Guinea Pigs for 4 years now and since the new year it is falling apart.
mortom on him last night to see if she could find anything.
to save my babies. Please could you inform me of anything that this could be.
I dont want to loose any more.
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You said you did not feel it had anything to do with the teeth. Sharp hay can cause injuries in the mouth that could abscess and lead to a reluctance to eat.
If you carefully watch their weight, the next one who loses weight I might consider taking to a veterinary dentist.
Have they been treated for parasites?
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Hi its Paula here, I have more information.
They are not related genetically, their diet hasn´t changed since i have had them all. They are fed dried gertie Guinea pig food, fresh veg, hay and water daily. They are housed in a large shed, in wooden hutches made especially for them. They are bedded out with wood shavings, straw and hay. They occasionally get give redi grass, which is like alfalfa. It is so quick when you do notice that they are unwell. They eventually collapse, they dont like to be held (which is very strange) touching them seems to hurt them! It is fairer to put them down, but i have no idea what it is. I am going to find out the results of the post mortom when i go into work tomorrow. does anyone have any suggestions, please help!
They don´t have any mites,lice or any parasites, the vet even thought of worms but none there. Their mouths are fine. No abscess´ or overgrown teeth.
Could it be due to some kind of toxin? What kind of bedding are they bedded on? What kind of wood is the hutch made of, could it have a coating or paint that could be making them sick?
Guinea pigs tend to mask their symptoms, they could actually be sick for a longer time than you are aware of.
Oh my Gosh ! Paula I am so sorry for your losses. I have no information to offer but when I was much younger we went through a spate of guineas that displayed the symptoms you listed. It took the lives of 5 piggies in the space of two very traumatic months, all bought, individually, after the previous loss in a bid to ease the grief, from the same pet shop and not related. They started to slow right down, and began to wince or move away from, the slightest touch. The vets didn´t know what it was and death followed very quickly indeed. We replaced the cage, after the second loss and each time there on, from two different pet shops and we totally disinfected the area with a Hibiscrub wash, and aired the area afterwards, I don´t know how long. We never had any postmortems as they were all pets, and we kept hoping that the next one would survive, so we don´t bother. The only thing we noticed was an appearance of ´dozy confusion´ at the last few hours, which years later we assumed was a virus that attacked the brain. Like you, nothing in their environment changed other than me bringing them home, from the way I previously cared for my piggies that lived for years. Then we bought home the last piggie the shop had left, and Button lived for 6 years. As quick as the death rate rose it died away again, and we´ve never heard of anything like it again. I am very interested to know what your results reveal. Once again, I am so sorry for your loss, I will keep my fingers crossed for you, that you can find an answer for this, and pray that your remaining herd are well.
Right I have more information for anyone who is trying to help me.
The vet who did the post mortom on him has found a lot of different things which may have relavence. His stomach was full of what looked like a porridge like substance (this is nothing like what i fed him) it was overly large even though he didn´t eat the day he died. It was not twisted so no torsion. The gall bladder was full, the liver was covered in white spots. She has taken several samples and sent them to the labratory, so results will be on there way to me by the end of the week hopefully! in the meantime i have another one who seems to have lost weight. am keeping a very close eye on him but he seems to be himself. any more advice will help me a lot please.
Could you move him to another cage, bedded with towels, so that you can keep an eye on how much he eats and drinks? And weigh him daily?
The only thing like this that I have ever heard of is grass sickness in horses. A mysterious illness that is always fatal. They don;t know what causes it or why - although they think it may be due to a toxin in some pastures but no more clues than that.
I was reminded of it because horses are like pigs and cannot be sick - but grass sickness causes such a breakdown in their systems that food is forcibly regurgitated.
My only suggestion would be that maybe the pasture your hay came from is suspect. A change of hay supplier can´t do any harm - it may be something unknown in the pasture or possibly that chemicals are being used on the hay crop. Or do you pick them fresh grass regularly from somewhere?
The two diseases may be unrelated - but I hope you find the cause soon.
"In the early 1990´s, a disease almost identical to grass sickness was discovered in hares, some of which occurred on pastures where there had been recent cases of the equine disease. Soon after, it was discovered that a form of the disease mucoid enteropathy, which affects wild and domestic rabbits, also has similar features to grass sickness. However, there is no evidence that hares, rabbits and horses can pass the disease to each other."
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the above posts reminded me of something I read a while back about fluke (liver? but not necessarily) in guinea pigs. I couldn´t find it, but I found a lot on it in other animals. There are lots of different types of fluke, that can infect any of the organs (especially the liver) and blood. They can cause a whole range of symptoms, a lot that were mentioned in your post, and is fatal in large numbers.
The treatment is INJECTED ivermectin. Topical ivermec won´t work, orally it may help, but probably won´t do enough, so ensure it´s injected. If it is fluke your, whole herd will have been exposed so ALL will need treatment.
I hate to say it, but it may be to late for the more advanced cases, so don´t rule it out if it doesn´t cure the first pig you try the ivermec on.
It´s caught from eating food (grass, greens, etc) that infected snails have been on, so washing or even withdrawing suspect food may help to avoid it reccurring, or infecting the ones that haven´t got it yet (if there are any). You can have the poos tested, but this doesn´t detect the fluke if they haven´t reproduced, and it´s possible to get types that are big, so will do serious (fatal?) damage, before this stage. I thought maybe the white spots on the liver might have been fluke, but I´m sure the tests will prove this either way.
I´d suggest injecting ivermectin, as it won´t do any harm and might be the solution. Plus it´s pretty cheap so I reckon it´s worth a try. I don´t know if this is what is wrong with your pigs, I´m not a vet, and I know very little about the subject, but I think anything´s worth trying at this stage. I´ll try to find piggies specific info and post back if I do.
Fluke can also affect humans, so make sure you wash your hands after handling them or their piggie litter or food.
I´m so sorry that this has happened, and I hope you can work out what it is before any other of your piggies die. Until you know what it is, quarantine the sick ones (maybe have a second level of quarantine for the ones that aren´t sick, but have been near ones that are) and keep everything as clean as you can. Keep the sick ones warm and comfy, and make sure they eat and drink. Keep a close eye on the healthy ones for any sign of sickness (look out for signs of jaundice too).
Hope this is helpful, and that they all get/stay well.
I am so sorry for your loss. It is awful. I don´t know if this is of any help, but my pig, Taffy, died this past fall. She had rapid and steady weight loss. After she died the vet did an autopsy and found that the main problem was a viral infection called Cytolomegalo virus. Cytolomegalo virus was found in her liver, kidney, lungs and heart. She also had an opportunistic fungal infection in her kidneys. All of the organs had tissue damage. Also, she had a fatty liver. What made me think of this was that you said that the liver was covered in white spots. Some of Taffy´s organs had that too. The vet called them plaques. I know this virus can spread like crazy. You might want to make sure they test for it. Again, I am so sorry. Having just gone through this, I really feel for you. In the end, I had to put her down too. She was suffering so.
I stuck this virus in a google search and only turned up 7 all related things (it supposedly causes autism). Can you check the spelling? Sometimes a misspelling will generate results on google because the page misspelled it. I found a few guinea pits when I first started looking for info on cavies.
Cytomegalovirus Well, I was close!
ok, I got some results back from the pathologist, does anyone know of an online vet who i can ask?
There is an online vet community but only vets can access it. You vet should be familiar with it or should be able to get the URL from another vet.
I am so sorry. My heart goes out to you. So much loss is unfair. Does the vet think it can be stopped and/or contained? Were the pigs that you lost all adult pigs or babies? Maybe someone here will have some help for you. I can only offer my sympathies and hope that it stops.
I would not give up on the treatment. It could be that whatever they have incubates for a while and you may have prevented future deaths by treating.
