cynical, yet that was the way Alan's Father described the letter. Alan's Mother dared not even touch the envelope the letter came in, let alone read the notice itself. Alan died in combat near Fallujah, "with great honor" as was described. Alan's Father always wanted to see his son bring honor to the family. Yet, not at the cost of his son's life. It was the hardest news he could have ever received, news that had no words to describe. Yet, everything seemed upside-down the moment their son Alan materialized at their front door, soaking wet from some mysterious downpour.
Alan's Mother immediately dragged her son inside, squeezing her hands on his cold cheeks and barraging Alan with question after question. Perhaps they weren't questions necessarily, as they were surprised statements about the nature of Alan's appearance. Alan was dressed in his military fatigues, yet was not wearing any boots or socks. His skin was slightly pale, speaking no words, only giving a grievous stare from his sunken eyes which were also bloodshot. As was previously mentioned, Alan was drenched from head to toe. His uniform was completely darkened from the drenching, and water still dripping in decent amounts from his buzz cut head. It was as if Alan stepped in from a massive rain shower, yet there was no rain outside. As a matter of fact, it had not rained in town for nearly a week. Alan was completely silent, not a sound left his lips. Even as his Mother and Father spoke to him continuously, he gave no reply. It was as if Alan could not hear them, or that he could hear them yet was unable to give any verbal reply.
The conversation with Alan produced nothing. His parents understood only one thing after talking with Alan; something definitely was wrong with him. He may not have been dead physically, but the Alan they knew was truly dead. Even when the police and psychologist interviewed Alan, they got just as much response as his parents. To a certain extent, Alan's Father and Mother were very happy to see Alan return home. They were certainly glad that they didn't have to attend a funeral. Alan was showered with comfort and attempted affections. They made his bed for him, cooked for him three times a day, basically any task to make Alan more comfortable. None of it really seemed to change Alan's moods. It's not as if Alan was acting badly towards his parents, more or less he was acting towards them at all. Alan was often quiet and isolating of himself. This was very different from the Alan who was once known as the neighborhood's party animal before he enlisted in 2002. No affection seemed to penetrate this dark aura surrounding Alan. His favorite meals, favorite TV shows, none of it seemed to work. As days wound on, it became very clear that Alan was set in some very dark attitude that could not seem to shake itself.
Alan's Father, an Army Veteran himself, decided to contact the Army and try and get some information on what exactly happened to his son in Iraq. He thought that his stint in Vietnam would give him some leeway for information. The response given by the Army was very odd, almost terrifying. The Army claimed that the death certificate was not an error. Alan truly died in combat, and was confirmed to still be dead. It was impossible. Alan's Father continued to state that they must be mistaken, due to the fact Alan was sitting in his living room watching TV. The Army claimed that no error was made. How could it be possible? What Alan's Father and Mother didn't understand at the moment, was that something very powerful was at play. Alan's sudden reappearance was not a coincidence.
The body of Mr. Gilcrist was found lying in his bed, the cause of death set many in a state of unease. Gilcrist was one of the many military families that lived in the neighborhood. At least, Gilcrist was retired military. Gilcrist's son was also in the military, the Marines, yet he was killed early during the Iraq War. He was the first to enter Iraq and among the first to die. Gilcrist was never the same after his son was killed. A depression that many believed would lead to a suicide or at least a stress-induced early death. What made Gilcrist's death so bizarre was how he died. Drowning was the official cause of death. Gilcrist was found lying still as a plank, face up and blank eyes open. Water was in his lungs, oozing out from his semi-open mouth. It had no rationality to it. No drop of water existed in Gilcrist's bedroom. Neither his bed nor sheets were wet, same for the surrounding floor. There was no water in the bathtub, and absolutely no sign that someone could have drowned Gilcrist in his bed. Something was very wrong. No explanation could be given, so Gilcrist's death was labeled an accident.
Nothing that unfolded seemed accidental. The following events rocked the very core of the suburban neighborhood, especially to Alan's parents. A cosmic deal of balance was being fulfilled, and no one knew this or even cared to know of it. Alan knew of this. His actions grew stranger, emotionless expressions and that sank deeply into his face. As the days drew on Alan spoke less. As the days drew on, more people continued to die. Two more men were found dead, whom Alan's Father had known as Bill and Rob. They were both Army buddies of his, and both Bill and Rob's sons were veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Both men seemed to die within a day of each other. Cause of death for both was drowning. Both men were found in otherwise dry environments, with their lungs full of water. Much like the case of Mr. Gilcrist, no logical explanation could be given to the drowning deaths. However, unlike the case of Gilcrist, an extra piece of evidence was found on the bodies. Two words were carved into the chests of the bodies, words that ultimately found a connection with Alan; Raining Man.
It was when the police questioned Alan's Father again, that some rather odd pieces to an ominous puzzle were being put together. All three men that were killed had a connection with Alan's Father. They all served in Vietnam, as their sons were serving together in Iraq or Afghanistan. Some vain connection existed, though it was not clear at first what that connection was aside from Army service. It was also brought up about Raining Man, the words carved into the chests of two of the bodies. Alan's Father remembered what his son said the day he reappeared. Raining Man, he remembered those words coming from Alan's lips. Now those words were etched in the flesh of two dead men. Alan's Father didn't mention that information to the police. He didn't want to incriminate his son. However, Alan's Father had to try and understand what was happening, and why his son was connected to it.
"Who returns from the spirit world in the form of a dead warrior who can summon the power of the rains to repay the debts of those who spill youthful blood." Supposedly, the Raining Man was once a proud young warrior who was killed in battle during a rainstorm, and vowed before his death that his spirit would fulfil a blood promise. He laid a curse that he would return to "repay the blood of the sons with the blood of the fathers." The story went pretty much that way, not much to elaborate on. It was just supposed to be a story, after all. The villager was executed not long after he told the story. The Raining Man was a story that Alan's Father barely even remembered, yet now it seemed that some reality was being molded out of the old story.
The rain outside stopped suddenly. It just a single moment, the entirety of the raining ceased, as if someone merely had to turn off a faucet. In the following moments, Alan's Father and Mother felt odd sensations on their skin. They could feel water droplets touching them. One by one, at first, much like a rainstorm beginning to brew. Alan's Father looked up to the ceiling to see water droplets forming out of it and falling. The droplets soon evolved into a torrential pour, inside the house. Everything was getting drenched in the supernatural rain. Alan's Father and Mother were utterly stunned by the indoor storm, while Alan sat eerily still. The entire house was giving off the downpour. Alan's Father knew that Alan was at the center of what was happening, and pleaded with him to make it stop. Alan eventually complied.
Alan's Father decided to request to see his son's body. The Army continued to claim that Alan was dead, so therefore there still had to be a body. He wanted to know if the person, or thing, living in his house was really his son. There was no body. Apparently, the body had been labeled misplaced. He also discovered certain details about Alan's service, which apparently involved a rather troubling incident in a small village under investigation for war crimes. After further inquiries, Alan's Father also discovered some issues about two of the murder victims. Bill and Rob's sons apparently suffered ill fates during their service. Bill's son was hit with an IED during his first patrol, losing both of his legs and his left hand. Rob's son killed himself the previous year, service pistol to the mouth. To a certain extent Alan's Father was somewhat disappointed in himself that he did not keep in touch with his former service buddies enough to know the trauma's their families faced. Now both Bill and Rob were dead, and the issue of the Raining Man seemed to reappear in each thought on the matter. Indeed, many issues seemed to add up more and more toward this concept of the Raining Man and the curse he supposedly has to bear.
Mr. Gilcrist, Bill and Rob were former soldiers. Their sons were soldiers who suffered horrible fates during their service. It seemed the fathers were suffering similar fates as their sons, albeit by different means. Could an old tall tale about the Raining Man really be true? Everything seemed to add up in that direction, but any rational person could not lead himself to believe that such a ghost story could be true. After all, that is all it was, a ghost story. Alan's Father, however, soon came to find his connection to what was happening. If Raining Man was real, why would he manifest as his son? It was when he laid eyes on his old Army medals again that he began to realize why he was connected to the events. Alan's Father had not laid eyes on his medals in over thirty years. The medals he won for his "brave" service in Vietnam. Those were back in 69-71. He, Bill, and Rob served in a Huey detachment whose primary goals were what we know as search and destroy missions. Though he, Bill, and Rob were decorated for their duty in Vietnam, those days were days that were rather left forgotten.
Alan's Father's service medals were won through acts that he would never repeat. Looking at the medals reminded him instantly of that savage day in 1970. The sleeping villagers had no time to flee. Two hundred were gunned down without a single shot fired back in defense or offense. The incident was blamed on NVA and VC troops. Alan's Father never wanted to remember or be associated with that day ever again. Perhaps that's why he didn't associate with Bill and Rob too much after the war. Alan's Father tossed his murderous medals across the floor, wondering how exactly the reemerged in they first place. He threw them away decades ago. When he looked at them again, all he could think of was the blasphemous legend that spoke of balances to be paid; Raining Man.
The rains were brewing, and Alan's Father was at last confronted with the price he had to pay. The same price that Gilcrist, Bill and Rob had to pay. The same price all of their sons paid. Alan, or the image he perceived to be Alan, stood before him with the same ominous glare. He demanded to know if he was his son. The being only shook his head. The figure who pretended to be Alan, revealed what it was and why it appeared the way it did. It was then that the being revealed his true form, the form of Raining Man. A shadowy body, engulfed with ushering wetness that leaked everywhere. A strange wind and sound preceded him, and the rains continued to grow stronger. It was time to fulfill the promise. Alan's Father soon learned, or was rather shown, that his son invoked the power of the Raining Man once he shed the blood of the innocents. The blood of the sons had to be paid with the blood of the fathers. The legacy of war and massacre left a black mark, which only the Raining Man could cleanse.
Alan's Father was put to his knees and forced to face the deaths by his hand. He had a debt to be paid, for the loss of his son. It was Alan's Father that encouraged his son to serve and go to war, just as Gilcrist, Bill, Rob and so many others have. The father always has to live his legacy through the son. Due to this, the blood of the lost sons had to be paid. The rains soon engulfed Alan's Father all around, showers growing stronger each moment. The rains grew stronger until Alan's Father could feel the rain like blades, sinking deeply into his flesh and watching as the room around him drowned in water. The only thing Alan's Father could see, or even comprehend, was the ever towering power of the Raining Man. His debt was now paid.
The cause of death was drowning. Alan's Father was found in his son's room, lying on the otherwise dry floor. His lungs were full of water. Alan, or who was thought to be Alan, disappeared. No trace of him could be found. It was as if he was merely an illusion. The Army soon cleared up its supposed mistakes, and relocated Alan's body. It was indeed true, Alan was dead. Alan's Mother was left to question whether the whole incident was a nightmare. Yet, every time she wakes up her husband and son are both still dead. The work of the Raining Man still persists, and will continue to enact its bound duty to restore the balance of blood from all that create the deficits. More will come to know the story of Raining Man soon. All will come to know the power the Raining Man holds, and to honor the blood and lives of those around them. Alan's Mother certainly knows of his truth. This was especially true as she planned the funerals of her husband and son. She thought perhaps the two of them can be rested together. Perhaps the funerals can be side by side, father and son, and might even be cast under the showers of a drenching rainstorm.


