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Explore the North Norfolk Coastal Path
Woodland Holiday Park is delightfully off the beaten track, but it's a great starting point for exploring. That's because, tucked away off the B1159, we're just a five minute walk from a really great feature of North Norfolk – the Norfolk Coast Path.
The Coast Path links the lovely towns of Cromer and Hunstanton. That's 45 miles so you may not want to walk it all at once! But, if you take it in stages, as most people do, it's a fantastic way to see some wonderful North Norfolk coastal scenery. Just plan out the sections of the route you fancy walking and start exploring.
This is an area of great charm and its increasing popularity has not spoiled it. Secluded, picturesque and a haven for wildlife – as well as all the 'creature comforts' you deserve on holiday – it's one of the country's best kept secrets. And it's right on your doorstep when you're staying at Woodland Holiday Park!
The variety you'll find in North Norfolk is amazing. From the salt marshes near Brancaster, to the wide, white sandy beaches of Holkham, you'll see sights that define North Norfolk. You'll watch the seals at Blakeney Point, and the ever changing backdrop of cliffs and shingle, sea and spray.
The place names alone are so evocative of this stunning yet secluded coast. Wells-next-the-Sea, Holme-next-the-Sea, Cley, Malthouse and Weybourne are all part of the history, and the here and now, of North Norfolk. This is scenery to savour as you wander by beaches and woodland.
Outstanding Natural Beauty
The Norfolk Coast Path was opened in 1986 and it's in the North Norfolk Coast AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). At Holme-next-the -Sea it links to the Peddars Way and the two paths, or trails, are usually considered as parts of the same overall route.
Cromer is where the path links to the Weavers Way. That's the trail that leads all the way to Great Yarmouth, and takes its name from the weaving industry that made medieval Norfolk wealthy. There's a lot of history to discover, as well as scenery, on the Coast Path. The harbours, rivers, railways and country houses are treasure troves of Norfolk's heritage.
Some of the places you'll discover in the area include Hunstanton, which is well worth a visit, and Weybourne, the really lovely town that features the beautifully preserved North Norfolk Railway. (You may remember it appearing in Dad's Army!).
You can find things to do in the towns and villages, or just chill with nothing to do except stroll. That's the beauty of North Norfolk. It's somewhere to take life at a pace that suits you. Somewhere to take some time out.
Natural Norfolk
The Norfolk Coast Path is a natural, and evolving, route through some of the county's most beautiful areas. It's the mixture of cliffs and sand dunes, beaches and marshes that make the area special. It's great for bird watching, ideal for beach walking and not exactly devoid of great places to eat and drink!
You can join the path at several places so it's worth checking out a map of the area. There are websites where you can find out information on line, and the staff at Woodland Holiday Park are always happy to help and advise.
You need to be aware that the terrain does vary and in places it's a little demanding. There's no need for rock climbing or any extreme activity, but it's not a fully made up road either! So shoes rather than flip flops would be a good idea!
Exploring North Norfolk
The great thing is that the walks are challenging enough to be really good exercise, without being 'for serious hikers only'. There is good access for people with disabilities, and although the path stays close to sea level along much of its route it's a safe place to be. If you need it, there is a bus service along the main coastal road.
Walking The Coast Path is a great way to explore the area, and enjoy the sights and sounds of North Norfolk. It's an experience you can tailor to suit yourselves, taking long walks some days or short strolls on others. Set off with lunch at a country pub as your goal, or just start out and see where the day takes you. There is so much to choose from you'll never be at a loose end.
The North Norfolk Coast Path is here to be explored. Being so close to Woodland Holiday Park makes it an ideal opportunity to really get to know the area, and be able to walk just far enough to 'return to base' at Woodland to round off your day.


A series of very interesting conversations led to the creation of our first striped bass lure: the Ratic Shad Bugg. A customer from the Atlanta area introduced me to Henry Cowen, a fly fishing and light tackle guide who specializes in striped bass. Henry told me that when striped bass are chasing small shad, fly fishermen outfish conventional fishermen. It's because they can more closely match the hatch and keep the fly near the surface where the fish are busting the shad. Then he told me about a fly that darted back and forth like a wounded baitfish and stayed near the surface. Lastly he sent me pictures of the shad and a fly he designed to imitate them.
I was off to the races after that, and several months later sent him some Ratic Shad Buggs to fish. They worked just like they were supposed to, and since then have been fooling striped bass and lots of other gamefish in both freshwater and saltwater. And that's how we'll break down the advice and fishing tips that follow. But first, come general information.
Ratic Shad Buggs come in two sizes, 2.5" and 3". The weight is located near the back of the lure, and that's what gives them the darting action. When wet the 2.5" version weighs 1/4 oz. and the 3" version weighs 3/8 oz. They're meant to work like a topwater, with a twitching retrieve. They dart back and forth when you work them this way, and this action is deadly. On the pause they fall slowly, evenly, and with lots of action. Fish will often hit them on the fall as well so hang on! The action comes from the rabbit strips on the top, back of the lure, and the belly. In the middle you have flash and the spot behind the eye, just like the real thing. Trailing the bait is a material called flashabou that gives the lure even more action.
Shad are a major food source for striped bass in large freshwater lakes and reservoirs. When they're chasing them near the surface, Ratic Shad Buggs are deadly striped bass lures. Match the hatch depending on the size of the bait, and vary the retrieve depending on what the fish like that day. Three of the most popular colors for freshwater striped bass are, starting on the left: Gray Ghost, Key Lime, and Chained Beast.
Ratic Shad Buggs also imitate herring, another important bait for striped bass. Again, match the hatch depending on the size of the bait. If they're chasing bait near the surface work the lure more quickly, and if they're deeper then let the lure sink before you start reeling. Again, they might hit it when it's sinking! The three most popular colors of striped bass lures for saltwater are, starting on the left: Chained Beast, Gray Ghost, and Ghost.
Beastie Buggs are crab imitations, available in three sizes: 1/8 oz., 1/4 oz. and 3/8 oz. These Buggs imitate the crabs that striped bass feed on when they're cruising the flats. They will sit on the bottom and look alive, and have lots of action when you swim them in short hops or scoot them across the bottom. For saltwater, the most popular colors of striped bass lures are, starting on the left: Blue Crab, Backcountry, and Natural.
For several years I've been tying prototypes for striped bass fishermen. They've been successful fishing several different eel imitations, and I've recently been sending customers with heavier versions of the Hydra Bugg swim jigs. A heavier version of this jig would be useful for lots of different species and I hope to make it happen soon.


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Коммунистическая партия Словакии (КПС; ) — коммунистическая партия в Словакии, действующая с 1992 года.

Партия создана 29 августа 1992 в результате слияния Коммунистической партии Словакии — 91 и Союза коммунистов Словакии, каждая из которых была создана вышедшими из существовавшей с 1939 Коммунистической партии из-за несогласия с превращением её в Партию демократической левой.

В 2002 году КПС единственный раз в истории независимой Словакии попала в парламент, имея 11 депутатов. После уменьшения электоральных показателей на выборах 2006 года новым председателем партии был избран 29-летний Йозеф Хрдличка.

КПС является наблюдателем в Партии европейских левые.

Имеет молодёжную организацию — Союз социалистической молодёжи Словакии.

Председатели партии
 1992—1998 Владимир Дядо
 1998—2006 Йозеф Шевц
 2006 Владимир Дядо (и. о.)
 с 2006 Йозеф Хрдличка

Участие в выборах

Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт партии
 Parties and elections. Slovakia
 Истории Запада и Востока. Коммунистическая партия Словакии

Политические партии по алфавиту
Политические партии Словакии
Словакия
Политические партии, основанные в 1992 году

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Arkansas Blue Cross Dietitian Wins State Award
Arkansas Academy of Nutrition.
Registered Dietician
Stephanie Jones
One of the perks of working at Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield is our focus on nutrition and wellness.
We're fortunate to have Stephanie Jones, our wellness consultant, who keeps us on track with tips and advice. For her work, she was recently awarded the 2022 Outstanding Dietitian Award on behalf of the Arkansas Academy of Nutrition.
The Outstanding Dietitian Award is offered to those who have demonstrated leadership in legislation, research, education, management within the organization, community or employment. Registered dietitians are nominated, and only one is selected to win the award by the Arkansas Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
"I am honored and humbled to be nominated for this award, let alone winning it!" Stephanie said. "I am thankful to have the opportunity to work with so many great registered dietitians within the State of Arkansas. I want to thank everyone who has made an impact in my career and has supported me along the way."
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is the world's largest organization of nutrition professionals. It was founded in 1917 and has more than 112,000 credentialed practitioners. Members play a crucial role in shaping their communities' food choices and improving nutritional status. Stephanie serves as the current president of the state-level affiliate, the Arkansas Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Registered Dietitian Day
The first Registered Dietitian Day was celebrated in 2008 and commemorates the dedication of registered dietitians as advocates for advancing the nutrition status of Americans and people worldwide. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics created it to increase awareness of registered dietitians as indispensable providers of food and nutrition services.
"Working with Governor Hutchinson has been a pleasure and I am thankful on the behalf of the Arkansas Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics to be able to have an official proclamation day to celebrate registered dietitians and what we do for the communities we work with," Stephanie said. "Registered dietitians play an integral part in improving the nutritional status of those we work with and can make a meaningful impact on their health and wellbeing."