It´s obvious the really visible symptoms occur at the last stage of this illness. The one who recently died might have had the infection already in an advanced state. You don´t know about the others. The ones who appear completely healthy may already have the beginnings of the infection. These are the ones the treatment might save.
It would be worth continuing unless your vet says the treatment is having no effect. Since you know what the bacteria is, you know you are using the right antibiotic. That is half the battle.


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interesting! at first glance it looks like they want u to run a non resistor unit? I don't really trust that or even a capacitor around a cdi?
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Low Power Discharge plug (LPD) having a peak discharge current of between 0.020 to 0.060 amps. DirectHits is a High Power Discharge spark plug (HPD) generating 500 amps of peak discharge current... 20,000 times more power than LPDs.
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RODNEY L. HURST, SR. - THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES!
Demonstrating against Racism and for Black Human Dignity and Respect.
This is the 60th Anniversary year of the 1960 Sit-In Movement. On February 1, 1960 four college students from HBCU, North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, North Carolina... David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and Joseph McNeil ...challenged the insulting segregation and racist disrespect in Woolworth's retail store, which wanted you to spend your money but only where they wanted you to be spend your money.
That first "sit-in" inspired a wave of sit-in demonstrations which challenged segregation and Racism by targeting White lunch counters, which were veritable vestiges of segregation and Racism, and spread to more than 55 cities, including Jacksonville (August 13, 1960). Jacksonville's local White press blacked-out all local news about the sit-ins in Jacksonville. Thank God for the National Black press and locally the Florida Star, which reported major portions of the real story of the Sit-in Movement. My book, "It was never about a hot dog and a Coke!" which I wrote as "my personal account" of what happened as the President of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP and a leader of the Sit-ins, has now become a history book of sorts because you will not find the information, material, and pictures in the book any place else. The following is a short excerpt from "It was never about a hot dog and a Coke!" detailing what Really Happened.
August 27, 1960—Ax Handle Saturday
"There is no medicine to cure hatred."
"Mr. Pearson received several calls on the morning of August 27, 1960 about very suspicious and unsettling activities in Hemming Park. He contacted Arnett Girardeau and Ulysses Beatty and asked them to ride with him downtown to Hemming Park.
"As we approached Hemming Park," Girardeau recalled, "we saw several white men wearing Confederate uniforms. Other whites walked around Hemming Park carrying ax handles with Confederate battle flags taped to them. A sign taped to a delivery-type van parked at the Duval and Hogan Streets corner of Hemming Park read, 'Free Ax Handles.' Small fence rails with shrubbery bordered that section of Hemming Park. [As we drove by,] we could see bundles of ax handles in the shrubbery. . . . No one attempted to conceal them.
"We also saw three police[men] separately riding three-wheel police motorcycles. We watched as the police talked to the men dressed in Confederate uniforms. It appeared they were simply having a conversation. Certainly, [the police] were not questioning [the men]. As we circled Hemming Park, the police left."
We arrived at the Youth Center the morning of August 27, 1960 unaware of the Hemming Park activities. We opened our meetings with our usual prayer, not expecting this morning to be any different from other mornings. We sang our usual songs, including "We Shall Overcome." Though our meetings became serious after we started the sit-in demonstrations, this meeting had a more serious bent.
Mr. Pearson explained to us what he, Girardeau, and Beatty saw that morning at Hemming Park. He described the white men wearing Confederate uniforms, and other white men with Confederate flags taped to ax handles. He told us about the free ax handles sign and warned, "There could be trouble today." He tried to contact Sheriff Dale Carson to express his concerns, but didn't reach him. Mr. Pearson said he would understand if any Youth Council members decided they did not want to demonstrate that day. We openly discussed our plan of action that day, and whether we would sit in. On the heels of the situation with Parker, we figured we would be facing the Ku Klux Klan in Hemming Park.
Several Youth Council members said we should cancel the day's demonstration. We tried to stay strong and courageous and move forward. Yet a healthy fear of the unknown played a big role in our conversation. My current pastor, Reverend (now Bishop) Rudolph W. McKissick Jr. defines "healthy fear" as knowing the seriousness of your situation, which is an appropriate characterization of how we felt that day.
Sometimes, when you face a situation like that the Youth Council faced that Saturday, you rein in the impetuosity of youth. Sometimes, the situation tests youthful mettle and resolve. Fear on one hand, and our interpretation of courage on the other, played a big part in whether or not we would demonstrate.
I cannot really say what won the most points to demonstrate. Appropriately, we made our final decision after Mr. Pearson led us in prayer. We always joined hands and prayed at the beginning and the end of all Youth Council meetings. After the prayer that ended our meetings, we would say, "Together we go up, together we stay up"! Corny sounding perhaps, yet the times dictated we do everything in our power to reassure each other and reconfirm our faith in God.
After prayer, I took the first of only two votes by Youth Council members on whether or not to demonstrate. We voted unanimously to demonstrate. Someone defined courage as continuing forward even as fear tries to hold you back. Our determined courage overcame our healthy fear. However, instead of sitting in at Woolworth, in front of Hemming Park, we decided to sit in at W. T. Grant Department store, three blocks away from Hemming Park at the corner of Adams Street and Main Street.
After the vote that Saturday, there were 34 demonstrators, including Arnett Girardeau. Though he was older than most Youth Council members, we decided to select Arnett as the sit-in captain because of our view that Arnett could better handle an awkward situation, if one occurred. No one quarreled with his selection.
The W. T. Grant Department store had a lunch counter, though it was not nearly as large as the one at Woolworth. Like Woolworth's, Grant's also had a "colored lunch counter." When we walked into Grant's, I remember seeing four police officers directing traffic at the corner of Main and Adams—or so it appeared to me. fter we sat at Grant's white lunch counter, store officials summarily closed and turned out the lights—all usual and customary.
When we came out of Grant's, and turned west on Adams, we could see in the distance a mob of whites running toward us. As the mob got closer, it became obvious they were swinging ax handles and baseball bats. In a surreal scene, they swung those ax handles and baseball bats at every Black they saw.
It is amazing what the mind's eye captures during tense split-seconds of confrontation. I remember seeing a television reporter or a camera operator from local television station Channel 12 on top of a car taking pictures—until someone knocked him off the car with an ax handle.
Employees of stores along the block started locking store doors. If you were inside a store, you stayed inside; if you were outside a store, you could not get in. We had tried to prepare for most scenarios to be encountered during sit-in demonstrations, but nothing prepared us for an attack as vicious as this.
Although we would laugh later about trying to be cool while looking at those attacking us with ax handles and baseball bats, surviving the onslaught became our primary concern. Most people have held or felt a baseball bat, but not an ax handle. Ax handles usually are as heavy as a baseball bat and can inflict as much damage. They are made of solid wood sturdy enough to hold an ax, and you never forget its look in the hands of someone trying to maim you.
All of us started running and trying to protect ourselves, but Black downtown shoppers were simply no match for those wielding the baseball bats and ax handles. Some fought as best they could, but most simply tried to run for safety.
In its September 12, 1960 issue, Life magazine captured the most vivid image of the attack's aftermath. Several whites are shown attacking Charlie B. Griffin, a friend and a classmate who graduated in 1961 from Northwestern Junior Senior High School. The picture, though in black and white, graphically shows Charlie in his blood-drenched shirt standing next to a law-enforcement official.
Charlie played high school football at Northwestern and, given his size could have ably defended himself in a fair fight. But Charlie became another victim of the racial attacks in downtown Jacksonville that day. The attack on Charlie, it so happened, occurred SWB (Shopping While Black). He was not a member of the Youth Council and was not "sitting in" that day. He would later tell me that as he walked downtown, "this white guy" ran toward him and took a swing at him with an ax handle. When Charlie started to defend and protect himself, more whites came to hit him with ax handles. The attacks against Charlie and the other Blacks that day were vicious and cowardly.
