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Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος (Doménikos Theotokópoulos)
Portrait of An Old Man (presumed self-portrait) - El Greco
Born: 1541; Crete, Greece
Died: April 7, 1614; Toledo, Spain
Active Years: 1563 - 1614
Nationality: Spanish, Greek
Art Movement: Mannerism (Late Renaissance)
Painting School: Cretan School
Field: painting, sculpture, architecture
Influenced by: Byzantine Art
Influenced on: Expressionism, Cubism, Eugene Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Franz Marc, Jackson Pollock, Roberto Montenegro, Jose Clemente Orozco, Francisco Pacheco
Teachers: Titian
Friends and Co-workers: Giulio Clovio
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Greco
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Domenikos Theotokopoulos, other wise known as "El Greco" due to his Greek heritage, was a popular Greek painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. He was a master of post-Byzantine art by the age of 26, when he traveled to Venice, and later Rome, where he opened his first workshop. Unlike other artists, El Greco altered his style in order to distinguish himself from other artists of the time, inventing new and unusual interpretations of religious subject matter. He created agile, elongated figures, and included a vibrant atmospheric light. After the death of Raphael and Michelangelo, he was determined to leave his own artistic mark, and offered to paint over Michelangelo's Last Supper to Pope Pius V. His unconventional artistic beliefs (his dislike of Michelangelo included), along with his strong personality, led to the development of many enemies in Rome, especially the hostilities of art critics.
In 1577, El Greco Moved to Toledo, where he produced the majority of his mature works. Although he did complete major commissioned works in churches around Toledo, he remained out of favor with the king, and so did not receive the royal patronage he so desired. El Greco made Toledo his home, renting a series of apartments from the Marquis de Villena, which included three apartments and twenty-four rooms. He spent much of time studying, painting, and living in high style, often employing musicians to play for him while he dined.
Although he was a much renowned and prolific painter, near the end of his life he experienced economic difficulties, exacerbated by non-payment for his work for the Hospital of Charities at Illescas. He met his end at the age of 73, due to a sudden illness. After his death, El Greco's works were largely ignored. His unusual treatment of subject matter and complex iconography led many contemporaries to discredit his works. It was not until the emergence of the Romantic period that his works were newly discovered, sparking a revival of interest in the artist's works. His works later influenced realist, impressionist, cubist, and abstract painters, including Pablo Picasso and Edouard Manet.
Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Greek: Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος [ðoˈminikos θeotoˈkopulos]; 1541 – 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος (Doménikos Theotokópoulos), often adding the word Κρής (Krēs, "Cretan").
El Greco was born in the Kingdom of Candia, which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, and the center of Post-Byzantine art. He trained and became a master within that tradition before traveling at age 26 to Venice, as other Greek artists had done. In 1570 he moved to Rome, where he opened a workshop and executed a series of works. During his stay in Italy, El Greco enriched his style with elements of Mannerism and of the Venetian Renaissance taken from a number of great artists of the time, notably Tintoretto. In 1577, he moved to Toledo, Spain, where he lived and worked until his death. In Toledo, El Greco received several major commissions and produced his best-known paintings.
El Greco's dramatic and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries but found appreciation in the 20th century. El Greco is regarded as a precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism, while his personality and works were a source of inspiration for poets and writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke and Nikos Kazantzakis. El Greco has been characterized by modern scholars as an artist so individual that he belongs to no conventional school. He is best known for tortuously elongated figures and often fantastic or phantasmagorical pigmentation, marrying Byzantine traditions with those of Western painting.
Born in 1541, in either the village of Fodele or Candia (the Venetian name of Chandax, present day Heraklion) on Crete, El Greco was descended from a prosperous urban family, which had probably been driven out of Chania to Candia after an uprising against the Catholic Venetians between 1526 and 1528. El Greco's father, Geórgios Theotokópoulos (d. 1556), was a merchant and tax collector. Nothing is known about his mother or his first wife, also Greek. El Greco's older brother, Manoússos Theotokópoulos (1531 – 13 December 1604), was a wealthy merchant and spent the last years of his life (1603–1604) in El Greco's Toledo home.
El Greco received his initial training as an icon painter of the Cretan school, a leading center of post-Byzantine art. In addition to painting, he probably studied the classics of ancient Greece, and perhaps the Latin classics also; he left a "working library" of 130 books at his death, including the Bible in Greek and an annotated Vasari. Candia was a center for artistic activity where Eastern and Western cultures co-existed harmoniously, where around two hundred painters were active during the 16th century, and had organized a painters' guild, based on the Italian model. In 1563, at the age of twenty-two, El Greco was described in a document as a "master" ("maestro Domenigo"), meaning he was already a master of the guild and presumably operating his own workshop. Three years later, in June 1566, as a witness to a contract, he signed his name as μαΐστρος Μένεγος Θεοτοκόπουλος σγουράφος ("Master Ménegos Theotokópoulos, painter").
