"The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind. His haunts are not confined to the valley, but extend at times to the adjacent roads, and especially to the vicinity of a church at no great distance. Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being belated, and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak. Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow."
Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
The Headless Horseman of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" became a universally iconic character in the United States virtually as soon as Washingon Irving penned his famous tale. Less well-known, however, is the fact that headless riders are not unique to American folklore; to the contrary, they've been quite common for hundreds of years in the storytelling of Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Scandinavia and elsewhere around the world, and Irving's version of the spectre represents yet another renewal of this character for the enjoyment of a new generation in America.
In my estimation, these are the most compelling monsters of ancient legend. In this essay, I've collected accounts of headless horsemen from a variety of storytelling traditions, most of which come down to us from Europe. Because I've found that internet sources often get the facts mixed up about these very peculiar beings, I've tried to shun online resources whenever possible, in favor of printed publications that I can cite with greater confidence as a reference to legitimate folklore collected by scholars in that field of study. Although headless horsemen have appeared in legends from locales as exotic as India and Malaysia, I've confined my observations to America and Europe, since the literature on my own bookshelf deals exclusively with these more familiar cultures. Although the horsemen display a variety of forms and habits from one country to another, the basic premise is always quite similar.
In Ireland or Scotland, this thing is called a Dullahan (spelled Dubhlachan in the traditional Gaelic). The Dullahan is a vision so wonderfully and gruesomely preposterous that it could not possibly fail to captivate the imagination. Sleepy Hollow's horseman would seem justified in claiming kinship to the Dullahan, since both are night-riding, headless fellows dressed in dark attire; but while Washington Irving's horseman was said to gallop along New York's country lanes in a vain search for his missing head, the Dullahan is fortunate enough to maintain possession of his own severed noggin, but simply can't reattach it. Therefore, he's obliged to carry his head about with him wherever he goes.
This is not a pretty sight. The head is said to glow with a sort of phosphorescence, resulting from a perpetual state of decay, and this affords the Dullahan with a convenient but hideous lantern with which to illuminate the dark back-roads of the Irish countryside. On the other hand, the light of a full moon might render such guidance unnecessary, in which case the Dullahan simply plants his unwieldy head on the brow of his saddle. Of course, the Dullahan restricts most of his public appearances to those darkest and loneliest hours of the night - honoring a long-held tradition among supernatural terrors of all kinds, it would seem. This is just as well, since the Dullahan does not appreciate being stared at, and is said to reward this offense with a bucket of blood thrown into the face of any unwelcome witness to his nightly rides. How it always manages to have a bucket of blood at the ready for such mischief remains a mystery, but ours is not to question such things.
The Dullahan is properly recognized as a Celtic fairy, although very different from the Tinkerbelle type commonly represented in Disney films. To the contrary, many of the Celtic fairies are large, monstrous and malevolent beings; most of this sort, like the Dullahan, belong to the class of "solitary" fairies, since they typically travel alone and are quite distinct from the more gregarious "trooping" or "sociable" fairies, who reside in social groups.
"...how was Mick astonished at finding, close along-side of the car, a great high black coach drawn by six black horses, with long black tails reaching almost down to the ground, and a coachman dressed all in black sitting up on the box. But what surprised Mick the most was that he could see no sign of a head either upon coachman or horses. It swept rapidly by him, and he could perceive the horses raising their feet as if they were in a fine slinging trot, the coachman touching them up with his long whip, and the wheels spinning round like hoddy-doddies; still, he could hear no noise..."
Thomas Crofton Croker - "Fairy Legends and Traditions," 1825.
"...his attention was arrested by an object so extraordinary as almost led him to doubt the evidence of his senses. The head, apparently, of a white horse, with short cropped ears, large open nostrils and immense eyes, seemed rapidly to follow him. No connection with body, legs, or rider, could possibly be traced as the head advanced - Charley's old mare, too, was moved at this unnatural sight, and snorting violently, increased her trot up the hill. The head moved forward, and passed on: Charley pursuing it with astonished gaze, and wondering by what means, and for what purpose, this detached head thus proceeded through the air, did not perceive the corresponding body until he was suddenly started by finding it close at his side. Charley turned to examine what was thus so sociably jogging on with him, when a most unexampled apparition presented itself to his view. A figure, whose height (judging as well as the obscurity of the night would permit him) he computed to be at least eight feet, was seated on the body and legs of a white horse full eighteen hands and a half high.
...Charley, being a keen sportsman, was naturally directed to this extraordinary body, and having examined it with the eye of a connoisseur, he proceeded to reconnoitre the figure so unusually mounted, who had hitherto remained perfectly mute. Wishing to see whether his companion's silence proceeded from bad temper...Charley endeavoured to catch a sight of his companion's face in order to form an opinion on that point.
But his vision failed in carrying him further than the top of the collar of the figure's coat, which was a scarlet single-breasted hunting frock, having a waist of a very old fashioned cut reaching to the saddle with two huge shining buttons at about a yard distance behind. "I ought to see further than this, too," thought Charley....However, see further he could not, and after straining his eyes for a considerable time to no purpose, he exclaimed, with pure vexation, "By the big bridge of Mallow, it is no head at all he has !"
"Look again, Charley Culnane," said a hoarse voice, that seemed to proceed from under the right arm of the figure.
Charley did look again, and now in the proper place, for he clearly saw, under the aforesaid right arm, that head from which the voice had proceeded, and such a head no mortal ever saw before. It looked like a large cream cheese hung round with black puddings: no speck of colour enlivened the ashy paleness of the depressed features; the skin lay stretched over the unearthly surface, almost like the parchment head of a drum. Two fiery eyes of prodigious circumference, with a strange and irregular motion, flashed like meteors upon Charley, and to complete all, a mouth reached from either extremity of two ears, which peeped forth from under a profusion of matted locks of lustreless blackness. This head, which the figure had evidently hitherto concealed from Charley's eyes, now burst upon his view in all its hideousness."
"The Headless Horseman," recorded by Thomas Crofton Croker in "Fairy Legends and Traditions."
As the story continues, Charley holds a conversation with this strange phantom, and ultimately even receives magical assistance from him after winning the Horseman's favor; but these are traits entirely foreign to the more malignant Dullahan, who does not converse and does not grant favors. Their physical descriptions are also quite distinct, since this new horseman rides a white horse and wears a scarlet coat, in stark contrast to the exclusively black presentation of the Dullahan. The red-hot, glowing eyes of this horseman - flashing "like meteors" - are also a unique trait not described elsewhere. So we have at least two very unique horsemen to contend with in Celtic folklore.
Despite the popularity of headless riders in Ireland and Scotland, some online sources suggest that Washington Irving derived the character of the Headless Horseman not from Celtic tradition, but rather from the work of Karl Musäus, a German writer who collected folktales of Germany (and apparently embellished them quite heavily). This is plausible enough; Irving apparently did learn some rudimentary German during the several years that he spent in Europe, where he was introduced to German folklore by the Scottish author Sir Walter Scott.
"Many years ago in the lands of Brunswick there lived a master huntsman by the name of Hackelberg. He was said to have been so devoted to the hunt that when he lay on his deathbed he couldn't bear to take eternal leave from it. He begged God to allow him to exchange his place in Heaven for permission to engage in the chase in Soiling Forest until Judgment Day (no doubt because he had led a God-fearing, Christian life). He also asked that he be buried in the wilderness of Soiling, and the request was granted.
His irreverent, even diabolic wish was evidently also granted, for four times every night the terrifying echo of the hunting horn signaling the chase and the baying of hounds can be heard in the wilderness. One time the sounds will ring out from here, another time from there. All this was reported to me by those who have heard these threatening sounds themselves. It is also said that if someone hears these sounds during the night and still goes hunting the following day, he will invariably suffer a broken arm or leg, even a broken neck or some other terrible misfortune.
....I was told that no one would ever be able to find this grave - whether from inquisitiveness or from a sense of purpose - no matter how determined and adventurous he might be. But if someone should chance upon the site, he would find a pack of frightful black dogs next to it."
"German Legends of the Brothers Grimm" Legend 172, told by Hans Kirschhof.
"There he hunts night and day in fulfillment of a wish...that 'God may keep His Heaven, so long as I can hunt in Gurre for evermore.'...the crack of his whip is heard as he rushes through the forest on a white horse, sometimes with his head under his left arm, and preceded by coal-black hounds with fiery tongues hanging from their mouths."
"In the year 1644 a woman of Dresden went out early one Sunday morning into a neighbouring wood for the purpose of collecting acorns. In an open space, at a spot not very far from the place which is called the Lost Water, she heard somebody blow a very strong blast upon a hunting-horn, and immediately afterwards a heavy fall succeeded, as though a large tree had fallen to the ground. The woman was greatly alarmed, and concealed her little bag of acorns among the grass. Shortly afterwards the horn was blown a second time, and on looking round she saw a man without a head, dressed in a long grey cloak, and riding upon a grey horse. He was booted and spurred, and had a bugle-horn hanging at his back.
Thereupon he related to her how that he had lived about one hundred and thirty years before, and was called Hans Jagenteufel, as his father had been before him, and how his father had often besought him not to be too hard upon poor people, how he had paid no regard to the advice his father had given him, but had passed his time in drinking and carousing, and in all manner of wickedness, for which he was now condemned to wander about the world as an evil spirit.."
How Did they Lose Their Heads?
"It is commonly believed that if any person is guilty of a crime for which he deserves to lose his head, he will, if he escape punishment during his lifetime, be condemned after his death to wander about with his head under his arm."
"A hundred years it is since my horse and I broke our necks at the bottom of Kilcummer hill..."
"The Headless Horseman" - Thomas Crofton Croker in "Fairy Legends and Traditions."
- The Wild Huntsman of Germany wears a grey coat and rides a grey horse.
- The Wild Huntsman of Scandinavian rides a white horse, but his apparel never seems to be described.
- The Celtic Dullahan is most often represented as dressed entirely in black, and riding an equally black horse; however, a more colorful character, wearing a scarlet hunting coat and riding a white horse, is also known from this part of the world. Curiously, the Celtic horsemen are the only ones that I've encountered whose own horses are often likewise headless.
- The Horseman of "Sleepy Hollow" is typically represented as riding a black horse, and dressed in dark attire, although his clothing is highly variable from one source to another; an 1859 painting by John Quidor quite accurately depicts the horseman wearing the green of a Hessian mercenary's uniform, but with the addition of a reddish-brown cape, while Tim Burton's 1999 film depiction presents the character in a black leather outfit with a cape that's black on the outside and red within.
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After completing a rehabilitation program, it is up to you to take responsibility for your own actions. Rehab programs can only give you the tools and training needed to make the right decision, but ultimately it is your decision to remain sober and live the healthier, happier life you deserve.
If you don't feel ready to face those temptations yet, your rehab center may recommend you to an extended relapse prevention program. Being honest with yourself and your counselor are the most important things you can do.
Your own will is what will keep you sober when you have completed your rehab programs. Triggers and temptations to relapse are inevitable… your reaction is what matters. It is a good idea to remain stable (where you live, where you work, who you spend your time with) and not to make too many unnecessary changes when you have returned to world.
Give yourself time to take it in and fight the little battles without feeding to the influences. The first several months of preventing relapse on your own can be the most difficult, and your tolerance for stress will be extra sensitive. The best thing you can do is relax… take it easy… and take one day at a time.
If your counselor feels it is appropriate, you may receive medication that will help with any physical triggers or temptations for relapse. It is important to take such medication responsibly, as prescription medication can also lead to dependency.
As you enter an addiction rehab program, it is important to have a clear understanding of what you should-and should not-expect out of treatment. Rehab can help you recognize your personal challenges, and develop strategic plans to overcome each individual obstacle on your way to sobriety. However, rehab can not be held accountable for your decisions.
Avoiding relapse after rehab is a daily battle. You grow stronger with every day that you win, but it is a long process. You can prevent relapse-the choice is up to you!