As for me, I ran to Main Street first, which is away from the mob, and then north on Main Street to wherever I thought I could find safety. We were on our own—we had no police protection. All law enforcement officers had disappeared.
Afterwards, we came to believe that the Jacksonville Police Department and the Duval County Sheriff's Department knew in advance that racial violence would occur on August 27, 1960.
As I ran down Main Street, I was picked up by a woman who drove me to the Youth Center. To this day, I cannot remember her face, although Mrs. I. E. "Mama" Williams would later tell me she had been the one to pick me up. I just remember the person asking me if I was hurt and telling me she was a member of the NAACP.
Forty years later, I would find out how much Jacksonville and Duval County law enforcement knew about what would happen that day. I met Clarence Sears, an FBI informant with the Ku Klux Klan during the period leading up to Ax Handle Saturday, at the 40th year Ax Handle Commemorative Anniversary Program at Bethel Baptist Institutional Church.
I did not know Clarence Sears at the time, but he painted a very descriptive timeline of the events leading to Ax Handle Saturday. His CI (Confidential Informant) nickname was Charlie.
Sears gave his report to his FBI manager, who in turn gave the report to Sheriff Dale Carson, or, to be absolutely accurate, put his report on the sheriff's desk. Supposedly, a police officer in the sheriff's office intercepted the report and gave it to the head Klansman, a so-called Cyclops. Sears said the report caused quite a commotion at the next Klan meeting. The Klan realized, according to Sears, that there was "a traitor in our midst," but never knew his identity. According to Sears, the Klan intended the attacks to spark a citywide racial riot."
Racism in Sports Too. No Surprise Here.
I am glad the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl, and NO...I did not watch the Super Bowl. But their win will be insignificant if they do not understand ...especially the Black players...the big picture of visiting a Racist president in the White House, who is on public record insulting Black NFL players, and by extension Black folks in this country. The incompetent Racist called those Black NFL players who knelt protesting Racism and police brutality, "Sons of Bitches" ... in addition to saying Blacks and Browns come from "shit hole countries."
I am waiting for the "there is no politics in sports" BS. There is politics in everything in the American discourse and there is Racism in that discourse. In a recent news article, Black players on the Chiefs felt it is no big deal "rubbing elbows" with a Racist president. Some of their comments were sad...not surprising, but sad.
I also tire of Black folks giving White folks accolades in the sports arena as a great coach...or whatever...but give them a pass when it comes to Black human dignity and respect. You want Blacks to go into battle on the athletic field, but you will not go into battle on the "human respect field." Andy Reid might be a great NFL coach, but his lack of respect for his players is showing.
When you visit the White House knowing a Racist has desecrated the office with his Racism vitriol, what does that make you? There are no excuses.
Being a Bent Back Negro does extend to sports.
The Struggle Continues!
Rodney. L. Hurst, Sr.
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ARC art club creates art live at local open mic
TOPICS:abstract artAerial SuddsARCArtArt ClubArts and Culturearts at ARCbongo drumsBrianna HulcedidgeridooErika GonzalezfluteJohn Klaiberlive artlive musicminimalismmusicOak ParkOak Park Brewing Companyopen micPaige LogsdonpaintpainterPhotos by Hannah DardenSpirit Setstories by Luis Gael Jimenezstudent artweekly shows
American River College Art Club members Aerial Sudds (left) and Brianna Hulce (right) work on paintings at the live art show and open mic night at Oak Park Brewing Company in Sacramento, California on Sept. 6, 2016. The art club attended the event to make and sell art in the community. (Photo by Hannah Darden)
By Luis Gael Jimenez September 8, 2016
Members of American River College's art club painted and sketched under jury-rigged lighting at the Oak Park Brewing Company on Tuesday night as part of a live art show featuring local musical talent.
The event was the first of its kind and served as a prototype for future live exhibitions for the club.
For many of the artists, such as minimalist artist Aerial Sudds, it was also their first time painting in front of a live audience.
At the end of the night, Sudds claimed that she felt nothing but "good vibes" and that she would definitely like to do an event like this again.
Paige Logsdon, an artist who had an experience with live events, felt that the art show served as a tool for reworking older pieces.
Logsdon, who used to present her art at various Second Saturday locations, said that the musical accompaniment was "influencing the rhythm of the painting" and that she felt her work taking on a "surreal" feeling as one of the musical acts began playing their self-named "Spirit Set," which involved a flute, bongo drums, and a didgeridoo.
Brianna Hulce, another participating painter, said the whole event reminded her of "being in a giant drum circle at a music festival," and that the music put her in the right mood to create her abstract portrait.
Featured bands included a blues rock band, singer-songwriters who performed covers of Elton John songs and the aforementioned Spirit Set band, who were especially popular among the artists.
Art club secretary Erika Gonzalez said that she would try to set up events like it more often.
"It's a good way for our artists to get themselves out there," said Gonzalez, adding that "The live aspect of the show gets me out of my bubble, makes me more social and helps me out of my artist's block."
Miguel Paz, who served as a percussionist for one of the bands, claimed the event was "great for the students and for Oak Park" and said that the area needed "more events."
Luis Gael Jimenez
Luis Gael Jimenez is an award-winning journalist and photojournalist. Jimenez is currently in his fourth semester on the American River Current, where he serves as co-editor-in-chief of the paper. He has acted as managing editor and arts and culture editor in the past. Jimenez has had articles and photographs published in the Sacramento News and Review as well as the American River Review.
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Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar 102
RETAbet Bilbao Basket 86
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Lacey, Broekhoff keep Loko undefeated
In a rematch of the 2012-13 EuroCup final, Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar remained undefeated in Group C by downing RETAbet Bilbao Basket 102-86 at Basket-Hall on Wednesday. Lokomotiv improved to 4-0, while RETAbet dropped to 1-3. Trevor Lacey led the winners with 20 points and 7 assists. Ryan Broekhoff added 16 points, Joe Ragland and Brian Qvale each had 12 and Frank Elegar posted 10 points and 9 rebounds for Lokomotiv. Jonathan Tabu led RETAbet with 24 points, Alex Mumbru added 17 and Dejan Todorovic had 11 for the guests. Lokomotiv shook off a slow start, as Mardy Collins and Broekhoff led the hosts to a 26-24 lead after 10 minutes. Elegar took over early in the second quarter and an unstoppable Qvale pushed the hosts to a 55-40 halftime advantage. Lokomotiv boosted its margin to 60-40 right after the break and kept a safe lead until the final buzzer.
A three-point play by Pere Tomas and a baseline jumper by Todorovic helped RETAbet take an early 2-7 lead. Collins and Broekhoff combined for 9 points in a 13-2 run that gave Lokomotiv a 15-9 edge. Mickell Gladness and Shane Hammink stepped up for RETAbet and an outstanding Tabu kept the visitors within 20-19. Lacey and Broekhoff each struck from downtown, but a wild up-and-under layup by Mumbru brought RETAbet as close as 26-24 after 10 minutes. Broekhoff kept pacing Lokomotiv early in the second quarter. Ragland joined the three-point shootout and a couple of dunks by Elegar made it a double-digit game, 36-26. Mumbru followed a close basket with a triple and Ricardo Fischer buried one from beyond the arc, but Lokomotiv found a new go-to guy in Qvale, who had 9 points late in the first half. A buzzer-beating close basket by Lacey fixed the halftime score at 55-40.