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Dormition of the Virgin El Greco 1566
The Disrobing of Christ El Greco 1577-1579
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz El Greco 1587
St. Louis King of France with a Page El Greco 1590
Coronation of the Virgin El Greco 1591
View of Toledo El Greco 1599
Portrait of an old man (presumed self-portrait of El Greco) El Greco 1600
Portrait of Diego de Covarrubias El Greco 1602
Portrait of the-Artist's son Jorge Manuel Theotokopoulos El Greco 1603
St. Jerome Penitent El Greco 1614
St. Bartholomew El Greco 1614
St. Peter El Greco 1613
St. Idelfonso El Greco 1613
Portrait of Jeronimo de Cevallos El Greco 1613
St. Sebastian El Greco 1612
Christ as Saviour El Greco 1612
Apostle St. Thomas El Greco 1612
Apostle St. Thaddeus (Jude) El Greco 1612
Apostle St. Simon El Greco 1612
Apostle St. Philip El Greco 1612
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By Margaret Ramirez, Newsday Staff Writer, May 17, 2002
In the first effort to track long-term health effects of the World Trade Center collapse, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday announced a $12 million program that will offer free medical tests for more than 8,000 police officers, rescue workers and volunteers potentially exposed to hazardous substances.
At a news conference in the senator's midtown Manhattan offices, Clinton said thousands from New York City and across the nation participated in the recovery efforts at Ground Zero and later at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island. Even so, there are only two groups systematically tracking health problems of those exposed workers: the Fire Department and the state government.
The new program, which will be overseen by the Mount Sinai Hospital-Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational Medicine, will provide an estimated 8,500 free medical examinations at five occupational medicine centers in the New York region and several other clinic nationwide. "We know that there have been health consequences for those workers and volunteers on the pile," Clinton said. "By arming ourselves with the facts now, we can do a better job of protecting workers' health in the future."
Dr. Stephen Levin, medical director of the Mount Sinai occupational health center, said his staff had seen hundreds of people with persistent respiratory symptoms most likely resulting from inhaling pulverized concrete and fiberglass that rained over the city after the Twin Towers collapsed. "We've seen workers and volunteers whose lives are still shaken by the psychological symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and significant depression," Levin said. "What we don't know is what the long-term health consequences for these workers might be."
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Sergio Perez: "The car feels really promising"
After securing tenth place and the final points-paying position in Australia two weeks ago, Sergio Perez arrives in Malaysia ready to get back out on track and learn more about his Sahara Force India VJM08.
Perez's race at Albert Park was far from straightforward, with a trip through the gravel of his own doing, a spin while attempting to pass Jenson Button's McLaren-Honda, and a pass on Marcus Ericsson's Sauber while behind the safety car, but the Mexican is putting all that behind him for this weekend's race at Sepang.
"I am looking forward to going racing again after our first run in Melbourne," insisted Perez. "We are still learning a lot about the full potential of the VJM08 and every time we hit the track we are going to find some improvements.
"We are aware of the work needed to make our car more competitive, but we also know it is going to take time. The car feels really promising but it needs development and I look forward to getting some upgrades soon."
Perez knows the physicality of the Malaysian circuit, and realises the importance of being properly prepared for the possible change of changeable conditions at any time. He admits that in races like this with the humidity as it is, he benefits more from all the off-season training he carries out.
"The track is really interesting and the three sectors each have their own character," insisted Perez. "The track is physical but it has some very technical parts as well. You also have some very long straights at the end of the lap that offer a lot of opportunities for overtaking.
"The weather always makes it interesting. When you are racing in Sepang it is something that is always in the back of your mind, because you know a sudden rainstorm can throw up some unexpected strategies and opportunities you can exploit.
"The heat and the humidity are a big challenge, but as a driver you are prepared for this. You work really hard during the pre-season and every day with your trainer to be at your best in these circumstances, so I know I am ready."
Perez remembers fondly the Sepang circuit, having come so close to a maiden first win back in 2012, only to be denied by the Ferrari of Fernando Alonso when driving for the Sauber F1 Team.
"Malaysia is a very special place for me," said Perez. "It is where I got my first podium in Formula One, in one of the best races of my career in 2012, so I will always have happy memories about this circuit."


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Isaiah Washington teams up with #Missing24, calls for a black boycott
Isaiah Washington [Image Credit RLJ Entertainment]
Washington asked all black Americans to stay home from work, school, and shopping centers to protest police brutality.
September 25, 2016 at 6:00 PM Sun 25 Sep 2016 06:00:22 PM EDT
Isaiah Washington is best known for his role on the ABC prime-time soap opera, "Grey's Anatomy." He is also a big supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement and has been pretty vocal about it in the past few days. Washington felt that African-Americans can no longer sit and watch their race die at the hand of the police, and feels now is the time to protest police brutality by boycotting work, school, and shopping centers--unless it is to support other black people.
Washington's solution to a very complex problem
Isaiah proposed that African-Americans stay home from work, school, and shopping centers on Monday, September 26.
He believes that the world will notice their absence and start listening to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Isaiah wrote on his Facebook page, "Imagine if every single African American in the United States that was really fed up with being angry, sad and disgusted, would pick ONE DAY to simply 'stay at home' from every single job, work site, sports arena and government office in the United States of America. I'm very sure that within 72 hours from Wall Street to the NFL...Black Lives Would Matter.
