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Anthony William Hernández González (* 11. Oktober 2001 in Puntarenas) ist ein costa-ricanischer Fußballspieler. Er nimmt mit der costa-ricanischen Nationalmannschaft an der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2022 teil.

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Hernández begann in seiner Heimatstadt beim örtlichen Klub Puntarenas FC mit dem Fußballspielen. 2022 rückte er in die erste Mannschaft auf, die gerade in die Primera División aufgestiegen war.

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Am 22. September 2022 debütierte Hernández in einem Freundschaftsspiel gegen Südkorea in der costa-ricanischen Nationalmannschaft. In seinem zweiten Spiel vier Tage später erzielte er beim 2:1-Sieg gegen Usbekistan sein erstes Länderspieltor zum zwischenzeitlichen 1:1.

Nationaltrainer Luis Fernando Suárez berief Hernández in das 26-köpfige Aufgebot Costa Ricas für die Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2022 in Katar.

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Ronda Jo Miller is deaf, but that didn't stop her from becoming one of the best basketball players in Division III history.
Like athletes at any level of competition, Division III student-athletes become role models in their communities.
However, few student-athletes at any level of competition get to be a role model like Ronda Jo Miller.
Type Miller's name into an internet search engine, and you'll find essays written by school children about the three-time Gallaudet basketball all-American who also played volleyball at the school.
Miller wore No. 23, and like Michael Jordan, who also famously wore that number, kids want to be like her. Her coach, Kitty Baldridge, knows.
"There are a lot of accomplishments, a lot of things you'd be astonished to hear about – how she treats children and how they look up to her, and how they talk about her once they realize who she is, and ask for autographs," Baldridge said during a Gallaudet ceremony in February to retire Miller's No. 23.
Coaches, knowing Miller is deaf, still saw her potential and sought to recruit her out of high school. But Miller passed up offers from Division I and II programs, and then did what many Division III student-athletes do – she picked the school she believed was right for her academically, socially, and athletically.
In her case, the school was Gallaudet – the nation's only university for the deaf and hard of hearing and at that time a member of Division III's Capital Athletic Conference (the university moved its athletics program in 2010 to the North Eastern Athletic Conference).
Miller flourished, especially athletically, leading the Bison to two Division III Women's Basketball Championship appearances and leaving her name etched into NCAA record books – and not just in basketball, where she still ranks among top Division III career scorers. She also was a three-time CAC volleyball player of the year and still holds the Division III career record for kills (3,579).
And with the attention came her status as a unique role model – a hero to deaf children who aspire to the most demanding and visible professions.
Miller now is student life director and also has taught and coached at the Metro Deaf School in her home state, working with youngsters as they strive to pursue their own places in society. She's ideally suited for the role.
It's a great model for children to follow – and not just the deaf children who want to be like Miller.
Nominated by Sam Atkinson, assistant director of athletics for communications at Gallaudet University.


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An indie rocker with a penchant for secrecy has turned a spooky old Freemason lair into Boston's best recording studio. Good luck finding it.
By Matthew Shaer·	 11/23/2009, 11:08 a.m.
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The coolest recording studio in Boston doesn't have windows. No sign hangs out front. The building sits on the noisy main drag of a neighborhood that's safe enough during the day, but turns a little rough as darkness falls.
The protocol around the studio is simple, and well established: The address is never publicized. Advertising is out of the question. All business comes by word of mouth.
Such practices are not usually the key to entrepreneurial success, but in the two years since it opened, the so-called 1867 Recording Studio has become a kind of mecca for dozens of local and national bands, groups that fork out large sums of cash for the opportunity to make music there. "You immediately feel like something epic or magical is going to happen when you enter that space," says Aurore Ounjian of the Boston band Mean Creek. "Who knew a place like that existed around here?"
Virtually nobody—and that's the whole idea. It was, after all, unhappy neighbors who had gotten Chris McLaughlin, the studio's founder and recording engineer, booted from his previous recording space. Curiously, the secrecy has only helped to swell his client list. You could say that it's a bit like Fight Club: The first thing you learn about 1867 is that you don't talk about 1867.
McLaughlin never set out to run his own studio, clandestine or otherwise. He wanted to be a rock star. In 2006, two years after he graduated from Boston College with a degree in physics, his band, Aberdeen City, was signed to a multi-album contract with Sony Music. An early single, "God Is Going to Get Sick of Me," got some traction, and the band toured successfully before things began to fizzle. "I was the last one to learn we were going to get dropped," McLaughlin says. "And I remember asking, 'Well, can we keep the tour van? It has WiFi and everything!' They said we could keep the tour van. And that was that."
Around the same time, after running afoul of a noise-sensitive neighbor, McLaughlin began casting about for a new place to play. One of his first stops was a hulking stone building near his apartment. In the early 1900s, the Masons maintained the structure as a temple. They covered the walls with hieroglyphs and erected a backlit altar, which now lies shattered and dark at the west end of the main hall. More recently, it was used as a movie theater—when McLaughlin first had a look, an old red carpet still covered most of the floor.
"I just thought, Oh my God, this place is perfect," McLaughlin remembers. He was really only in the market for a practice space, but as he paced beneath the gilded moldings, which had been collecting dust for decades, he started thinking. Like McLaughlin, many of his friends were looking for a different kind of recording space, something that made the process an experience as much as a work project. Bands would come in droves to play in a place like this, McLaughlin predicted.
These days the 1867 Recording Studio—the name is a nod to the building's age—is a professional producer's paradise. A dozen keyboards stretch across the counter spaces, and along a dusty pew McLaughlin displays his favorite electric guitars. But amid the amp stacks and cord coils, he's left room for remnants of the Masons' tenancy: programs from a 1913 meeting, skulls and crossbones painted onto the towering walls, engraved scarabs fixed to moldings. The vibe is equal parts Dan Brown and Pavement.
"There is such an air of mystery to the building that it was unlike any recording experience I've ever had," says Kosuke Kasza. Earlier this year, Kasza recorded a new LP at 1867; he is one of several New Yorkers who regularly travel north to work with McLaughlin. Some musicians come for the sheer novelty of the experience—a chance to lay down tracks in the cavernous chamber where a shadowy society once held sway. Others are there simply because they believe McLaughlin will produce a sound that other engineers can't. McLaughlin has an "amazing ear," Ounjian says. "We've all recorded in over a dozen studios in and out of Boston. This has to be the best-sounding record we've done."
Andy Guthrie, codirector of the popular Band in Boston podcast, says McLaughlin's passion rubs off on his clients. "Recording studios are usually these off-limits places, like the Taj Mahal or something. Maybe you'll get in there for a few million bucks," he says. "What Chris has done is make the whole thing attainable, and accessible, and fun. He's made it interesting."