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Budget to include money to modernize Alberta's money management systems
Finance official estimate the new system will cost $3 million.
Mariam Ibrahim
Alberta's upcoming budget will include money to improve the province's "antiquated" cash management systems and consolidate more than 1,700 government bank accounts, the province's finance department said Tuesday.
Auditor general Merwan Saher criticized the province's outdated system in his February investigative report, which recommended the province invest in a necessary upgrade to potentially save millions in public money over the long term.
Alberta finance officials told the all-party public accounts committee Tuesday that next week's budget will include money to "bring us into the current century."
"Our understanding is that it will be in the budget," said Lowell Epp, an assistant deputy minister in Treasury Board and Finance. "It will enable us to do more and to do more efficiently."
Epp told the committee the upgrade is estimated to cost roughly $3 million, although a request for proposals hasn't yet been issued.
"We have no doubt in our own minds that this will pay for itself and it's the right thing to do," he said.
Saher's audit revealed the province's existing cash-management systems could be costing up to $20 million for every $1 billion that sits in government accounts instead of earning better returns elsewhere. It also uncovered a maze of government bank accounts and a spreadsheet system updated manually each day.
Epp told the committee the government currently has 1,751 active bank accounts, of which 666 are managed by arm's-length agencies. The province pays roughly $900,000 annually in associated bank account fees. But the majority of those accounts — 1,300 — never have a balance and are simply used for "moving cash," Epp said.
Finance Minister Joe Ceci said the improved system will help the government save on borrowing costs and will help the treasury more easily funnel cash to government for operations.
The changes will lead to "a lot fewer" bank accounts and ensure the province is following best practices, he added.
"It's good news for the province," he said
Finance department officials said they expect it will be at least two years before a new automated system is fully implemented.
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Barbara Hill, wearing Marni gold-tipped cowhide shoes.
Word-based artwork by Lawrence Weiner is in Dutch and English. Vintage Platner chairs. Italian Rupert Sanderson ankle boots.
In the living area, a Ligne Roset sofa keeps company with a vintage Eames lounge chair.
Like the entire apartment, even the bath area doesn't have a door. The walls, ceiling and floor have been left in raw concrete. Bamboo-sticks screen from Kuhl-Linscomb. Zuma tub. Ingo Maurer chandelier. Metalwork in the bath and throughout the house is custom-made by George Sacaris Studio.
Part of Hill's extensive book collection.
Detail of custom Bertoia chairs from Cast + Crew in Marfa.
Mid-century chair, which Hill refurbished and recovered the seat in cowhide, features a quote from her Pulpoetry collection. At left is a European telephone, which Hill collects.
In the living area, the chalkboard bears philosophical phrases. Ligne Roset sofa. Mark Flood lace painting. Coffee table is a vintage French postal sorting table from Kuhl-Linscomb. On the table, vintage Jayne Mansfield water bottle found in New Orleans. Vintage Platner chairs.
In the bath, La Cava's Aqua Grande sink has been left unfinished. Reflected in the mirror is a vintage Bad Company album cover.
Exposed ductwork
In the bedroom, Ligne Roset platform bed and ottoman. Above the bed, Stewart Cohen's photograph of a gun-toting Marfa resident.
In the dining area, the antique farmhouse table is from Twenty Six Twenty. Pair of Italianate chairs from Antiques on Dunlavy (now Antiques & Interiors at The Pavilion). Bertoia chairs from Cast + Crew in Marfa. Vintage Eames lounge chair. Hill's balcony cactus garden includes an 8 1/2-foot agave named Javier Bardem.
The bath includes a Zuma tub, which Hill has left unfinished, and a Philippe Starck-designed toilet for Duravit.
Hill's comfortable kitchen
Detail of some pieces of Hill's collection.
Woman on the Edge
This Eccentric Designer is a Fearless Iconoclast
BY Rebecca Sherman // 07.14.15
photography Jenny Antill Clifton
To describe Barbara Hill as an interior designer is missing the point. Don't get me wrong — she has all the hallmarks of being an extremely talented, successful one. With clients in Houston, Mexico, Atlanta and Minneapolis, she has most recently finished a home in Bayou Bend Towers on Westcott at Memorial Drive. She's been published with enviable frequency, including The New York Times, Taschen's Interiors Now and Dwell magazine, which has included her work in 11 issues. Celebrity designer Nate Berkus was so enamored with one of Hill's Marfa houses — converted from a former 1930s dance hall — that he flew her out to New York City four years ago to talk about it on his show. Twenty-four pages in Berkus' 2012 book, The Things That Matter, are devoted to Hill and the one-room Marfa house, which he describes as "beautifully organized" and "poetic."
With flaming red hair and a penchant for expensive, flamboyant shoes, the 78-year-old Hill is as much performance artist as decorator, more iconoclast than trendsetter. The recently updated 860-square-foot Upper Kirby studio in the '60s-era Regency House high-rise where she's lived for the past 10 years typifies her unconventional style. There's an Italian Ingo Maurer chandelier in the bath and, in the main living area, a Burton snowboard with Andy Warhol's "The Last Supper" painted on it, from a Marfa art gallery. A madcap photograph of a Marfa resident dressed in a suit and boots while wielding a pair of comically oversized pistols hangs over her Ligne Roset platform bed.
Here, the rough underbelly is preferred to the polished surface. The bathtub and sink, designed to be set into finished enclosures, were left unfinished, exposing their bare exteriors. Walls of zinc sheeting traditionally used for roofing surround the tub area. As for square footage, the more contained, the better.
"It's perfect. I could even go smaller," Hill says. "I can hop around inside here pretty easily. It's wonderful, easy living." The space was a typical '60s condo with Sheetrock walls and eight-foot ceilings when Hill bought it. She took everything down to the bones, revealing ductwork and concrete. The ceilings suddenly became tall, and the room opened up. "Once I ripped everything out, and I saw the beauty of the natural materials, I wanted to leave it," she says. "I just love looking at these imperfect ceilings, which are perfect in their own way."
She has filled the rustic, industrial sheath with beautifully crafted furnishings, both modern and antique, such as a pair of Italianate gilt chairs from Antiques on Dunlavy (now Antiques & Interiors at the Pavilion); original Platner and Bertoia chairs she's owned for years; a new Ligne Roset sofa; and a rare, old metal French postal sorting table that was cut down for use as a coffee table, from Kuhl-Linscomb. The contrasts produce an almost spartan aesthetic that is elegant in its simplicity and use of space.
In Hill's bedroom, a rack holds clothes and shoes. A rolled woven mat set on its side serves as a space divider between the bath area. Sugar pillows from Urban Outfitters.
"My rooms are minimal, but there's a romance to them," she says. "I like rooms to have something sexy, surprising and humorous about them. I like to play things against each other."
Like her interiors, Hill's life is full of contrasts. She grew up in East Texas and entered the Miss Texas pageant in 1956 as a way to escape what she describes as a culturally repressed childhood. "I was way too cutting-edge, even back then," she says. She wooed the pageant judges with a rendition of the 1947 French song "C'est Si Bon," sung in the manner of sultry cabaret star Eartha Kitt (of "Santa Baby" fame), and the Miss Texas title. A University of Houston literature dropout — she left school to get married and start a family — the former beauty queen taught herself how to pull together the minimal, chic rooms she's now known for.
"It was intuitive. I didn't study with anyone. The closest thing to a mentor I ever had was Dominique de Menil. Just being around her was inspiring," says Hill, who worked for de Menil at the Rice Museum during the '60s and '70s, helping to organize exhibitions and docent tours. In 1971, Hill — whose surname was Cusack at that time — opened Cusack Gallery, at which she represented New York and European minimalist and conceptual artists such as Robert Mangold, Sol LeWitt, Daniel Buren and Carl Andre. These were "artists that no one in Houston was showing at the time," she says. "By then, I had four kids and was divorced. But it was an exciting time."
Hill lived in the attic of the gallery, a 1920s bungalow behind the Contemporary Arts Museum. Hill's daughters lived in the gallery's back rooms, and her sons were installed above the garage. "You could smell spaghetti cooking when you were in the gallery," she says. Her cadre of artists was unknown in Houston at the time, but they were destined for acclaim. "Daniel Buren painted stripes on my windows," she recalls, noting that the French conceptual artist went on to have a prestigious one-man show at the Guggenheim, as did Andre, whose early word-based works now fill a warehouse at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa. LeWitt, considered a founder of the conceptual and minimalist movements, became a prolific artist with hundreds of exhibitions in museums and galleries across the world. Mangold's large circular canvases, which went for only a few thousand dollars at her gallery, now fetch hundreds of thousands at auction, she says.
"It was high-energy, but not many people in Houston got it at the time," Hill says. "The only person who bought from me was Mrs. de Menil." The gallery closed in 1974. Afterwards, Hill moved to Rio de Janeiro for four years, later marrying a commercial deep-sea diver. "I decorated our apartment there on a shoestring — it was fabulous," she remembers. When they moved back to Houston, she entered the townhouse in which they were living into a contest sponsored by the now-defunct Metropolitan Home. She won, and the magazine published her work. Later, when the couple sold their house in Santa Fe's historical district, along with a backyard casita converted from an old shepherd's shack, the new owners purchased all of the furniture, too. People were willing to pay to get her look, and it was the start of Hill's career as an interior designer for hire. "The people who bought one of my houses in Marfa also bought it furnished, down to the smallest accessories and details," she says, noting that the house has exchanged hands again and the new owners have kept everything. "People seem to like to leave the spaces I design just as they were. I do feel the character of the space, and that has a lot of influence on what I do with it in terms of the design."
She decorates and lives life on her own terms, and people gravitate to her unique brand of eccentricity. A punk rocker pushing 80 — she looks to be in her 50s — Hill's hair was ash blonde before she dyed it, 25 years ago, an Italian red tint that imparts a slight halo of purple around her head. While entertaining at home these days is more about having her grown children and seven grandchildren over, Hill's expansive farmhouse table frequently brims with tapas and wine for a diverse group of friends.
"It comes in waves, depending on how busy I am with work," she says. "The people who come over are artists [daughter Claire Cusack is a well known artist in Houston], but a lot of times it'll be people from the building. There's a pretty cool group who live here, with a lawyer thrown in every now and then."
Hill reads voraciously. "I have four times as many books at my Marfa house as I do here," she says. "Fiction, biographies … I read a lot of the Japanese authors, the great Russian and Latin American writers. I just finished All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. It was delicious — a blind girl's description of the natural world. So beautifully written."
A mid-century chair that needed a bit of oomph launched Hill in a new direction a few years ago — one that fuses her love of writing with art and design. "I had these two Lucite chairs in the dance hall in Marfa," she says. "I got the idea to write a quick thing on the backs. Then I bought other mid-century chairs and wrote on them." The endeavor has turned into a cottage industry. Hill's compositions, which are now typeset and silkscreened onto cotton canvas and upholstered onto chairs or made into pillows, read like passages from a pulp fiction novella. A chair in her Houston condo pays homage to the Texas cowboy: "He rode in on a dust storm — from somewhere on the Rio Grande — spurs jingling — hell in his holster." Another from her collection of stories pokes fun at the New York art cognoscenti occasionally seen on the streets of Marfa: "He flew in from somewhere on the east coast — a black leather-clad art collector — cool and crisp as a dry martini." She's currently busy working on site-specific stories for the W Hotel, which has asked her to create custom pillows for some of their properties outside of Texas. Her wordworks on fabric — as unserious as she attempts to make them — take us back to the early days of conceptualism, when the graphic beauty of words lined up on a page was as much a part of the art as what was said.
Art, interior design, writing … In many ways, Hill has come full circle. "I'm not an artist, but I work more like an artist," she says. "I create as I go. I don't have a plan; things just evolve, and one thing leads to another. Sometimes I go back and make changes, or get a great idea right in the middle of things. Each project has a personality that starts to come through when you open it up."
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Order of Battle: World War II is a breath of fresh air for all strategy fans. It is a game that takes wargaming to a new level by upgrading every single game element and rebooting the genre for a new generation of players.
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Genre: Free to Play, Simulation, Strategy
Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian
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Tomasz Cebulski
Trust me, I am a GENEALOGIST.
Has your country recognized Holodomor as genocide yet?
Ukrainian - Israeli Relations - photo by Tomasz Cebulski and SKY HERITAGE PICTURES
How politicians can help Ukraine?
Maybe by international recognition of Holodomor as genocide?
Maybe if most of the western countries recognize internationally facts on Soviet Russian genocide in Ukraine 80 years ago it will be easier to prevent the next genocide perpetrated by contemporary Russia.
The 20th century taught us something about the capacities and extent of human cruelty. The Ukrainians were the first nation in Europe to suffer under genocidal policies planned and executed by Soviet Russia. During the Great Famine of 1932-33, known as the Holodomor, Russia sponsored and conducted a policy against Ukraine resulting in the murder of three million Ukrainians. Stalin followed the ideological thought line of his own maniac delusions against the fact-based knowledge of the failure of central planning. Lenin's New Economic Policy was terminated in 1928 and Stalin centralized the economy once more, while at the same starting to refer more to Russian nationalism. The introduction of terror and control was enough to destroy the grain resources in Ukraine and to bring about a full-scale genocide. Millions of deaths were caused by starvation and weather.
#HolodomorMemorialDay
I hold an MA in International Relations and Politics and an MA in Middle East Studies, both from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. I am a PhD in the field of Political Studies, writing on the changing patterns of Holocaust and Auschwitz memory. I am a scholar of comparative genocide studies and author of a book "Auschwitz after Auschwitz". I work professionally as Jewish genealogist. I am a guide and genealogist through complicated matters and sites. My research company Polin Travel was initiated in 2000 to merge three of my passions: Jewish history, genealogy, and guiding. The last 20 years brought many explorations, genealogical finds, and emotions that proved to be transformative for me and my clients. Pursuing an academic career I don't lose sight of moving my travel activities on-line with first successful on-line guided tours, on-line genealogy, supported with customized films, and lectures. During the COVID pandemic I initiated a new visual history and historical site interpretation project SKY HERITAGE PICTURES.
How do we make it our mission to remember?
Alyssa Annis
Two Stories of Famine: Ancient and Modern
Naomi Graetz