September 26, 2016, is THE DAY."
#Missing24 hopes to call attention to the real issue
On September 16, Terence Crutcher was gunned down by a police officer after his vehicle stalled in the middle of the road. USA Today reported that his name started trending on social media after a video surfaced of Terence being cornered by four cops, after being shot.
Isaiah hopes that they can get many people to join in the protest to show that Americans are fed up with the abuse of power and we need the police to be held accountable for their actions.
He stated, " Every African born in America is fed up, hurt, confused, saddened and angry about the continued extrajudicial killings by public servants in our streets, so collectively we bring forth a solution."
Monday is the day
Social media users are using the hashtag, #StayHomeSeptember262016 and #Missing24 to voice support for the movement. Many blacks have expressed they will participate and believe there is "power in numbers."
Will you join in the #Missin24 boycott on Monday?
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Holiday Traditions of England
"Merry Christmas"
Christmas is Britain's most popular holiday and is characterized by traditions which date back hundreds of years. Many Christmas customs which originated in Britain have been adopted in the United States.
The first ever Christmas card was posted in England in the 1840s, and the practice soon became an established part of the build-up to Christmas. Over a billion Christmas cards are now sent every year in the United Kingdom, many of them sold in aid of charities.
Christmas decorations in general have even earlier origins. Holly, ivy and mistletoe are associated with rituals going back beyond the Dark Ages. (The custom of kissing beneath a sprig of mistletoe is derived from an ancient pagan tradition.) The Christmas tree was popularized by Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who introduced one to the Royal Household in 1840. Since 1947, the country of Norway has presented Britain annually with a large Christmas tree which stands in Trafalgar Square in commemoration of Anglo-Norwegian cooperation during the Second World War.
Popular among children at Christmas time are pantomimes: song and dance dramatizations of well-known fairy tales which encourage audience participation.
Carols are often sung on Christmas Eve by groups of singers to their neighbors, and children hang a stocking on the fireplace or at the foot of their bed for Santa Claus (also named Father Christmas) to fill. Presents for the family are placed beneath the Christmas tree.
Christmas Day sees the opening of presents and many families attend Christmas services at church. Christmas dinner consists traditionally of a roast turkey, goose or chicken with stuffing and roast potatoes. This is followed by mince pies and Christmas pudding flaming with brandy, which might contain coins or lucky charms for children. (The pudding is usually prepared weeks beforehand and is customarily stirred by each member of the family as a wish is made.) Later in the day, a Christmas cake may be served - a rich baked fruit cake with marzipan, icing and sugar frosting.
The pulling of Christmas crackers often accompanies food on Christmas Day. Invented by a London baker in 1846, a cracker is a brightly colored paper tube, twisted at both ends, which contains a party hat, riddle and toy or other trinket. When it is pulled by two people it gives out a crack as its contents are dispersed.
Another traditional feature of Christmas afternoon is the Queen's Christmas Message to the nation, broadcast on radio and television.
The day after Christmas is known in Britain as Boxing Day, which takes its name from a former custom of giving a Christmas Box - a gift of money or food inside a box - to the deliverymen and tradespeople who called regularly during the year. This tradition survives in the custom of tipping the milkman, postman, dustmen and other callers of good service at Christmas time.
Of Special Note...
MISTLETOE, considered sacred by the British Druids, was believed to have many miraculous powers. Among the Romans, it was symbol of peace, and, it was said that when enemies met under it, they discarded their arms and declared a truce. From this comes our custom of kissing under the mistletoe. England was the first country to use it during the Christmas season.
Holiday Traditions in ENGLAND
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Traditional Recipes From ENGLAND
Trifle: The Great British Pudding
(Olde English Trifle)
1 pint milk
1/2 vanilla pod
2 eggs, plus 2 egg yolks
2 tbsp. caster (fine) sugar
1 Victoria sandwich cake (see recipe)
6 oz. raspberry or strawberry jam
4 oz. medium sherry
10 oz. Devonshire Cream
1 1/2 oz. flaked almonds, toasted and
2 oz. glaze cherries to decorate.
Scald the milk with the vanilla pod. Cover the pan and leave to infuse for 20 minutes. Beat together the eggs, egg yolks and sugar and strain on the milk. Cook over a gentle heat, without boiling, stirring all the time until the custard thickens slightly. Pour into a bowl; lightly sprinkle the surface with sugar and cool.
Spread the sponge cake with jam, cut up and place in a 3 1/2 pint shallow serving dish with the macaroons. Spoon over the sherry and leave for 2 hours. Pour over the cold custard.
Whip the cream until softly stiff. Top the custard with half the fresh cream. Pour the remaining cream on top and decorate with the almonds and cherries.
Christmas Pudding
This dates back to the late 19th century. Although Christmas puddings should be made well in advance, it is possible to make this pudding on Christmas Eve with very successful results.