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Kenya health workers failed English test for UK jobs
By Gbenga Adedayo
Unemployed health workers in Kenya meant to serve in the UK's National Health Service, have failed to pass English Language tests as required by the United Kingdom.
Kenya's Health Cabinet Secretary, Mutahi Kagwe, disclosed this on Wednesday that only a minority of those who applied qualified for the jobs.
"Out of 300 health workers sent for an English language test only 10 passed. We had negotiated for clinical workers for job exports but this turn of events is unfortunate," he said.
Speaking during the Kenya Clinical Officers Association scientific conference in the coastal city of Mombasa, Mr Kagwe said that despite this, the government will continue to negotiate for Kenyan health workers to work in Europe and the Middle East.
He then urged health workers to work hard to pass the employment standards set for jobs abroad.
Jobless Kenyan nurses and other health workers recently got a chance to work in the UK as part of a new scheme requested by Kenya this year.
He also refuted claims that the government has resorted to exporting its labour workforce abroad instead of employing them.
"This is a rumour. Geographical boundaries will not stop us from working. Countries we are exporting health workers to are not doing us a favour. We are helping them when they are in need," he said.
He added that Kenya will continue to help people get jobs in Europe and the Middle East.
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Time after time, Linked In, Facebook, and websites show profiles for people without including the essential ingredients. Whether someone coerced them into joining those social sites or creating a website, but their heart wasn't really in it, or they just haven't taken the time to let us know who they are, the results are the same. They are online – we just don't know very much about them and can't really engage them like we should.
Let's start with the photo. There was a time when a studio-quality photo was expected for press releases, flyers, business cards, and other forms of publicity. We would arrange for a sitting, hope that our hair looked good that day, picked out the right clothes to wear, and went and had a professional photo taken in a studio. The photographer would air-brush or touch up little imperfections so we generally looked better in the photo than in real life. Since social media is trying to show as we are, that formal photo (and the expense that goes with it) isn't really necessary.
With taking selfies as easy as they are, there is no reason why every profile on Linked In and other sites should not have a photo displayed. Understandably, some people don't think they take a good picture and some are more reserved about having their picture displayed online. Remember the whole point of social media is connecting. People want to connect with a face that goes with the name, and not just a name.
As for descriptions, the name of the company may tell us that the person sells real estate (or at least works for a real estate agency), is involved in some type of construction, works in the financial industry, or does something else that the name of the business would suggest. That may not tell us enough to determine if we want to engage that person. A full description (subject to the number of characters that are allowed by the particular social sites) gives us much more information to be able to determine if we share any common interests, think we might want to refer someone, would like to establish a professional connection, or might want to set an appointment (over the phone or in-person).
So many websites, irrespective of the industry, omit important information such as the city or state where the business is located, or a phone number to call. A great write-up about the business is nice, but if we can't tell where they are – and there is no number to call – we are at a distinct disadvantage.
Like or not, social media and websites are how much of the world – our clients and potential strategics partners – learn about us. It's also how our competition can keep tabs on us, but that is no reason not to participate. Write for the public. Tell them what they want to know – what they need to know to make an informed decision to use what we offer. If we don't take advantage of this essentially free forum, we have really missed out on a lot. Show them our picture. Tell them how to get in touch with us to ask a question, request information, or determine if we can help them. We must provide a phone number (and the area code must be used also) and email address and at least the city where we are based.
We want people to engage us and talk with us about having us provide services for them. Let's make it easy for them to learn about who we are, what we provide, and how they cam reach us. The harder we make it, the easier is is for them to go someplace else for a solution.
Use social media or don't use it – you'll find it's beneficial to use – but don't go halfway. Go all in with a complete profile or stay away. Finding limited information on a profile is not helpful because there is not enough to let us know how we might work together and not enough contact information for us to make a connection.
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Q2: Re fishermans pendant light 5787ab. Can i get two but with a plain clear glass shade not the seeded glass, Or can i get plain glass shades that would fit as a replacement. I don't mind other similar lights to get the plain glass but i am trying to keep them small, The 5787 is just right.
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It has an antique brass finished ceiling plate that has a wire attached that supports an antique brass shade.
The shade itself has a clear seeded glass shade included which can be removed by turning the side pins for easy access to the bulb compartment.
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Nigeria has always been divided, it didn't start under Buhari – Adesina
Kayode Ogundele
Femi Adesina, a presidential spokesman, says right from amalgamation, Nigeria has been a divided country.
Speaking during a Channels TV programme on Wednesday Adesina said the division in the country predates the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
He was reacting to comments made by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and Wole Soyinka, playwright and Nobel laureate, who said that Nigeria is more divided than ever before.
But defending the president, Adesina described Nigeria as an inconvenient amalgamation which has always been divided.
"Nigeria had always been divided right from amalgamation in 1914. Nigeria is an inconvenient amalgamation but we have kept at it and we have worked at it," Adesina said.
"And I tell you that there is no time in the history of this country that the country was not divided. But then, we have kept at it and we are trying to make it work.
"As at 2015 when President Buhari came, Nigeria was terribly divided; divided along ethnic, religious and political lines; divided along language; divided hopelessly and terribly."
The presidential spokesman, who said the current administration has been making efforts to unite the country, accused some people of "playing politics with everything."
"That is the division that President Buhari has been working at. But you see that a number of people, instead of letting harmony return to this country, thrive and luxuriate in widening the gap between Nigerians. They play politics with everything," he said.
"So, if they say Nigeria is divided today, it is because Nigeria has always been divided. And all efforts to unite Nigeria and Nigerians never worked.
"When Nigerians come to a decision point that we must live together, we can't wish anybody away, then we will be working towards being a nation."
Prof. Wole Soyinka
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Bloody Starbucks.
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That's what I said when I spotted a Starbucks in Ubud. 'Are tourists that desperate for a shitty chain coffee?' I asked my wife as we strolled past the giant Starbucks right in the heart of central Ubud. I knew that they were coming to town because a local had mentioned their imminent arrival the last time I visited and they weren't happy about it. And here it was in all of it's faux Balinese glory. They were trying to 'pretend' that they were all culturally sensitive and had this fakey-temple thing going on with a giant Balinese Starbuck's gong at the entrance. I really can't understand why people on a one week holiday can't last a few days without having a Hazelnut Vanilla Double Frappe Macchiato. I searched the Ubud Starbucks on Trip Advisor and there were comments like: 'It's really expensive; but it's such a nice luxury,' and 'I was SOOO excited to find a Starbucks in Ubud!' If you have read any of my books you will know how much I hate those big horrible 'restaurant' chains that set themselves up right in the heart of historical towns and cities.
Why, for example, is there a McDonalds in Venice, right behind Piazza San Marco? Not surprisingly, it's full of fat Americans who can't go on holiday without having a Big Mac. I honestly don't get it. There really is no excuse. It's not like Italian cuisine is too exotic for a simple palette. Or that all the food in Venice is too expensive. It's not. You can find simple panini or pizza all over Venice (just step one street away from the tourist streets). 'McDonalds is a godsend. My kids love it.' That's what one lady wrote to me in an email. In fact, that was the only reason she wrote to me – to tell me that she couldn't understand why I bag McDonalds so much. Give your bloody kids a panini. It's a toasted cheese sandwich. And the money will go a to a local business. It seems the locals aren't too happy about it either. This is a statue that was erected in Venice…
And like Starbucks in Ubud, McDonalds think that because they 'blend in' then it's alright. In Salzburg, Austria (right in the middle of the main historical street across the way from Mozart's birthplace) their cutesy medieval sign still doesn't hide the brightly coloured plastic furniture inside and that distinctive chemically enhanced McDonald's smell.
Or, even worse, when they take over a famous building or site. In my most recent book Tell Them to Get Lost – where I traipsed around South-East Asia using the original 1975 Lonely Planet South-East Asia on a Shoestring as my only guidebook – I kept finding recommended local places in the old guidebook that were now McKFCs or similar. In Kuta, Bali the 'irresistible East West restaurant' right on the beach was now a Maccas – complete with a surfing Ronnie out front…
The same thing happened in Yogyakarta. The 'popular Happy Restaurant' now served McHappy meals, while the 'iced juices' at Helen Restaurant were now replaced with 'iced donuts'. It was now a Dunkin Donuts. But it's not just in Asia where The Crap Food Cartels have moved in on local landmarks. In Paris, McDonald's took over a building in Rue Saint Lazare that dates back to 1892 and is a listed historic monument.
And this one made me particularly mad. Not only is the McDonalds at the Spanish Steps in Rome right in the heart of the eternally historical city, it also used to be a nightclub made famous in the Fellini film La Dolce Vita. It truly was a cool place. Rugantino's nightclub looked like a subterranean cave. Now it's just a sub-standard restaurant. Oh, and McDonalds – a couple of statues and a bit of marble doesn't make you Roman…
I do love it, though, when they just get it all wrong. A few years back Starbucks opened up in Lygon Street, Carlton in Melbourne, Australia. Lygon Street is arguably the coffee capital of Australia, so not surprisingly the place was empty. You'd think they would have done some research, but they are so arrogant they thought people would swarm in anyway. Less than a year after it opened they closed it down. Which was a pity. When I go to Carlton now where I am going to get my 13 shot soy vanilla cinnamon white mocha with extra caramel?
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Craig Balfour says:
I couldn't agree more! I stumbled across the Maccas in venice (I think there actually is two or three of them now!!) and almost choked on my slice of pizza! What I don't understand is why Venice let them in there in the first. Not only does the city not need it, but it takes away the charm (and history) of Venice. They will be opening one at the top of the Eiffel Tower next!
bthacker says:
I believe Maccas are also planning to open one in the Colosseum in Rome – there is all that empty space in the middle after all!
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The Galveston Island Ferry
We've talked a lot about Stella Mare RV Resort is located across from Galveston Beach on Galveston Island, but haven't much addressed the connections to the mainland. Well, probably the most common way to get here is over I-45 which bridges us to the mainland or the Bluewater Highway which runs up from the south.
However, we've recommended visiting the Bolivar Peninsula as well as seeking out some of the wildlife refuges located there. Looking at a map you're going to see that you'll have to take a circuitous route around Galveston Bay and Trinity Bay to make that happen. However, there is another path, the Galveston Island Ferry, close to Stella Mare RV Resort.
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The Galveston – Port Bolivar ferry takes you on SH 87 that links Galveston Island to the Bolivar Peninsula. The ferry system has been part of Texas transportation since the 19th century. Initially, these were commercial services and only operated for paying customers.
In 1929, the company sold its ferries to Galveston County, which later sold the ferries to the state of Texas. Initially free, Texas later started charging a fee of 25 cents to reduce traffic. This lasted until 1949 when the ferry became free to use again.
The ferry operates year round, but the peak months for use are June, July, and August. More than 8 million people use the ferry each year. The ferry is the only way to cross the waterway between Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island. It takes about 18 minutes to cross and each ship can carry about 70 vehicles and 500 passengers.
About Stella Mare RV Resort
The Stella Mare RV Resort is located across from Galveston Beach and is a great place to start your Gulf Coast summer vacation. You can find out more about our great amenities by going to stellamarervresort.com.