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If you're a Home Group customer living in Scotland then visit our Information for Home Group in Scotland Tenants page.
Myriam has a long and distinguished career holding a number of senior executive roles across the public and private sectors, specialising in business transformation and finance. She is a board member of the international standards-setting body for ethics, IESBA, and a non-executive member of the Audit and Risk Assurance committee of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. She previously served as the Chair of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and board member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, both global accounting bodies.
Myriam describes her personal values as 'social responsibility and customer focus' and is looking forward to contributing her skills and experience to support the continued growth of Home Group in Scotland.
John Hudson joined Home Group in June 2015 from Port of Tyne, one of the UK's major deep-sea ports, where he had been CFO since 2009.
His earlier career started in Science and Engineering after gaining a PhD in Solid State Physics from Durham University and a BSc (Hons) in Physics from the University of Leeds, which lead to research roles within British Nuclear Fuels and British Gas.
At the age of 26, and after developing a strong interest in business and management, he embarked upon a career change and completed his chartered accountancy qualification with Deloitte in 1998. Since then, John has enjoyed senior finance roles within Black & Decker, taking the finance lead in relocating their largest European manufacturing plant, before moving on to the private equity owned radiator and boiler manufacturer Ideal Stelrad Group. More latterly John was CFO at the Port of Tyne with responsibility for Finance, Legal, IT and co-ordination of strategic and risk planning through a period of record growth at the organisation.
Mary became a Home Scotland Customer in March 2012.
Mary has a BA in Retail Business and currently volunteers as an Advisor with the Citizens Advice Bureau but has a varied background having served as Director of the Company at a golf club and also running her bed and breakfast for many years prior to that.
Mark Henderson was appointed Chief Executive of Home Group at the end of 2008.
Having started life as a motorcycle racer Mark has gone on to gain nearly 30 years' experience of both regeneration and business support activity.
He is passionate about placing customers at the heart of any organisation and in raising aspiration and enterprise across the country.
Prior to joining Home Group, Mark ran his own business and has worked in local authorities across the UK, as Director of the Regional Development Agency, One North East (2001-05) and a local authority Chief Executive (2004-08).
Jim is a Retail Manager.
In August 2006, Jim became a Home Scotland customer.
In November 2007, Jim was co-opted to the former Edinburgh & Rosyth Area Committee on which he served until June 2012.
Jim was selected to join Home Group's National Viewpoint Team for which he was trained and secured CIH accreditation.
Bob retired in May 2015 after 41 years working in Housing, latterly as the Chief Executive of Trust Housing Association.
His long career in housing includes working in a variety of roles across Scotland, within Local Government, Livingston Development Corporation and most recently two Housing Associations as Chief Executive. During his career he was an active participant and a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing. His support for the Institute continues since he now acts as a mentor for the Institute as well as being an adjudicator within the Fellowship Admission Process.
Bob is a statutory Appointee for the Scottish Housing Regulator and has been appointed to the governing bodies of Dalmuir Park Housing Association and Fairfield Housing Co-operative. He is also a Board Member of Horizon and Muirhouse Housing Associations where he is currently the Chair of the Audit & Risk Sub Committee and Chair of the Board, respectively. Bob also acts as a mentor with the Scottish Chambers of Commerce and ACOSVO.
Vicky volunteers with the British Red Cross, having previously been on the National Board.
She has a background in social housing, having worked for Angus Council as a Homeless Person's Officer and also Cleghorn HA/HiS Ltd.
She was on the management committee of Angus HA for some years.
Colin runs C J Strachan Consultancy and has a strong background in construction.
He started his career with Balfour Beatty and has worked with Carillion Plc, Robertson Group, JCM/Connaught and then as Managing Director of Morrison FS.
Ian has over 25 years' experience in property asset management and development across both the public and private sectors. He is Group Property Director at Rolls-Royce Plc and worked previously at Network Rail in a similar position. Ian has also considerable experience and interest in health & safety, investment , project management & sustainability. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Annie is an experienced senior executive in the not for profit sector and now runs her own consultancy company supporting different organisations in the housing and charity sector.
After a management career in local authorities in Scotland and England, Annie was appointed CEO of a government agency, went on to run a charity for refugees and asylum seekers in Yorkshire and then became chief executive of a UK wide membership body.
Annie spent the last few years as Executive Director for the Devolved Nations with the Chartered Institute of Housing working closely with a wide range of housing bodies and government in Scotland as a passionate advocate for the sector.
Gillian is an independent housing consultant with over 20 years' experience working with local government and housing associations.
Gillian led the development and delivery of HouseMark Scotland's business insight and solutions services, before leaving to set up Gillian Campbell Consulting in 2018.
Whilst working with City of Edinburgh Council, Gillian led on housing strategy, Housing Revenue Account business planning and performance management.
Previously, Gillian worked with Spelthorne Borough Council in Surrey, where she collaborated with a range of agencies to develop domestic abuse services and improve access to housing for offenders. Prior to this, Gillian worked in housing management.
Visit the Home Group board page and our Executive team page to find out more about our people.
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Hot off the press and on our cover this October 2018 is one of Malaysia's top actors Remy Ishak, dressed in Bottega Veneta.
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His rise to stardom, however, can be traced back to his debut role in the 2009 TV drama Nur Kasih.
But on the limelight right now is his recent leading role in the movie Pulang, a film set in the 1940s where he plays a fisherman who decides to become a sailor and ends up not returning to his family until 61 years later.
And coming up, you can catch a glimpse of Remy alongside Zul Ariffin in Sangkar, an adrenaline-packed mixed martial arts film directed by award-winning director Kabir Bhatia that's scheduled for release in the middle of next year.
Who is your favourite actor right now?
How do you maintain a positive image?
Interpret and react wisely in any situation. Live a life of gratitude.
On the scale of 1 to 10 (with 1 being ugly and 10 being perfect), how would you rate your looks?
10. Everyone is beautiful and perfect in their own way.
A prolific film producer or director perhaps [laughs].
How do you make a fashion statement?
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What's your secret for keeping fit?
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Q: How to print more than one line above in Python? I understand this is possible,
for r in range(0,1000):
    print(("l1" + str(r)), end="\r")
    time.sleep(0.1)

where this would print on the same line. Is it possible to do something like "\r\r" which will print one line above as well?

A: It is not possible to print anything on the line above in Python. Since newlines are simply \n, a string like:
Hello
World

Ends up looking like:
Hello\nWorld

Multiple print statements only add to this stream of characters, which makes it impossible to add anything before what has already been written, or in your case, the line above.

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Q: Significance Tests R Very new to Social Network Analysis and R (read a few introductions online, created a few graphs on my own) but I am very eager to learn different ways to apply it.  That said, what are common significance tests applied to networks, and more specifically, if two network graphs are "statistically different?"
Any help/tutorials you can point me to - especially in R - will be very much appreciated!
Thanks,

A: First, the Graphical Models in R Task View, (on CRAN) lists probably every R Package that is primarily related to graph theoretics or any application like social network analysis.
(Task Views are just collections of Packages related either by domain/application (e.g., Finance) or by technique (e.g., Regression)).
If you are fairly new to network modeling, and you don't have a background in graph theory, let me suggest the R Package netmodels (the value is not limited to novices though). netmodels is in essence a set of wrappers around lower-level functions in a C library called igraph, which has R bindings (also called igraph).
So for instance, using netmodels you can just call the function
do.base.description

on your network and it will return a list several key network parameters and that network's value for each (for instance, number of nodes, number of edges, average degree, average path length, etc.)
So by using netmodels you can quickly get a high-level description of your network without having to calculate those high-level descriptive parameters yourself from 'articulation points the basic graph theoretic components like 'articulation points', 'eigenvectors centrality', and 'Cocitation coupling'.
Three other similar R Packages which wrap lower-level graph theoretic functions are inetwork, RSiena, and sna.
Regarding "significance tests" for networks. I believe that analysis is directed to the statistical significance of key parameters/attributes of the networks under study.
So what are those key parameters? Perhaps there's a consensus on this, but more likely it depends on the particular problem you are trying to solve. Here's my list of key network parameters i nearly always calculate (i'll try to list a function and its R Package next each attribute):

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*cumulative degree distribution (count its edges, or links, for every
node in the network, let's you
estimate nodes-to-edges ratio) R Function: plot.c.degree in package netmodels

*Krackhardt connectedness (returns a score from 0 to 1) R Function:
connectedness in package sna

*average path length (shortest directed or undirected) path between
nodes R Function: average.path.length
in package igraph