Three-pointers by Broekhoff and Pavel Antipov made it a 20-point game, 63-43, right after the break. Axel Hervelle and Tabu tried to change things for RETAbet, but the visitors only managed to exchange baskets until back-to-back triples by Mumbru gave his team hope at 75-60. Free throws by Mumbru got RETAbet within 80-66 after 30 minutes. Consecutive three-pointers by Dmitriy Khvostov sealed the outcome, 88-68, with less than seven minutes left.
Referees: SHEMMESH, SEFFI; TRAWICKI, TOMASZ; BAUMANIS, INGUS
Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar 26 29 25 22
RETAbet Bilbao Basket 24 16 26 20
Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar 26 55 80 102
1 COLLINS, MARDY 8:31 8 2/3 4/6 1 1 2 5 3 5
2 ANTIPOV, PAVEL 27:49 8 1/2 2/7 4 4 4 3 1 2 4
3 RAGLAND, JOE 24:59 12 3/6 2/6 4 2 1 1 7
4 BABURIN, EVGENY 0:32 1 -1
7 LACEY, TREVOR 27:15 20 4/7 1/2 9/10 1 2 3 7 3 3 6 31
10 IVLEV, VLADIMIR 12:58 5 2/2 1/1 1 1 2 3 2 2 4
12 ILNITSKIY, STANISLAV 7:02 1 0/1 1/2 1 2 2
13 KHVOSTOV, DMITRY 19:07 8 2/3 2/2 1 3 3 8
15 ELEGAR, FRANK 19:27 10 3/4 4/5 2 7 9 2 1 1 2 4 21
22 KULAGIN, DMITRY 8:03 2 0/2 2/2 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 -1
41 QVALE, BRIAN 16:03 12 5/7 2/2 2 2 1 1 1 4 5 12
45 BROEKHOFF, RYAN 28:14 16 1/1 4/7 2/2 1 5 6 1 3 2 19
Team 2 4 6 1 5
Totals 200:00 102 21/34 11/26 27/32 12 23 35 20 4 12 3 2 32 29 114
Head coach: OBRADOVIC, SASA
RETAbet Bilbao Basket
5 FISCHER, RICARDO 16:36 9 2/3 1/3 2/2 1 1 2 3 1 2 1 3 2 8
9 TABU, JONATHAN 23:52 24 2/4 4/5 8/8 2 2 1 3 4 23
10 MENDIA, BORJA 3:54 0/1 1 1 1 1
11 HAMMINK, SHANE 22:29 3 0/1 0/2 3/4 1 1 2 1 2 2
12 REDIVO, LUCIO 18:01 4 0/1 0/4 4/4 1 1 1 2 3 2
15 MUMBRU, ALEX 19:30 17 2/4 3/6 4/4 3 3 5 2 1 1 1 2 3 22
17 HERVELLE, AXEL 17:05 2 1/1 0/3 3 3 1 1 1 1
18 KEMPTON, TIM 12:35 4 1/1 2/2 1 1 1 4 4 6
19 TOMAS, PERE 14:00 3 1/2 0/2 1/1 1 1 3 1 3 2 4
20 TODOROVIC, DEJAN 24:59 11 3/6 0/3 5/6 1 1 1 1 1 6 10
22 VUCETIC, VASILIJE 16:54 4 0/1 4/4 3 2 5 3 5 4 4
32 GLADNESS, MICKELL 10:05 5 2/3 1/1 2 2 4 2 1 3 1 5
Totals 200:00 86 14/27 8/29 34/36 11 17 28 13 6 10 2 3 29 32 89
Head coach: DURAN, CARLES
OBRADOVIC, SASA
"Good win. And I think it was a good win for fans because we played total offensive basketball today. I would say in defense some parts were not good enough. But offensively we played with a lot of confidence, with a good rhythm all game long. So it's good to watch this kind of a game. It was good for the team that we could involve everybody in the game – some more, some less, but everybody gave a contribution. "
DURAN, CARLES
"First of all, congratulations to Lokomotiv. They played a good game. They started too strong in defense. We had the same level in the first and the second quarter. They had a big advantage that was difficult to recover. Now we need to improve and to win the next game that is important for us at home."
LACEY, TREVOR
"Anybody in this team can be the top scorer. Today I was aggressive. Coach really stressed this. We tried to make them draw fouls, to get to the free throw line. That was something I tried to do. I also gave my teammates the ball, started the attack, used every opportunity you have. That's what I did today."
MUMBRU, ALEX
Pavel Antipov - Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar celebrates (photo Lokomotiv)
Brian Qvale - Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar (photo Lokomotiv)
Dmitry Khvostov - Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar (photo Lokomotiv)
Frank Elegar - Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar (photo Lokomotiv)
Dmitry Kulagin - Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar (photo Lokomotiv)
Trevor Lacey - Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar (photo Lokomotiv)
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Our community's interest in being able to survive off-grid provides for somewhat of an overlap with the "survivalist" community – which will soon be holding a MAJOR event.
The "Prepper World Summit" will be taking place from January 16th to 20th. That's right, it's a 5 DAY EVENT.
The training will involve military survival training, medical survival training, homestead security, wilderness survival training and tactics, land navigation, urban survival training, food and water storage training, training specifically dedicated to those living off-grid, and much, MUCH more.
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Welcome to Lakeland Community College's department of business management. The Northeastern Ohio area has a continuing demand for trained supervisors, middle managers, administrative assistants, and entrepreneurs, who understand how to plan, organize, direct, communicate, and control business operations. Lakeland prepares students for careers in business by developing skills demanded by employers including: oral and written communication skills, effective problem solving and decision-making skills, the ability to accomplish goals in a team environment, and leadership skills.
Lakeland's Business Management department offers five areas of degree concentrations that prepare students for rewarding and exciting careers in large or small organizations.
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The Registrars department at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has a long history of excellent customer service and your views are important to help us further improve the service that we provide.
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We would therefore be extremely grateful if you were able to take a minute to complete our short survey. All responses are anonymous and will be used solely for the purpose of improving our customer service.
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Virginia's first JW Marriott hotel coming to Reston
$250M luxury hotel to be part of Reston Station
Published February 11, 2021 by Sydney Lake
Rendering of JW Marriott hotel courtesy Comstock
Virginia's first JW Marriott hotel is coming to Reston, Comstock Holdings Cos. Inc. said Thursday in an announcement about the forthcoming $250 million luxury hotel.
CRS Hotel LC, one of Comstock's managed companies, has entered a franchise agreement with Marriott International for the project, which will be part of Reston Station, a 60-acre mixed-use development between Dulles Toll Road and Wiehle Reston-East Metro Station.
The 26-story hotel will include 250 guest rooms and 90 residences and include 15,000 square feet of meeting space, two restaurants and other amenities.
JW Marriott was established in 1984 as Marriott International's luxury brand, with more than 100 JW Marriott hotels in 36 countries.
"We are thrilled Comstock Cos. has chosen to bring the JW Marriott brand to Reston, in the heart of the Dulles Technology Corridor," Noah Silverman, chief development officer, North America full-service hotels at Marriott International, said in a statement. "This project will serve as a signature component of the exciting Reston Row development, offering both guests and owners a welcoming luxury experience."
The Reston Row District at Reston Station will include the hotel, mixed-use buildings, two office towers, a 350-unit apartment building and more than 65,000 square feet of retail space. The initial work on the Reston Row development will be a 2,500-space underground parking garage.
The JW Marriott, to be located at the intersection of Reston Station Boulevard and Wiehle Avenue, is expected to open in 2024 and will be managed by Crescent Hotels & Resorts Management Co.
Comstock Holding Cos. Inc. has developed more than 5 million square feet of mixed-use and transit development in Reston.