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Try these duck recipes for something a little different in your farm kitchen.
When you make this recipe for duck confit, you need to know that confit is a method of cooking more than a recipe.
It implies cooking an item slowly in a transient element like oil, fat, sugar, or butter to substitute the water in the food item being cooked. In this case it will be cooking duck in fat.
When making this duck recipe, you may be put off to the idea of cooking in fat, those who try the dish will quickly discover this long held traditional French specialty is truly a treat to savor for special occasions.
Fred Beranger poses with two buckeye chickens he grew. Beranger is a chef and, with his wife Jeannette, cares for heritage and rare breeds of livestock on their Le Nelhouët Farm in North Carolina.
Jeannette Beranger is research and technical program manager with the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy.
The secret to our particular success with this duck recipe is that we try to incorporate ingredients from sources that are known to us personally.
We purchase pasture raised animals or at the very least free range and antibiotic free birds.
In anticipation of creating a duck confit, we collect and preserve fat from previous dinners that include duck, goose, or heritage turkey until we have enough (about 2 cups) for a confit.
After the holiday season is typically the time of year we think about the dish.
Normally we collect the cooled drippings in an air tight container or ziplock bag and refrigerate or freeze it until needed for the confit.
We choose duck as our favorite item to be cooked in the confit method. Note that this dish is a three-day process but well worth the wait!
There are primarily three steps in the three-day process of making a duck confit.
Starting with a whole bird, first separate legs and de-bone the breasts being careful to make sure the skin remains on all of the pieces. Combine the dry rub ingredients listed above and coat the inside of the separated legs then take the two pieces and press them together like closing a book with the skin side out. Coat the skinless sides of the breasts with the dry rub and press the two pieces together, skin side out. Put the sandwiched pieces in a covered dish and refrigerate overnight so they can marinate.
*Note- If you are wondering what to do with the leftover duck meat and bones, think about doing a nice duck stock in the event that you don't have enough fat for step No. 2.
Preheat the oven to 275° F. Take the still sandwiched pieces of duck and place them in a baking dish just small enough for the meat to fill it completely. Cover the meat with the preserved poultry fat drippings. If you do not have enough fat to cover the meat, you can add some poultry stock to compensate so long as it is less than a quarter of the total amount of fat used for the confit.
Cook the duck for 3 – 3 ½ hours or until the meat is fork tender or until the internal temperature reaches 165°F. Remove the dish from the oven and let the confit cool to room temperature. Keeping the duck in the baking dish, refrigerate it once again noting that all of the meat should be submerged in fat at this point.
The refrigerated duck can remain good to eat for up to several days since it is now preserved in fat. When you are ready to serve the duck, heat a skillet on the stove to med-high. Drop 2 Tbs of the fat from the baking dish with the duck into the skillet and spread it across the pan to coat. Remove the duck from the baking dish with your hands and not with a spatula or fork. This is important because it will preserve the integrity of the pieces of duck. Carefully separate the sandwiched pieces from each other and place them skin side down in the hot skillet. Heat until they are ceased and heated throughout. Serve immediately.
My family was fortunate enough to have been given a small electric rotisserie for Christmas and we have stepped up to the challenge of finding the best dishes for the new cooking instrument.
One of our favorites is rotisserie duck and is quite simply the easiest recipe for this delightful meat.
The rotisserie allows us to easily collect the drippings in the catch pan for use in future dishes, such as confits or patés, that call for high quality fat.
First you skewer the duck onto the rotisserie forks securely and tie the legs and wings with kitchen grade cotton twine so they don't hit the heating element of the rotisserie. To help drain the duck fat during the cooking process, we will often take a small wooden skewer and poke small holes under the skin of the duck throughout, being careful not to skewer the meat in the process.
Combine the olive oil, salt, pepper, rosemary, thyme, and sage and brush the mixture over the entire duck. Place the prepared duck into the rotisserie cook for roughly 18+ minutes per pound or until the internal temperature reaches 165°F. Most of the latest rotisseries do not have temperature settings but an estimated cooking temperature may be 350-375°+ F. Note that in the rotisserie, the duck may cook more quickly than it would in a standard oven so keep careful watch.
This method allows for a delicious and moist duck every time and is a great alternative to chicken. Serves 3-4.