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SAPOL officers have no discretion as to whether an individual has the opportunity to participate in the program.
If an offender meets the requirements set out in the program and chooses to participate, his/her offence will not proceed to court.
Further, there is currently no limit to the number of times an offender can participate in the drug diversion program and some offenders have continuously opted to participate in the drug diversion program as a way to avoid more serious punishment.
There has been a rapid decline in drug diversion completion rates from 72.7 per cent in 2013-14 to 54.5 per cent in 2015-16, while a 10 year review of the South Australian Drug Diversion Initiative highlights that approximately one quarter of the 13,627 individuals were diverted more than once.
15 per cent were diverted twice, 5 per cent were diverted three times and 4 per cent were diverted four or more times.
This means over 1,200 people had been diverted three times or more, with one person being diverted 32 times.
The government has wasted thousands of taxpayer dollars and police resources by allowing people to abuse this program, with police wasting hours processing people charged with simple drug possession to a diversion program, then arranging appointments with SA Health, only to see them return again and again.
It is unacceptable for people to access drug diversion programs to enable them to avoid facing court for repeated drug offences.
If elected in March 2018, a Marshall Liberal Government will limit participation in a police ordered drug diversion program to a maximum of two times before an individual is charged with an offence.
As outlined in a 10 year review of the current system, compliance with diversions is high but it tends to decrease as the number of diversions per individual increases.
This indicates that the current system is not working and that capping the number of diversions an individual receives is necessary to ensure no one is abusing the drug diversion program.
reduce the amount of work that police must do to repeatedly arrange for participation in the programs.
free up resources within the program for offenders who are more likely to genuinely attempt to utilise the rehabilitation services.
Offenders who use the program responsibly and get themselves back on track will not be affected.


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Image of Stamen, Patrick Lindley and Inesita after a concert in 2005 for the Harpsichord Center
Inesita dancing an Aragon Jota to Scarlatti's Sonata K. 105.
Image of Bess Karp and Inesita after a concert in 2001 for the Harpsichord Center
Image of Patrick Lindley and Inesita before a concert in 2001 for the Harpsichord Center
Over the past years I have composed sixteen dances to Scarlatti Sonatas. All of the dances are distinct. This part of my work can be considered innovative. To my knowledge, the Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti have not been used before in this way. I approached the music differently from other forms of Spanish material as the writing in the Sonatas matched the dance patterns in a manner making authenticity possible.
Over time, I discarded some of the pieces and retained about twelve in my repertoire. The first showing included four of the Sonatas performed in 1970 at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles. A wonderful harpsichordist, Bess Karp, accompanied me in the selected dances. She had been a faculty member at UCLA. A number of years later in 1987, I collaborated in a Faculty concert at California State University at Los Angeles. On this occasion the harpsichordist was Patrick Lindley, a superb keyboardist and composer with whom I have had the pleasure of working with in more recent performances. On that program, I introduced seven dances from the collection of works.
Not until 2001 did I resume performing and was contracted to appear under the auspices of the Southern California Baroque Association for their Harpsichord Center. They have had an Artist's Series for many years.
I did two concerts with Patrick Lindley again this time and danced eight of the Sonatas. We returned again in 2005 for two more concerts with some newer pieces I added plus two traditional flamenco dances accompanied by guitar. In the interim in 2004, I was also invited to be guest artist in a concert at the Community College in Las Vegas. A former student of mine, Coral Citron, who was based in Vegas had formed her own company titled Fiesta Flamenca. I performed two of my Scarlatti pieces accompanied by Cynthia Harris, a gifted harpsichordist and pianist and the program also included some flamenco material and two selections from the Escuela Bolera. This was a strange return engagement to Las Vegas under totally different circumstances from my early experience back in 1942! Since the last appearances in 2005 I have put the Scarlatti dances aside as they seem an anomaly in today's world of Flamenco.
As is well known, Domenico Scarlatti, (1685-1757) although Italian by birth, spent the last 25 years of his life in Spain as composer and teacher to the Queen of Spain, Maria Barbara. The court was in residence in Sevilla for a period of four years. Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichordist, musicologist, and biographer of Scarlatti writes: "No other composer has felt more keenly the impact of Spanish popular music or has yielded more completely to the demon that inhabits every Spanish dancer's breast"
The music is abstract, as are the dances I have made. Scarlatti in my view captured the essence of the musical forms of Spain while still retaining his originality and individuality. His marriage to a young Andalusian woman after the death of his first wife was undoubtedly a strong influence. She was from Cadiz, in the south of Spain, the cradle of Flamenco. Without a doubt, Scarlatti was deeply influenced by the music and song he was exposed to in this environment. Flamenco chords and rhythms creep into his sonatas giving a distinctive quality to his writing. He fell under the spell of the flamenco guitar.
Domenico Scarlatti was often regarded as a brilliant and freakish composer, and is generally not taken as seriously as deserved. By the medium of dance, I have attempted to show the scope of his music and depth of feeling, which is evident in the enormous variety of his style. It reveals a complete musical personality in the entire range of the Spanish idiom. He captured its "brittle tensions."
In my opinion, and that of musicians, this project could serve to educate and enlighten dancers and keyboardists about interpretation and style, and show other facets of the Spanish dance. I have explored these works on the piano and harpsichord and I believe Scarlatti is Spain's great composer. The music of the flamenco guitar and song became part of the fabric of his compositions. It is a valuable educational experience in the arts and a study in aesthetics.