8 oz currants
8 oz. sultanas
8 oz. stoned raisins
8 oz. Barbados sugar
4 oz. grated beef suet
4 oz. fresh breadcrumbs
4 oz. ground almonds
4 oz. blanched almonds, chopped
4 oz. mixed candied peel
6 oz. cooking apple, peeled and finely chopped
8 oz. plain flour
Finely grated rind of 1 lemon
Finely grated rind of 1 orange
3 fl. oz. stout
1/2 oz. ground mixed spice
1/4 tsp. grated nutmeg
5 tbsp. brandy
Mix all the ingredients together in a large bowl with 2 tbsp. of the brandy. Pour the mixture into a greased 3 1/2 pint pudding basin and cover with a double layer of greased, greaseproof paper or aluminum foil--pleated in the middle to allow for expansion. Tie string under the rim and across the top to make a handle. Place a trivet in the base of a large saucepan. Lower the pudding into the saucepan and fill with enough boiling water to come two-thirds of the way up the sides of the basin. Pour in more boiling water if necessary.
When the Pudding is cooked, pour the remaining brandy over the surface and re-cover. To reheat, boil gently for 3-4 hours.
To serve, decorate with a sprig of holly and flambé at the table with warmed brandy, if desired. Can also be served with Brandy Butter or delicious Devonshire Cream.
Victoria Sandwich Cake
6 oz. caster (fine) sugar
3 eggs beaten
6 oz. self-raising flour
2 tbsp. jam
Caster (fine) sugar to dredge
Butter two 7-inch sandwich tins and line the base of each with a round of buttered greaseproof paper.
Beat the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy. Add the eggs a little at a time, beating well after each addition. Fold in half the flour, using a metal spoon, then fold in the rest
Place half the mixture in each tin and level with a knife. Bake in the oven at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes, until they are well risen, firm to the touch, and beginning to shrink away from the sides of the tins. Turn out and cool on a wire rack.
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Sale of Amsterdam Piezo Valve now exclusively via MassSpecpecD BV
posted Jul 10, 2015, 4:45 AM by Maurice Janssen [ updated Jul 10, 2015, 4:49 AM ]
As of 1 July 2015 the full marketing and sales of the Amsterdam Piezo Valve is done by MassSpecpecD BV in an exclusive collaboration with Electronica Beta and Mechanical Engineering VU University Amsterdam.
See also www.massspecpecd.com and www.amsterdampiezovalve.com for further information.
Breakthrough Technique Accurately Detects the 'Handedness' of Molecules
posted Jun 25, 2015, 12:52 AM by Maurice Janssen [ updated Jun 25, 2015, 1:12 AM ]
A new technique that can determine whether a molecule is present in a left- or right-handed form may have a multitude of practical applications, potentially leading to new and improved drugs, diagnosis methods, and pesticides. Scientists have demonstrated for the first time the ability to rapidly, reliably and simultaneously identify the 'handedness' of different molecules in a mixture. The research, led by chemists at the VU University Amsterdam and the University of Nottingham, and published in the academic journal Nature Communications (24 June 2015), could offer a new technique to easily distinguish whether a molecule is present in a left- or right-handed form. The breakthrough could be important in developing effective molecules for use in a wide range of industries — everything from the development of safer new drugs and disease diagnosis to less toxic pesticides.
Many molecules exist in forms which are essentially identical, apart from being exact mirror images of one another. It is common for these so-called chiral molecules to exist in just one form in biological systems, although scientists still don't fully understand why. For example, although both forms of amino acid molecules — the building blocks of life itself — can be made in the laboratory, in nature they only occur in the left-handed form. The chirality of these biomolecules also strongly affects the way in which they interact with other molecules, for instance with chiral drugs. Presently, more than 50 per cent of all drugs produced are active in only one of their two handed forms.
The latest research demonstrates a rapid new technique that can be used to identify the handedness of chiral molecules with more tangible effects and a greater degree of accuracy. Mass-Selected PhotoElectron Circular Dichroism (MS-PECD) uses circularly polarised light produced by a laser to ionise the molecules — using a couple of photons to knock an electron out of the chiral molecule to leave a positively charged ion behind.By tracking the direction that the electrons take when they travel out of the molecule — either forwards or backwards along the laser beam — it is possible to distinguish between left and right handed molecules with an accuracy of up to several tens of per cent rather than a fraction of a per cent.
For the full press release in English see here at the University of Nottingham.
For the full press release in Dutch by SciTechAdvisors see here (pdf).
The full paper in Nature Communications June 2015 can be accessed as OPEN ACCESS.
| Attachments: ArticleNatureCommunications8511PlusSupplementaryInformation24June2015.pdf SciTechAdvisorsPersBerichtFinal24Juni2015.pdf
MassSpec-PECD website is up
posted Jun 10, 2015, 4:38 AM by Maurice Janssen [ updated Jun 10, 2015, 4:41 AM ]
We have created a special website to highlight the novel technique for the detection of chiral molecules called Mass Spectrometric PhotoElectron CircularDichroism (MS-PECD). MS-PECD provides direct Mass Spectrometric detection of chiral molecules and does not need any prior enantiomeric separation.