At Qwiklit, one of our missions has always been to explore new ways of both creating and appreciating the literary arts. Last, I got the chance to enjoy a rather unique experience in the intimate setting of Toronto's Theatre Centre during last year's SummerWorks' Festival.
Soliloquy in English, a book also performed as a work of narrative theatre, interrogates the role of English in the 21st century as a homogenous language accessible to everybody. By seating a small group in a circle, the play subverts the traditional paradigm most theatre is beholden to. But by doing so, the audience becomes the performing cast and is both relaying and digesting the play at the same time.
Blenkarn, the author of the work, has continued the play's run across Canada and recently performed at rEvolver Fest in Vancouver.
Understanding how language influences the world became a hot topic in 20th century literary circles. Nations fragmented by European influence through the form of colonialism sought to defy the imposition of European storytelling, performance and language structures upon their culture.
Soliloquy in English is a rather grounded exploration of a topic pored over ad nauseum in academic circles. Instead of making bold statements about the state of the world or the place of the English language in a globalized world, Soliloquy lets the audience determine the pace and the tone of the play itself. Consider it this way: How can we believe that a global language can be owned, in any circumstance, by a certain group of people?
Blenkarn crafted the play out of several dozen interviews conducted in various countries where English simply plays a different role in society. For some, English was a passport for sharing knowledge and being able to travel around the world. For others, the practical application of English meant more opportunity in the educational and tourism sectors of the country.
One comparison I can think of is Svetlana Alexievich's literature, itself a hybrid of real voices combining to produce a literary whole. Famous for her books on Afghanistan, Chernobyl and Russia, the Nobel Prize-Winning Belorussian journalist told stories through the eyes of others while rarely, if ever, inserting herself into her narratives. While theatre and nonfiction have gone hand in hand, rarely has this been done in an interactive manner, where the audience doesn't simply listen to the narratives, but performs them as well.
The play's form draws on one very particular conceit that guarantees that every reading, no matter who attends, will mean a different experience. After each passage—the majority of which are quoted accounts from Blenkarn's interviewees—the reader is forced to pass the book to their right, to their left or across the circle.
At first, the act seems like a strange gimmick, but soon, you begin to understand that the passing is in essence a trust-building exercise, and each reading a character-building exercise. Each reading, be it a syllable or a long passage, requires that you have faith in both the person reading and the ability to concatenate disparate voices into a cogent whole.
But Blenkarn is evasive about pigeonholing the work into a genre or medium. "I'm actively trying to not create a concept for 'what it is'", he said.
What I personally found most interesting about the play was its ability to address many of the intuitive challenges of understanding the English language. For theatre to engage the next generation of readers, we need to rethink the relationship between telling and listening. Those who subvert the traditional dynamic of "viewing from afar" will help us better understand how language can both liberate and constrict us. Instead, it might be better to top enjoying art from afar and join the circle.


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Stratobus: The Spy Blimp-Satellite of the Future Used for Snooping
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If you thought surveillance drones were unnerving, a French-Italian aerospace company is now producing an unmanned blimp to monitor the ground from space.
One good thing can be said for government-operated spy UAVs: they have to land occasionally. But Thales Alenia Space, an aerospace manufacturer, is hoping to take the utility of a Predator drone and apply it to a long-lasting dirigible.
They call it a Stratobus, and it's a five-ton solar-powered inflatable airship that can remain aloft in the Earth's upper atmosphere for up five years at a time.
"Stratobus is midway between a drone and a satellite, making a low-cost product offering permanent regional coverage and ideally complementing satellite solutions," company project manager Jean-Philippe Chessel said.
"Using only solar energy and green technologies, Stratobus has a very small carbon footprint – much smaller than that of a small private plane."
Capable of reaching a height of 12.4 miles, the blimp would have a surveillance range of roughly 310 miles. This makes it ideal for "secur[ing] industrial sites, border monitoring, [and] early detection of piracy at sea," as well as environmental concerns like "detection of maritime pollution, weather measurements, [and] maritime traffic management," according to the company website.
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An onboard propulsion system allows the airship to maintain stability, and it also has a state-of-the-art ring around the vessel ensuring that solar panels always face the sun. This innovation makes the Stratobus different from similar projects currently being pursued in the United States.
"The solar concentrator and the ring that enables rotation of the envelope are significant difference, maximizing power-to-weight ratio and reducing size," Cassel said in an interview posted to the company website.
"The envelope can be folded up and placed in a 40-foot container, which means it was designed for easy transport. It is both lighter and stronger than the stratospheric airship projects soon to be introduced in the States."
The US military doesn't have a great track record when it comes to surveillance blimps, and should take note. Its JLENS program endured withering scrutiny after one of the $1-billion balloons broke loose from its moorings and led F-16s on a pursuit across the Eastern seaboard, before crash-landing in Pennsylvania.
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Purpose 135: Challenger Disaster Part 1 | Are You Real?
Today's guest is Robby Dawkins. I met Robby through Michael McIntyre, who has introduced me to so many great people. Robby is a 5th generation Pastor who has ministered in over 58 nations. He's been in some pretty scary environments that are hostile to Christians. The focus of today's conversation is Robby's quest to live out the book of Acts. There are so many ways that Christians can be activated to literally change and impact the world for Christ. As we struggle to figure out what our purpose is, we can take comfort in knowing that in following the example of Christ, everything else after that will fall into place. We don't have to wrestle with it. We don't have to struggle with it. We are promised it will happen. Seek yet first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness and all these things shall be added to you!