There are only 18 entries in my Spring Giveaway guys, so your chances are really good. Just FYI!
Illamasqua Purity was my first peach polish, and I loved it, so I wanted to do a little comparison of the others I picked up recently!
I compared it here with Illamasqua Purity. You can see how Purity is more glossy and a little darker of a shade. Both are very pretty!
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Snap Schedule 2011 is a comprehensive business management solution that allows you to organize your employees' working days including their shifts, vacations, leaves, etc. The program comes with a series of samples for different fields (restaurants, police department, medical staff, etc.), so you can have an idea on how to use the program in the most efficient way. The program features a Microsoft Office 2007 look and feel, making the program very easy to use for those who usually work with Word or Excel, for instance. Several improvements to how the app looks and feels have been made in this version.
With this program, you will be able to create working schedules for a week, 2 weeks, 4 weeks, etc. and also view them by employee or by shift. You can even send the schedules to your employees by email and auto generate schedules following a customized plan. The program also includes a great variety of printable reports that cover almost every aspect of the application. What is great about the program is that you can customize absolutely everything for your convenience and include as much information as you want.
The program is extremely complex and offers options that are great to manage a big staff, so it is perfect for big companies. However, if you have a small company, I wouldn't spend so much money in this program since you can find other simpler applications that will surely cover all your staff management needs.