Chiral molecules or of utmost importance in the pharmaceutical industry, the flagrance and odeur industry and in agriculture. More than half of all drugs that are produced worldwide are chiral, and detection of the enantiomeric purity of drugs during research and production is warranted by regulatory agencies like the FDA.
The website www.massspecpecd.com provides detailed information on the science and technological implementation of MS-PECD.
Amsterdam Piezo Valve website
posted May 16, 2015, 5:09 AM by Maurice Janssen [ updated May 16, 2015, 5:09 AM ]
The exclusive collaboration between SciTechAdvisors and LaserLaB Amsterdam to market the Amsterdam Cantilever Piezo Valve has started. On the website www.amsterdampiezovalve.com all the information on the valve and the specifications are available. The valve has already been purchased by more than 40 leading research groups in top institutes in Germany, England, France, USA, Japan, China, South-Korea, Canada. For some recent publications on the state-of-the-art research performed by customers with this valve see here.
25th Unit of Amsterdam Cantilever Piezo Valve Sold
posted Oct 14, 2009, 11:16 PM by Maurice Janssen [ updated May 16, 2015, 5:22 AM ]
In December 2012 the 25th unit of the Amsterdam Cantilever Piezo Valve was sold to a National Laboratory in USA.The Piezo Valve was developed by the group of prof. Maurice Janssen at LaserLaB Amsterdam in close collaboration with both the Mechanical and Electronics shop of the Faculty of Sciences, in particular mr. Rob Kortekaas, mr. Mario Molenaar and mr. Han Voet. The valve enables the production of intense and very short pulses of gas at high repetition rate. The instrument was developed for research at LaserLaB and reported in the literature (Rev. Sci. Instruments 80, 113303, 2009). It was decided to commercialize the instrument and the valve has now been sold to groups all over Europe, USA, China and Japan. Prof. Janssen remarked: "It is extremely rewarding that a key instrument that we developed for our own research is available to outside users. I am very pleased that leading laboratories all over the world, e.g. various Max Planck Institutes and Synchrotron facilities in Germany, Switzerland and USA, have decided to purchase our instrument. The excellent collaboration with the technical support shops of the Faculty of Sciences of VU University Amserdam makes this successful valorization project possible.
Novel table-top laser based mass spectrometer for detecting chiral molecules
Detection of molecular chirality with high sensitivity and selectivity is important for many analytical and practical applications. Photoionization has emerged as a very sensitive probe of chirality in molecules. We show here that a table top setup with a femtosecond laser and a single imaging detector for both photoelectrons and photoions enables detection of chirality up to 3 orders of magnitude better than the existing conventional absorption based techniques.
N. Bhargava Ram, C. S. Lehmann and M. H. M. Janssen
Probing chirality with a femtosecond reaction microscope
Reported in XVIIITH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA, Ecole Polytechnique Fed Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Date: JUL 08-13, 2012
Book Series: EPJ Web of Conferences Volume: 41, DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20134102029
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BY JIM DOOLEY – Arizona prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for two Hawaii prison inmates charged with murdering another prisoner from Hawaii while all three were incarcerated in a privately-run prison in Arizona.
officials and the Corrections Corp. of America, operator of the Arizona prison, Saguaro Correction Center, alleging that their negligence contributed to Nunuha's death.
Court records filed here and in Arizona show that the two men charged with murdering Nunuha, Miti Maugaotega Jr., 26, and Micah Kanahele, 31, are facing execution if convicted in Pinal County Superior Court.
initials of his assailants' prison gang were carved into his chest.
The murder was committed inside a prison.
Nunuha, 26, had served more than four years of a five-year sentence for burglary and property damage.
Maugaotega and Kanahale were serving life sentences for murder and other violent crimes. Hawaii, which has no death penalty, pays Corrections Corp. of America some $10 million annually to house up to 1,800 inmates at its Arizona prisons.
Corrections Corp. of America and Hawaii state officials have denied liability for Nunuha's death.
Several months after Nunuha was murdered in February 2010, another Hawaii inmate, Clifford Medina, 23, was strangled to death in his Saguaro cell.
The assailant was his cellmate, Mahina Silva, now 23, also from Hawaii. Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty for Silva, who pleaded guilty in the case last year, according to Arizona records.
The death penalty is never the right punishment. It should be outlawed. We can't pretend we are God!
Death penalty is outrageous, no matter what the crime is. We can't take people's life and call it justice.


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The White Tower, a 15th-century fortress and former prison, is the atmospheric setting for an interactive history of Thessaloníki. Layers of Roman, Byzantine and Balkan history are vividly brought to life through multimedia displays on each of the...
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An architectural feat that took more than a decade to complete, Thessaloníki's three-kilometer waterfront park has revitalized the seafront. Punctuated by sculptures, fountains and themed gardens, the boardwalk throngs with locals jogging,...
Museum of Byzantine Culture and Archaeological Museum
With a dozen chapels and monasteries scattered throughout the city (including the spectacular Rotunda, with a faded band of saints and angels decorating the cupola), Thessaloníki's Byzantine history is ever present. This architectural masterpiece...