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Q: T-SQL: calculate number of occurrences across columns and rows I have a table like this:
nr1 nr2 nr3 nr4 nr5 nr6 nr7 nr8 nr9 nr10
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1   4   5   6   8   9   10  17  18  19
3   4   5   7   10  11  14  15  17  18
1   3   5   9   10  12  13  15  16  18
2   3   4   7   8   11  15  16  17  19
5   6   8   9   10  11  13  14  16  19
2   4   8   10  11  12  13  14  19  20
2   5   7   8   10  14  15  16  18  19
1   5   7   8   9   12  13  14  15  18
1   2   3   4   7   10  11  12  14  17
1   3   5   6   7   10  13  14  17  20

I would like to achieve the following:

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*Put all those numbers in a #TEMP table containing just one column

*Count the number of occurrences of all numbers

The second I believe I can achieve easily once 1 have all numbers in just one column. But I'm stuck on first item. How to put all those values just in 1 column.
I tried UNPIVOTing but it doesn't work because I do something wrong.
SELECT nr1, nr2, nr3, nr4, nr5, nr6, nr7, nr8, nr9, nr10
FROM table t
UNPIVOT
(
Number for nrs in ( nr1, nr2, nr3, nr4, nr5, nr6, nr7, nr8, nr9, nr10)
) AS u

A: You don't need a temp table for this. You can just use cross apply and values():
select x.nr, count(*) cnt
from mytable t
cross apply (values (nr1), (nr2), (nr3), ..., (nr10)) x(nr)
group by x.nr

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Dubai, UAE: Majid Al Futtaim group, the leading shopping mall, retail and leisure pioneer across the Middle East and North Africa, has selected the next recipient of its 'High Potential Leaders' scholarship program. In line with the group's vision of creating great moments for everyone, every day, the initiative aims to nurture business leaders by funding an Executive MBA (EMBA) program at the prestigious London Business School – this year's recipient is Omar Al Banna, Sales and Marketing Director at Majid Al Futtaim's Leisure & Entertainment division, who began his journey in January.
The High Potential Leaders scholarship program was launched by Majid Al Futtaim Ventures in 2013 in partnership with London Business School with the objective to promote leadership and business acumen amongst its most 'high calibre' employees. The candidate selection process is a rigorous one, and those eligible to apply need to progress through several stages including interviews, a presentation to Majid Al Futtaim Ventures senior management and a final review by the Group CEO, Ahmed Galal Ismail. Following this, with Majid Al Futtaim Ventures' endorsement, the final candidate starts the formal application and essay submission process for the 20-month EMBA program at London Business School.


The eight universities in the University of Louisiana System have developed plans to meet the combined $66.6 million in budget reductions planned for Fiscal Year 2009-10. These are in addition to the $19.6 million mid-year cuts, bringing UL System total budget reductions to $86.2 million.
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Of all the pizzas made in North Beach, perhaps none are made as fondly (or with as much flair) as those of pizza maestro Tony Gemignani, owner of Tony's Pizza Napoletana and recent top dog of the World Pizza Championships in Italy.
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Music Saturday is Record Store Day: Limited-Edition Releases, Rare In-Stores
Posted By Ian S. Port on Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:55 AM
Record Store Day, that annual record-buying rite of spring that will rock independent music sellers across the world, hits again this Saturday, April 17. The event is a two-fold celebration: it's a chance for bands to put out small-run, limited-addition releases that get music fans salivating (official list here) and an occasion for shops to book in-store performances and signings that draw audiences.
Whether you show up to buy, watch, or have body parts signed by your favorite artists, Record Store Day is an opportunity to show brick 'n' mortar retailers that you want them to stick around.
Below is a brief roundup of RSD goings-on. If you know of events that aren't mentioned, please let everyone know in the comments section.
Force of Habit records, the punk-focused shop in the Mission, will be celebrating with a flood of rare vinyl from owner Dave Devereaux's collection, including "early unreleased Morrissey, super rare Joy Division, and all the impossible-to-find Operation Ivy." There will also be sales on "some super cool stuff," which, knowing Devereaux's buying habits, could mean top-shelf turntables or even original-issue Simpson's action figures.
The mother ship of music-buying, Amoeba Music, will fete Record Store Day with a celebration befitting its massive size. Festivities kick off with a pre-party at the Uptown in Oakland this Wednesday night -- featuring DJ sets by employees of Amoeba, 1-2-3-4-Go! Records, Mod Lang, and Dave's Record Shop. On Saturday, Amoeba in SF will have Charlotte Gainsbourg in store at noon for a signing of her new album, IRM, and her limited edition Record Store Day 7-inch. She'll be followed by Jonsi of Sigur Ros at 2:30 p.m. Over in Berkeley, the original Amoeba has Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs booked for a DJ set at 2 p.m. Customers at both stores will also enjoy lots of special RSD treatment (gift bags, hourly gift certificate giveaways, and "surprises.")
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Don Turner, presenter at NPE 2009 of a seminar by the same title, has a conversation with Ranger Kidwell-Ross, editor of WorldSweeper.com, about how to keep marketing cost-effective in today's downturn economy.
You won't want to miss all the terrific marketing ideas these two -- both of whom have been pavement industry marketing coaches and consultants for over two decades -- come up with as inexpensive ways to keep your company competitive in your market area.
Discussion focuses on how contractors should be tailoring their marketing efforts in 2009, when money is tight and competition is cutthroat. Use the audio link shown below and be ready to take notes!
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Ralph Gibson, Chair of NYFA's Department of Contemporary Photography, Opens Major Exhibition in Paris
Renowned American Photographer Andres Serrano and Ralph Gibson, Paris 2016
Recently, the renowned photographer, and NYFA's Chair of the Department of Contemporary Photography, Ralph Gibson, opened a major photography exhibition at the prominent Galerie Thierry Bigaignon in Paris.
The famous American photographer exhibited a new series of large-format color photographs entitled Vertical Horizon. Gibson, best known for his black & white monochrome images of the human form, has also often explored architectural elements in his works. The works in this exhibition evolved from the time that Gibson began doing color digital photography some years back.
As the gallerist Thierry Bigaignon states, "Ralph Gibson's images highlight the idea of boundaries and opposition. They're visual oxymorons, so we decided to title the exhibition Vertical Horizon, which perfectly encapsulates these concepts."
Ralph Gibson and Larry Clark, filmmaker and photographer, at the opening of L' Histoire de France at the Hotel Scribe, Paris. Nov -4, 2016
Gill Mora, one of the world's most important art critics and historian of American photography, recently commented on Gibson's new photography series, "Ralph Gibson is without doubt the most European of American photographers, and knows our culture perfectly. His mastery of composition, halfway between graphic artwork and abstraction, has never precluded the sensuality that is the particular trademark of his photographs. It is time to rediscover Ralph Gibson."
At 77, Ralph Gibson is as active as ever — both in his studio and at the New York Film Academy. In addition to lecturing to NYFA students, Gibson also takes on a mentoring role to students as part of a unique mentorship program that NYFA established for long-term photography students.
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NYFA Rewards Paris Hero Lassana Bathily
Lassana Bathily
A hero is often born in moments of selflessness and quick-thinking in situations that require immediate action. Earlier this year in Paris, Malian-born Lassana Bathily was simply working at a stockroom in a kosher grocery store—a typical day for the young man—when two gunman burst into the store and opened fire, killing four people. Without regard for his own life, Mr. Bathily swiftly hid fifteen customers in the basement of the market, eventually sneaking them out through a back exit to freedom. Mr. Bathily's heroic act saved those fifteen lives from inevitable doom. It's likely that without his help, there would have been a massacre at the kosher market.
What we didn't know was how Mr. Bathily was temporarily arrested by police immediately after freeing the fifteen hostages. Due to the confusion and chaos around the market, the Paris police had to be very cautious. Fortunately, after surveying the situation, Mr. Bathily was released after an hour and a half, having realized he was not a criminal but rather a hero.