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The gold standard: Rafer Johnson's…
The gold standard: Rafer Johnson's extraordinary life ends at age 86
The 1960 Olympic decathlon champ also carried the torch into the Coliseum in 1984
Rafer Johnson poses with his bronze plaque on the Court of Honor at the Los Angeles Coliseum for Johnson in 2009. (Photo by Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
FILE – In this Sept. 7, 1960, file photo, Rafer Johnson of Kingsburg, Calif., is flanked by runners-up, Chuan-Kwang Yang, left, of Taiwan, and Vasily Kuznetsov of Russia, as they join in three-way handshake after receiving medals for the decathlon event of the Olympics in Rome, Italy. Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. He was 86. He died at his home in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, according to family friend Michael Roth. (AP Photo)
FILE: Former Olympian and gold medal-winning decathlete Rafer Johnson dies at the age of 86. 1960 Olympic decathlete gold medallist Rafer Johnson of the United States after climbing the stairs of the Memorial Coliseum prepares to light the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony for the XXIII Olympic Games on 28 July 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photo by Tony Duffy/Allsport//Getty Images)
FILE: Former Olympian and gold medal-winning decathlete Rafer Johnson dies at the age of 86. 27 Apr 1996: Olympic decathalete Rafer Johnson of the USA carries the Olympic torch on the first leg of the cross country relay from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California to Atlanta, Georgia. Mandatory Credit: Stephen Dunn/Allspo
FILE – In this Sept. 5, 1960, file photo, Rafer Johnson of the United States competes in the shot put event of the Olympic decathlon competition in Rome, Italy. Rafer heaved the shot 51 feet 10 3/4 inches to score 976 points and lead the field in this event. Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. He was 86. He died at his home in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, according to family friend Michael Roth.(AP Photo/FIle
FILE – In this July 20, 2015, file photo, Olympic gold medalist and philanthropist Rafer Johnson lifts his arm to mimic the lighting of the Olympic torch as he recalls the first Special Olympics World Games he attended, during a news conference in Los Angeles. Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. He was 86. He died at his home in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, according to family friend Michael Roth.(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
FILE – In this July 28, 1984, file photo, 1960 U.S. gold medal decathlete Rafer Johnson carries the Olympic torch through the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before lighting the Olympic flame and formally launching the 1984 summer games. Rafer Johnson died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. He was 86. He died at his home in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, according to family friend Michael Roth. (AP Photo/Peter Leabo, File)
FILE – In this Sept. 6, 1960, file photo, the top three finishers in the decathlon of the 1960 Rome Summer Olympics stand on the podium while wearing their medals at Olympic Stadium in Rome. Rafer Johnson, center, won the gold; Taiwan's Yang Chuan, left, the silver; and Russia's Vasili Kuznetsov the bronze. Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. He was 86. He died at his home in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, according to family friend Michael Roth.(AP Photo/File)
FILE – Rafer Johnson of Kingsburg, Calif., is congratulated by International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage after presentation of the gold medal for the decathlon event at the Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, in this Sept., 7, 1960, file photo. Rafer Johnson died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. He was 86. He died at his home in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, according to family friend Michael Roth (AP Photo)
FILE – In this Sept. 5, 1960, file photo, Rafer Johnson of the United States, center, finishers the fourth heat of the decathlon 100 meter dash at the Olympics in Rome, Italy. Eef Kamerbeek of Netherlands is at left, and Gurbachan Singh Randhawa of India is at right. Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. He was 86. He died at his home in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, according to family friend Michael Roth. (AP Photo/Olympic Pool, File)
FILE – In this July 28, 1984, file photo, Rafer Johnson, winner of the gold medal for the decathlon in 1960, lights the Olympic torch during opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. He was 86. He died at his home in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, according to family friend Michael Roth. (AP Photo/FIle)
FILE – In this July 28, 1984 file photo, the Olympic flame is flanked by a scoreboard signifying the formal opening of the XXIII Olympiad after it was lit by Rafer Johnson during the opening ceremonies in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington are the cities still in the running for a possible U.S. bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
By Mark Whicker |
PUBLISHED: December 3, 2020 at 4:56 a.m. | UPDATED: December 3, 2020 at 4:58 a.m.
Those who knew Rafer Johnson tell their stories in sympathetic tones to those who didn't, as if it were the lost opportunity of a lifetime.
Johnson was the 1960 Olympic champion in the decathlon. When his daughter Jenny began studying ancient Greece in elementary school, Johnson brought out his gold medal. For many years it was the only time she ever saw it.
"He was the guy folding up the chairs at the end of a concert, handing out drinks at our soccer games," said Bill Shumard, who for 15 years was the head of Special Olympics Southern California, a cause that Johnson made his own.
"To be honest I never knew how to take him. He was so normal and understated. I don't hesitate to say he's the best person I've ever known."
Johnson, 86, died Wednesday.
"The world has lost an incredible athlete," said Bill Toomey, who won decathlon gold for the U.S. in the 1968 Olympics. "He broke through barriers because of his demeanor."
Johnson's final years were difficult, physically. Shumard remembers Johnson being helped onto a stage in October of 2019, at the Santa Monica Pier, to deliver an award at a Special Olympics function.
Johnson leaves behind his wife Betsy, and Jenny and son Josh, whom Rafer and Betsy watched compete in a U.S. Olympic Trials decathlon in Sacramento.
Jenny was an Olympian in beach volleyball. While at UCLA, she scheduled a summer trip to Kansas and Texas, for camps. Rafer came to the office of volleyball coach Al Scates and said he was concerned that there wouldn't be adequate supervision for Jenny. He also said, "Don't tell her I asked you that."
"I watched Jenny play in a lot of club volleyball competitions when she was growing up," Scates said, "and I saw Rafer at every one of them."
But Johnson's life was gloriously abnormal.
He was UCLA's student body president five years before Congress passed civil rights legislation. In 1958, when the Soviet Union was forbidden territory and its leader promised to bury America, the U.S. sent a team to Moscow, and Johnson beat decathlon record-holder Vasily Kuznetsov.
The fans cheered Johnson through the javelin and the 1,500 meters, then surrounded him, picked him up and tossed him into the air. An interpreter told a U.S. AAU official, "I do not understand. Russian people are not often so emotional."
That was the year Johnson won Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year award. An auto accident in 1959 shattered Johnson's training schedule for the Olympics, but he already knew how to recuperate. At 12 he got his leg caught in a cannery belt and had to take 23 stitches, and walked with crutches for a time. He worked out anyway, and developed a powerful upper body that gave Johnson a huge advantage in the decathlon throwing events.
UCLA teammate C.K. Yang became the Olympic favorite in Rome. Both were coached by Elvin "Ducky" Drake, and Johnson remembers getting 1,500-meter advice from Drake in Rome, and then watching, bemused, to see Drake advising Yang as well.
Johnson stayed close enough to Yang in the 1,500 to win overall, and runnerup Yang became the first native of Taiwan, known as Nationalist China, to Americans back then, to win an Olympic medal. The two were friends until Yang died in 2007.
"Those two guy singlehandedly created the charisma for that event," Toomey said. "I couldn't read enough stories about what they did."
Johnson helped bring the 1984 Olympics to Los Angeles, and he was chosen to carry the Olympic torch into the Coliseum. He held it as he jogged around the track, and he wore an all-white singlet and shorts, and looked for all the world like a contestant. As he drove downtown that day, he asked Jenny to guess who the torchbearer might be. She guessed Michael Jackson, and Johnson smiled.
Johnson was involved in movies and television, was Gloria Steinem's boyfriend for a time, and joined Bobby Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1968. Kennedy won the California primary, and Johnson and former Rams' defensive tackle Rosey Grier were in the corridor behind the podium at L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel. RFK was shot and killed by Sirhan Sirhan, and a numb TV audience heard someone yell, "Get the gun, Rafer."
Johnson woke up the next morning and put on his sport coat from the night before. Inside the pocket was the revolver.
"He was in a deep funk after that," Shumard said. "Bobby's sister Eunice, who had founded the Special Olympics, told him Bobby wouldn't have wanted him to react that way. That's how Rafer got involved in the program. Years later, he and Betsy sold their house on Balboa Island, and that money saved us, kept us going."
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Johnson preceded the day when money took over sports. Olympians were amateurs then.
"They started giving us $2 a day," Toomey said. "I used to say you couldn't even buy postcards for that."
Johnson could have used the money. He was born in Hillsboro, Tex., and his father Lewis moved the family to Kingsburg, in the San Joaquin Valley, when Rafer was five. One brother, Jimmy, became a Pro Football Hall of Famer as a 49ers' cornerback.
The Johnsons lived in a railroad boxcar for a while, and when they did get settled, it wasn't unusual for them to lose their electricity.
When Johnson first came to UCLA, he looked west and saw a large hill near campus. "I'm going to live in a house on that hill," he told himself, and later he did.
"I remember looking up to Bob Mathias and to Rafer," Toomey said. "Rafer probably was the best ever. Back then, there was no fiberglass pole for the pole vault, and there was no Fosbury Flop in the high jump. C.K. won seven of the 10 events in Rome, but Rafer stayed close enough in that 1,500 to win it."
"What drove me," Johnson said later, "was the knowledge that this was the last decathlon for me. There was no reason to hold back."
Today, Johnson might have been a prime candidate to run for President, although he said he enjoyed sports because athletes could freely exchange ideas, unlike politicians. Not even Twitter would have laid a glove on his image.
"He had a great sense of humor, too, and often he was his own target," Shumard said. "We were playing golf at Trump National one day for a fund-raiser, and he often described himself as a great athlete but a terrible golfer. We were a foursome, and we'd agreed that Rafer didn't have to get out of the cart unless the first two guys missed their drives. He got on the phone with the office, and we kept hitting it in the fairway, and they asked how he was doing. He said, 'Great. We're on No. 8, I'm having the round of my life and I haven't gotten out of the cart.'''
Johnson's life would have been full to capacity if only Long Beach State had played women's volleyball this season. Jenny's daughter Jaylen is a freshman there. She is one of Johnson's four grandchildren.
"He was a superstar in the field of human endeavor," Toomey said, and you wonder who else, in the world of sports, could make that roster.
Shumard remembers office workers idly wondering when the next Rafer Johnson would come along. Sympathetically, he had to tell them to stop wondering.
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How Abraham Initiated Globalization
By OMAR ABDEL HALEEM
Social scientists, historians, and economists have been running something of a competition to theorize the origins of the two hallmarks of our time: The catalyst that occasioned the modern era, and the event-onset of globalization.
They've mostly spun sightlessly from speculation to conjecture, blinded by the cowls of secularism they must wear. This causes them to miss the real driver of social transformation among humanity—the divinely ordained brotherhood of the prophets of tawhîd, or revealed monotheism.
Anyone who studies prophethood can easily discern the celebrated harbinger of both. Abraham pbuh, father of prophets. Two aspects of his advent are decisive in history: His coming ushers in a new era for humanity, and he enters as the inspired herald of the end of time, the vast bulk of humanity's generations having already passed from the earth before him. So in mission and message, Abraham pbuh proclaims the inevitability of the modern era and globalization.
Before Abraham humanity is not nearly as connected as it is after him. Peoples in the eras preceding him fundamentally live in their own worlds. That is why, as the Quran tells us, to each one God sends its own messenger, a brother from among themselves, with a specialized message directed exclusively to them.
That is also why there is so little meaningful continuity between the nations before Abraham. A people would rise to prominence. A messenger would be awakened among them. He would call them to Oneness and away from their self-styled idols. He would condemn their treatment of their downtrodden and poor—for always the exploited were the "necessary" by product of a people's propagated identity. And bleakly he would censure the very particular vices that they claimed their beliefs arrogated to them.
Then the people would disbelieve. Then God would bring down a shocking cataclysm upon their heads, or from beneath their feet, or from before their very faces, or from behind them, unaware—until the unmoved earth and tearless sky swept their faceless corpses and traces into silence. Then another messenger would arise among a successor people.
Yet there is perceptible motion among humanity preceding Abraham. In travel. Gradually the trade routes become more established and better. In recording. It grows easier to keep records of human events, and so to obtain them. I would guess that improvement in political organization could similarly be detected, until out of these sophistications a people like the Romans can envision a global empire; whereas in pre-recorded history, the notion of empire as such is unrealized (not to say that expansive realms didn't exist).
But when the new era verges, nothing but a change in prophethood can usher it in and match the unprecedented capaciousness of its mind.
So it is the mission of Abraham to reintroduce monotheism in the globalizing world—and this time for good. For the world will never after return to a state vacant of monotheism.
And how could it? The elaboration of travel, the capacity for capture of datum and occurrence—and now the expansion and elevation of prophethood—all the elements of returning man to a whole-earth, human-wide level of home, place, and space existence would make it forever unnecessary to reinstate monotheism in the world.
This speaks to Abraham's unique God-given characterization in the Quran as a nation, or community in entirety, in himself (Sûrat Al-Na^l, 16:120).
Thus Abraham—exemplar of monotheism, devoutly obedient to the immutable morality set by God for all humankind—goes where God commands him in the earth, his purpose to sow the seeds of taw^îd, the Oneness of God, therein, and to set its geo-spiritual axes for all human beings and nations after him.
Centrally, in this quest, Abraham raises the foundations of the Ka¢bah, the very First House of God established on earth, and simultaneously purifies it for worship and re-establishes the human obligation of pilgrimage in the season of Hajj to it.
This is crucial. For had humanity not come full circle to the threshold of globalism, Allah would not have had Abraham raise up the Ka¢bah's foundations to reintroduce it to us for these four specific purposes: (1) For the Hajj as the unifying focal point of humanity; (2) as our human origin in the world; (3) as the source of the cardinal directions, from which east becomes east, west west, and north and south the left and the right respectively; and (4) as the culminating place and rite of all human worship of Him as Sole Divine. Before Abraham, it would have been too much to expect a person on the other side of the world to make Hajj.
This leaves us with an important question. Where did God command Abraham to go, aside from the Valley of Tears, Bakkah, where Makkah stands? He went to three other places: Iraq (where he was born and started his call to taw^îd). Al-Shâm (Greater Syria, which hosts the Furthest Sacred House, Al-Aqsa, in Jerusalem). And Egypt. Indeed, the event of building and re-sacralising he Ka'bah of Makkah comes last on this inspired itinerary, and thus does the last become first.
If we look at these four regions, we see that today they share certain defining characteristics:
All are Arabic-speaking, which naturally keeps them closely tied to the Quran, the Sunnah (Way) of the Prophet Muhammad and Islam
All have tangible connections between them and Heaven: (1) The sources of the Nile and Euphrates are in Heaven. (2) The Ka'bah in Makkah holds the Black Stone, a stone of Heaven, and is connected with Al-Bayt Al-Ma'mûr (The Much-Frequented House (by the Angels in pilgrimage) in Heaven. (3) And in Al-Shâm, in Jerusalem, within the Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa Mosque (established by Abraham pbuh 40 years after the Ka'bah), there is a Stairway to Heaven from The Sakhrah—the Stone from which the Prophet Muhammad œ ascended to Heaven during the Mi'râj, Ascent to Heaven
In the case of Makkah, Iraq, and Egypt, civilization has been made possible by miraculous water: Zam Zam, the Nile and Euphrates (as above-mentioned)
They hosted the oldest civilizations in the world
They occupy the most central geographic position in the world, and hence its central trade routes must pass through them
The region as a whole God has blessed with rich natural resources
None of the Holy Scriptures (The Torah of Moses, The Evangel of Jesus, or The Quran) specifies any place outside of this region. Rather, all the events of the Revealed Scriptures occur within these places.
Makkah enjoys a special station as the place of the Hajj-Pilgrimage, we've noted. But set it aside and look at the modern-day political conditions of the Abrahamic countries, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. Each is in calamitous upheaval, metamorphosis from which they shall not return to their previous socio-political states.
In this context, let us recall the command of God to Abraham to call people—all humanity!—to His Oneness and worship, to make the Hajj-Pilgrimage to His House.
What does Abraham, stark in the desert vale, do? He ascends Mount Abî Qubays near the Ka'bah and cries out, against all the odds, in this wilderness to the far-flung family of man, who cannot hear him. He calls man to return to his origin, to the sole worship of his Sole Creator, to the singular, most unifying, comprehensive, and equalizing Pillar of Worship, the Hajj-Pilgrimage.
It is as if we can hear his prophetic, clarion voice ring out upon the winds and through the ages today, calling humanity to return all together, in unified peace, to the pure, easy, and upright belief in God, the One, and to the faith and prophetic conduct this entails.