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The staff was very knowledgeable and helped up pick out the exercise equipment that was right for us.
Who doesn't love target? What I really like about this store is that they know their local customers and treat us with the utmost of respect.
Great place to buy big bulk items. The best time to shop seems to be around 7:30. It's a jock in and out!
I love this place so much and i went there just yesterday. I got awesome shoes too.i would recommend this place!
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They are having a great sale today. Got some shirts for $5!!! All kinds of things on sale. Line was long but went really quick!!
The best store in Roseville. The best customer servicre. Thy are off the charts helpful and nice. The have the vest selection of Shoes and makeup.


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Q: 401 UNAUTHORIZED error when using IBM AppId with Spring Boot I am trying to integrate a sample spring boot application with IBM AppId service. I followed the tutorial available on IBM Developer portal. Below is my configuration
application.yml
spring:
  security:
    oauth2:
      client:
        registration:
          appid:
            clientId: <<clientId>>
            secret: <<secret>>
        provider:
          appid:
            issuerUri: <<issuer_uri>>

SecurityConfiguration.java
@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
public class SecurityConfiguration extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http.authorizeRequests()
                .antMatchers("/login/**", "/user", "/userInfo").authenticated()
                .and()
                .oauth2Login();
    }
}

User is redirected to IBM login screen. After successful authentication, user is redirected back to the web application but sees below error
[invalid_token_response] An error occurred while attempting to retrieve the OAuth 2.0 Access Token Response: 401 Unauthorized: [no body]
TRACE output written to application log
2021-03-06 21:40:26.805 TRACE 2565 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] o.s.s.authentication.ProviderManager     : Authenticating request with OAuth2LoginAuthenticationProvider (1/3)
2021-03-06 21:40:26.807 DEBUG 2565 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] o.s.web.client.RestTemplate              : HTTP POST https://au-syd.appid.cloud.ibm.com/oauth/v4/<<tenantId>>/token
2021-03-06 21:40:26.807 DEBUG 2565 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] o.s.web.client.RestTemplate              : Accept=[application/json, application/*+json]
2021-03-06 21:40:26.808 DEBUG 2565 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] o.s.web.client.RestTemplate              : Writing [{grant_type=[authorization_code], code=[wp1MU8O9wpnCj8Opw7wlfcOVwr5nF8OUwqfDqSpow51Fw48rV8ORwrJ6w65VEgI2wrVxHhshdcOfwpo8FsKXw795OcKDw43DjzJLAsK5w7sGwqHDiVjDm3LCkW7DnQN-w7fCl8OgKSTDocKVcMOIwprCvhnCvMK1wqdYe8OMNcKJw4g0w7VKwoA8w5FdGnLDlMOqfiZnw5N9w4g7w45qw4TDgD9Nw6UDacOyasO9S8OqwpkcNgh0w4PCnMOIw5TCvMO1w5IQUy5JQ1vDtWHChMOpKcOGH1fClMKfwo3CoxDCmSLCvnM1w4TDhsKGw57CmsOcPA_ChcKwwqfCpMOiwprDtUTDs8KFw7_Drg1EEsOXUMKTwpfDvBXDjsKIw5Rpw6N1TsO3QA], redirect_uri=[http://localhost:8080/login/oauth2/code/appid]}] as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8"
2021-03-06 21:40:27.232 DEBUG 2565 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] o.s.web.client.RestTemplate              : Response 401 UNAUTHORIZED
2021-03-06 21:40:27.235 TRACE 2565 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] o.s.s.authentication.ProviderManager     : Authenticating request with OidcAuthorizationCodeAuthenticationProvider (2/3)
2021-03-06 21:40:27.235 DEBUG 2565 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] .s.a.DefaultAuthenticationEventPublisher : No event was found for the exception org.springframework.security.oauth2.core.OAuth2AuthenticationException
2021-03-06 21:40:27.235 TRACE 2565 --- [nio-8080-exec-1] .s.o.c.w.OAuth2LoginAuthenticationFilter : Failed to process authentication request

org.springframework.security.oauth2.core.OAuth2AuthenticationException: [invalid_token_response] An error occurred while attempting to retrieve the OAuth 2.0 Access Token Response: 401 Unauthorized: [no body]
    at org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.authentication.OAuth2LoginAuthenticationProvider.authenticate(OAuth2LoginAuthenticationProvider.java:113) ~[spring-security-oauth2-client-5.4.5.jar:5.4.5]
    at org.springframework.security.authentication.ProviderManager.authenticate(ProviderManager.java:182) ~[spring-security-core-5.4.5.jar:5.4.5]
    at org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.web.OAuth2LoginAuthenticationFilter.attemptAuthentication(OAuth2LoginAuthenticationFilter.java:192) ~[spring-security-oauth2-client-5.4.5.jar:5.4.5]
    at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.java:222) ~[spring-security-web-5.4.5.jar:5.4.5]
    at org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractAuthenticationProcessingFilter.java:212) ~[spring-security-web-5.4.5.jar:5.4.5]

Any suggestion to resolve this issue?

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What training is given to carers?
In this instance, I can only mention the training that Nightingales gives to our carers. Our carers all train in manual handling, health and safety, medication, safety of vulnerable adults, food hygiene, first aid and fire safety. As well as these, carers will also receive specialist training in nutrition and well-being, whistle blowing, pressure care, mental capacity, dementia awareness, palliative care and infection control.
All of our carers are either studying or have already achieved the QCF (formerly NVQ) qualification in Health and Social Care.
We constantly check and liaise with our care staff to ensure that they always maintain the high standards that are set during the training period. Spot checks, supervisions and one to one appraisals are all part of our regular supervisory work to keep everyone on the same page.
As you can see, there is quite a wide range of training and qualifications that are care staff must complete. This ensures that they all possess the expertise to care for our clients to the highest possible standards.