After reading the story of this courageous young man, New York Film Academy's founder Jerry Sherlock made a personal commitment to locate Mr. Bathily and provide him with a generous donation as well as offer him a scholarship to NYFA's Paris Workshops.
Lassana Bathily with NYFA VP of Strategic Initiatives, Jim Miller
Earlier this month, we had the privilege of meeting Mr. Bathily at NYFA's Battery Park campus. Mr. Bathily humbly spoke of his heroic actions on that tragic day in Paris, as well as his hopes for the future. Having received many accolades and generous donations, Mr. Bathily hopes to use his newfound "fame" to better his small hometown in Mali. While the overall attacks in Paris were devastating, it's touching to know there can be some positives to come out this tragedy.
We wish Mr. Bathily the best of luck with his future, and hope to someday see him at our location in Paris.
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Hidden Film Festivals
The summer seems to be the time of year that film festivals are in full swing around the world. This goes for the ambitious Hidden Film Festivals as well. This unique series of festivals is commonly referred to in the plural sense due to the intense travel schedule it adheres to in the heart of summer.
The festival is coming off of a sold-out debut year in 2013, which included 4 countries, 2 continents, and hundreds of attendees over the course of only 4 weeks in the month of July. The cities of Dublin, London, Paris, and Toronto had the pleasure of hosting the event who differentiates itself to many other festivals by announcing the film line-up..well..never. The platform not only keeps the audience in the dark about the films that they are about to watch, but creates an environment that showcases their thoughts on each film.
Going into its second year, the call for submissions has already started. Submissions can fall into any of these expansive film categories:
Unproduced Screenplays
They are looking for never before screened gems that can create buzz in an environment that does not invite industry press. The philosophy at the HFF is to encourage attendees to write, tweet, blog, and post online about the films that have yet to be seen by press, thus stripping them of their eligibility to premiere at the more exclusive events.
Many festivals are quickly realizing the power of social media to not only help promote their own festival, but the talent that are on display. The HFF takes this notion a bit further with instilling platforms that maximize exposure by putting the audience on the digital stage. Flipping the spotlight creates a healthy launching pad for these amateur filmmakers. If you are planning on being in one of these cultural hubs next summer, we recommend seeking out the Hidden Film Festival and finding an undiscovered gem.
October 23, 2013 • Film Festivals • Views: 3959
Roger Del Pozo Teaches Masterclass in Paris
Masterclass – The art of casting – Roger Del Pozo by 3IS
New York Film Academy Director of Acting Admissions, Roger Del Pozo teaches a Masterclass at 3IS Institut International Image & Son in Paris, France.
If you're interested in taking courses in Paris, France, visit HERE or email paris@nyfa.edu.
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Saros or Creoles in Nigeria during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century were freed slaves who migrated to Nigeria in the beginning of the 1830s. They were known locally as saros (elided form of Sierra Leone, from the Yoruba sàró) or Amaros: migrants from Brazil and Cuba. Saros and Amaros also settled in other West African countries such as the Gold Coast (Ghana). They were mostly freed and repatriated slaves from various West African and Latin American countries such as Sierra Leone, Brazil and Cuba. Liberated "returnee" Africans from Brazil were more commonly known as "Agudas", from the word àgùdà in the Yoruba language. Most of the Latin American returnees or Amaros started migrating to Africa after slavery was abolished on the continent while others from West Africa, or the Saros were recaptured and freed slaves already resident in Sierra Leone. Many of the returnees chose to return to Nigeria for cultural, missionary and economic reasons. Many (if not the greater majority) of them were originally descended from the Yoruba of western and central Nigeria. Other Nigerian groups forming part of the Sierra Leonean Krio population included Efik, Igbos, Hausa and Nupe.
The returnees mostly resided in the Lagos Colony, with substantial populations in Abeokuta and Ibadan. Some also settled in Calabar, Port Harcourt and other cities in the Niger Delta. Though, many were originally dedicated Anglophiles in Nigeria, they later adopted an indigenous and patriotic attitude on Nigerian affairs due to a rise in discrimination in the 1880s, and were later known as cultural nationalists.
An 1835 illustration of liberated slaves arriving in Sierra Leone.
While living in Sierra Leone, many Creole residents became exposed to the Christian faith as a result of the work of British missionaries who established some Churches, a few grammar schools and a pioneer Educational institution, the Fourah Bay College. Relatively, the residents of Sierra Leone soon gained a fast start in Western education and were soon well trained and experienced in medicine, law, and the civil service. Many of them graduated from grammar schools and became administrative workers for the British imperial interest in the country. By the middle of the nineteenth century some of the African literati in Sierra Leone began to migrate to Nigeria, especially the colony of Lagos for economic reasons and some were administrative personnel who were reassigned to Lagos. An expedition of the river Niger by Ajayi Crowther furthered the evangelical interest of many Sierra Leoneans on Nigeria, many of whom had grown to be accessories of the missionaries and their effort.
Lagos was a strategic and important fishing location for the original founders, the Aworis. It was established as a fishing community by Awori immigrants in the sixteenth century. The town later emerged as major economic base nurtured by immigration from nearby ethnic groups led by the Ijebus, then the Ijaws, the Binis, and the Egbas. Trade with Europeans also fueled the commercial rise of the city. By 1880, Lagos had already become a cosmopolitan city. Sierra Leonean immigrants started moving to Lagos in the 1840s. Many of the immigrants were of Egba and Oyo heritage and some were familiar with Yoruba traditions and culture. They assimilated fairly well with the Yorubas, and coupled with an earlier training and interaction with the British in Sierra Leone, they were able to become part of the colonial society. The returnees were generally focused on trade and rose to become commercial middlemen between residents of Lagos, Abeokuta and the British colony in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
In Lagos, the Saros chose Ebute Metta, Olowogbowo, and Yaba as primary settlements. The Saros mostly of Egba heritage established a few of the oldest churches in Lagos and also expanded the missionary work of the British in Nigeria. The Saros also emerged as a dominant commercial group in Lagos. Having developed a migratory forte, they had an edge as travelers who were able to go into the interiors to meet directly with various commodity producers and traders. They were the pioneer Southern Nigerian traders in Kola, a cash crop that later emerged as a viable and important export commodity for the Western region in the early twentieth century. The Saros introduced the crop which was bought from Hausa traders across the River Niger into Southern Nigeria agriculture. The first Kola farm and the dominant trader in Kola, Mohammed Shitta Bey, were orchestrated by Saros. They also did not drop their yearning for western education as they dominated the ranks of professions open to Africans. They were lawyers, doctors, and civil servants.
Early on, the Saros who had acquired Western education and European cultural mores during their time in Sierra Leone, began to show paternal characteristics in their relationship with native residents of Lagos. The perceived disrespect extended to some Lagos citizens led to the Saros being expelled from Lagos in the 1850s, although they soon returned. In 1867, another conflict emerged, this time it was in Abeokuta. The conflict was between the Egbas and the Europeans. The Egbas were protesting the increasing influence of western culture and a land encroachment led by the Lagos governor, Glover. Egbas decided to go on rampage and damaged European symbols such as churches and missions, a few Saros were also expelled from Egbaland, but like the case of Lagos, calm was quickly restored. Prior to the conflict, a few notable Saros, such as Henry Townsend played prominent roles as advisers to the council of chiefs in Abeokuta.