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import Ember from 'ember';
import {module, test} from 'qunit';
import startApp from '../helpers/start-app';

var App, server;

module('Acceptance: Questions Show', {
  beforeEach: function() {
    App = startApp();

    var users = [
      {
        id: 1,
        username: 'HeroicEric',
        question_ids: [42]
      },
      {
        id: 2,
        username: 'OtherGuy',
        question_ids: []
      }
    ];

    var question = {
      id: 1,
      user_id: 1,
      title: 'really bad question title',
      body: 'I write the worst questions',
      answer_ids: [1, 2]
    };

    var answers = [
      {
        id: 1,
        body: 'You should just rm -rf *. That should fix it.',
        question_id: 1,
        user_id: 2
      },
      {
        id: 2,
        body: 'I actually solved this myself by derping the derp',
        question_id: 1,
        user_id: 1,
        can_edit: true
      }
    ];

    server = new Pretender(function(){
      this.get('/api/v1/questions/:id', function(request) {
        return jsonResponse(200, { question: question, answers: answers, users: users });
      });
    });
  },
  afterEach: function() {
    Ember.run(App, 'destroy');
    server.shutdown();
  }
});

test('question details are displayed', function(assert) {
  visit('/questions/1');

  andThen(function() {
    assert.equal(find('.page-title:contains("really bad question")').length, 1,
      'Title found');
    assert.equal(find('#question-1 .post__author:contains("HeroicEric")').length, 1,
      'Author found');
    assert.equal(find('#question-1 .post__content:contains("I write the worst questions")').length, 1,
      'Body found');
  });
});

test('answers are listed on the page', function(assert) {
  visit('/questions/1');

  andThen(function() {
    assert.equal(find('.answers-list .post--answer').length, 2,
      'The correct number of answers are listed');
    assert.ok(hasContent('You should just rm -rf *. That should fix it.'),
      'First answer found');
    assert.ok(hasContent('I actually solved this myself by derping the derp'),
      'Second answer found');
  });
});

test('user answers a question successfully', function(assert) {
  // Successful response
  server.post('/api/v1/answers', function(request) {
    var answerAttrFromRequest = JSON.parse(request.requestBody).answer;
    var answer = Ember.merge(answerAttrFromRequest, { id: 1000, user_id: 2 });
    return jsonResponse(200, { answer: answer });
  });

  var initialAnswerCount;

  authenticateSession();
  visit('/questions/1');

  andThen(function() {
    initialAnswerCount = find('.answers-list .post--answer').length;
  });

  fillIn('.answer-form textarea[name="body"]',
    'I think you just need to restart your computer');
  click('.answer-form input[type="submit"]');

  andThen(function() {
    assert.equal(find('.answers-list .post--answer').length, initialAnswerCount + 1,
      'New answer added to the page');
    assert.ok(hasContent('Thanks for answering!'),
      'Success notification displayed');
    assert.equal(find('.answer-form textarea[name="body"]').val(), "",
      'Answer form is reset');
  });
});

test('user cannot submit an invalid answer', function(assert) {
  authenticateSession();
  visit('/questions/1');

  andThen(function() {
    assert.equal(find('.answer-form input[type="submit"]').attr('disabled'), 'disabled',
      'Answer submit button is disabled');
  });
});

test('posting an answer requires authentication', function(assert) {
  invalidateSession();
  visit('/questions/1');

  andThen(function() {
    assert.equal(find('.answer-form').length, 0, 'Answer form is not displayed');
    assert.equal(find('a:contains("Log in to post an answer")').length, 1,
      'Message to sign in to post an answer displayed');
  });
});