On a sharply cold day, McLaughlin sits on a bench at 1867, toying with the fretboard of a beat-up Univox guitar, and struggling to stay warm; after a while, he pulls a jacket tighter around his shoulders. McLaughlin spends a lot of time in 1867. He is there for the marathon recording sessions, but he's also there when the building is empty—when it's just him, and the amp stacks, and the keyboards, and the ghosts of all the people who have gone before.
"It's a good place to think," he says. "It's weird—in a lot of ways this building has become a kind of home."
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Women Bishops: Church in all its Fullness
November 25, 2013 February 4, 2013 by Stephen Kuhrt
The reasons for the Fulcrum and Yes2WomeBishops conference on 16th March 2013
Fulcrum Newsletter February 2013
by Stephen Kuhrt
co-published with the Church of England Newspaper by permission
For those of us in support of the full ministry of women, 11th November 1992 will always be a day that we look back upon with affection. A handful of members of the House of Laity in General Synod changing their minds at the last minute was enough to allow the clear will of the church to be reflected by the body elected to represent them as the legislation was passed allowing women to be ordained as priests. Those who changed their mind may have had little sense of the developments to which they were opening the door. But the result has been twenty years of immensely fruitful ministry by women clergy for which many of us are utterly grateful.
20th November 2012 is, by contrast, viewed by those of us who support the full ministry of women with varying degrees of frustration, disappointment and anger. Once again it was an unrepresentative House of Laity within General Synod that held the key but with the crucial difference that its members were now under no illusion as to the significance of the legislation for women bishops being passed. Whilst 'proper provision for opponents' was presented as the issue, the debate in reality centred upon the determination of these opponents to prevent women bishops being established in a way that will transform the church. Unlike 1992, no conservatives were going to switch sides for pragmatic reasons because, this time, they knew that too much of what they wanted to preserve was at stake.
But the question for the supporters of women's full ministry is what happens now? What lessons need to be learnt from 20th November 2012 and its run up? And what is now the best way forward for those of us still strongly in favour of women bishops?
One major lesson is that the positive value of women's ministry needs to be spelt out a great deal more. Too much of the discussion around the time of the Synod vote was centred upon the issues that its opponents were concerned about. This meant that women bishops was presented far too much as 'a problem to be solved' rather than a wonderful opportunity for the church to move forward to greater fullness and enrichment. From this basis, it was not surprising that opponents were unable to see that the 'safeguards' they sought would have fatally impaired the proper ministry of women bishops. Even those in favour of women bishops were rather too reluctant to express that this was a development that they believed would turn the church completely upside down. But this now needs saying and clearly enough to be heard. Those of us in favour of women bishops are so because we are determined to see the church becoming far more faithful to the Bible and far more relevant in its mission and ministry. The full ministry of women, is, in our opinion, completely critical to this transformation taking place and whilst opponents will obviously disagree with this, they must understand this as the reason why it is impossible for us to agree with many of the restrictions that they want imposed upon women bishops.
Second, more needs to be done to give those in favour of women bishops a greater depth of confidence in the weighty theological grounds for this. Whilst the 'biblical case' against women bishops is overwhelmingly reliant upon the deployment of two New Testament proof texts, it has nothing to compare to the overall biblical theology supporting the full ministry of women. Once again too much of the discussion has taken place on the ground chosen by opponents of women bishops. Convincing responses can and have been made on why 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 14 do not prohibit women's full ministry (not least in Ian Paul's recent and excellent Grove book Women and Authority: The Key Biblical Texts Biblical Series, No 59). But what is now required is a firmer grasp by those in favour of the rich and overwhelming biblical theology in the context of which the proper interpretation of these texts should take its place.
Third, careful consideration and discussion is now needed of the various options in regard to the future legislation to go before General Synod. Many of us now see a single clause Measure as the only option and are ready to hold out for that. But there are others who believe that there are alternative options to be explored that can equally guarantee that the authority of women bishops is not impossibly compromised. These options need to be carefully weighed up and discussed so that those in favour of women bishops can act in a decisive and united manner.
It is for these reasons that Fulcrum and 'Yes2WomenBishops' are jointly organising a conference on Women Bishops on Saturday 16th March at Christ Church, New Malden running from 10.00 am – 3.00 pm. Its subtitle is 'Church in all its Fullness' representing our conviction about the huge significance that we attach to this issue. The points presented above will form its basis. The conference is for all those in favour of women bishops from whatever tradition and intended to help map out how we can work together to bring about this vital development for the church as soon as possible.
Stephen Kuhrt
Stephen Kuhrt is Vicar of Christ Church, New Malden.
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Turvey, Lectures on Perception: The Story So Far
By Andrew D Wilson @PsychScientists
I have now reviewed the first 7 Lectures on Perception from Turvey' textbook (posts indexed here). I feel like I've reached a natural pause point before carrying on with the rest of the lectures, and I wanted to summarise what I thought has been going on so far.
These are lectures on perception, quite generally. While Turvey will explain the ecological approach, that's not what is currently going on. Right now Turvey is laying out the scope of the question 'what kind of material system could be a perceiving system?' and reviewing the typical, non-ecological answers to that question.
The main takeaway at this point is that we have been trying to answer that question using 17th century notions of material systems, specifically Newtonian mechanics. This has placed what turn out to be unacceptable restrictions on the kinds of properties we are allowed to invoke, and theories of perception have had to fill the gaps with unpayable 'loans of intelligence'. 21st century physics, however, has more on offer; complexity science and quantum mechanics teach us many valuable lessons on how to expand our horizons so that perception becomes possible, rather than miraculous.
In Lecture 1, he establishes that a perceiving system must be understood as epistemic, intentional, and as a system. Systems are collections of parts that depend in some way on each other for how they function. Intentional systems are about something, and epistemic systems know about something. This lays out the question for a science of perception: what kind of material system can come to know about things?
To answer this, we need to think about what sort of properties material systems are allowed to have. Turvey introduces Newtonian mechanics as the science of physics we tend work within, and the Cartesian property dualism that comes out doing that. These are sets of assumptions about what the legitimate elements of a science of perception has to work with, and they lead to the mess that is perception as indirect, specifically a three term relation;
The Newtonian notion of local causation implies a linear chain of events, one thing causing the other over time. For perception, this implies some kind of copy/simulation of the world being carried by (for example) light and projected to an observer, which causes perceptual experience (Lecture 4).
All efforts to identify the nature of the simulation and therefore what is projected leads to an assumption of poverty of stimulus
Given this, there must be at least one thing standing between the world and perceptual experience of the world; perception is indirect, involving the world, the perceiver, and at least one intermediate entity
These always and inevitably require unpayable 'loans of intelligence' to make work
Even empiricists trying to avoid the problem fall foul of it, because they remained committed to Newtonian mechanics and local causation
Throughout these Lectures, Turvey spends a lot of time illustrating that physics has come a long way since Newton, and that the legitimate set of physical properties a perceptual system might be built from is much wider and more interesting. Specifically, quantum physics has revealed one domain in which properties can be impredicative, that is, defined with respect to the system in which they are currently playing a part. These properties can then take part in non-local causation. Turvey proposes that if we can develop an ecological scale physics that can include impredicative properties and therefore non-local causation, we enable the possibility of perception as direct, specifically a two term relation (world and observer).