The Niger delta was a little bit dissimilar to Lagos and western Nigeria where the Yorubas were dominant. Lagos was much more cosmopolitan while the delta was composed of different and varied ethnic groups of equal political footing. There were also few historical attributes that would foster cultural assimilation. However, the immigrants soon found a home in a few cities especially in the new city of Port Harcourt. Port Harcourt was founded by British authorities in 1913 as a coastal center for the export of Palm oil and coal. A number of immigrants from Yorubaland, the Hausa states, Gambia and Sierra Leone soon came to the city to work. Some of the Saros were clergymen and others were transferred for administrative duty. The Saros emerged in the city as pioneers of African commerce as they became suppliers to the residents of the new city. However, life in Port Harcourt was rough for many Saros. Some came to the city as workers for British merchant houses and the colonial government. However, there was no job security afforded the immigrants in the new city. Some Saro workers were retired without pension and suffered much financial deprivation. The retired Saros asked to return home, and some were transported back with the help of colonial funds. The lack of promotion and retirement faced by immigrant Africans was partly as a result of a systemic wall against promotion of Saros and Africans by the British. The Saros in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abeokuta had earned the irritation of Europeans because of the achievement of a few immigrants in the clergy and business world. This policy led to a gradual change among Saros especially those in the West. The idealistic revolt against the British was led in the missionary by James Johnson who decried excessive British interference in the affairs of the missionary society and who wanted more African involvement in promoting Christianity.
Unlike the Saros who were principally from Sierra Leone, the Amaros, who were sometimes called Nago in Brazil (Nago indicates Yoruba ethnicity) were liberated slaves from Brazil and Cuba. Returnees from Brazil and Cuba and their current-day descendants were and are more commonly called "Agudas". They went to the New World as slaves from different sub-ethnic and ethnic backgrounds but approached relationships among themselves as equals. They came back to Nigeria, principally, to re-connect with their fatherland. In Lagos, their neighborhood became known as Popo Aguda, Brazilian quarter. They were not brought up in the Anglican faith like the Sierra Leoneans, but Catholicism, the dominant religion in Brazil and Cuba. By the 1880s, the Agudas comprised about 9% of the population of Lagos. Some of the Agudas were Muslims. Some of the Catholic Brazilians and Cubans also worshipped the African Orishas they had also worshipped in Brazil and Cuba. These Amaros gave Portuguese and Spanish names in Nigeria.
The Brazilian returnees were notably technically skilled artisans and were known for the distinctive Brazilian architecture built in their settlements and later in the Lagos environs. During this time, modern European architecture was not only meant to be a nice abode but also a dominating advertisement to show Africans of a different style and culture. However, in due time, the Brazilian style emerged as a viable alternative and modern style used by African contractors working on public and large private jobs such as the Holy Cross Cathedral in Lagos and the Mohammed Shitta Bey Mosque. The Brazilians introduced to Nigeria elaborate architectural designs, two-story buildings and bungalows with stucco facades. The Brazilian returnees also popularized the use of Cassava as a food crop. They had pioneered trade with Brazil in the mid nineteenth century. But by the 1880s, ruinous competitors and an economic downturn had forced many to abandon the export trade. Agriculture soon became an avenue to supplement shortfalls in economic activity. They also introduced cocoa plantations together with the Saro, J.P.L. Davies.
1 2 Falola, Toyin (2016). Encyclopedia of the Yoruba. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 4. ISBN 9780253021441.
↑ Lorand Matory. The English Professors of Brazil: On the Diasporic Roots of the Yoruba Nation, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 41, No. 1, Jan., 1999. p 89.
↑ Babatunde Agiri. The Introduction of Nitida Kola into Nigerian Agriculture, 1880-1920, African Economic History, No. 3, Spring, 1977. p 1.
↑ Mac Dixon-Fyle. The Saro in the Political Life of Early Port Harcourt, 1913-49, The Journal of African History, Vol. 30, No. 1. p 126.
↑ Jonathan Derrick. The 'Native Clerk' in Colonial West Africa, African Affairs, Vol. 82, No. 326. p 65.


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It's Time to Eradicate Christianity: I mean, look what happened at Charlie Hebdo!
We must finally shut up Christians once and for all! It's the only reasonable course of action, no? The attackers who killed twelve people in downtown Paris last week did so in the name of their prophet Muhammad, who was the founder of Islam, which is a religion, as everyone knows. Well, think about it, Christianity is also a religion, as are Judaism, Buddhism, Sikhism--so it only follows that it's time to eradicate these "outmoded" belief systems. We must eradicate them now! They have no place in our modern secular world.
Yes, my title is intentionally extreme. It's a caricature of what I see coming regularly from the pens of atheists and their followers. To tell the truth, in recent years a month doesn't go by without me reading one or another article that begins bewailing some recent atrocity committed by extremist Muslims, only to morph quickly into an argument against religion in general, then more specifically into an argument against Christians and Christianity. Jeffrey Tayler's January 9th piece in Salon, with its transparent title "We must stop deferring to religion; Laughable absurdities must be laughed at", performs this same old dishonest shuffle using the Charlie-Hebdo attack as fodder.
Tayler lists a series of recent terrorist atrocities and points the finger directly at Islam: "There are many other well-known examples [of such attacks]. The point is, Islam is implicated in all." But then, oddly, in the next paragraph, he proceeds to shift the whole weight of his argument:
Faced with this uncomfortable but persistently deadly reality, what should we and our politicians (and pundits) do? For starters, we need to cease granting religion--and not just Islam--an exemption from criticism. If we do not believe the fables foisted on us (without evidence) by the faithful, we need to say so, day in and day out, in mixed company, and especially in front of children (to thwart their later indoctrination). We must stop according religion unconditional respect, stop deferring to men (and mostly they are men) who happen to preface their names with the titles of reverend or rabbi or imam, and de-sanctify the sacred, in word and deed.
Laughable absurdities--be they virgin births, parting seas, spontaneously burning bushes--deserve not oblique pardons ("We don't have to take everything in the Bible literally"), but outspoken ridicule; courses in "religious studies" in campuses across the country might better be referred to as "lessons in harmful superstition, dangerous delusion, and volitional insanity."
Uh-huh. How did the argument shift suddenly from the serious problem of radical jihadism to the whole of humanity's religious culture? The answer is clear: it shifted on the dime of Tayler's personal hatred of religious people. (Never mind the lame misunderstanding of academic religious studies he reveals in his last line. Such lapses are typical of him, and characteristic of the New Atheism generally: they know virtually nothing about the subjects they harangue us on.)
This bait-and-switch has become something of a rhetorical cliche on the part of Britain's and America's fanatical secularists. They use radical Islam as a stalking horse to go after their real target: the tens of millions of Catholics and Protestants who make up majorities in their own countries. And in the net they cast they manage to catch all the world's other religious people as well. It is both intellectually dishonest and, as David Robertson points out, cowardly. (NB: Though I agree with Robertson's general argument, there are elements in the piece I don't agree with.)
And so it is again. I already see them quickly co-opting the tragedy in Paris to argue that religious faith is "irrational" and "dangerous" in essence, and that prominent voices from faith communities must be aggressively pushed from the public sphere, must be ridiculed to the margins of society where they can finally be shut up.
Never mind that Christians have not been guilty of one suicide bombing or attack, or that Christians (Iraqi and Syrian Christians especially) along with moderate Muslims and Yezidis, have made up the great majority of ISIS' and al Qaeda's victims during these recent bloody years of conflict. No, the logic seems to be something like: The killers in Paris believed in God. Followers of other religions also believe in God. You do the math.
The absurdity of this kind of reductionism is no less annoying for being spread out over the several paragraphs of an article, as one typically sees in Slate, Salon and like publications. (The liberal press still features occasional dissenting pieces, it's true, but the general trend is toward ever more bashing of religious people. Even Salman Rushdie allowed the Charlie Hebdo attack to lead him toward ill-considered words on the place of religion in culture.)