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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The 5 things you should know this June 2: Deaths in Peru are more than double those reported
"Observations and adjustments" by the Colombian government complicate the progress of the dialogues with the National Unemployment Committee. Francis reviews Church law and updates the rules on sexual abuse. Brazil confirms that it will host the Copa América. This is what you need to know to start the day. Truth first.
Deaths from covid-19 in Peru are more than double those reported
The Government of Peru updated the death toll from covid-19 in the country: states that more than 180,000 people have lost their lives due to the virus since the start of the pandemic, more than double the nearly 69,000 deaths reported so far by the authorities. The Government promised to follow recommendations to have a figure "that reflects a reality closer to what is happening."
Government "Observations and Adjustments" Complicate Advance of Dialogues in Colombia
Negotiations between the Government of Colombia and the National Unemployment Committee are on a tightrope. This after the Government sent a series of "observations and adjustments" to the text of the preliminary agreement on the guarantees for the protest that had been reached with the representatives of the strike and that, had they been signed, the negotiating table would have been set up.
Is there or is not a preliminary agreement in Colombia? 4:09
The Catholic Church updates the rules against sexual abuse
Pope Francis issued the most extensive revision of the Catholic Church's law in four decades, insisting that bishops take action against clergymen who abuse minors and vulnerable adults, commit fraud or attempt to ordain women. We explain the changes to this review that has been in process since 2009.
The Vatican toughens laws against sexual abuse 1:57
Brazil will host the Copa América
The Copa América will be played in Brazil, without an audience, and in the states of Matto Grosso, Rio de Janeiro, Goiás and in the Federal District, confirmed the country's Minister of Government, Luiz Eduardo Ramos. "Consistency gained!", The official wrote on his Twitter account. And he added that the country "could not turn its back on a traditional championship like this."
Brazil confirms that it will host the Copa América 1:56
It is LGBT Pride Month. This is what you should know
June is Pride Month, in which LGBT communities from around the world come together and celebrate the freedom to be themselves. Pride demonstrations are rooted in the arduous history of minority groups who have struggled for decades to overcome prejudice and be accepted for who they are. Here, everything you need to know about this celebration.
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Your entertainment guide for summer 2021
The boreal summer of 2021 is time for vaccinations and leaving the mask at home, for in-person premieres and "post-pandemic life," although at different rates for each. In this guide, find the live premieres, series endings, and new beginnings that you can enjoy the next three months.
Five series coming to Netflix in June 1:00
These programs could help mothers re-enter the labor market
Since the pandemic began, millions of women have left the workforce, many of them because they have had to take care of care that traditionally falls to women. Get to know some projects that help reintegration.
Space debris hits the International Space Station
A robotic arm of the International Space Station was damaged by the impact of space debris. The exact object responsible for this damage is unknown, although the possibilities are very diverse. The Canadian Space Agency reported that, despite the impact, "the performance of the arm is not affected."
This is how they want to clean the space debris from our orbit 0:55
A seven-year-old boy in Florida swam for an hour to get help
A 7-year-old boy from Florida has become a hero after swimming to shore for help when his sister and father were swept away. His father told how the experience was.
Boy swims for an hour to save his stranded family 1:07
Thin people can also have fat around the heart
If you thought that being slim is synonymous with being healthy, a study shows the opposite: overweight people have twice the risk of having fat around the heart, but those who are thin can also suffer from this condition.
Thinness does not equate to a healthy heart, study reveals 0:42
The number of the day
1.5 million
Krispy Kreme has given more than 1.5 million donuts to people vaccinated against covid-19 in the United States and expects the number to continue to rise.
These companies continue to offer gifts to vaccinated 0:56
"The shortage of workers is real and is getting worse by the day"
The CEO of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Suzanne Clark, warned about the lack of workers in the country, which she describes as the most important and widespread challenge facing companies.
Day selection
A jade roller for $ 12
This beauty accessory is in fashion among beauty influencers for its benefits in skin care.
And to finish…
Watch a drone crash into lava from a volcano in Iceland
A drone crashed into the lava from the Fagradalsfjall volcano, providing a fascinating view of the erupting crater. Joey Helms, drone operator and youtuber, uploaded the video. Here the impressive images.
This is how a drone crashes into an erupting volcano 0:50
Covid Germany, contagion curve rises after easing restrictions
Malala on the cover of Vogue: "Every girl can change the world"
WEATHER FORECAST: A cold week is coming! It will be extraordinarily windy, WARNINGS before a strong storm – Topky.sk
4,500-year-old avenues lined ancient tombs discovered in Saudi Arabia
Amazing atmosphere and a big step forward: Responses from the handball booth after the historic triumph at the European Championships! – Športky.sk


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Special seminar "Kashmir Black Day"
The Embassy of Pakistan held a special seminar today to express solidarity with the oppressed people of Indian Occupied Jammu & Kashmir on the occasion of Black Day being observed by Pakistan to condemn the brutalities by Indian armed forces against innocent and unarmed civilians in Indian Occupied Kashmir. The event was attended by a sizable number of Kashmiri and Pakistani communities. The gathering was addressed by prominent Pakistani/Kashmiri community members. The Kashmir speakers highlighted the miserable plight of Kashmiris living in the occupied valley and wide spread human rights violations committed by the Indian troops. They lamented that the world powers had turned a blind eye to the just cause of Kashmir, to save their economic and commercial interests. Ambassador H.E Mr. Jauhar Saleem in his remarks observed that Kashmir could not be kept under unlawful occupation by India indefinitely; using brutal force, and that the struggle of the Kashmiri people for their legitimate right of self-determination was destined to succeed. He added that the world community owed it to the people of Kashmir to put pressure on India to deliver on its pledge made to the United Nations 68 years ago and give the right of self-determination to the people of the valley. He reiterated Pakistan's commitment to a just and peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, based on UN resolutions. Documentaries highlighting human rights violations in the occupied valley were also shown on this occasion.