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Kidd Family Auctions Inc. is a family-owned and operated company that was founded in 2015. Dennis Kidd founded the company, which now includes three generations of Kidds as well as hand-picked staff members.
Prior to 2019, the company was entirely focused on in-person events, but it has since shifted its focus to online and mobile events, serving hundreds of customers across Ontario, Canada.
Doing business these days requires activity on many marketing channels including eBlasts, radio ads, print, national TV commercials, social advertising among others. These channels help to reach a broad demographic of buyers. The company recently allocated a portion of its marketing budget to sms marketing with Raange in order to test a new revenue channel, and the following results have been obtained:
Results are almost instant – you can see an increase in online traffic and sales within 1-2 hours of sending a campaign.
Because they are constantly on their phones, sms marketing targets a younger demographic of 18-35 year olds.
"There's no denying that SMS marketing generates traffic and sales for our events. I can see an increase in traffic to my website as soon as I send a text messaging campaign," explained Lyn Grose, Owner Operator at Kidd Family Auctions Inc. "Now text messaging is part of our monthly marketing mix."
Kidd Family Auctions was looking for a new marketing channel to engage a younger demographic of buyer between the ages of 18 and 34.
They were having success with radio ads, print ads, and a national TV commercial targeting older generations. Finding the right channel for young buyers became more important as they transitioned to mobile and digital events in order to continue growing their business.
The Kidd Family Auctions team was constantly talking to younger buyers to see where they spent the majority of their time and it quickly became clear that they spent a lot of time on their phones.
Kidd Family Auctions needed a way to engage users on their mobile devices and preferred to collaborate with a Canadian company that provided SMS marketing services in Canada.
People look at their phones 150+ times per day on average. Text messaging became an obvious channel for the company to test.
Despite the fact that SMS is a decades-old technology, text messages are opened (98% open rate) and read in 3-5 mins. This meant that you were able to send a campaign and expect instant results.
Kidd Family Auctions tested Raange, a Canadian SMS marketing platform that safely hosts all customer data in Canada, to try out SMS marketing for their company.
Because digital and mobile auction events can occur at any time, traffic and audience must be engaged quickly and timed just before auction events.
On the same day as their auction, Kidd Family Auctions decided to send a text message campaign. If a sale is planned for 5:00 p.m., an SMS message is scheduled and sent to their marketing list at 2:00 p.m.
Buyers read and respond to text messages in less than 5 minutes, and Kidd Family Auctions saw an increase in traffic to their online auctions immediately after launching their messaging campaign.
"I can monitor the events on my site and see that traffic and bidder registration are at a standstill. So I'll set up and send a campaign from the Raange Marketing Engagement platform, and almost immediately after the text message is sent, there's an increase in traffic and sales – exactly what I wanted," explains Lyn Grose.
Kidd Family Auctions has continued to use SMS marketing on a monthly basis since then.
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Cowboy Ventures, the early-stage venture firm launched in 2012 by longtime VC Aileen Lee, has lassoed $95 million in capital commitments for its third fund, up from the $55 million that it raised for its second fund and more than twice what it raised for its $40 million debut fund.
That investors are doubling down on the firm isn't a surprise, given its track record. The firm's very first check was to Dollar Shave Club, which sold in 2016 for a reported $1 billion. Other early exits include the sale of the nutrition coaching app Rise to One Medical for a reported $20 million; and the sale of the cloud monitoring firm Librato to SolarWinds for $40 million.
More recently, Accompany, a business intelligence startup that drew an early check from Cowboy, sold in May to Cisco for $270 million. (It had raised roughly $40 million from investors.) Tenor, a GIF platform that also received early backing from Cowboy, sold to Google in March (for undisclosed terms). Another Cowboy portfolio company, the smart lock maker August, sold to the Swedish lock giant Assa Abloy last fall (also for undisclosed terms).
Cowboy is a generalist fund that is managed by Lee and Ted Wang, a startup attorney for many years with Fenwick & West who joined as a general partner in January of last year. The outfit added an associate, Samantha Kaminsky, earlier this summer. Among its current bets is the consumer goods company Brandless, the cybersecurity company Area 1 Security, and the mobile linking platform Branch.
The team typically invests in between six to 10 companies each year, writing initial checks on average of $1 million. Its biggest bet to date is on Guild Education, a Denver-based tech-education startup that partners with employers, including Walmart, to offer education as an employee benefit, right alongside healthcare. The company, which closed on $40 million in new funding just two weeks ago, also happens to be the biggest bet to date of another firm that just closed its newest fund, Felicis Ventures.
We asked where Cowboy is shopping right now, for example, and she said some areas include back-office tech, including startups that are transforming unglamorous tasks like tax accounting, sales ops and scheduling that can be transformed by modern software; "learning loop software" that builds on prior experiences and on underlying data; and startups that are building tech that's aligned with improving users' physical and mental health.
In fact, Lee said Cowboy has turned "extra cautious" with its investment pace over the past year, given that both Lee and Wang have lived through previous cycles.
Still, on the whole, Lee sounded optimistic, both about longer-term startup trends, and about the venture industry as a whole. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she thinks there is little to stop new technology companies from impacting every industry and creating new opportunities for many, while "possibly displacing traditional jobs," she said. "We just have to work harder to make new technology jobs accessible to the widest set of people possible," she added.
Lee — who this spring cofounded All Raise, a nonprofit founded by 34 female investors that's dedicated to diversity in funders and founders — also said she expects the venture-backed startup industry to look fairly different five to 10 years from now, and in a good way.
If you're curious to learn more, Lee and Wang have written a bit more about the new fund and its intentions here.
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Property refurbishments are soaring as Scottish landlords scramble to meet changing demands for office space and a shortage of supply, new research indicates.
Releasing its Office Market Commentary report, property adviser Colliers International said commercial property landlords in Scotland's major cities were increasingly looking to transform older buildings in order to meet changes to working practices and plug the gap in new Grade A space.
Experts said that property investors in both Edinburgh and Glasgow were showing increasing interest in both refurbishments and direct development, amid a growing demand for city centre offices around the UK.
Companies are also said to be increasingly looking for facilities that support work from home policies, desk sharing and cycling, as they adapt to modern lifestyles and work expectations.
Douglas McPhail, head of Colliers International in Scotland (pictured above), said: "It is significant that employers are thinking much more about what their office workers' expectations are when they look for premises, and seek to make the office experience more attractive and engaging.
The study shows that a lack of high-quality Grade A space is driving landlords and institutional investors to take an interest in Grade B properties which they can then refurbish.
Among the report's findings, both Edinburgh and Glasgow were found to be cities where occupiers are increasingly looking at desk-sharing policies and work-from-home in an effort to find suitable premises.