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What part of the wall are you?
What part of the American dream?
Promote and share #SomosElMuro #YoSoyElMuro to add each Mexican citizen to the wall. It is everyone's responsibility to do what is necessary to get these people out of our region.
When you see illegal migrants, do not help them, do not give them information, let alone shelter. Understand that if you help, they will try to stay.
Demand that the Mexican government close the migrant care centers that exist throughout the national territory. We refer to all those spaces supported by leftist sectors of the Church that insist that our government must pay to keep nourished and alive people who are not from our region.
Ask the religious to stop worrying about the migrants and worry about strengthening the family.
Demand Foreign Relations and the Ministry of the Interior to end the lobbying "derechohumanero" that seeks to give refugee status to Central Americans. Why grant them asylum if they are the cause of the violence from which they are fleeing? The governments of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala do not deal with that, why should we take care of ourselves?
Demand from the government laws that punish companies or people who hire Central American migrants. Let's be aware that that only compounds the problem.
Do not do anything. Not broadcast reports on "humanitarian emergencies" or "genocides on the southern border." Those are just news invented by bad Mexicans, pseudo-journalists and foreign interventionist activists, to make you feel guilty.


Professor Mark Smyth is a Senior Scientist and Immunology Coordinator at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. He completed his PhD in 1988 and trained at the NCI (1988-1992), before commencing his independent research career in Australia. Over the last 20 years he rekindled world-wide interest in cancer immune surveillance, defined immune-mediated dormancy of cancer, and the role of the host in chemotherapy and targeted therapy responses in mice and humans. More recently, he has provided new means of classifying natural killer cell (NK) subtypes and two new targets for cancer immunotherapy. He is a past winner of the Coley Medal and Brupbacher Foundation Prizes in Cancer Research. He is the highest cited immunologist in Australia and is a Senior Editor and Advisory Board Member for Cancer Research and Science, respectively.
Professor Mark Smyth's resume can be downloaded here (PDF).
The Immunology in Cancer and Infection Laboratory focuses on advancing our understanding of the basic principles underlying an immune response to cancer (and metastases) and infection. We aim to further understand these processes at the molecular level, with particular emphasis on the role of the innate immune system, in particular, NK cells, innate lymphoid cells, dendritic cells and neutrophils.
In particular, we are deleting various genes in NK cells in the context of tumour initiation and metastases. We are also tracking and quantitating ILC in tumour development. Therapeutically, we are using various antibodies and cytokines in combination in mice to stimulate strong innate and lasting adaptive immunity to cancer.
We have developed approaches to block two new pathways, including lymphocyte CD96/TIGIT and adenosine metabolism. Our findings are being used to develop more effective biological and cellular therapies for human cancer, in particular, melanoma, breast and prostate cancer, lung cancer, head and neck cancer, and haematological cancers, such as multiple myeloma.
First characterised the specificity and transcriptional regulation of perforin and lymphocyte effector function.
First defined a role for NK and NKT cells in tumor immune surveillance.
Proved that lymphocyte cytotoxicity was important in cancer immune surveillance.
First defined a physiological role for TRAIL as a tumor suppressor.
Made key discoveries linking NK cells and adaptive T cell control of tumors and viruses.
Defined a role for NKG2D in cytokine and host protection from tumor initiation.
Demonstrated a unique combination of pathways that can potently reject established cancers in mice.
First defined immune-mediated dormancy of cancer.
Defined the role of host in chemotherapy responses.
First defined CD73 and CD96 as new targets for cancer immunotherapy.
H index 105, 42000+ citations.
Inducted into the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (2015).
Inducted into the Australian Academy of Science (2017).
Demonstrated the anti-tumor effectiveness of targeting CD73 and adenosine A2A receptor (Cancer Cell 2016).
Demonstrated neoadjuvant immunotherapy is superior to adjuvant immunotherapy in the context of surgery (Cancer Discovery, 2016).
Demonstrated IFNgamma is required for cytotoxic T cell-dependent cancer genome immunoediting (Nature Communications).
Defined a new interaction between Ly-49A and H2-M3 in controlling NK cell anti-tumor activity (Nature Immunology 2012).
Defined CD96 as a novel immune checkpoint (Nature Immunology 2014).
Demonstrated anti-metastatic activity of anti-CD96 antibodies alone and in combination with immune checkpoint blockade (Cancer Discovery 2016).
Demonstrated heparanase regulates natural killer cell invasion of tumors (JCI 2017).
Demonstrated Braf inhibitors in part require host CCR2 activity (JCI 2013).


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Kuzeeko Tjitemisa Windhoek While most government institutions received a reduction in their budgetary allocations, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will this financial year receive about N$70 million, which represents a three percent increase over the N$59.1 million it received the previous year. This was revealed by Deputy Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, Dr Samuel Ankama, in parliament on Tuesday. Motivating the ACC budget, Ankama said the country has entered a critical period in the fight against corruption. "The nation is inundated with reports of corruption at central, regional and local authority levels as well as in the private sector. Civil society organisations are also cited in corruption reports," he said, adding that they are almost on a daily basis fed with media reports on corruption. "The cancer of corruption is developing and we must intensify our fights," said Ankama. According to Ankama, the country is at a critical point from where there is a need to introspect. "We are at a point from where we must sharpen our approach to fight corruption, lest we fail," he said. The deputy minister says from this critical point there is no option but to take corrective action. He said it is only when Namibia is corruption-free that the country will reap full dividends in terms of efficient and effective public services delivery and the enjoyment of economic fruits by all citizens. Ankama says corruption is an ancient evil and occurs in all societies. He said in the fight against corruption, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. "A tested recipe for fighting corruption can be found in ethical leadership, strong democratic institutions, an independent judiciary, a robust civil society and a free press," he said. According to Ankama, the ACC budget allocation will be divided among three programmes, which are the investigation of corruption, corruption prevention, and coordination management and support. He said the Program of the Investigation of Corruption will be allocated N$25.3 million, the Program of Corruption Prevention will get N$13.6 million, while the Program of Coordination Management and Support will be allocated N$24.5 million. With regard to investigative work, Ankama said towards the middle of March this year the ACC managed to deal with 325 cases of which 62 were finalised and referred to the prosecutor-general with a recommendation that prosecution be instituted. He said 31 cases, after preliminary investigations were conducted, in terms of section 3 (c) read with section 18 (3) of the Anti-Corruption Act, 2003, were referred to other institutions for further handling. Also, Ankama said, 20 cases, after investigations were conducted, were closed as the allegations were either unfounded or could not be substantiated.Ankama says with regard to other cases some are pending in court or are being subjected to further investigation.