That modern Islam has a serious problem does not mean that religion itself is the problem. For one thing, religion is a universal human phenomenon; for another, our modern Western notions of individual liberty and human rights could never have been formulated without the Judeo-Christian base they arose upon.
Yes, that's right. Balking about it or twisting up your face in a scowl won't change history.
Do you want to see the first time in history that something like a concept of universal human rights was put into words? In fact it is in the Bible, in the New Testament, where the Apostle Paul writes:
In Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. . . . There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Jesus Christ. (Galatians 3:26;28)
This text was written around 55 CE. It is an ancient text, but it offers us an uncannily contemporary-sounding vision of human dignity and equality. And that is no mere coincidence: in fact the New Testament is behind much that is greatest in our Western heritage. Here Paul's recognition that God became unified with humanity in Jesus Christ leads him to a further recognition of the dignity of human being as such. So that every individual person, regardless of gender, race or social standing, is due a kind of absolute dignity. This biblical teaching is the root of what grew into our modern notions of inalienable rights, freedom of expression, a non-negotiable individual dignity. There's a reason these concepts first developed in Western Europe. At the time of the Enlightenment and before, European civilization was Christian.
The men who gunned down twelve people last week in Paris did not recognize these rights. But that is no stain on the record of religion itself. It is rather the result of a twisted and radicalized movement that has arisen within the religion founded by Muhammad.
Many supporters of the New Atheism like to argue that "more people have been killed in the name of religion" than for any other cause. This claim is itself a cliche, and it is in fact untrue. That the claim has been repeatedly debunked by historians doesn't seem to matter to the New Atheists however. They will make hay from whatever they can, and cliches have proven to be one of their most fertile fields. (To see some of the reasons the claim is untrue, one may consult, for instance, Karen Armstrong's comments on her recent book Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence. I'm not going to repeat the various arguments here; in any case Armstrong is certainly not the only scholar to address the silliness of the old claim.)
But also: Even if the claim about religion and wars were true, it wouldn't settle the issue. Because if we are to judge and condemn world religions by tallying up the numbers of people who have died at the hands of religious fanatics, then we must apply the same method to judging dogmatic secularists--aka today's prominent atheists. What happens when committed secularists, people like Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins, take the reins of a culture?
To get an idea we may study what happens in societies that outlaw belief in God, that treat religious faith as a social aberration or failure of scientific reason. In fact we have several such societies that did precisely this, and their record is horrendous. Whether we look at the Soviet Union, communist China, or any of the other radically secular projects, we find literally millions of victims. In these societies religion is treated as a kind of mental illness or inveterate stupidity (the way Harris and Dawkins view it), and its adherents are brutalized en mass. Overly confident in its own "scientific" ideology of human "progress", the cultural elite quickly becomes overseer of a vast gulag.
The answer to violence committed by religious fanatics is certainly not the imposition of a fanatical secularism. The problem with Dawkins, Harris and glib cheerleaders like Bill Maher, is that they are historically shallow. When they talk about history or society, they literally don't know what they're talking about. I refer to people like Harris and Maher as "liberal fundamentalists"--which is of course a contradiction in terms, a contradiction they should be ashamed of. Because our liberal Western societies are only liberal to the extent that they are pluralist; our liberal political orders recognize and regularly deal with deep incompatibilities of belief among citizens, which is what makes them valid as liberal communities to begin with. Religious beliefs are not merely among these variously held beliefs--no, in the case of Christianity they ethically underpin the whole project.
Against Harris, Dawkins, Maher and all their followers who would use the tragedy at Charlie Hebdo to attack religion in general, I would say: There is no feasible way to impose an ethical, one-size-fits-all atheist system on humanity and expect anything but dismal results. At the end of the day, lib-fundies (liberal fundamentalists) pose as great a danger to our Western societies as religious fanatics do--if not even more of a danger, since they naively claim to be fighting for the human rights enshrined in our constitutions. In fact they hardly understand the deep history of these rights.
Those who do not recognize, to begin with, what a fundamental and sacred mystery human being really is, are not qualified to be the central defenders of human rights.
And neither is the neo-liberal elite, whose speedy co-opting of the massacre in Paris is regrettable. To see the leaders of European capitalism holding up JE SUIS CHARLIE placards, as I likely will at today's Paris rally, leaves a bad taste in the mouth, if only because the neo-liberal religion, namely the Free Market (blessed be Its name) bears much of the responsibility for the desperation that has led so many young people toward extremism. Among world leaders the only one I see who's directly addressing the serious problems is Pope Francis.
In conclusion I would like to say one final word about Islam. Above I write that contemporary Islam "has a problem". I think this is obviously true. But I do not want to be misunderstood. To say that Islam has a problem is not at all to say that Islam is itself a problem or that Muslims as such are a problem. No. I'm hopeful that over time, and with sufficient effort, the majority of Muslims will find the wisdom to counterbalance this fanatical movement that is now harming them even more than it is harming the rest of us. I've had Muslim friends, I've read Muslim books, and know that the Muslim tradition, going back to Muhammad's time, is rich enough to find both good and bad in it. Just as, of course, my own Christian tradition has at times been mined in order to bring about great good--in order to show the Spirit at work in humanity--but at other times been misinterpreted in order to commit terrible acts.
The tragedy in Paris must not be co-opted to bash Europe's Muslims or any other religious group. It should force us rather to look at the real causes of the despair now wracking so many young people, pushing them to leave behind what is good in their traditions and to take up instead the nihilistic banner of hatred and revenge.
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2 Kings 1 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)
Ahaziah's Messengers Meet Elijah ©
2Ki 1:1
2Ki 1:1 - Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
2Ki 1:2 - And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this disease.
2Ki 1:3 - But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?
2Ki 1:4 - Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.
2Ki 1:5 - And when the messengers turned back to him, he said to them, Why have ye now returned?
2Ki 1:6 - And they said to him, There came up a man to meet us, and said to us, Go, turn again to the king that sent you, and say to him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
2Ki 1:7 - And he said to them, What manner of man was he who came up to meet you, and told you these words?
2Ki 1:8 - And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
2Ki 1:9 - Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and behold, he sat on the top of a hill. And he spoke to him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
2Ki 1:10
2Ki 1:10 - And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
2Ki 1:11 - Again also he sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.
2Ki 1:12 - And Elijah answered and said to them, If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
2Ki 1:13 - And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said to him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.
2Ki 1:14 - Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
2Ki 1:15 - And the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him to the king.
2Ki 1:16 - And he said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
Jehoram Reigns over Israel ©
2Ki 1:17 - So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
2Ki 1:18 - Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
The Webster Bible was translated by Noah Webster in 1833 in order to bring the language of the bible up to date. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.


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Арчис () е измислена музикална група, съставена от герои на американския анимационен сериал "Шоуто на Арчи". През 1969-1971 година от името на групата са издадени четири албума, изпълнени от различни студийни музиканти. Техен продуцент е Дон Киршнер, а водещият вокалист е Рон Данти. Изпълненията на групата са в модерния по това време стил бъбългъм поп. Най-големият ѝ успех е сингълът "Sugar, Sugar", който става най-популярна песен на 1969 година в класацията на списание Билборд, единствен подобен успех на измислена група.

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 Everything's Archie (1969)
 Jingle Jangle (1969)
 Sunshine (1970)
 This Is Love (1971)


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This thus influences a man to feel lethargic henceforth they wind up plainly inert throughout the day, consequently eating nourishments and snacks that are without gluten advances an expansion in the levels of vitality of a man. Foods that are gluten free are known to be healthier, and they also promote a healthier life, this is because gluten free foods improve the immune system and this makes an individual free from diseases such as colds. This, in turn, makes a person to live a better and healthy life as they observe the types of foods they consume.