McPhail said: "One of the issues is that in Glasgow and Edinburgh there is not enough supply of Grade A stock – in fact in Glasgow it has all but run out.
The study showed that interest from Asia-Pacific investors – flat in seven out of nine cities or regions surveyed – increased in Edinburgh, where rents could top £40 per square foot within three years, according to a recent report.


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Flashbacks 1982 - Blade Runner, Tron, Poltergeist...
1982 was an incredible year for new movies. But at the time, I was buying fewer of my usual, general film magazines. Here are the only highlights, plus a look at the more specialised publications I was chasing instead...
This Blade Runner cover shows how Ridley Scott's futuristic vision was at odds with the style-less presentation of movie magazines.
Photoplay, October
An 'AA' certificate for the 'European Cut' of Blade Runner that was less censored than the US release. Unfortunately, that toned-down US version was then used as the basis for the 1992 'Director's Cut'.
I included this advert for Who Dares Wins because of the details of the release pattern, following TV regions and describing everywhere that isn't London as "provincial cities"!
This was a great year for special-effects heavy classics. But these monthly magazines couldn't give me what I really wanted - colour photos from the films and well-researched behind-the-scenes information. In retrospect, they provide valuable information about when and how they were released in the UK.
A great cover, but Films & Filming had no colour pages inside. Couldn't pass up articles about John Milius and David Cronenberg though!
Films & Filming, October
The Entity still has no trouble finding an audience. It was late to the 'possession' horror genre, it's edge came from the claim that it was based on a true story. Surprised to see it appeared in 70mm!
Films & Filming, November
Besides the blockbusters, mid-budget genre films like The Sword and the Sorcerer, which delighted me all through the 1970s, were disappearing from wide cinema release and instead finding their fortune on home video.
That's all I've got to show you from 1982! The reason that I bought so few Photoplays and Film Reviews was because of the blossoming of sci-fi and horror specialist magazines. Film synopses, cheesecake photos and publicity-soaked interviews were no longer enough. I was after hard facts from writers who didn't scoff at my favourite genres! Here's (some of) what I was collecting instead in 1982...
'Cinefantastique' had glossy pages (mostly colour), top reporting on new sci-fi hits, great news coverage of what was coming, and extensive, superbly researched retrospectives of genre classics.
'Cinefex' soon took over from Cinefantastique in chronicling the precise visual effects techniques used in American blockbusters, as well as any groundbreaking techniques used in film or TV, focussing on two or three of the latest movies each issue. In the UK, we could see how they made the movie before we saw had a chance to see it! Thick issues full of startling photos. However, their coverage can dissipate the magic of a movie, by blowing every secret behind the cleverest effects.
'Starlog' rivalled Cinefantastique with it's sci-fi coverage. Published more often, it could scoop it on news and had far more coverage on TV fantasy. At the time, their episode guides were invaluable!
Starlog begat 'Fangoria', with horror movie news and a special interest in the latest make-up effects. Often the clever gory techniques would never make it onto UK screens due to the avid censorship of the time. The colour pics in Fangoria were the only clues we had to what we'd missed.
Yet another American glossy on sci-fi movies, 'Fantastic Films' soon failed to compete, but with great interviews and tons of colour photos, it was essential while it lasted.
This British answer to Starlog was cheaper and timelier than the US mags. Of course 'Starburst' covered more European sci-fi, TV and (gasp) literature. It also sneaked in horror reviews in the absence of any UK mags on the subject.
But. I'm not going to go through these magazines in the same 'flashback' way. Most titles are still publishing, so I'm certainly not reproducing any of their pages. Because... copyright. And because, they still make money from back issues, digital or otherwise.
My flashback articles have focussed on the covers and adverts for the UK release date information. Taken from defunct magazines that predate the scope of internet coverage. The next flashback, 1983, will be my last look back at my UK movie mags from this era.
(There's a list of links to previous Flashback posts, from 1968 onwards, in the sidebar to the right...)
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AN ANALYSIS OF LEE HSIEN LOONG'S SEX LIFE, SEX DEMON OR PIOUS MONK?
farhan February 16, 2015	Alternatives, Arts & Lifestyle, Entertainment, Singapore News Today
Hello Editors,
A research study reported in the Daily Mail showed that regular sex can protect men against prostate cancer. It also showed that the most sexually-active males had less chance of contracting the potentially-fatal disease.
Yesterday, news of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's prostate cancer broke and one cannot help but wonder if it finally shed some light on the Prime Minister's sex life. Based on the medical research, men who do not have regular sex are more prone to developing prostate cancer. Does it mean that Lee Hsien Loong is too busy with running the country that he has no time to have sex and maintain a healthy prostate? But if you remember who his wife is, you probably can guess why there is a lack of hey-sho hey-sho?
Wait… but there is a second part to this research. It was revealed that someone with frequent sex was also linked to less aggressive prostate cancer, which is more likely to respond to treatment and has a lower likelihood of spreading.
Based on PMO's statement yesterday, only 1 of 38 LHL's biopsy samples was cancerous and he is expected to make a full recovery and will only require ONE WEEK of medical leave after surgery? How many people can go back to work just one week after cancer surgery?
So it appears that Lee Hsien Loong's prostrate cancer is a "less aggressive prostate cancer" that is expected to respond very well to treatment. Contrary to the first assumption that Lee Hsien Loong doesn't have enough sex, it is now very possible that his very active sex life helped stave off a potentially fatal form of prostate cancer and boosted his chances of surviving this cancer.
This episode has given us unprecedented insights into Lee's sex life. Which do you think is more plausible? Ah Loong the pious monk who says no to sex or is he the insatiable demon in bed?
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You might remember the randform post "Death of a pub" about the demolishment of a traditional Berlin pub/restaurant/dancehall. Meanwhile the restaurant got replaced by a building which provides room for two small facilities. One of the facilities, which hosts currently a little pub called "Schranke" ("barrier" or "level-crossing") has a little beer terrace/garden next to the buidling. The other business sells Doner kebab and is called "Dönerhaus". The former garden of the restaurant had been integrated into a parking lot. The images below and above display the new public space situation at the station. Judge yourself whether this is an improvement.
The new beergarden/terrace of the pub "Schranke":
View onto the now vanished garden of the restaurant:
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sociologist Says:
Are you angry about the "before and after" development?
if yes, with whom of the involved actors are you most angry with?
Darcy Kibebe Says:
How many dance/music locations are then now left in this neighbourhood?
There is currently still the socalled TAP theatre:
http://www.tap-biesdorf.de/
It is the former training facility of the GDR army ensemble called "Erich Weinert". After "Die Wende" the choir of the ensemble was about 2 years part of the Bundeswehr. After the financing period was over (1994) a private male choir formed and kept existing until 2005.