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Arctic atmospheric pollutants is now an important foreign factor. This quantity provides the main authoritative evaluate of this more and more very important topic for an viewers of either scientists and directors thinking about around the globe, in addition to polar, pollutants difficulties. Arctic pollution is an edited number of papers, first awarded at a convention helo because the Scott Polar examine Institute in Cambridge in 1985.
The 1st facts at the hostile results of natural pollution on Arctic ecosystems used to be supplied via foreign study tasks greater than 30 years in the past. at the present time, the indigenous humans of the North are thought of to be plagued by publicity to power natural pollution (POPs) and metals via their conventional marine nutrition assets.
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Hydrogen sulfide gases are released from sanitary landfill sites, sanitary sewer systems, wastewater-treatment plants, reverse-osmosis drinking water plants, septic tank systems, and hydrogeothermal plants (1–8). However, H2S releases are negligible in comparison with SOx releases. Accordingly, only the quantitative information of SOx emissions is presented in this section. More than 25 million metric tons of sulfur oxides (SOx) are emitted annually in the United States, and about 65 million metric tons are annually emitted by the entire world's industrialized nations.
The availability of commercial software for air dispersion analysis. The availability of a special training program. Solution 1. 2. 3. The computer programs for air quality management and air dispersion analysis are available in the literature (15,16). The hand-calculated results in this chapter agree closely with the computer-calculated results. 1 predicts the dispersion of airborne sulfur dioxide from a stack, a slightly modified calculation procedure and computer program can predict the dispersion of other types of gaseous pollutants from a stack.
14. M. H. Wang, L. K. Wang, and W. Y. W. Chan, Technical Manual for Engineers and Scientists, Manual No. PB 80-143266, US Department of Commerce, National Technology Information Service, Springfield, VA, 1980. 15. M. H. S. Wang, L. K. Wang, T. Simmons, and J. Bergenthal, J. Environ. , 61–87 (1979). 16. L. K. Wang, M. H. S. Wang, and J. Bergenthal, J. Environ. , 247–270 (1981). 17. M. Yang, in Handbook of Environmental Engineering (L. K. Wang, N. C. Pereira, and H. E. ), Humana, Totowa, NJ, 1979, Vol.


Garrett spent his early years growing up on a farm in a small town. When he was in the ninth grade, he moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, with his mother, and took private acting lessons. After graduating from high school, he immediately moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue an acting career. One month later, he would landed the role of Achilles' cousin Patroclus in the major feature Troy (2004) opposite Brad Pitt. His next feature was Friday Night Lights (2004) starring Billy Bob Thornton, in which Garrett played a high school football player. He then landed a starring role opposite Mark Wahlberg in Four Brothers (2005), playing one of four brothers whose mother is murdered. He also starred opposite Jeff Bridges and Olivia Wilde in TRON: Legacy (2010), the long-awaited sequel to the science fiction cult classic TRON (1982).
Modeled for L.L. Bean and Teen magazine before acting.
Won the role of Patroclus in Troy (2004) only one month after arriving in Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.
Grew up as a huge fan of Tim McGraw only to have him play his father in Friday Night Lights (2004).
Gained at least 30 lbs. of muscle for the role of Patroclus in Troy (2004), then gained another 20 for the role of Don Billinsley in Friday Night Lights (2004) - only to slim back down for the role of Jack Mercer in Four Brothers (2005).
Ran track and field during high school.
Family: mother Kristi, father Robert, older brother Nathaniel and older sister Amanda.
Nominated for Choice Breakout Movie Star - Male for "Troy" in the 2004 Teen Choice Awards.
Is a huge fan of punk rock.
Parents divorced when he was a young boy.
Participated in ice skating, wrestling and football during high school.
Grew up on a farm that only got one radio station, that played country music. The airwaves were dominated by Tim McGraw, who later went on to star as his father in Friday Night Lights (2004).
When he was 15, went to various punk rock shows to photograph the bands and their fashions.
Current residence: In an apartment in Los Angeles (which he bought with the money he made from Troy (2004)).
Attended Horizon High School in Phoenix, Arizona but graduated a semester early to pursue acting.
Broke his arm snowboarding and could not attend the London premiere of Eragon (2006) with his fellow cast members.
His father is of Swedish descent. His mother is of three quarters German and one quarter Norwegian ancestry.
Was discovered at a ProScout event.
Good friends with TRON: Legacy (2010) co-star Olivia Wilde.
Named the #8 Sexiest Man by Glamour magazine in 2011.
Born on the same date as Paz de la Huerta.
[on Friday Night Lights (2004)]: I grew up on a farm, and Lucas in the jungles of Alabama, so I think we adapted very well. It's just a lot that these guys are holding on their shoulders at such a young age. There's a lot they're dealing with, the town pressure or support, their home life, all of that causes a sense of internal insecurities. These guys are realizing how crazy it is that they're going through all this at such a young age.
Everything to me in life is like the second scratch.
I've always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake of ice and I kept running and kept running, just about to where I was trying to get to, and I fell through the ice, and then I couldn't find the hole where I fell through to get back out again. It was always like this certain thing where I could only get so far before everything collapses. So I guess it's a bit of living in fear. But I don't try to put it that way, because I feel that is going to pull everything you fear toward you. It's about acknowledging the fear for about five percent, and then ninety-five percent goes into shrugging it all off.
A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
When Terrence Howard and I worked together [on John Singleton's Four Brothers (2005)], he showed me what was basically the first thing I ever learned on a guitar. It was a little Spanish number. But by the time we started working on On the Road (2012) together, five years later, I'd obviously learned how to play more, so Terrence came to my room with a guitar and played a song, and then I played a song, and then he played a song, and then I played a song - this must have gone back and forth about 12 times. It was nice to have been able to do that.
[on being inspired by co-star Hugh Jackman on the set of Pan] Hugh's amazing. He sets a standard for young males all over the place. He puts 110 percent into everything he does, including fitness. Hugh and I trained with this wonderful trainer named David Kingsbury. We got some gym sessions in together. It's a lot to keep up with, but it's wonderful to see someone who works out as hard as he does, it's inspiring.


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Улица Просвеще́ния — улица в городе Павловске (Пушкинский район Санкт-Петербурга). Проходит от Садовой до Госпитальной улицы.

С 1840 года называлась улицей под Ли́пками. Связан топоним с тем, что на аллее вдоль улицы были посажены липы. За полвека до этого в другом районе Павловска — Зверинце — появилась улица под Дубками, позднее ставшая 1-й улицей под Дубками (сейчас — улица Красного Курсанта), а рядом находилась 2-я улица под Дубками (ныне улица Горького).

С момента создания улицы под Липками проезд сохранил свою Г-образную форму.

В прошлом к западному проезду улицы под Липками примыкали две улицы — Средняя (сейчас существует как дорога) и Зелёная (не существует). В настоящее время обе упразднены.

Примерно в 1918 году улицу переименовали; ей дали название улица Просвещения.

Достопримечательности

 церковь св. Марии Магдалины (у пересечения с Садовой улицей);
 дом 3 — бывшая богадельня Куракиных, ныне Дом детского творчества «Павловский»;
 парк «Мариенталь».

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This is a real advertisement in Life from the July 14, 1972 issue. I thought it so funny, just had to share. I don't think the drink idea caught on.
Campbell's Beef Broth right out of the can and onto the ice. Take it straight or add a dash of Worcestershire or lemon peel for a kicky switch. Great way to cool off a hot day. It's great for dieters, too. Only 16 calories a 5-ounce serving. Don't even wait for a real hot day; start pouring now. Cheers!
If you haven't seen this, you have to go check it out. It makes me laugh every time.


Mix all ingredients in a bowl, then form into 4 - 6 crab cakes depending on your preferences.
Place the cakes on a plate covered with wax paper, and layer with more wax paper if needed.
Refrigerate cakes for about 1/2 hour to allow seasonings to blend and cakes to setup.
Fry in 1/4 inch of canola oil (or broil) until brown on both sides.
Serve with tarter sauce, and sliced lemon wedges. Maybe served alone, or on a toasted roll.