Kapani and Modiano Markets
Kapani food market is a colorful introduction to Thessaloníki's celebrated food scene. In the narrow arcades, butchers, spice vendors and fishmongers clamor for the attention of bargain hunters. Vats of glistening olives, tubs of feta in brine and...
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The Surge 2 release date confirmed
After a long period of silence since the title was announced, Deck13 have finally confirmed a release date for The Surge 2, September 24, 2019. The game will release for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
The Surge was a souls-like title that used similar mechanics to games such as Dark Souls, with experience being a finite currency that must be spent or lost upon death if not collected. The risk versus reward gameplay was enhanced by a limb-targeting mechanic that allowed players to choose which pieces of armor and weapons they could earn. The game also introduced a timer to the experience system that counted down the amount available after the player died, the longer they took to collect it.
Deck13 have promised more of the same with The Surge 2, though they say that they've made it more brutal and tactical than ever. The roster of weapons, armor, abilities, and implants have also been built upon to provide a much richer experience in the sequel.
The setting for The Surge 2 moves away from a single company's head office to a sprawling city known as Jericho City. Deck 13 have worked tirelessly on the game's level design to provide much more variety, and a lot of surprises, even for veterans of the original game.
Pre-orders for The Surge 2 are live right now, with various pre-order bonuses offered, including a cosmetic 'URBN Gear Pack'. The limited edition of the game comes with an exclusive sleeve, lenticular cover, an 8-page comic, 3 exclusive lithographs, and a double poster with artwork and the game's map.
The Surge was met with mostly mixed reviews, although many critics were positive about the title. The game offers a very different approach to the souls genre of games, but also expands upon it more so that most others out there.
In The Surge players must fight through a world where people and machines have become fused through an incident. The bosses in the game differ from the huge monstrosities of Dark Souls and Bloodborne in that they are variations on functioning machines. Each one has a purpose in the world Deck 13 has built, but in the aftermath of this incident they have all become terrifyingly weaponized.
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Thailand's senate debated a highly contentious political amnesty bill into the night Monday as tens of thousands of anti-government protesters massed in Bangkok to try to heap pressure on Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
If, as expected, the senate rejects the legislation, it is likely to embolden a range of anti-government forces who have gathered in large numbers on Bangkok's streets for nearly a fortnight.
Critics say the legislation was crafted to pave the way for the return of the polarising ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who is Yingluck's brother and a hate figure for many among the Bangkok middle and upper classes.
An estimated 50,000 protesters remained in the city's political centre, according to police, heightening fears of clashes with authorities as street politics appeared to return to the capital.
The opposition Democrat Party has harnessed the growing anti-government sentiment.
During an anti-amnesty rally on Monday evening -- before the expected vote by the senate -- one of its most prominent leaders turned up the heat on Yingluck's government by urging supporters to observe a three-day strike starting on Wednesday.
"I ask you to clear all your work tomorrow and then on 13, 14 and 15th (of November) we will stage a nationwide strike," former deputy prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban said to cheers of approval.
Thaksin was toppled by royalist generals in 2006 and lives in exile to avoid prison for a corruption conviction that he contends was politically motivated.
He would be excused of charges under the proposed blanket amnesty.
Suthep, who is facing murder charges related to a bloody crackdown on protests in 2010 when the Democrats were in power, would also be cleared under the proposal alongside his party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva.
But the ruling Puea Thai party last week said it will not seek to ram through the legislation if the upper house rejects it, as predicted by the senate speaker.
"This bill violates the rule of law. All laws must be equal for everyone," said Senator Manoj Kraiwong, echoing the views of several speakers in the televised debate.
Demonstrators, many waving Thai flags, blowing whistles and using plastic hand-clappers, were in a bullish mood before the vote.
"I came here to expel the Shin(awatra) family. I want them out," said one protester called Thamathorn, giving only one name. "Don't stay here and cheat this country. Get out!"
Rallies have so far been peaceful but concerns are mounting that the issue could unleash a fresh bout of political turmoil in a country rocked by a series of rival demonstrations since 2006.
Thousands of police have been deployed to protect Government House -- where Yingluck's offices are -- and parliament in case protests turn ugly, a police spokesman told AFP.
Police have tear gas, batons, rubber bullets and water cannon at their disposal, according to Police General Adul Saengsingkaew, but will only use "necessary force" to ensure a peaceful protest.
The senate debate coincided with a ruling by the International Court of Justice in The Hague which found that most of an area around an ancient temple on the Thai border belongs to Cambodia.
Any public anger in Thailand over the ICJ's decision is likely to be directed against the government by the country's opposition -- which includes some hardline nationalists among its supporters.


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I am sure some of you are wondering what good news could be coming out of Zimbabwe right now, considering that experts, commentators and ordinary people in the past months have been saying that both economically, socially and politically, Zimbabwe is worse off (if that is indeed possible?) than during the days of President Mugabe. Despite all the rhetoric to the contrary, President Mnangagwa has not managed to turn things around after the 2018 election. His wish to "open up Zimbabwe for business" has not attracted the international investors needed to get the wheels running, so jobs can be offered to the large majority of more rather than less permanently unemployed, not least the youth.