Since briefly after "Die Wende" the building has then been run by an NGO with very little funds. The NGO organized puppet theatres, senior dancing events etc. As far as I know the building belongs to the district and the lease of the NGO has been renewed on a yearly base, which left not much space for bigger investments. Currently the district tries to sell the building to "cultural entrepreneurs", but as far as I know no "cultural entrepreneur" wants it (which was foreseeable). Since there are tons of car-sellers around the area of the theatre, I expect it will soon be sold, torn down and then turned into yet another car-seller.
There is a social neighbourhood centre in the vicinity : http://www.ball-ev-berlin.de/schloss_biesdorf.php run by an NGO for the unemployed and as you can see in the image there are medium sized rooms for little music performances, but it's open only during the day. On the weekend it's open only for special events. The NGO is currently also helping out with the nearby refugee home.
Then there is the Biesdorf Castle, which was recently renovated and as I described above costly rented out to a semi-private company. Apparently the castle is thought to be a "cultural centre". I had recently a discussion with someone who often organizes Tango evenings (Milonga) in the centre of Berlin about wether to organize a Milonga there. So I called there and asked for the rental prices and it was WAY above what would be a realistic rental price for organizing such event. The rooms are actually even more expensive than in some hotels in Berlin City Centre.
Apriori, until its sold, a Milonga could probably still be organised in the TAP theatre, finally in Buenes Aires Milonga's also often take place in rather uncosy Gyms etc. and the east german army architecture might even add some "socialist retro-chic", but the Milonga organizer found that there are too many negative memories connected with this type of architecture for too many people living in the vicinity and if people pay for Milongas they do so only if the venue is half-way "romantic".
So in short dance and music is to a great part finished in this neighbourhood.
For completeness I want to mention that there are also occasionally music concerts in the churches like theDorfkirche and a bit away in the Krankenhauskirche (Hospitalchurch).
It seems music and dance is not considered important in Germany. I guess you know that Germany performed very badly in the last ESC's and it even doesn't seem to be ashamed of that.
Well it seems I don't get an answer. if I remember correctly you complained about the CDU politician Mr. Gräff and his opinion about the pub. I actually I asked someone to send me voting results in the federal elections in the vicinity of the pub and it was:
Wahllokal 414, Marzahn-Hellersdorf
1. CDU 28,9%
2. AfD 19,5%
3. Linke 19,3%
4. SPD 12,4%
5. FDP 7,7%
6. Grüne 7,7%
I.e. CDU won by a big margin. So I guess you maybe saw things a bit overly dramatic. In particular it seems people are highly approving CDU politcs there.
Wahllokal 414 is in the vicinity, but in what I would call a very different area. The votes in Marzahn-Hellersdorf differ quite largely, depending on where exactly you are located.
THe Wahlkreis 414 belongs to the southern parts of Marzahn-Hellerdorf, to be exact the southern parts of the village Biesdorf. ("Dorf" means village). The north of Biesdorf is on a plateau and divided from the south by one of Berlins main thoroughfares. Wahlkreis 414 is an area with mostly new built one-family-homes. It is adjacent to the newly declared center of Biesdorf, the "Biesdorf Center". The pub was in the north of Biesdorf. THere is a very nice interactive map by the newspaper Berliner Morgenpost, where you can compare. The Wahlkreis where the pub was located in, has the following (Zweitstimme) votes:
6. Grüne 5%
So there the right wing party AFD got even more votes than CDU.
I don't think that the death of the pub was influencing peoples federal election votes very much in a concious way. That is usually you base such a vote on more important topics. But I could imagine that more or less unconciously people notice how their public spaces got diminished.
In that context I would also like to draw attention to the areas in the north-east belonging to the former village Hellersdorf, which are blue in the map. Blue means that the majority of votes went to the right wing party AFD. For example an area right next to a public green park-like setting along the brook "Wuhle" which is adjacent to the International Garden Exhibition and which hosts the U-Bahn Station for the exhibition got the following votes:
1. AfD 30,2% 211 Stimmen
2. Linke 26,5% 185 Stimmen
3. CDU 14,9% 104 Stimmen
4. SPD 13,5% 94 Stimmen
5. FDP 4,7% 33 Stimmen
6. Grüne 3,2% 22 Stimmen
The U-Bahn Station was renamed for the occasion of the Garden Exhibition. Furthermore as I wrote here, for the exhibition a whole hill ("Kienberg") was turned from a public recreational space into a part of the exhibition and there are sufficient rumors that it might not be returned. Marzahn-Hellerdorf is thought to be "densified" and it got in particular densified also with refugee homes. Here some images of that area.
You can tell that probably quite a bit of the votes were protest votes, like in the adjacent area the votes are:
5. Die Partei 4,4%
6. Tierschutzpartei 4,2%
"Die Partei" is a satirical party and it got more votes than the green party. And "Tierschutzpartei" means "animal rights party".


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So if it's the best bodybuilding diet in existence, why isn't it more widely known? The big supplement companies and rag-magazines would go out of business quickly if they couldn't peddle their snake-oil to you. If the general public were more nutrition-savvy, they'd cr@p themselves! I doubt very much they'd go out of their way to make the public aware of it.
This article lays these secrets bare for you to learn. Implement this process wisely and I promise you will make muscle gains like never before.
Please note that this method takes planning and commitment but it is well worth it! Also please make sure your workouts are up to par by implementing a well thought out training plan.
So how can this nutritional strategy produce massive muscle gains? There is a way to increase anabolic (muscle-building) hormones in the body in the same way that steroids do. The only difference is, it's safe and natural.
Sounds good doesn't it? You will also have controlled insulin spikes which allows the body to have high levels of growth hormone and insulin at the same time! This does not usually happen and you'll see extremely impressive muscle gains as a result.
Ok, apart from the actual exercise itself, what is the driver of muscle hypertrophy? We've been told over and over again that it's excess calories; you must eat more calories than you expend to encourage muscle growth. I'm going to hypothesize something a little controversial. Calories are also an effect, not just a cause.
Think of a growing child. Are we to assume that vertical growth is caused by excess calories? I think the release of growth hormone is what makes a child grow. Increased growth hormone then causes the child to eat more. I think we have causality round the wrong way here.
The traditional advice from bodybuilding gurus is to eat everything in sight to increase muscle size. They usually recommend high-carb diets laden with oats, protein shakes with fruit, wholemeal bread, potato, rice (I don't care if it's white or brown) etc. Worse still, they often recommend a low-fat diet!
Hey, I thought you were trying to grow some serious muscle? If so, you're gonna want to keep the fat intake up. If I'm right, then what we want to devise is a nutritional strategy that ignites the release of anabolic hormones. In turn then, these hormones will let us know when and how much to eat.
Anabolic Hormones = Muscle Growth (which will drive your appetite & provide sufficient calories).
Don't get me wrong, sufficient calories are required to build muscle, but it's important to understand the chain of causality. Calorie consumption isn't something you need to labor over which will cripple your life. Let your body dictate your food intake. The best calorie-counter is your stomach: when you're hungry—eat; when you're not—don't eat.