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Trust Us, These 10 Bands at SXSW Are About to Blow Up
Courtney Barnett performs in London, December 5, 2014.Gus Stewart/Redferns/Getty
Kevin McFarland
We pulled together the 10 as-yet-unknown bands and performers playing at SXSW that you'll want to keep an ear out for—and if you're in Austin, be sure to seek them out.
South By Southwest has three distinct threads, but none are as overwhelming as the Music program: Thousands of performers descend on Austin to play a seemingly unending onslaught of concerts, showcases, and unofficial shows all over the city. It's a scheduling nightmare that only becomes worse as the week goes on and the perma-hangover settles in. In recent years, NPR music critic Steven Thompson has whittled down the terrifyingly packed event schedule to a thorough but still just-about-manageable 100 acts. But sometimes even taking six hours to listen to it all is just too much. So with that in mind, we pulled together the 10 as-yet-unknown bands and performers playing at SXSW that you'll want to keep an ear out for---and if you're in Austin, be sure to seek them out. (A quick note on methodology: all but one artist has not yet been featured as the musical guest on an American late-night television program, and none have released more than two albums on any sort of official record label.)
Recommended If You Like: Angel Olsen, Swearin'
After two buzzed-about EPs, Melbourne singer/songwriter Courtney Barnett releases her debut full-length Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit drops right after SXSW. The title is a telling look at her conversational (and sometimes rambling) lyrical style, which packs dense verses into tight spaces without ever losing their meaningful touch. It's a loquacious sensibility that pairs well with the crunchy guitar textures and bouncing bass lines she seems to prefer. Though she warns, "Put me on a pedestal, and I'll only disappoint you," it's not hard to imagine her playing to throngs of adoring fans on a mountaintop in a few years.
Recommended If You Like: Liz Phair, Archers Of Loaf, Pavement
Originally the solo project of former UM-Amherst teacher Sadie Dupuis (she has a master's degree in poetry), Speedy Ortiz is now a full-time band prepping their second album, Foil Deer, out April 21. Dupuis' lyrical dexterity has helped the band evolve quickly from exciting trifles like "Taylor Swift" to Foil Deer lead single "Raising The Skate," a thoroughly confident statement of purpose best illuminated by Dupuis' comment to FADER: "It's crazy frustrating seeing women and girls, myself included, put in positions in which they have to shirk credit for their talent or otherwise risk getting dissed as overbearing and bitchy."
San Fermin
Recommended If You Like: Of Monsters And Men, Andrew Bird, The Decemberists
A collective of performers centered around composer and Yale graduate Ellis Ludwig-Leone, San Fermin was originally the outlet for his more pop-leaning compositions, but it's since snowballed into a showcase for classically trained musicians who prefer big-name summer music festivals to symphony halls. They're more baroque than The Decemberists, but more in line with the most orchestral urges of someone like fun.'s Nate Ruess. Expect the anthemic "Jackrabbit," the title of track off the group's upcoming second album, to be popping up on movie trailers and commercials everywhere. Or at least it will be if there's any justice in the world.
Charlie Belle
Recommended If You Like: R.E.M., The Magnetic Fields, spring (the season)
Four years ago, Austin teenage siblings Jendayi and Gyasi Bonds recorded a bedroom cover of The Magnetic Fields' "Strange Powers" that spread like wildfire across the Internet, and now they're on the verge of their first EP as Charlie Belle. They shuffled bassists just before SXSW, but show no signs of slowing down---they're playing Amy Poehler's Smart Girls Party. Still young but by no means inexperienced, they're armed with the most infectious kind of power-pop.
Fantastic Negrito
Recommended If You Like: Lead Belly, Skip James
In keeping with delta blues traditions, a lengthy creation myth precedes Oakland's Fantastic Negrito (real name Xavier Dphrepaulezz): one of 15 children in an orthodox Muslim household; a mid-'90s Interscope deal as Xavier; a near-fatal car crash that left him in a coma; a creative rebirth under the moniker Fantastic Negrito. He recently won the NPR Tiny Desk Contest, beating out over 7,000 other entries---and his impassioned vocal performance shows exactly why he's got a real chance at breaking through this time around.
Recommended If You Like: Mos Def, Carol Ann Duffy, Samuel Becket
It's not all that rare to see musicians branch out into other disciplines like fashion or acting---but it's unique for one to start garnering wide acclaim in multiple artistic arenas. Kate Tempest is that rarity, a wordsmith capable of bending language to her will on the page, on record, and on a theater stage. She won the 2013 Ted Hughes Prize for Innovation in Poetry---for Brand New Ancients, which she also performed onstage in London and New York--- and was nominated for the 2014 Mercury Prize for Everybody Down, an album wherein each track corresponds to a chapter in her novel The Bricks That Built The Houses. Every slam poet and rapper dreams of finding the kind of emotional and sociopolitical artistic groove Kate Tempest has tapped into, and it shows no signs of slowing down.
Recommended If You Like: The Breeders, Sonic Youth
Rachel Browne and Andrew Futral met at SUNY Purchase back in 2010, and their musical collaboration led to Field Mouse, whose debut Hold Still Life came out last summer on Topshelf Records. They write loud, dense, dreamy songs, with Browne's vocals occasionally swimming above the mix. It's the closest anyone will ever get to sounding like Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth and Kim Deal of The Breeders teamed up to make a racket (and not the lullaby-esque Washing Machine standout "Little Trouble Girl").
Fatherson
Recommended If You Like: Frightened Rabbit, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Idlewild, music that is good
With a defiant debut album title like I Am An Island, Glasgow-based trio Fatherson could come off like they're trying to shut everyone else out. But instead, they're following in the footsteps of other Scottish rock crossovers with heavy sounds but inviting hooks---aided by singer Ross Leighton's ability to soar over a busy chorus.
Recommended If You Like: Ellie Goulding, Lorde, Lana Del Rey
Every year a few female vocalists with impressive range pair up with prodigiously gifted electronic producers to ignite new pop sensations. Vérité will be one of those for 2015. Vocalist Kelsey Byrne grew up around music---her father is a rock musician, and she once played in an all-girl punk group---but she never once met producer Elliot Jacobsen (who plays drums for Ingrid Michaelson) during the two years they worked on her Echo EP. The result is every bit as enticing and club-dominating as The Love Club, the EP that first introduced Lorde to the world.
Strawberry Runners
Recommended If You Like: Hello Saferide, Mega Gem,
Though the band has existed in some capacity for two years, it only solidified a permanent lineup in the past six months. Vocalist and guitarist Emi Knight attended Goddard College in Vermont with guitarist David Runge, plays in Mega Gem with drummer Tomas Campos, and met bassist Eli Saragoussi in the band's home base of Denver. The band only has 13 ramshackle songs scattered across a handful of EPs, but the version of "Hatcher Creek" included in NPR's Austin 100 is a great leap forward, and shows why the band has been the go-to opener for anyone on the indie rock circuit swinging through the Mile High City. It's laidback and spacey, but catchy enough to command attention.
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After a long crusade by Fox News' Tucker Carlson, the brand put its spokescandies on hiatus. It's a savvy move that seems designed for social media.
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Gambler Billy Walters was sentenced to five years in jail last month for an insider trading scam that involved Dean Foods.
He will go to jail for five years. But before his sentence, more than a hundredof Las Vegas' most powerful people wrote letters urging the judge to give him a lenient sentence. The list includes former Senator HarryReid and almost every living former mayor of Las Vegas.
Why? Because he gives a lot of his money away. To politicians, to be sure. And to charities, who are afraidfortheir bottom lines.
But what are the ethics of charities accepting money from people whose methods for attaining money are shady? AsJohn L. Smithpointed out, Walters had been indicted three times before - though never convicted until this time. Still, he was a widely sought afterdonor.
"What you're talking about is a guy who... has a lot of connections to powerful people. This is a guy who has gotten the best deals from city and county government for his golf course projects. Some of those are controversial," Smith said.
But Walters also has raised a disabled son. And thenon-profitshe helped included one to get child prostitutes off the street.
"This is really reflective of a kind of Las Vegas that has existed forever," says John L. "Moe Dalitzwas considered a one to one contemporary and colleague ofMyer LanskyandMurder Inc., but he comes to Las Vegas and gets cleansed and becomes B'nai B'rith man of the year and is known for his philanthropy."
There's also the case ofU.S. District Judge Harry Claiborne, who went to prison for tax evasion in a case involving a brothel owner.
"But what happens. He does his time. He comes back. He has all the friends in the legal community, and he gets his law license back.
"So that's Nevada. That's really the Nevada story."
Still, when the prisons are filled with people of color who did nothing more thanhavingtwo ounces of marijuana in their backpacks, it seems jarring that every rich, white person in town is coming to the defense of a guy who was convicted on a $43 million scam, from which he profited $32 million.
"Oh, if the powerful were as half as kind to a common criminal," says John L. "Think small, and you'll spend a lot of time in prison."
Walters, John L. says, thought big. And it may havepaid off. According toCNBC, along with his 5-year sentence, Walters was ordered to pay a $10 million fine. That leaves him with a $22 million profit from the very scam he was convicted of.
That may be good news for the people and organizations that benefitted from his largesse.
"I can't believe that Walters will stop giving to his favorite charities," said John L.