If social and economic improvement for the people of Zimbabwe is not the good news I am thinking about, some readers might be undiplomatic enough to suggest that I am suggesting that the death of President Robert Gabriel Mugabe on 6 September is "good" news. This is of course not the case. I will not speculate about the feelings of Mugabe himself during recent months, when the walls of hospital rooms and the faces of doctors and nurses dominated his daily life; however, it could very well have been the case that Mugabe wanted to leave, after decades at the pinnacle of power; maybe he was finally tired and just wanted to rest peacefully and leave earthly matters to others. If that was the case, he would have been just as human as many I have known.
On the day of Mugabe's death, I commented on his role during almost five decades both on Danish radio and television. I will have more to say about both Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe and the various roles some of us have played when I publish my new book (unfortunately only in Danish to start with) next year. But as one of many young Danes being part of the solidarity movement in the 60s and 70s, I also saw Mugabe as a hero back then. We considered others to be heroes as well, men like Herbert Chitepo, Josiah Tongogara and Joshua Nkomo. When I visited Zimbabwe for the first time in 1980, a few weeks after independence, I still considered him a hero and a legitimate leader of his nation. This did not last! When we learned the truth about the "Gukurahundi" unleashed in Matabeleland in the 80s, we started worrying, although we (and the donor community at large) were shamefully quiet. Mugabe's and ZANU-PF's response after 2000 to the arrival of the Movement for Democratic Change, the first real threat to the ZANU hegemony, quickly made it clear that Mugabe had no intention of pursuing "democratic socialism" as the road forward. Whatever form of socialism he had in mind, well, it was one that was authoritarian, despotic, dictatorial, corrupt and criminal.
I would like to believe that Mugabe had honest intentions, when he joined the struggle as a young teacher around 1960, inspired by the Pan-Africanism he had learned about in Ghana, where he met his first wife, Sally Mugabe. Like others, we have been told that he sacrificed a lot during the struggle for independence. If this is true, and I am sure it is, at least he spent ten years in prison, he left his people as a tragic figure, and I believe history will judge him harshly for forgetting, bit by bit, what the struggle was all about: the wealth of his people – not the wealth of his own family. All the thundering words about the evils of the West and the Whites will not be able to conceal his own wrongdoing.
When on 6 September I talked to an old friend in Zimbabwe and asked him to explain his reaction and feelings, he simply stated: "I am happy for the old man that he can finally rest peacefully. The rest of us, and the nation, will have to struggle with his legacy for decades to come." This is indeed true, and it is a prophecy that President Mnangagwa seems to do his best to fulfill.
And old friend of mine from my years with UNDP and the Oslo Governance Centre, Siphosami Malunga, who is now the Executive Director of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa. I suggest you read his take on President Mugabe:
https://www.theafricareport.com/17007/robert-mugabe-the-greatest-trick-the-devil-ever-played/
This brings me, finally, to what I consider to be good news coming out of Zimbabwe: The rehabilitation of the buildings belonging to the Binga Craft Centre. For those of you not familiar with the geography of Zimbabwe, I suggest you take a look at the map just below this section. You will find the small town of Binga right on the shores of Lake Kariba, which was created during the 1958-1963 period, after the Kariba Dam at the opposite end was built.
During the 90s, Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke [MS] was part of developing the Binga Craft Centre, mobilizing several thousand women weaving beautiful and useful baskets that were exported to many countries (and not only Denmark) and also sold in Zimbabwe, in particular to the many tourists visiting the country back then. The economic crises that peaked around 2008 made it impossible to sell baskets, and after that it has been difficult to bring the Craft Centre back to what it used to be. Around 2010, when MS became a member of the ActionAid alliance, MS could no longer continue to support the Centre, and this of course also contributed to the years of hardship.
Last year, in April 2018, I visited the Binga Craft Centre with my wife Anne, and we also met with the manager, Matabbeki Mudenda, who has been with the Centre for many years – I met him for the first time when I lived in Zimbabwe in the early 90s. Despite the situation being far from financially sustainable, Mr. Mudenda surprised us with his willingness to continue doing his work as the manager under extremely difficult circumstances; and he genuinely believe that it would be possible to re-construct and re-energize the business at the Centre, and in so doing, helping to improve the livelihoods of the many women, who have been involved.
The beautiful buildings belonging to the Centre had also felt the tear and wear of the years, with the roofing falling apart and rain coming in. We talked about the necessity to rehabilitate the buildings as soon as possible, but even the limited sum of money required would be difficult to get, so we left Binga rather pessimistic about the future.
However, Manager Mudenda is not easy to stop. Ever since I returned from the 2018 visit, he has kept me informed about the small movements forward, receiving a small grant here and another there. In early April of this year, he informed me that they had received a grant from the Government of Zimbabwe through the Ministry of Women's Affairs, Gender, Small and Medium Enterprises for the renovation of the buildings. The government took this initiative to revamp craft activities, because this is an effective way of supporting women in Binga, in particular during the severe draught that has hurt Binga seriously. The weaving of baskets would be one of the few immediate livelihood opportunities for most households in the district.