This plan requires that you eat a high protein, high fat, low carbohydrate diet for 5 and a half days. Then for 36 hours you carb-up. The high protein, high fat part of the diet is what sparks the increase in blood serum levels.
As you will be keeping your carbohydrate level low for most of the week, your body will become a fat-burning machine. At the beginning of the diet your body will undergo a 'metabolic shift' and start to burn fat as its primary source of energy.
Regular low-carb dieters want to avoid spikes in insulin levels but for the bodybuilder, a controlled spike will do you a world of good. You'll use a 32-36 hour window (I use the weekends for this) to deliberately cause an insulin spike.
Insulin can make you fat, no doubt about it. Insulin has a dramatic effect on decreasing lipolysis i.e. as insulin regulates fat metabolism, large amounts means that your body will not give up its fat stores for energy; it literally shuts the gates to your stored body fat ensuring that it can't be released and used for energy.
It helps shuttle amino acids into the muscle cells.
Increases protein synthesis in skeletal muscle.
Glycogen supercompensation (Replenish Muscle Glycogen To Fuel Workouts).
As stated previously you will also reap the anabolic effects of increasing insulin, growth hormone and testosterone at the same time. Usually when insulin levels increase, the others decrease and vise versa.
It seems that the body (once fat adapted) sees the intake of high carbs at the weekend as a stressful situation and releases growth hormone as a survival mechanism.
Increased growth hormone is your body's way of mobilizing energy stores to deal with this stressful situation and so at this time you can get elevated insulin and growth hormone levels simultaneously—welcome to muscle-building heaven!
Your carb threshold level can be defined as "The lowest possible daily carbohydrate intake that allows you to function at top level."
Since we're concerned with building muscle, we need to find the lowest amount of carbs you need in a day to not only feel good but hammer out muscle-building workouts that continually improve, week-on-week.
I recommend you start out at 30 grams per day and adjust from there. Don't make any changes to this for at least a week because you need to make the metabolic switch to burning fat for fuel first. Once this is completed you will be able to tell from your workout performances whether or not you need some more carbs (if so increase in 5 gram per day increments).
I personally average at around 27 grams of carbohydrates per day for 5 and a half days. Some days I take in 35 grams but on others just 20 grams. Going higher or lower is fine, just check your weekly averages. This low amount of carbohydrate is enough to power me through some amazing workouts; I've got bags of energy and feel great.
Some of you may be wondering about post-workout carbs. There is simply no need for the astronomical amount of post-workout carbs a lot of people ingest. So, do I advise post-workout carbs? Yes, a little.
Post-workout carbs aren't magical either, you must count them towards your daily totals. So, I usually take around 10 grams of glucose post-workout and 15 grams for a particularly gruelling 2-body part workout. If, for example, I work just my abs alone, then no post-workout carbs are required; some protein (40 grams or so), creatine (5 grams) and L-Glutamine (3-5 grams) does the trick.
I remember being advised years ago that I needed around 60-100 grams of post-workout carbs to encourage muscle hypertrophy. It's no surprise now, with a little education, that I got fat. Also, remember creating daily insulin spikes will have an adverse effect on growth hormone levels so follow this to the letter.
This is perfect as you can enjoy your life too after being so strict during the week. Have some pizza, Chinese, whatever you feel like. Take your woman out for a meal, have some beers with the guys and rest assured that your actually benefiting from this. I limit the junk meals to 2 and the rest of the time I eat a mostly high-carb, moderate fat, moderately-low protein diet.
It isn't an excuse to go completely nuts but let your hair down a little. Again, there's no reason to eat past satiation, let your gut decide how much to eat.
There is no real limit on the amount of carbs you can have. The key is just to watch the time it takes for you to begin to smooth-out (lose definition); it may take a little bit of experimentation at first and it will be different for everyone; 32 hours works great for me.
You'll notice that every week you go through a mini-cycle of being bigger and smaller; this is just due to fluctuating water levels. When you begin to low-carb you'll flush out some water, it's perfectly natural.
Continually monitor your weight in conjunction with your body fat levels. If you notice that by Saturday afternoon, you're smoothing out a little bit too much, you know that you'll have to limit your carb-up period to 24 hours; keep monitoring and adjusting as necessary.
In a word—No. It's a little different for when you're cutting (and I'll get into that in later articles) but for gaining muscle and simply maintaining your current body fat levels it's d@mn-near impossible to gain fat with this anabolic nutritional strategy.
Remember that insulin is key here; you'll be keeping insulin levels very low for the majority of the time.
"These triglycerides in the blood are the direct result of carbohydrates from the diet being converted by insulin. These triglycerides do not come directly from dietary fats. They are made in the liver from any excess sugars which have not been used for energy."
"These type 1 diabetics have no insulin so they can't really stuff fat into their fat cells. And they are breaking protein down, converting it to glucose and urinating it away. They are voraciously hungry and eat, eat, eat but they can't store any fat... Their fragile situation demonstrates that in the absence of insulin it's virtually impossible to gain weight.
After following a low-carb diet for a while, our overweight patients lower their insulin levels, so, as with type I diabetics, it is difficult for them to store fat as well. They crank up all the futile cycling, elevate levels of uncoupling protein synthesis and increase proton leakage to dissipate the excess energy they're consuming, but they don't store it as fat... If you start throwing back the carbs, however, you will lose this advantage."
I hope you can now see the huge benefit there is to eating this way. The bodybuilding world is still largely clueless of this. I urge you to take advantage of this knowledge!
That's my bodybuilding diet plan laid bare for you. Question is, what are you going to do with it? I encourage you to stop, once and for all, the endless bulking/fattening cycle followed by cutting (losing as much muscle as fat) year on year.
It does not need to be this way. I urge you to join me in this way of eating. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have or just be here to encourage and guide you if this is totally new to you. Pretty soon you'll be wondering how you ever attempted to build muscle without it!
Hailing from Ireland, Mark is a muscle & nutrition enthusiast who has spent years in independent research... Better nutrition for fat loss!


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Bhubaneswar: In a bid to evaluate technical education students of India and make them industry-ready in line with the global standards, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) on Friday launched the first-of-its-kind multi-lingual student learning assessment portal 'PARAKH' (Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development)
The project has been designed in accordance with the National Education Policy 2020.
The portal will help in assessing the higher-order thinking skills of students and understanding the various factors that affect skill development in technical institutes across India. The portal, which has over 2 lakh assessment questions for engineering students, is interactive and has a dynamic dashboard. The dynamic dashboard is designed to view the performance journey and gaps of learning.
AICTE had collaborated with Standford University, California, in 2017 to improve the quality of engineering education in India. A team from Standford University had undertaken a survey on a pilot basis, involving about 50 institutes in India to find out the learning gaps in engineering students. In 2019, the project was successfully completed and a committee, headed by Professor SK Kak, drafted some recommendations, based on which the portal has been made.