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This article was published on June 2, 2011
Bharti Airtel launches on-demand movies and TV in India, but will it work?
Vikas SN
Vikas SN is the Indian Editor at The Next Web and is based out of Bangalore, India. He is extremely interested in Indian startups and shiny (show all) Vikas SN is the Indian Editor at The Next Web and is based out of Bangalore, India. He is extremely interested in Indian startups and shiny gadgets. You can follow him on Twitter, Google+ or contact him via email at [email protected]
Bharti Airtel has launched an online Movie-on-Demand offering called "Airtel Movies".
Partnering with BigFlix, one of India's largest movie rental services, this service will be exclusively available as an add-on pack for Airtel customers and will offer high quality video content including 500+ movies; 100 television shows; movie trailers and music videos for Rs 229 per month ($5/month) with no additional bandwidth charges.
Airtel also notes that this service will be completely ad-free and the charges will be incorporated in your monthly broadband bill.
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Mr. Girish Mehta, Chief Marketing Officer, Telemedia Services, Bharti Airtel said:
"The launch of 'Airtel Movies' comes on the back of a rousing response to our recent offerings of Airtel broadband TV and Airtel Photos and is in line with our commitment of enabling our customers in doing more with the Internet. Airtel has always led the way in bringing in innovative services through industry leading partnerships. We are confident that this service will enrich our customer's lives and enable them to balance their work, family and entertainment needs by transforming their experience from appointment viewing to one of choice. We will look to continuously refresh content in response to feedback and customer needs."
Enabling the service
If you are a Airtel broadband customer, simply head over to Airtel Movies website and sign up by clicking on the "Login" link.
You will then receive an activation code via your email address and mobile number, which you can further use to activate your account, select a subscription pack and confirm your subscription.
You will then receive a confirmation email and a text message from Airtel with all the requisite details.
Although the service looks promising, we are not sure whether it will gain substantial adoption in India.
Firstly, Airtel hasn't rolled out its broadband service to several parts of India and there seems to be no effort from Airtel to improve the situation. Hence, from an user point or view, it makes no sense to opt for this service where there is no broadband coverage.
Secondly, India still has one of the lowest Internet penetration levels worldwide, with over 35% of Internet connections having a speed of 256 kbps or less and only 0.4% percent of the users fancying a internet connection with 5 mbps speed or more. Therefore, a decent movie experience with no buffering is still a far fetched dream.
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Founders of large companies don't normally send welcome mails to new users. And if they do, they certainly don't reply to responses to these emails.
Except that Girish Mathrubootham, founder of Freshdesk, seems to have done both with a customer.
Alex JV, the founder of HighlyReco, was surprised when he received an email from "Girish from Freshdesk" after he'd signed up for Freshdesk. "When you sign up for a service, you generally get a signup welcome mail. It is always an automated email and usually it is sent from a [email protected] address," he writes in a Medium post. But the mail from Freshdesk seemed to be from the CEO himself.
Alex says he was curious to know if Mathrubootham was actually behind the email. Freshdesk has over 80,000 customers, and it seemed unlikely that the CEO himself was going to look at mails addressed to him. He replied to the email, wondering if Mathrubootham would reply.
"I realized what it means to really care about the product that you build," Alex writes. Freshdesk isn't a small startup any more – it's raised over Rs. 1000 crore, and has 800 employees globally. But the CEO seems to still message all his customers, and even replies with cute photos. Maybe it's customer-centricity like this that's made it one of the most successful SaaS startups from India.