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Posted: April 25, 2019 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Alarmist media, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Climatism, CO2, Environmentalism, Fact Check, Government Grants/Funding, NASA, Satellite Data | Tags: Carbon Dioxide, carbon dioxide emissions, Carbon Dioxide Fertilisation, China, Climate Change, Climatism, CO2, forestry, Global greening, Global Warming, India, nasa, NASA Earth Observatory, Science and Environment | Leave a comment
China and India Lead the Way in Greening | NASA (Climatism edit)
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." – Bertrand Russel
DON'T expect to see this 'good' environmental news on the mainstream media anytime soon.
WHEN you're in the business of demonising carbon dioxide and frightening the Thunberg's kiddies for political and ideological ends, such good news comes as a rather unwelcome message!
Via NASA Earth Observatory :
China and India Lead the Way in Greening
The world is literally a greener place than it was twenty years ago, and data from NASA satellites has revealed a counterintuitive source for much of this new foliage. A new study shows that China and India—the world's most populous countries—are leading the increase in greening on land. The effect comes mostly from ambitious tree-planting programs in China and intensive agriculture in both countries.
Ranga Myneni of Boston University and colleagues first detected the greening phenomenon in satellite data from the mid-1990s, but they did not know whether human activity was a chief cause. They then set out to track the total amount of Earth's land area covered by vegetation and how it changed over time.
The research team found that global green leaf area has increased by 5 percent since the early 2000s, an area equivalent to all of the Amazon rainforests. At least 25 percent of that gain came in China. Overall, one-third of Earth's vegetated lands are greening, while 5 percent are growing browner. The study was published on February 11, 2019, in the journal Nature Sustainability .
The maps on this page show the increase or decrease in green vegetation—measured in average leaf area per year—in different regions of the world between 2000 and 2017. Note that the maps are not measuring the overall greenness, which explains why the Amazon and eastern North America do not stand out, among other forested areas.
"China and India account for one-third of the greening, but contain only 9 percent of the planet's land area covered in vegetation," said lead author Chi Chen of Boston University. "That is a surprising finding, considering the general notion of land degradation in populous countries from overexploitation."
globalgreening_tamo_2017
This study was made possible thanks to a two-decade-long data record from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites. An advantage of MODIS is the intensive coverage they provide in space and time: the sensors have captured up to four shots of nearly every place on Earth, every day, for the past 20 years.
"This long-term data lets us dig deeper," said Rama Nemani, a research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center and a co-author of the study. "When the greening of the Earth was first observed, we thought it was due to a warmer, wetter climate and fertilization from the added carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Now with the MODIS data, we see that humans are also contributing."
China's outsized contribution to the global greening trend comes in large part from its programs to conserve and expand forests (about 42 percent of the greening contribution). These programs were developed in an effort to reduce the effects of soil erosion, air pollution, and climate change.
Another 32 percent of the greening change in China, and 82 percent in India, comes from intensive cultivation of food crops. The land area used to grow crops in China and India has not changed much since the early 2000s. Yet both countries have greatly increased both their annual total green leaf area and their food production in order to feed their large populations. The agricultural greening was achieved through multiple cropping practices, whereby a field is replanted to produce another harvest several times a year. Production of grains, vegetables, fruits and more have increased by 35 to 40 percent since 2000.
countrieschart_tamo_2017
How the greening trend may change in the future depends on numerous factors. For example, increased food production in India is facilitated by groundwater irrigation. If the groundwater is depleted, this trend may change. The researchers also pointed out that the gain in greenness around the world does not necessarily offset the loss of natural vegetation in tropical regions such as Brazil and Indonesia. There are consequences for sustainability and biodiversity in those ecosystems beyond the simple greenness of the landscape.
Nemani sees a positive message in the new findings. "Once people realize there is a problem, they tend to fix it," he said. "In the 1970s and 80s in India and China, the situation around vegetation loss was not good. In the 1990s, people realized it, and today things have improved. Humans are incredibly resilient. That's what we see in the satellite data."
NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Chen et al.,(2019). Story by Abby Tabor, NASA Ames Research Center, with Mike Carlowicz, Earth Observatory.
GLOBAL GREENING…
"A quarter to half of Earth's vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25." – NASA
NASA previously reported on the 'greening of the earth' thanks to the CO2 'fertilisation' effect.
HOWEVER, such good news was again carefully omitted by the mainstream media and environmental activists keen to preserve their 'catastrophic' global warming climate change narrative and continue their demonisation of life-giving gas carbon dioxide, deceptively referring to it as "carbon pollution" :
NASA ON (inconvenient) GLOBAL GREENING
CO2 is making Earth greener—for now – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
BIAS BY OMISSION – THE WORST FORM OF PROPAGANDA
CSIRO Censoring Their Own Climate Research
IN 2013, the CSIRO commissioned a study that found "Deserts 'greening' from rising carbon dioxide: Green foliage boosted across the world's arid regions."
THE 'greening' of deserts, thanks to rising CO2, happens to be a very unwelcome message for the environmental movement and apparently for the CSIRO, too! So, they simply removed the study from their website!
http://www.csiro.au/404.aspx?item=%2fportals%2fmedia%2fdeserts-greening-from-rising-co2&user=extranet%5cAnonymous&site=Phoenix
CSIRO's peer-reviewed study can be found at Science Daily :
Deserts 'greening' from rising carbon dioxide: Green foliage boosted across the world's arid regions — ScienceDaily
H/t @FrankWi74044551
MORE on Global Greening :
THE Most Amazing Greening On Earth | Climatism
CHINA To Phase Out 'Renewable' Subsidies, Continue To Build Coal Plants
Posted: November 3, 2018 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Climatism, Energy Poverty, Fact Check, Failed Green Schemes, Fossil Fuels, Government Grants/Funding, Green Energy, Renewables, Solar, Taxpayer waste, Unreliables, Wind Farms | Tags: China, Climate Change, Climatism, coal, coal fired power, Energy, Energy Poverty, Energy Security, Fossil Fuels, Government Subsidies, Green Energy Failure, IER, NEG, RET, Solar PV, Subsidies, unreliables, Wind Energy, Wind Farms, wind power | Leave a comment
China Expected to Phase Out Renewable Subsidies, Continue to Build Coal Plants – IER
CHINA'S greenwashing exercise and heavily subsidised unreliables (wind/solar) experiment is coming to a grinding halt.
THE central planners in the red state know only too well that you cannot power a growing economy on sunshine and breezes.
THEY have made the wise decision to let wind and solar 'stand alone', turning the tap off massive government subsidies that keep the turbines spinning and the panels shiny.
MEANWHILE, they will continue building cheap, reliable, supercritical, clean coal-fried power plants to drive their growing economy, dragging even more millions out of poverty, into the middle class.
IER with the numbers :
China Is Expected to Phase Out Renewable Subsidies, Continue to Build Coal Plants
BY IER
China's energy regulator indicated the country will speed up efforts to ensure its wind and solar power can compete without subsidies and achieve "grid price parity" with traditional energy sources. China is encouraging renewable manufacturers and developers to drive down costs through technological innovations and economies of scale in order to phase out power generation subsidies, which have become an increasing burden on the state.
China owes about 120 billion yuan ($17.5 billion) in subsidies to solar plants despite cutting its subsidies to solar power and capping new capacity at 30 gigawatts this year—down from a 53 gigawatts in 2017—because the government is concerned about overcapacity and a growing subsidy backlog.
China's National Energy Administration issued the draft guidelines on September 13, 2018, indicating that some regions with cost and market advantages had "basically achieved price parity" with clean coal-fired power and no longer required subsidies, and that other regions should learn from their experiences. The draft guidelines urged transmission grid companies to provide more support for subsidy-free projects and ensure they have the capacity to distribute all the power generated by wind and solar plants. Currently, China is soliciting feedback from the industry and has not given a date for implementation of the guidelines.
Coal Construction Continues
While China is putting the brakes on its renewables, it has restarted coal-fired projects that had been put on hold. Approximately 46.7 gigawatts of new and restarted coal-fired power construction has been spotted through satellite imagery. The coal-fired power plants are either already generating power or will soon be operational, increasing China's coal-fired power capacity by 4 percent.
Coal consumption in China increased 3.1 percent in the first half of 2018 compared with the same period last year due primarily to coal-fired generation. Electricity consumption increased 9.4 percent during that period. A rebound in industrial demand for electricity and electric power shortages during the summer in some regions have made policy-makers more accepting of overcapacity from demand-responsive generation. Economic data for the first half of 2018 indicate that China's power demand is rebounding.
Despite the change in coal-fired plant construction, overcapacity is still a problem in China. Utilization rates for coal-fired plants recovered slightly from a 50-year low in 2016, but have not even returned to 2015 levels. About half of the country's coal-fired power plants were running at a loss in the first six months of this year due to high coal prices. Because of capacity cuts in its domestic mining sector, China's coal imports increased, driving global prices for thermal coal that is used to generate electricity.
Source: National Energy Administration
Thermal Generation Outpaces Renewable Generation
Despite China's push to ensure all solar and wind production is distributed by the grid, China's thermal electricity production (coal, natural gas, oil, and biomass) is increasing much faster than its renewable (wind and solar) electricity production. In the second quarter of 2018, wind and solar generation increased by 51 terawatt hours while thermal electricity production increased by 176.9 terawatt hours—about 3.5 times as much. Together wind and solar power represented just 21 percent of the increased power generation in the second quarter, while thermal power provided 72 percent.
Source: China Energy Portal *Thermal is a combination of coal, gas, oil, and biomass
China is still counting on coal to keep the lights on and keep its industrialization booming. While it has invested heavily in subsidizing its solar power industry, it realizes it cannot continue with the massive subsidies and has issued draft guidelines to phase them out. Despite having overcapacity and underutilized plants, it is continuing to construct coal-fired plants to ensure that power is available throughout the country and throughout the day.
China Is Expected to Phase Out Renewable Subsidies, Continue to Build Coal Plants – IER
FAKE NEWS MEDIA
THE global-warming-theory-obsessed mainstream media and unreliable-energy spruikers like Renew Economy routinely market China as the "leader in renewable energy".
THIS is deceptive fake news and classic propaganda designed to keep unreliables afloat through endless taxpayer subsidies causing rampant energy poverty that is destroying western economies and, ironically, sending jobs, industries and 'emissions' directly to China!
Renew Economy : Fair Dinkum Fake News & Analysis
China does not need any new coal fired generation | RenewEconomy
As United States looks to coal, China invests in renewable energy | RenewEconomy
China to phase out coal imports | RenewEconomy
China's Gigantic New Commitment To Renewable Energy, Explained – ThinkProgress
How China is leading the world in solar energy production | WIRED UK
GREEN ENERGY FAIL : Record Australian Thermal Coal Exports | Climatism
ADDING More Solar And Wind Power 'Doubles' CO2 Emissions | Climatism
GODFATHER Of Global Warming Alarmism James Hansen Admits Renewable Energy Is A "Nice Idea" Though Useless | Climatism
Shocker: Top Google Engineers Say Renewable Energy 'Simply won't work' | Climatism
GREEN ENERGY FAIL : Record Australian Thermal Coal Exports
Posted: September 11, 2018 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Australia, BIG Government, Carbon Dioxide, Climatism, CO2, Energiewende, Energy Poverty, Failed Green Schemes, Government Grants/Funding, Govt Climate Agenda, Green Agenda, Politics, Renewables, RET, Solar, Wind Farms | Tags: Australia, China, Climate Change, Climatism, coal, coal fired power, Energiewende, Energy, Energy Poverty, Fuel Poverty, Global Warming, Green Energy, Indonesia, Paris Accord, Politics, Renewable energy, RET, Solar panels, Solar PV, Thermal Coal, Twitter, UN, unreliables, Wind Energy, wind power | Leave a comment
Strong Asian demand boosts coal exports | The Australian
"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?" – Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
H/t Timjbo 🇦🇺  @pleaseuseaussie
AUSTRALIAN high-energy, thermal coal export earnings and volumes are running at record rates on the back of strong Asian power station demand. While it is early days, the July 2018 revenue figure is 31 per cent up on July 2017.
Strong Asian demand boosts coal exports
MATT CHAMBERS
SENIOR RESOURCES REPORTER
@mattchambers1
EXPORT volumes rose 10 per cent to a record 19.87 million tonnes, representing an annual rate of 238 million tonnes.
FEDERAL Resources Minister Matt Canavan said the figures backed up previous expectations that Australia's high-energy coal would be in demand from Asia's growing coal-fired power sector as it chased better air quality and lower emissions.
THE strong thermal coal exports come as combined exports of east coast thermal coal, used to generate electricity, and coking coal, used to make steel, overtake West Australian exports of iron ore as the nation's top export.
ACCORDING to the ABS data, July's combined coal exports beat iron ore for the third straight month, coming in at $5.58bn, compared to iron ore's $4.74bn.
CHINESE coal-fired power generation was up 7.3 per cent in the first seven months of this year, from a year earlier.
AND Australia's higher-quality coal, in terms of energy content, is being favoured over domestic mines and import competitors such as Indonesia as China tries to combat air pollution.
THE strength in coal prices has favoured those prepared to invest against a growing campaign and activism against thermal coal.
Strong Asian demand boosts coal exports | The Australian (paywalled)
MEANWHILE, in Australia, global warming theory-obsessed politicians of both major parties and persuasions are giving up the countries once prized economic advantage of having cheap, reliable energy, by decommissioning and blowing up their last remaining coal-fired power plants. The Greens and Labor parties even cheering the economic vandalism…
Playford A Power Station Stack Felling
NPS West Coal Bunker and Tower Demolition
NPS East Coal Bunker and Coal Transfer Towers
via Augusta Power Stations – Flinders Power
NEIGHBOURING State, Victoria, whose Socialist, Hard Left government, with an obvious obsession with 'green' energy and the climate faith has closed Hazelwood coal-fired power station, which did not merely supply Victoria with a quarter of its power but also helped bail out South Australia who are now largely dependent on sunshine and breezes for their energy security.
ALL this destruction of Australia's once cheap, efficient, relaible, baseload power supply has led to Australia now having some of the highest power prices in the world. South Australia officially "the highest"…
THE world has got the message: South Australia is closed for investment in heavy industry, and so, soon, will be the rest of Australia if they don't learn from the dire consequences of destroying cheap power.
AUSTRALIA'S politicians, intent on appeasing the UN climate gods, over its own citizens, continue the mad and ruinous rush into unreliable-energy – wind and solar – assuring rampant energy poverty by denying its own citizens the use of the miracle black rock that provides cheap, reliable and increasingly ultra-clean energy via new generation Supercritical and HELE (High Energy Low Emissions) coal-fired power plants currently being built in Asia and across the globe…
The ultra-supercritical Shanghai Waigaoqiao No. 3 is one of China's flagship high-efficiency, low-emissions coal-fired power plants.
CLEAN coal-fired power plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries…
"1,600 new coal-fired power plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries."
"1,600 new coal-fired power plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries." – NY Times
AUSTRALIA'S (suicidal) Unreliable-Energy and UN emissions reductions goals by State :
Andy Oz on Twitter
DON'T expect to hear or read about the massive expansion of global coal-fired power stations or Australia's record coal exports via the majority Leftist press.
THE Pravda mainstream media wants you to think that wind and solar are booming. The opposite is, of course, the truth.
FAILED unreliables are dying a rapid death as a Conga line of wised-up countries signal the end of unsustainable green-energy subsidies…
CUT The Subsidies and 'Green' Jobs Instantly Vanish: 80,000 German Solar Workers Sacked | Climatism
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THE Arctic's Message To G7 : Sea Ice Volume Is Normal And Highest For The Date In 13 Years
Posted: June 9, 2018 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Alarmism Debunked, Alarmist media, Arctic, Climate History, Climatism, Empirical Evidence, Fact Check, Fake News, Global Sea Ice, Greenland, Ideology, Propaganda | Tags: arctic, Arctic Sea Ice, China, climate, Climate Change, Climate science, Climatism, Fake News, G7, Global Warming, Greenland, Icebreakers, Mainstream media, propaganda, Russia, Scientific American, Sea Ice | 1 Comment
The Arctic's Message to G7: Commit on Climate – Scientific American Blog Network
(Un)Scientific American has trotted out more predictable un-scientific propaganda on the condition of Arctic sea-ice and temps ahead of Canada's G7 Summit in Charlevoix…
Scientific American :
"Our Arctic ice is in rapid decline: 11 of the lowest masses of summer sea ice have all occurred in the past 11 years…"
"Scientists have been monitoring the Arctic region for decades and the data conclusively shows a long-term, significant warming trend."
WHAT The 'Science' Says :
Arctic sea ice volume is normal and highest for the date in 13 years.
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http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icethickness/txt/IceVol.txt
ARCTIC TEMPS
(Un)Scientific American :
WHAT The 'Science' Says : Read the rest of this entry »
China urges miners to increase high-grade coal supplies for heating
Posted: December 28, 2017 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Communism, Energy Poverty, Fact Check, Failed Green Schemes, Fossil Fuels, Green Agenda, Renewables, Solar, Unreliables, Wind Farms | Tags: China, Communism, Energy, Energy Poverty, Fuel Poverty, Green Energy Failure, Socialism, solar, Solar panels, UN, UNEP, unreliables | Leave a comment
RATHER telling when the likes of the Guardian lambasts China's absurd move to ramp up coal-fired power to ensure the wellbeing of their most vulnerable, demonising "dirty" (lifesaving) coal without a single mention of unreliables to stop the supposed rot. Cowards.
By Paul Homewood
Oh, the joys of central planning!
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has urged coal miners to increase high-grade coal supplies to ensure heating fuel for winter, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said in a statement on Tuesday.
The statement comes after the central government scaled back its plan earlier this month to convert northern cities to natural gas from coal for heating, because provinces across China had warned of gas shortages.
The NDRC asked miners to put more high-grade coal projects into operation "as soon as possible".
Coal-fired power plants are also encouraged to increase their thermal coal stockpiles and upgrade their equipment to reduce emissions.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pollution-coal/china-urges-miners-to-increase-high-grade-coal-supplies-for-heating-idUSKBN1EK0FU
The Guardian also reported on the problems in China earlier this month:
While middle class Beijingers breathe the cleanest air in recent winters, in Zhuozhou, a small city 20 minutes by train from Beijing's downtown, residents are…
China's first all-electric cargo ship will transport coal
Posted: December 4, 2017 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Fossil Fuels, Propaganda, Unreliables | Tags: China, Climate Change, Electric Ship, green washing, propaganda, unreliables | Leave a comment
CLEVER China! Green-washing their massively expanding fossil fuel powered economy with token gestures like this "electric powered ship". With the lame-stream media and "green" groups gobbling it up and parroting the blatant symbolism as direct evidence of how China is "leading the way in green technology.." Blah blah blah…
THE only thing China is leading the way in is:
– Record economic growth care of their massive expansion of coal-fired power.
– Selling unreliable (wind/solar) energy tech to the gullible, climate-obsessed West, sending their economies broke and
– Controlling the climate-obsessed mainstream media through token Greenwashing efforts like this electric ship.
CLEVER China. They must be in hysterics at how easy it is to con green groups and the sycophant media through the use of such transparent 'green' propaganda!
"Ship of fools" comes to mind. And I'm definitely not directing that at China.
🤦♂
Nuts.
China spoils the launch of world's first electric cargo ship by using it to haul coal https://thinkprogress.org/china-electric-cargo-ship-coal-b3c6aa90564e/ via @thinkprogress 😅
If there were prizes for irony, this would have to be a contender. Does the coal generate its electricity?
China, already the world's biggest electric-vehicle market, is now using battery power to fuel cargo shipping as well, reports Quartz Media.
A Chinese company has built a 2,000 metric-ton (2,204 tons) all-electric cargo ship, which was launched from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou in mid-November, according to state-run newspaper People's Daily.
The 70-meter long (229 feet) and 14-meter wide (45 feet) ship is equipped with over 1,000 lithium batteries, with a total capacity of 2,400 kilowatt-hours.
By comparison, Tesla's Model X is equipped with a 100-kWh battery that allows it to drive nearly 570 kilometers (350 miles).