The survey indicated that in academic skills, students in India performed comparable to students in Russia, but lagged behind those in China. In higher-order thinking skill levels, students in India were behind Russia and China. The survey suggested that it was necessary to develop higher-order thinking skills relative to academic skills. Thus, the portal focuses on core subject skills, higher-order thinking skills, aptitude, NEP applied courses, emerging areas and general knowledge.
"The portal aims to enable policymakers to evaluate the global competitiveness of the students and identification of new curriculum in the system," AICTE's vice-chairman, Prof MP Poonia said.
The council aims at integrating mobile applications with the portal and focusing on artificial intelligence-based assessments in the future. Meanwhile, the council also launched the National Initiative on Technical Teacher Training (NITTT) higher modules for senior teachers. For teachers with less than 5 years of service, 8 online modules were launched. More than 47,000 teachers have registered for NITTT so far. Over 23,000 successfully cleared the modules. More than 1,400 teachers have been trained as mentors and about 3,500 institutes registered online.
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Grading is voluntary and is a service for fee provided by the Canadian Beef Grading Agency. The government of Canada maintains the regulations and grade standards.
Maturity of carcass is directly related to tenderness.
Youthful carcasses are the most tender. Maturity is assessed by the amount of cartilage hardening (ossification) on the ends of 9, 10, and the 11th vertebrae.
Muscle development is related to meat yields.
Fat colour, thickness and firmness affect consumer acceptance and meat yields.
Meat colour and texture affect consumer acceptance and shelf life.
Marbling descriptions are not part of the grading regulations because bison meat comes from bull animals that do not have marbling in their muscle structure. The top quality grade for Canadian bison is Grade A, followed by Grades B, C and D.
The Federal Government requires that all meats that trade across provincial or national boundaries be inspected for food safety. The inspection is done under the supervision of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). CFIA also inspects meat products that are imported into Canada. The Canadian inspection stamp means the meat product has met the federal food safety standards and is in compliance with government safety assurance programs.
All graded bison from a federally or provincially inspected plant must have the grade clearly marked on the carcass.


Update: Not surprisingly, the back-and-forth has continued today, again moderated by Politico. Palin chief of staff Michael Glassner said Rollins was "sticking his foot in his mouth" and "fueling a contrived narrative," and he predicted a retraction was forthcoming. Rollins, while admitting to making a comment he "shouldn't have made," also doesn't sound like he's going to take back what he said about Palin. "What's the retraction?" he asks, rhetorically. "I say she's serious?" Heh.
Later, a Bachmann adviser sent over a statement to Politico reiterating the Minnesota congresswoman's "admiration and respect for Governor Palin." At this point, though, the (ahem) "contrived" Bachmann-Palin feud narrative is a runaway train, and tossing a conciliatory statement in front of it won't do much good.


The emergence of hyperscale cloud service providers transformed the enterprise computing environment. IT infrastructure vendors have learned to adapt to shifts in market demand and embrace the ongoing changes that have affected the data centre server and storage markets. Enterprise CIOs and CTOs have also modified their traditional budget allocations.
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The Cloud Industry Forum's latest study shows some 88% of UK businesses are now using the cloud with over half of these favouring the hybrid approach whereby all data is processed and stored over a combined public and private cloud infrastructure.
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An overwhelming 90% of organisations will adopt hybrid infrastructure management capabilities by 2020, according to the latest prognostication from analyst firm Gartner.
The forecast, which appears in a new report titled 'Predicts 2017: Infrastructure Services Become Hybrid Infrastructure Services', notes the duel forces of cloud and industrialised services growth and the decline of traditional data centre outsourcing as the primary factors.
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78% are planning to increase the use of cloud for BI and data management in the next 12 months.
46% of organisations prefer public cloud platforms for cloud BI, analytics and data management deployments.
Almost half of organisations using cloud BI (46%) use a public cloud for BI and data management compared to less than a third (30%) for hybrid cloud and 24% for private cloud.
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Quali, a company which specialises in providing cloud and DevOps automation software, took to a variety of US industry events during 2016 to ask attendees about their DevOps practices and the challenges they face. The verdict: almost half of applications in traditional environments were considered complex for cloud, while the current vendor ecosystem is open-ended with no main player winning out.
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The enterprise will increasingly live in a hybrid IT world in 2017, split between on-premises solutions and cloud environments. Recent reports have revealed that many organisations have already started to split their cloud budgets between public and private deployments, creating demand for hybrid cloud strategies that give businesses greater flexibility as well as more workload deployment options.
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For the corregimiento in Panama, see Garrote, Colón.
A garrote or garrote vil (a Spanish word; alternative spellings include garotte and similar variants) is a weapon, most often a handheld ligature of chain, rope, scarf, wire or fishing line used to strangle a person.
A garrote can be made out of many different materials, including ropes, cable ties, fishing lines, nylon, guitar strings, telephone cord or piano wire.
A stick may be used to tighten the garrote; the Spanish word actually refers to the stick itself, so it is a pars pro toto where the eponymous component may actually be absent. In Spanish, the term may also refer to a rope and stick used to constrict a limb as a torture device.
Since World War II, the garrote has been regularly employed as a weapon by soldiers as a silent means of killing sentries and other enemy personnel. Instruction in the use of purpose-built and improvised garrottes is included in the training of many elite military units and special forces. A typical military garrote consists of two wooden handles attached to a length of flexible wire; the wire is looped over a sentry's head and pulled taut in one motion. Soldiers of the French Foreign Legion have used a particular type of double-loop garrote (referred to as la loupe), where a double coil of rope or cord is dropped around a victim's neck and then pulled taut. Even if the victim pulls on one of the coils, he only succeeds in tightening the other.
The garrote was widely employed in 17th- and 18th-century India as an assassination device, particularly by the Thuggee cult. Practitioners used a yellow silk or cloth scarf called a rumāl. The Indian version of the garrote frequently incorporates a knot at the center intended to aid in crushing the larynx while someone applies pressure to the victim's back, usually with a foot or knee.
In this 15th-century depiction of the burning of Albigensians after an auto da fe, the condemned had been garroted previously. It is one of the first depictions of a garrote. Pedro Berruguete, Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fe.
The garrote (Latin: laqueus) is known to have been used in the first century BC in Rome. It is referred to in accounts of the Second Catilinian Conspiracy, where conspirators including Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura were strangled with a laqueus in the Tullianum, and the implement is shown in some early reliefs, e.g., Répertoire de Reliefs grecs et romains, tome I, p. 341 (1919). It was also used in the Middle Ages in Spain and Portugal. It was employed during the conquista of the Americas, notably in the execution of the Inca emperor Atahualpa.
During the Peninsular War of 1808–1814, French forces regularly used the garrote to execute Spanish guerrilleros, priests, and other opponents of Napoleonic rule. Around 1810 the earliest known metallic garrote appeared in Spain, and on 28 April 1828, the garrote was declared the sole method of executing civilians in that country. In May 1897, the last public garroting in Spain was performed in Barcelona. After that, all executions were performed inside prisons.