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'Friendly' Emails Are Not Evidence Harvey Weinstein Did Nothing Wrong | Opinion
Joan Cook and Jessi Gold
On 1/9/20 at 11:09 AM EST
Opinion Harvey Weinstein Sexual assault
This week, the criminal trial of Harvey Weinstein is finally underway. Though over 80 women have accused him of sexual misconduct, including harassment and assault, he is facing only five charges in New York state, all hinging on reported assaults against two women.
Weinstein's strategy for the trial appears to be the same as it has always been: deny the accusations and discredit the accusers.
His defense attorney revealed in a recent interview that "friendly" emails sent to the media mogul from some of his alleged victims will be central to this strategy. Messages like "Miss you, big guy," and "I appreciate all you do for me" were highlighted. The lawyer insinuated that if Weinstein was such a bad person, these women would have run far and fast from him, instead of trying to court a connection.
As trauma mental health professionals who spend a good deal of time working with sexual abuse survivors, we know this is simply untrue. What perpetrators, and people who protect them, don't want you to know is that this is a common response to a very abusive power differential. In the field, we refer to this behavior as traumatic bonding or Stockholm syndrome. This is not friendship, or mentorship, or even a relationship. Many sexually abused women just call it survival.
While it is true that some sexual assault survivors engage in behavioral changes post-assault, like moving or changing jobs, taking self-defense classes, or avoiding alcohol and drugs, the ties that bind other women to their powerful abuser are a result of other classic trauma responses.
In situations where someone's self-esteem and identity are heavily influenced by, or even dependent upon, the very person abusing them (e.g., their parent or spouse or boss), a victim's behavior can seem surprising to people on the outside. Humiliated, demeaned, begging for breath, women with such a paradoxical attachment sometimes do the opposite of what is expected. Rather than run, they cling. Rather than report, they cajole, bargain, flirt and do everything they can to stay in the good graces of their perpetrator. They may even stay in a romantic relationship with their abuser. NBC staffer Brooke Nevils continued her relationship with Matt Lauer after he allegedly raped her, just as many victims of domestic violence remain with their abusers.
"Friendly" emails are not evidence Weinstein did nothing wrong. Such communications are a common symptom of victims' internal struggle to stay above the water.
When the abuser is seen as an authority figure, with an omnipresent powerful presence who controls their livelihood and financial prosperity, some women feel they have no choice but to be compliant. At the very least, they know they will interact with their abuser again post-assault, and so they adopt an adaptive indifference to cope. They may convince themselves he won't do it again, or they may turn the blame inward, wondering what they did to deserve their abuse. Being sexually assaulted, exploited and battered can lead to what looks like psychological paralysis. They may also worry, with good cause, about retaliation if they ever decided to come forward.
This would have been demonstrably true in the case of Weinstein and his accusers. Even after the alleged acts of sexual violence, there would have been no escaping him. The power and control Weinstein wielded would have brought unrelenting, reverberating stress into every aspect of his victims' lives and forced them into isolation. There was nowhere he couldn't reach in the Hollywood universe.
Even if women did try to speak up, nondisclosures were signed and silence was bought. Perhaps that is why there are years of alleged abuse history and more than 80 women with similar stories about Weinstein who didn't know about one another or were afraid to reach out—and are just now coming forward.
Our culture only further perpetuates the silence. Many victims do not disclose because when they share their experiences, they are so often met with negative responses. Many women we have worked with report that people (friends, family members, law enforcement) responded to their disclosures with disbelief, questioning not only their traumatic experiences but their character. Rather than engaging the victims and getting them help, people instead label the assault harmless fun or a bad hook-up—or respond with blame, criticism and judgment. They dissect women's actions and responses, placing shame where it does not belong.
Some people attempt to minimize sexual assault experiences, saying it is no big deal and to quickly get over it. At best, these responses might be seen as unsupportive, but victims often experience them as a betrayal and socially withdraw.
Harvey Weinstein arrives at New York City criminal court for his sex crimes trial on January 9 in New York City. Weinstein, a movie producer whose alleged sexual misconduct helped spark the #MeToo movement, pleaded not guilty on five counts of rape and sexual assault against two unnamed women and faces a possible life sentence in prison. Stephanie Keith/Getty
It might seem obvious, but these reactions from loved ones or the public do a lot of harm. In an analysis of over 50 scientific studies on social reactions to disclosures of interpersonal violence, those who were met with negative initial responses, such as controlling, distracting and threatening survivors, had measurably more mental health difficulties.
Furthermore, some women who experience forced, unwanted sex do not initially label it as rape. These women have been referred to in the scientific literature as unacknowledged victims. Their perpetrators typically use less force, and thus the violation might initially not fully register. They are often left post-assault in a type of haze, wondering, "Did that really just happen to me?" Not sure how to interpret their assault, they initially give it a more benign label, such as a miscommunication.
Unacknowledged victims are more likely to report that they continued a relationship with the perpetrator post-assault. But make no mistake: There are no differences in depression and somatic symptoms between unacknowledged and acknowledged rape victims. And unacknowledged victims are more likely to report more hazardous alcohol use and are at greater risk of revictimization than women who accurately label their assault for what it was. They are also at heightened risk of believing the invalidation of their friends, family and society.
Regardless of whether women who were sexually assaulted maintained a connection with their perpetrator, or whether they initially did not accurately acknowledge it as rape, it is time our culture stopped blaming women and redeeming perpetrators. Even if trauma makes women act in a way we don't completely understand, it takes incredible strength for them to stand up and take back their power.
One way to support their positive psychological change and fortitude is to finally do what someone should have all along: Believe them.
Dr. Joan Cook is an associate professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Jessi Gold is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis and a founding member of Time's Up Healthcare.
The views expressed in this article are the writers' own. Harvey Weinstein has pleaded not guilty and denies all allegations of non-consensual sex.
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Little Italy's Italian American Museum Looks to the Future
Alex Catti (November 14, 2017)
A rendering of the exterior of the new Italian American Museum
The Italian American Museum now
Joseph V. Scelsa, Founder and President of the Italian American Museum
The Ambasciatore Awards Ceremony at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, NY
The first course of the dinner: arugula, endive, radicchio, Sicilian olives, and Parmigiano Reggiano
An interior rendering of the new Museum
A rendering of the lower section of the new Museum
On Sunday, November 12, the Italian American Museum hosted its "Ambasciatore Awards Ceremony and Dinner" at the Crest Hollow Country Club located in Woodbury, New York. The event was a chance to acknowledge the contributions of various Italians and Italian-Americans in promoting the Italian culture and also supporting the Italian American museum. Founder and President of the museum Joseph V. Scelsa also explained the Museum's origins and where it's headed in the near future.
Guests gathered on Sunday, November 12 at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, New York to show their support for a new Italian American Museum. Located in Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood, the current Museum operates with five main goals: "To establish and maintain a museum dedicated to the struggles of Italian Americans and their achievements and contributions to American culture and society; to collect, own, hold, preserve, exhibit, and interpret a collection of appropriate objects; to gather and preserve memorabilia, reminiscences, oral histories, documents and other appropriate material in an archive and library; to sponsor lectures, symposia, musical programs, film, festivals, theater, and art exhibitions; and to raise public awareness and appreciation of the accomplishments and contributions of Italian Americans to the American way of life."
Recognizing Contributions
Robert G. Fonti acted as the Master of Ceremony for the Ambasciatore Awards. The afternoon began with the Italian and American national anthems sung by soprano Cristina Fontanelli. Next, Fonti invited Uff. Cav. Joseph Sciame to the podium for the invocation. Fonti then announced the names of the dignitaries present. Two of the dignitaries, the Deputy Consul General in NY, Silvia Limoncini, and the Director of Italian American Affairs for New York State, Delores Alfieri, offered their remarks. Subsequently, Fonti invited the Founder and President of the Italian American Museum, Uff. Cav. Joseph V. Scelsa, Ed.D., to the podium; he thanked guests for coming and explained the Museum's history and future. During the dinner, Vanessa Racci treated the audience to a musical performance. Scelsa then presented each honoree with a medal.
The honorees were proposed by a different organization active within the Italian community. Vivian Cardia, president and owner of Vivicar LLC, was proposed by the Accademia Italiana Della Cucina; Giuliana Ridolfi Cardillo, Representative for the Maria Callas celebrations in the USA and Europe, by the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of NY; Gina Coletti, co-founder and co-chair of the Suffolk County Alliance of Chambers, by the Lt. Det. Joseph Petrosino Association in America; Al Crecco, founder of the North Shore L.I. Chapter of UNICO, by Northshore Shore LI Chapter of UNICO National; Ciro Sarra, New Jersey Vice President of the Federazione Campania USA, by the Federazione delle Associazioni della Campania, USA; Anthony D'Urso, New York State Assembly Representative of the 16th Assembly District, by the Order Sons of Italy in America; Armando De Marino, real estate broker, realty manager, consultant and developer, by the Queensboro Chapter of UNICO National; Mary Ann Mattone, former Vice President, Treasurer, and President of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Columbus Citizens Foundation, by the Figli di San Gennaro, Inc.; Dr. Eugenia Paulicelli, Professor of Italian, Comparative Literatures and Women's Studies at Queens College and The Graduate Center, by the Italian American Women's Center; and Dr. Stanislao Pugliese, professor of modern European history and the Queensboro Unico Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian Studies at Hofstra University, by the Association of Italian American Educators, Inc.
According to Scelsa, "Each of our honorees has contributed to the betterment of our Italian-American community and our culture through their organizational commitment. All too often these contributions go unnoticed; it is the purpose of these award ceremonies to recognize these people who work so hard in our community, and that's why the Italian American Museum's Board of Directors decided to initiate the Ambasciatore Awards Program."
The History of the Italian American Museum
Scelsa then went on to describe the founding of the Museum, which was the "outgrowth" of a successful exhibition at the New York Historical Society–The Italians of New York: Five Centuries of Struggle and Achievement (October 1999-February 2000). This exhibition was the first time that the plight of Italian Americans was outlined at a major cultural institution.
The Italian American Museum was officially incorporated in 2001, and had a temporary home in the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College. However, the Museum needed a permanent home, and the old Banca Stabile on the corner of Mulberry Street and Grand Street would be its new home.
"Why go there? We've been so successful. We should be on Fifth Avenue. We should be on the 'main street,'" several people told Scelsa. His reply: "Little Italy is the 'main street.' Those are our roots. That was our first home. That's where we came to when we came to America. We need to remember that; we need to honor it, respect it, and make other people honor it and respect it as well."
Plans for the New Museum
The Banca Stabile property, where the Museum currently sits, was purchased in 2008. In the nine years since then, the Museum has grown from 900 square feet to 1,800 square feet. Despite this expansion, the Museum continues to outgrow the space that houses it and is in need of a location that can accommodate its expansion.
Enter the real estate development firm Nexus, which has partnered with the Italian American Museum. A plan for a new condominium building, with the museum on the lower levels, has been devised. After construction is finished, the Museum will enjoy 6,500 square feet of space inside the new building.
Regarding the new space, Scelsa proclaimed, "This will move us towards the next 20 years. I want to be able to show not only the past but also the present and future of our community. We have to continue to do this because when we don't show off ourselves, others forget about us. If you don't do it yourself, it's not going to happen." Scelsa also told i-Italy that there are plans for a multimedia exhibition at the new Museum, helping to bring it even further into the future.
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Q: Execute one subroutine by multiple threads Is there a way to execute one subroutine by multiple threads?checked documentation and found out that it's related to use lock() function but it's still executes slower than one thread.Does anyone has any sources on that topic?