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Complete List of Indicators
Higher Education Surveys
Survey on Public Perceptions of the Humanities
National Inventory of
Humanities Organizations
Humanities in Our Lives
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II-20b: Master's Degree Completions in Languages and Literatures Other than English (Absolute Number and as a Percentage of All Master's and First Professional Degrees), 1967–2014*
* The gaps in the trend lines for 1987 indicate a shift from the National Science Foundation's disciplinary classification system to the National Center for Education Statistics' Classification of Instructional Programs. Please see the Note on the Data Used to Calculate the Number of Degree Completions in English Language and Literature and in Languages and Literatures Other than English for an explanation of the differences between the two systems that are most pertinent to this indicator.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Data System; accessed via the National Science Foundation's online integrated science and engineering resources data system, WebCASPAR.
Please Note|
Data Used to Calculate Discipline-Specific Degree Counts and Shares
The data that form the basis of these indicators are drawn from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) Higher Education General Information System (HEGIS) and its successor, the Integrated Postsecondary Educational Data System (IPEDS), through which institutions of higher learning report on the numbers and characteristics of students completing degree programs (as well as a variety of other topics; for more on this major data collection program, see http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/). The HEGIS/IPEDS degree-completion data going back to 1966 have been made accessible to decision-makers, researchers, and the general public by the National Science Foundation (NSF) via its online data analysis tool WebCASPAR. The NSF has traditionally used the NCES data to tabulate science and engineering degree awards as part of its Science and Engineering Indicators Program, which since 1973 has issued a biennial report designed to provide public and private policymakers with a broad base of quantitative information about the U.S. science, engineering, and technology enterprise.
The NSF has developed a set of standardized disciplinary categories that can be used across the various data sources it relies upon to construct its indicators. Because the NSF focuses on trends in science and engineering education, its disciplinary classification is most detailed in these areas. The utility of the NSF system for the purposes of the Humanities Indicators (HI) is limited. For example, the NSF scheme does not distinguish between the academic study of the arts, considered by the HI to be part of the humanities, and art performance. The HI thus cannot include in its tally those degrees conferred in the areas of musicology, art history, film studies, and drama history/criticism. Moreover, while the HI considers such disciplines as archeology, women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, and Holocaust studies to be part of the humanities field, NSF categorizes them as social sciences. Additionally, NSF places interdisciplinary degrees in areas such as general humanities and liberal studies in a broad "Other" category that includes degrees for many disciplines that are not within the purview of the humanities as conceptualized by the HI. Consequently, such interdisciplinary degrees, along with those mentioned above, cannot be captured in humanities degree counts from 1966 to 1986.
For 1987 and later years (1995 and later for data on the race/ethnicity of degree recipients), however, NSF also categorizes earned degrees according to the more detailed Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP), which permits a more precise count of humanities degrees; that is, a count that includes degrees in all those programs that are part of academic disciplines included within the scope of the humanities for the purposes of the HI. (For an inventory of the disciplines and activities treated as part of the humanities by the HI, see the Statement on the Scope of the "Humanities" for Purposes of the Humanities Indicators.) The CIP was first developed by NCES in 1980 as a way to account for the tremendous variety of degree programs offered by American institutions of higher learning and has been revised three times since its introduction, most recently in 2009 (this version is referred to as "CIP 2010"). The CIP has also been adopted by Statistics Canada as its standard disciplinary classification system.
For the purposes of the Humanities Indicators the CIP has several advantages over the NSF classification system. For example, because the NSF system groups degrees in the nonsectarian study of religion with those awarded in programs designed to prepare students for religious vocations and because the latter type of degree is much more common, the HI cannot include what the NSF considers to be degrees in religion in the humanities degree counts for years prior to 1987. With CIP-coded data, however, academic disciplines such as comparative religion can be separated from vocational programs such as theology and thus can be included in the humanities degree tally. Additionally, when using CIP-coded data, the HI can include degrees in all the excluded disciplines mentioned above, from art history to Holocaust studies, in its counts of humanities degrees from 1987 onward. For an inventory of the NSF and CIP disciplinary categories included by the HI under the broad academic field headings ("humanities," "natural sciences," etc.) used throughout Part II of the HI, see the NSF and CIP Discipline Code Catalog. This catalog also indicates which degree programs the HI includes within specific humanities disciplines (e.g., for the purposes of the HI, English degrees include those classified under CIP as being in "English Language and Literature," "American Literature," and "Creative Writing," among others).
In constructing indicators that use IPEDS data to track historical trends in the academic humanities, the HI has employed completion data that were classified using both the NSF and CIP systems. In these cases, either a note accompanying the chart or a break in the trend line indicates where estimates based on the NSF classification system leave off and those based on CIP begin. For those indicators reporting degree data gathered in 1987 or more recently (1995 or more recently for the charts and tables describing the proportions of all degrees received by members of racial/ethnic minority groups), CIP-coded data are used.
In the case of several of the degree-related indicators, the humanities are compared to certain other fields such as the sciences and engineering. The nature of these fields is specified in the Statement on the Scope of the "Humanities" for Purposes of the Humanities Indicators. These broad fields do not encompass all postsecondary programs. Therefore, where fields are being compared in terms of their respective shares of all degrees, the percentages will not add up to 100%. Also, none of the graphs showing change over time in the share of degrees awarded to members of traditionally underrepresented ethnic/minority groups includes a data point for the academic year 1999, because the NCES did not release data for that year.
The degree counts presented as part of the HI do not include "second majors" because NCES began collecting data about these degrees only in 2001. The HI deals separately with the issue of second majors in "Undergraduate Humanities Degrees as a Second Major."
Data on the number of students completing minors are not collected as part of IPEDS, but such information was compiled for selected humanities disciplines as part of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences–sponsored Humanities Departmental Survey.
Data Used to Calculate the Number of Degree Completions in English Language and Literature (ELL) and in Languages and Literatures Other than English (LOTE)
For the years 1966–1986, degree completion data are available only by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) standardized disciplinary categories. For those years, the Humanities Indicators uses NSF's "English and Literature" category as the basis of its ELL degree counts. This category includes degrees earned in comparative literature, classics, and classical languages and literatures (but omits degrees in ancient and medieval Greek and Latin—these are included by NSF in its "Foreign Languages" category).
For years 1987 and later, when degree completion data are available by the more detailed Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP), the Humanities Indicators treats degrees in classics, classical languages and literatures, Greek, and Latin as LOTE degrees. Comparative literature degrees are excluded from the ELL degree counts for this latter period. A subsequent iteration of the Humanities Indicators will include a separate indicator for comparative literature, which is considered by the Humanities Indicators to be its own discipline.
For an explanation of the difference between the NSF and CIP classification systems as well as an inventory of the various degree programs that are included by the Humanities Indicators under the headings of "English Language and Literature" and "Languages and Literatures Other than English," see the Note on Data Used to Calculate Discipline-Specific Degree Counts and Shares.
Definition of Advanced Degrees
According to the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Glossary, master's degrees are "awards that require the successful completion of a program of study of at least the full-time equivalent of 1 academic year, but not more than 2 academic years of work beyond the bachelor's degree."
The NCES, which collects the degree completion data presented as part of the Humanities Indicators, defines first professional degrees as those awards that require completion of a program that meets all the following criteria: (1) completion of the academic requirements to begin practice in a profession; (2) at least two years of college work prior to entering the program; and (3) a total of at least six academic years of college work to complete the degree program, including prior required college work plus the length of the professional program itself. According to NCES, the following ten fields award first professional degrees:
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)
Medicine (M.D.)
Optometry (O.D.)
Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.)
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)
Podiatry (D.P.M., D.P., or Pod.D.)
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D., or Ordination)
Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M. or V.M.D.)
Although some fields (e.g., library science, hospital administration, and social work) require specialized degrees for employment at the professional level, NCES does not count degrees in these fields as first professional degrees; instead, they are treated as master's degrees.
Whereas all doctorates had previously been included in a single category, for academic years 2008–2009 and 2009–2010 NCES gave schools the option of employing a new classification system that distinguishes among three types of doctoral degrees:
Research/Scholarship—A Ph.D. or other doctoral degree that requires advanced work beyond the master's level, including the preparation and defense of a dissertation based on original research, or the planning and execution of an original project demonstrating scholarly achievement;
Professional Practice—A doctoral degree conferred upon completion of a program providing the knowledge and skills for the recognition, credentialing, or licensing required for professional practice; or
Other—A doctoral degree that does not meet the definition of the research/scholarship or professional practice doctorate.
Schools could classify certain degrees that had historically been treated as first professional degrees as either "Professional Practice" doctoral degrees (as in the case of medical degrees, for example) or master's degrees (as in the case of advanced, nondoctoral degrees in theology).
To ensure comparability with previous years, for 2007–2008 and 2008–2009 the Humanities Indicators counted as doctorates all of those degrees classified by postsecondary institutions as "Doctorate Degree," "Doctorate Degree—Research/Scholarship," or "Doctorate Degree—Other." The HI treated as "master's and professional-practice degrees" those degrees classified by schools as "Doctorate Degree—Professional Practice," "First Professional Degree," or "Master's Degree."
For academic year 2010–2011, NCES eliminated the "first professional degree" category. The agency now requires schools to use the three-category system described above to classify all advanced degrees other than master's degrees.
About the Data|See the Note on Data Used to Calculate Discipline-Specific Degree Counts and Shares, the Note on the Data Used to Calculate the Number of Degree Completions in English Language and Literature and in Languages and Literatures Other than English, the Note on the Definition of Advanced Degrees, and the NSF and CIP Discipline Code Catalog (for an inventory of the specific degree programs included by the Humanities Indicators under the heading of "Languages and Literatures Other than English").
Related Indicators|
Comparable information on other humanities disciplines can be found in "English Language and Literature Degree Completions," "History Degree Completions," "Philosophy Degree Completions," and "Degree Completions in the Academic Study of Religion."
For historical trends in levels of degree completion across the humanities, see "Bachelor's Degrees in the Humanities" and "Advanced Degrees in the Humanities."
Associate's Degrees in the Humanities
Demographics of Associate's Degree Recipients
Bachleor's Degrees in the Humanities
Humanities Bachelor's Degrees as a Second Major
Disciplinary Distribution of Bachelor's Degrees in the Humanities
Institutional Distribution of Bachelor's Degrees in the Humanities
Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Bachelor's Degrees in the Humanities
Gender Distribution of Bachelor's Degrees in the Humanities
Most Frequently Taken College Courses
Postsecondary Course-Taking in Languages Other than English
Humanities Students' Scores on the Graduate Record Examination
Graduate Record Examination English Literature Subject Test Scores
Advanced Degrees in the Humanities
Humanities' Share of All Advanced Degrees Conferred
Disciplinary Distribution of Advanced Degrees in the Humanities
Institutional Distribution of Master's Degrees in the Humanities
Institutional Distribution of Doctoral Degrees in the Humanities
Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Advanced Degrees in the Humanities
Gender Distribution of Advanced Degrees in the Humanities
Years to Attainment of a Humanities Doctorate
The Relationship between Funding and Time to PhD
Paying for Doctoral Study in the Humanities
Debt and Doctoral Study in the Humanities
The Age of New Humanities Ph.D.'s
Attrition in Humanities Doctorate Programs
The Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD
Degree Information for Specific Disciplines
English Language and Literature Degree Completions
Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Degrees in English Language and Literature
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Sustainable Trail Design and Construction
Urban Trails
Lands End Restoration and Trail Construction
For the Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Completed: 2006, 2010, 2011	| LOCATION: San Francisco, CA
The Lands End restoration and trail project focused on construction of a new outdoor accessible trail system that allows visitors to arrive just above the Sutro Baths and follow the accessible trail out to Mile Rock Overlook.
The trail system that Campbell Grading, Inc., built is over 1.5 miles long and varies in width from 8 feet to 14 feet along a historic narrow-gauge railroad track corridor. The project area consists mainly of vegetation-covered sand dunes and cypress trees; it contains many sensitive and endangered plants and known archeological sites.
As a part of this project, we decommissioned several hundred feet of social trails, using Barth Campbell's proven technique of stabilizing the sand dunes with salvaged logs as soil dams.
In 2010 and 2011, Campbell Grading, Inc., was invited back out to do more work at Lands End. We built the Batteries to Bluffs Trail, which required construction over extremely rough terrain. We used a helicopter to shuttle all materials down onto the bluff, including 37 bundles of timbers weighing 2 tons pounds each and 300 tons of rock. We used these materials to build box steps, stringer steps, and boardwalks and to surface the trail.
The Batteries to Bluffs Trail received the Lands End revitalization San Francisco Beautiful Award in 2010.


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