The last civilian executions in Spain, both by garroting, were those of Pilar Prades in May 1959 and José María Jarabo in July 1959. Recent legislation had caused many crimes (such as robbery-murder) to fall under the jurisdiction of military law; thus, prosecutors rarely requested civilian executions. Military executions were still performed in Spain until the 1970s. The garrotings of Heinz Chez (real name Georg Michael Welzel) and Salvador Puig Antich in March 1974, both convicted in the Francoist State of killing police officers, were the last state-sanctioned garrotings in Spain and in the world.
With the 1973 Penal Code, prosecutors once again started requesting execution in civilian cases. If the death penalty had not been abolished in 1978 after caudillo Francisco Franco's death, it is most likely that civilian executions would have resumed. The last man to be sentenced to death by garroting was José Luis Cerveto "el asesino de Pedralbes" in October 1977, for a double robbery–murder in May 1974. Cerveto requested execution, but his sentence was commuted. Another prisoner whose civilian death sentence was commuted was businessman Juan Ballot, for the contract killing of his wife in Navarre in November 1973.
In Spain, the death penalty was abolished after a new constitution was adopted in 1978. The writer Camilo José Cela obtained a garrote (which had probably been used for the execution of Puig Antich) from the Consejo General del Poder Judicial to display at his foundation. The device was kept in storage in Barcelona. It was displayed in the room that the Cela Foundation devoted to his novel La familia de Pascual Duarte until Puig Antich's family asked for its removal.
In 1990, Andorra became the last country to officially abolish the death penalty by garrotting, though this method had not been employed there since the late 12th century.
^ Oxford English Dictionary, 11th Ed: garrotte is normal British English spelling, with single r alternate. Article title is US English spelling variant.
^ garrote, 7th sense, Diccionario de la Real Academia Española.
^ "Laqueus". Mediterranees.net. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
^ Inalcik, Halil. The Ottoman Empire: the classical ... - Google Books. ISBN 978-1-84212-442-0. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
^ "La Sede / Exposiciones permanentes / Sala de Pascual Duarte I". Fundacioncela.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 April 2009. Retrieved 16 September 2009.
^ "La Sede / Exposiciones permanentes / Sala de Pascual Duarte II". Fundacioncela.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 14 April 2009. Retrieved 16 September 2009.
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This book develops the set of interpretive techniques needed for a reader to respond to various out-of-the-ordinary uses poets make of words. Running through these interpretive techniques are the following more abstract concerns: foregrounding, associating, and patterning. These ideas will be explained more fully as we focus on each of the following traits of poetry: sound patterning, images and image patterns, themes, word choice, figurative language, and finally structure and tone. Many of the poems in the book are my own, but I will also bring in poems by other writers to illustrate a point.
then what have all these mornings meant but aging into love?
What now is straight must have been bent; what now is whole must have been rent.
One of the "out-of-the-ordinary" uses of words here is the echoes heard at the ends of lines. The speaker throws a slight curve ball at the beginning--"bridge" and "grudge" don't rhyme perfectly. they are an example of slant rhyme. But from that point one, we have perfect rhymes, though not in an exact pattern--"river" and "shiver"; then "meant," "bent," and "rent"; and finally "love" and "glove." Even that small bit of sound patterning pushes this statement out of the ordinary. I also asks you, the reader, to look at the way the statement is made and not just at its message.
You notice that "bridge" and "grudge" oppose each other, one joining and one separating emotionally at least. The pair "river" and "shiver" introduces the theme of time and joins it with its ancient image of a river, with the added minor chord of our being killed, drowned perhaps, with a "shiver."
The then-clause applies the imagery of bridge and river and shiver to the speaker and the person addressed. This clause tells us that the "mortalizing" passage of time may be redeemed by the growth of love. That can happen if the couple do the repair work suggested by straightening whatever has been "bent" and knitting together what has been torn apart ("rent" past tense of "rend"). And the "love-glove" rhyme rounds off the poem, the theme word ("love") being fused with the image word ("glove").
You can see from our looking AT the rhyme words rather than through them the poem becomes deeper. You have begun to practice foregrounding.
In the gray air I look for a beginning and try not to care whether winter lasts.
Out of the sky the snowflakes whirl, bringing to my ears and eyes their childlike blows.
Children I have known or should father sleep in my bones. I hear their cries.
They would awake not for a night and brief breeding, but to feed on their father.
No crooked leg stirs in the snow. Winter drags. Nothing wishes to grow.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/celibacy.) This one has only two perfect end rhymes, three slant rhymes, and one stanza (group of rhymed lines) that breaks the rhyme scheme altogether. See if you can find them.
The "gray air" is associated in the speaker's mind with the winter, the coldness, that he tries to dismiss. He also associates the winter, this time the snow, with unborn children whose potential he feels within him. Then, breaking the rhyme pattern, he shifts to the image of insects. His unborn sons and daughters transform in his mind into offspring that destroy their parent, as some species of insects actually do. The last stanza has a perfect rhyme and a slant rhyme. The speaker insists that there is no buried life waiting to be born. Perhaps unconsciously the speaker's attributing the absence of a wish for life applies to him. Just as the speaker will father no children, so he himself will not grow. If you as a reader associate this denial-of-new-life poem with the winter solstice, to which it runs counter, that is your call. Associations usually need to be stated non-dogmatically, as possible meanings but not necessary ones.
Children's poetry is a good place to begin--a life or an exploration of poetry. In the lines above, by the time you get to the "cow with the crumpled horn," I hope you want to find out where this crumpled tale goes. But look at some other things. "Appeared in an 1887 book" says that poetry can lead you into the valuable past and that you may have to find out something you didn't know.
"Does not actually tell the story of Jack building a house" makes you wonder why a poem titled "This Is the House That Jack Built" does NOT tell you about Jack's handiwork. The answer is that poetry is oblique. Emily Dickinson, the great nineteenth-century American poet, says, "Tell all the truth but tell it slant." "Slant" here means "oblique." Why should this be? Partly because the slantedness leads you to "numerous things and people." Poetry works by association.
Let's look at "The House That Jack Built." When you read it aloud you hear the rhythm, an alternation of unstressed and unstressed syllables. this poem is built mainly of one-syllable words so you don't have to worry if you have trouble dividing words into syllables. You hear "THIS is the HOUSE that JACK BUILT." You hear this alternation of one- and two-beat feet as you move along. "THIS is the CAT that KILLED the RAT"--every line beginning and ending with a stress, a beat.
What else do you notice about the sound as you read the poem aloud? Every line as a slight rest in the middle, a "caesura." And every caesura comes before the word "that." That is one reason we read poetry, because we enjoy all kinds of rhythms. We enjoy rapid pace suddenly pausing and then picking up again.
And you hear the vowel-consonant music. Obvious rhymes like "cat" and "rat," but also slant rhymes (remember slantedness?) like "malt" and "rat.
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