A: Yes, different threads can execute the same code. In fact, this is usually the case.
use v5.20;
use warnings;
use threads;

use Thread::Queue qw( );
use Time::HiRes   qw( sleep );

use constant NUM_WORKERS => 4;

sub process_job {
   my $job = shift;
   my $tid = thread->tid;
   say "Thread $tid processing job $job...";
   sleep( 1 + rand(1) );  # Sleep 1..2 seconds
   say "Thread $$ completed job $job.";
}

{
   my $q = Thread::Queue->new;

   my @workers;
   for ( 1 .. NUM_WORKERS ) {
      push @workers, async {
         while ( defined( my $job = $q->dequeue() ) ) {
            process_job( $job );
         }
      };
   }

   $q->enqueue( $_ ) for 1..20;   # Add work to queue.

   $q->end();                     # We're done adding work.
   $_->join() for @workers;       # Wait for the threads to complete the work.
}

Thread 4 processing job 1...
Thread 2 processing job 2...
Thread 1 processing job 3...
Thread 3 processing job 4...
[All four threads are executing `process_job` right here.]
Thread 4 completed job 1.
Thread 4 processing job 5...
Thread 1 completed job 3.
Thread 1 processing job 6...
Thread 2 completed job 2.
Thread 2 processing job 7...
Thread 3 completed job 4.
Thread 3 processing job 8...
Thread 4 completed job 5.
Thread 4 processing job 9...
[...]
Thread 1 completed 16.
Thread 1 processing job 20...
Thread 2 completed 17.
Thread 4 completed 18.
Thread 3 completed 19.
Thread 1 completed 20.

If you replace the sleep( 1 + rand(1) ); with sleep(1);, you'll notice the program takes around 20 (number of jobs) divided by 4 (number of workers) = 5 seconds, indicating the work is indeed being done in parallel.

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Katey Sagal (Peg Bundy) Reveals Affair with Gene Simmons of KISS
Posted by admin On February 20, 2017 0 Comment
It could have been straight out of an episode of Married with Children, Peg Bundy as one of the 5000 women Gene Simmons claims to have slept with. In March, actress Katey Sagal will release her new memoir, "Grace Notes", which details her love affair with the KISS founder.
In an excerpt obtained by the New York Daily News, the actress says she first met Simmons when she was twenty years old, while waitressing at a Santa Monica restaurant. She says Simmons began to flirt with her after she sang for him (Sagal is also a singer). After her shift was over, Sagal took him home, "because he was quite persuasive, and I like men."
At first, "I thought Gene was really weird," she writes. But she also says "he was cute and had a lot of confidence."
The following day, Sagal took Simmons to her band's rehearsal. After liking what he heard, he brought Sagal's band to meet Neil Bogart, the president of Casablanca Records. Bogart liked what he heard and signed the band immediately. However, not much came of it, as the album tanked resulting in the band being dropped.
Despite Simmons having a reputation as being a womanizer, Sagal says she fell for him.
"I fantasized that I would be the exception," she writes in the book, which details her years in the music business and her shift to acting, her drug use and subsequent sobriety, an early bout with cancer and her three marriages.
When she started dating another musician who proposed to her, she accepted — but only after telling Simmons she'd decline if he wanted to marry her: he laughed.
Simmons left her with enduring advice, she says: don't give up her career ambitions for a man. "And I never did," Sagal writes, saying that was a lesson she needed to learn.
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IS A MASTER'S IN HOMELAND SECURITY WORTH IT?
Homeland security professionals with a master's degree often have a higher earning potential and better chances of obtaining leadership positions.
WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A MASTER'S IN HOMELAND SECURITY?
Graduates have many career opportunities and can become emergency management specialists, emergency response coordinators, and crisis management specialists.
WHAT IS A MASTER'S IN HOMELAND SECURITY?
Homeland security centers on the design and maintenance of the systems, resources, and personnel in that respond to natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and other national emergencies.
Many colleges offer a master's in homeland security. The key is to find a program that matches your specific educational needs.
Penn State University was one of the first colleges to establish distance education through online methods and has developed a highly reputable master's in homeland security program in that time. Students looking for an established program that features industry professionals and a career-driven curriculum should consider PSU.
Students with prior strategic analysis experience will benefit from the homeland security master's program at George Washington University. It's designed for working professionals and covers modern methods in security analysis, giving students the skills to provide safety and strategic solutions to issues regarding national security.
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"The Tulane Homeland Security Studies program is proud to be included in this list. The program's courses are tailored for the current and future practitioner and draw heavily from the expertise developed in New Orleans, a U.S. municipality that has a great amount of experience in dealing with homeland security issues."
The University of Maryland-Baltimore gives students the skills to handle crisis management situations thanks to its comprehensive master's in homeland security and crisis management program. It features an in-depth curriculum with topics in terrorist attacks and courses in emergency management, preparing graduates for leadership positions in the field.
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Program requirementsPrerequisites: Bachelor's degree transcript from an accredited college or university in the U.S.
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Students who want to advance to leadership positions in homeland security should consider National University's online master's in homeland security and emergency management program. This program has been available to online distance learners since 1996 and features a rich curriculum that covers everything from recovery management to immigration issues, giving students a solid foundational knowledge for career growth.
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Leeds Building More Houses Than Almost Anywhere Else!
When it comes to building houses, it seems that Leeds is performing really very well indeed, with new analysis of government data showing that the city lags behind only Tower Hamlets in London and Cornwall with regards to the number of properties being built.
It was found that these three regions have come top for construction and the average number of properties build annually in the last ten years since the recession, the Yorkshire Evening Post reports.
Despite this, however, construction numbers aren't sufficient to meet long-term demand, with Leeds still having the fourth highest long-term annual need outside the capital. This is according to government estimates, but city council assessments suggest that Leeds has the second highest need in the entire country.
The figures show that ten years after the economic crash, over half the areas in England have still not returned to supplying new homes at the same rates they were prior to the recession.
Richard Lewis, housing boss with Leeds City Council, has now come out and said that it's time to get rid of the existing planning system, ridding ourselves of our obsession with the greenbelt and giving local authorities the power to start building the properties both the city and the country require for long-term prosperity.
"We do need to look at the world differently," he said. "We just get wrapped up in repeating an argument that's been going on ever since the greenbelt was introduced. Well, Leeds has built on so much green land – not greenbelt always – over the last 80 years and Leeds has probably tripled the size it was back then."
However, leader of the opposition Conservative group Andrew Carter did say that greenbelt is massively important, highly valued by people all over the city. But it's important to remember that once it's gone, it is "gone for good" and losing all greenbelt sites would change the city "beyond recognition". As such, it should be protected at all costs.
Research released earlier this month by the Campaign to Protect Rural England found that the greenbelt is under severe pressure at the moment, even though the government has pledged its commitment to protect it.
Right now, there are 460,000 houses being planned to be built on land that is due to be released from the greenbelt. Moving boundaries when reviewing local plans makes it easier for councils to release land for development but this is only supposed to happen under exceptional circumstances.
As the charity notes, this shrinking of greenbelt land is simply a way of circumnavigating its protected status and is just as harmful as actually building on this land in the first place.
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Una falda trabada fue un tipo de falda larga lo suficientemente estrecha abajo como para limitar el paso, de ahí su nombre popular. Fue una efímera tendencia en la moda occidental que alcanzó su punto máximo entre 1908 y 1914.