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Performance: Tunisian Comedian Kamel Touati at Alwan
Mon, December 23, 2013 8:00 pm at Alwan for the Arts
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Alwan for the Arts, TUNESS and Un Enfant, Des Sourire are delighted to present KAMEL TOUATI from Tunisia
Monday, December 23rd, 8pm
Tickets: $30 General | $25 for Students, TUNESS/Alwan Members (Buy Now*)
(*A small online fee is applied)
The net proceeds of this event will be donated by Kamel Taouati and the organizers to support charitable activities carried out by TUNESS.
This is Kamel Touati's first and only show in the United States. Space is limited, so please buy tickets early.
In his new one-man-show "In-Aach" (which means re-animation is Arabic), Kamel Touati talks about the angst of the average Tunisian in face of troubling and uncertain times in Tunisia. "Many artistic works have been devoted to the situation in the country since the revolution. But all that has been done is to translate what is going on and communicate it this to the public. I do not like to transpose what already exists. I have my own vision of the role of the artist, which I set to work in this show , "says the artist.
"There will be many on stage props, lighting effects , sensations to share and a new way of presenting the news of the country and the problems which prevent Tunisians from feeling better ," he promises.
Kamel Touati is an iconic Tunisian actor and comedian, known for Bent familia (1998), Madame Butterfly (1995) and The Silences of the Palace (1994).
He is very well known in Tunisia for his participation in numerous television series including Chez Azaïez (2003), Choufli Hal (2005-2009), Dar Lekhlaa (2010), and Dar Louzir (2012). Mr. Touati's stage experience is very extensive as he became known to the Tunisian public through the plays "Klem Ellil" (talks of the night), which featured other leading Tunisian actors.
Loyal to his comedian roots, the show is guaranteed to make one laugh and should offer an enjoyable evening!
About TUNESS
TUNESS (Tunisian Network for a Successful Society) is non-profit, non-political and non-religious association. The association was founded in the aftermath of the Tunisian revolution by a group of professionals from different fields. Its mission "Serving Tunisia Beyond Borders" consists of helping Tunisians in the homeland and in North America.
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Kamel Touati Performs In-Aach
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