Historia

La falda trabada puede haberse inspirado en una de las primeras mujeres en volar en un avión. En 1908 durante una exhibición de los hermanos Wright en Le Mans, Francia, Edith Ogilby Berg pidió un paseo y se convirtió en la primera mujer estadounidense en volar como pasajera en un avión, volando dos minutos y siete segundos. Ató una cuerda sobre su falda a la altura de los tobillos para evitar que la levantara el viento durante el vuelo. Según el Museo Smithsoniano del Aire y el Espacio, un diseñador de moda francés se inspiró en la forma en que la señora Berg se alejó de la aeronave con su falda todavía atada para crear la primera falda trabada.

El diseñador de moda francés en esta historia podría haber sido Paul Poiret, quien se atribuyó el mérito de la falda trabada, pero no está claro si la falda fue invención suya o no. Las faldas a partir de 1900 habían ido perdiendo vuelo, pasando de ser evasé (también llamada falda acampanada o falda A, ceñidas en la cadera y ampliándose hacia abajo) a caer rectas. Las faldas rectas son económicas porque utilizan menos tela.

La falda trabada se hizo popular justo cuando las mujeres acomodadas se volvían más físicamente activas.

Estas faldas fueron pasto de dibujos y postales cómicas. Una serie de tarjetas humorísticas la llamaron la "falda con límite de velocidad". Hubo varios informes de mujeres compitiendo en carreras de faldas trabadas como broma.

Subir a un tranvía con este tipo de falda era difícil. En 1912, el tranvía de Nueva York incluyó un escalón adicional en algunos vagones. Los Ángeles introdujo tranvías similares en 1913.

Las faldas trabadas fueron directamente responsables de varias muertes. En 1910, una dama vestida con una falda trabada fue muerta por un caballo suelto en una pista de carreras hípicas en París.Un año más tarde, Ida Goyette de dieciocho años tropezó en un puente del canal de Erie llevando una falda trabada, cayó por encima de la barandilla, y se ahogó.

Para impedir rasgar las faldas con una zancada demasiado grande, algunas mujeres llegaron a atarse con cintas o ligas las piernas juntas a la altura de la rodilla. Algunos diseñadores hicieron alteraciones a la falda trabada para permitir mayor movimiento. Jeanne Paquin ocultó pliegues en sus faldas trabadas mientras otros diseñadores como Lucile ofrecieron faldas con una abertura o faldas cruzadas.

La tendencia empezó a declinar en popularidad al comienzo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, ya que su movilidad limitada no era conveniente en tiempo de guerra.

Las faldas lápiz
La próxima ocasión en que las faldas volvieron a estrecharse tanto como para restringir la movilidad fue con la generalización de las faldas lápiz en la década de 1950, tras su aparición a finales de los 1940. Sin embargo su longitud más corta (de justo por la rodilla a como mucho media pantorrilla) y los avances en los tejidos permitían un mayor movimiento que la antigua falda trabada. Fueron ampliamente promovidas por diseñadores y la industria de la moda, y su estrechez se exageraba aún más haciendo que las modelos posaran con una pierna directamente delante de la otra.

En la cultura popular

Películas y series televisivas

 Intolerancia: "The Dear One" (Mae Marsh) lleva una falda trabada improvisada en la esperanza de impresionar a un hombre.
 Titanic: Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) lleva muchas faldas trabadas durante la película. Al inicio del film, corre por la cubierta con una falda trabada de cuentas, tropezando y desgarrándola. La falda casi la hace caer por la borda.
 The Addams Family: Morticia comúnmente viste ceñidos vestidos negros góticos trabados.
 Pato Darkwing: la novia de Pato Darkwing, Morgana Macawber suele llevar un vestido trabado rojo.
 Dick Tracy: Breathless Mahoney (Madonna) aparece con un ceñido vestido trabado negro brillante.
 Betty la fea: En el episodio "Icing on the Cake", Amanda (Becki Newton) lleva un vestido trabado plateado denominado "Amanda".
 What a Way to Go!: Louisa May Foster (Shirley MacLaine) viste una falda lápiz roja brillante.
 Static Shock: Daisy Watkins lleva una falda lápiz morada en las primeras temporadas.
 Parade's End: Sylvia Tietjens lleva un vestido trabado al funeral de su suegra, c. 1912 (episodio 2); la nobleza desaprueba su elegancia, pero los criados la admiran.

Vídeos musicales

 "Love Religion" 2014; U96

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Hobbel Skirt Streetcar, los tranvías diseñados pensando en las mujeres que llevaban estas faldas.

Faldas
Historia de la moda
Vestidos


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Q: Clojure edit value of vector within function I have the variable cards with empty values:
(def cards [0 0 0])

Im trying to set a value of cards (depending on input) to a 3 within a function.
Thats why i have the following code:
(defn parse-int [s]
  (Integer. (re-find  #"\d+" s )))

(defn changevalue [] (assoc cards (parse-int (read-line)) 3))
(changevalue)

But when i execute the problem and typ in my input 1, the function doesn't change the value of key 1, and when i print it, its still 0 0 0 . How do I fix this?
Im sure the parse-int works, i got it from: In Clojure how can I convert a String to a number?

A: Firstly, just use Integer/parseInt to parse the input:
(defn change-value [cards]
  (let [s (read-line)]
    (assoc cards (Integer/parseInt s) 3)))

This function returns a copy of cards, with one of its elements changed. Remember, cards is a vector, which is immutable.
 You can't change it once it's been created.
You wrote "the function doesn't change the value of key 1, and when i print it, its still 0 0 0 . How do I fix this?" You don't fix it, you embrace immutability. Don't try to change cards. Use the modified copy that change-value returns:
(def cards [0 0 0])
(def changed-cards (change-value cards))

(println cards)
(println changed-cards)

If you really, really, really need mutability, you can use an atom, but that shouldn't be your first option. Clojure is a functional language with heavy emphasis on immutability. Go with the flow instead of trying to fight the language.

A: Clojure's data structure is almost immutable.
In clojure, substitution for mutating values is restricted strictly.
If you want mutable data structure, you can use Java's mutable data structure or clojure's {atom,ref,var}.
If you truly want to mutate cards, try do this:
(def cards (atom [0 0 0]))
(defn change-cards! [idx] (swap! cards assoc idx 3))
(change-cards! 2)
@cards
#_"here is no parseint to simplify your problem"


Brining a turkey results in an incredibly moist and juicy (not "watery") bird every time.
Combine all ingredients in a non-reactive pot, bring mixture to a boil, lower heat and simmer for 15-20 minutes (partly covered). Allow brine to cool completely.
Rinse turkey under cool running water, inside and out (remove giblets from body cavity – but reserve them, if desired, for giblet gravy).
Pat turkey dry with paper towels, then immerse turkey in cooled brine. * Turkey should be COMPLETELY submerged in liquid (place a plate on top of the bird if necessary to keep it covered with the liquid).
Cover the pot and refrigerate for at least 8-10 hours, up to 24 hours.
Remove turkey, rinse, pat dry, and roast as usual.
Let the roast sit at room temperature for at least 1/2 an hour prior to carving.
Note: *Be sure that the container for the turkey in brine is non-reactive: use enamel, glass, crockery, stainless steel, even a plastic bucket – never cast iron or aluminum. The pot should be just large enough to contain the turkey (so the brine will be sufficient to cover the bird).