On the day before we learned that Mugabe had died, Mr. Mudenda informed me that the rehabilitation had been finished [see photo above]. I could feel my heart leap and a tear starting its way down my cheek. He also told me that they would now restock the building with baskets and other products from the women. Let us hope that there will be people at home and abroad ready to buy – and this is where President Mnangagwa needs to deliver on his promises! The baskets the women weave are not only very functional (for bread and fruit and much else), but also beautiful to look at, and they are expressions of the particular Tonga culture which is located here on the shores of Lake Kariba. I am proud to have been part of this project, irrespective of the mistakes we also have to take responsibility for (and this will also be part of the book I am working on). Thanks to Mudenda, the Binga Craft Centre flag continues to loom over the town of Binga!
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Профессиона́льная футбо́льная ли́га Коре́и, или Кей-ли́га 1 (, ) — высший футбольный дивизион Южной Кореи. Одна из сильнейших лиг Азии.

Организация
В соревновании принимают участие 12 профессиональных клубов. Чемпионат проводится в два этапа. На первой стадии все клубы играют между собой в два круга. Среди них выявляется 6 сильнейших. На втором этапе один за другим играются следующие матчи:
 матчи между командами, занявшими четвёртое и пятое, и третье и шестое места;
 матч между победителями указанных пар;
 полуфинал: матч лучшей команды из первоначально занявших третье-шестое места с клубом, занявшим на первом этапе второе место (проигравший полуфиналист получает «бронзу» чемпионата);
 матч двух оставшихся команд за звание чемпиона.
Описанный порядок проведения соревнования вступил в силу в 2007 году.

Изменение команд в классе
Ниже К-лиги в южнокорейской иерархии футбола располагается полупрофессионально-любительская Национальная лига Кореи с 15 командами, а на третьем уровне стоит любительская К 3 лига (17 клубов). Чётко оговоренных спортивных правил перехода из К-лиги в Национальную лигу и обратно нет. Переходы случаются крайне редко, поскольку для попадания в K-лигу команда Национальной лиги должна соответствовать строгим требованиям, касающимся инфраструктуры и финансовой обеспеченности.

История соревнования
Профессиональная лига в Республике Корея появилась в 1983 году под названием Корейская Супер Лига. В неё вошли 5 клубов-основателей. Этими клубами были «Аллилуйя» (Иксан) () — ныне «Коян Эйч», «Юкон Кхоккири» () — ныне «Чеджу Юнайтед», «ПОСКО Долфинс» () — ныне «Пхохан Стилерс», «Дэу Ройялс» () — ныне «Пусан Ай Парк», «Кукмин Банк» () — ныне «Коян Кукмин Банк». «Аллилуйя» стал первым чемпионом страны.

В 1998 году профессиональная лига была реформирована, и обрела нынешнее название — Кей-лига. С момента основания лига расширилась с 5 до 16 членов. Лишь «Юкон Кхоккири», «ПОСКО Долфинс» и «Дэу Ройялс» остались в К-лиге (сменив названия); «Кукмин Банк» снялся с Супер Лиги по окончании сезона 1984 года, а «Аллилуйя» последовала их примеру спустя год.

Команды в сезоне 2022

Список чемпионов
 Чонбук Хёндэ Моторс — 9 (2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
 Соннам — 7 (1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006)
 ФК Сеул — 6 (1985, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2012, 2016)
 Пхохан Стилерс — 5 (1986, 1988, 1992, 2007, 2013)
 Пусан Ай Парк — 4 (1984, 1987, 1991, 1997)
 Сувон Самсунг Блюуингз — 4 (1998, 1999, 2004, 2008)
 Ульсан Хёндэ — 3 (1996, 2005, 2022)
 Аллилуйя — 1 (1983)
 Чеджу Юнайтед — 1 (1989)

Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт Kей-лиги
 Официальный сайт Kей-лиги


Is That What You Think About?
Submitting work to a literary magazine to be reviewed, and possibly rejected, by editors is scary. And although I'm fairly new to the game, I'm not sure that will ever change.
But it's not knowing that strangers are reading my writing that makes my heart race and palms sweaty; instead, it's showing my writing to friends and family.
Maybe this seems counter-intuitive. After all, who would want me to succeed more than friends and family? Writing is extremely personal, so wouldn't someone who knows me personally be better suited to reading it than a stranger?
But that's the crux of the issue. My writing is personal, but not in the same way as ideas or feelings I'd discuss with my family. Writing gets to the grit of the matter, and usually not in a conventional, straight-forward way. Great stories have many interpretations, which readers can appreciate and adapt to their own lives, but friends can take differently.
Most of my published stories deal directly with death, for example a suicide attempt, cancer, and a car crash. When a stranger reads these, maybe they wonder what prompted me to write them, but more likely they appreciate the story for the way it resonates with them.
Friends and family wonder instead why these thoughts rattle inside my head.
"Is this what you think about?"
In one way, yes. I was thinking about death when I wrote these stories. But in another way, no. I go about my day just like everyone else. I laugh and smile, and I assure you my mind isn't constantly consumed with gruesome thoughts.
Instead, these stories are an outlet for other things that bounce around in my head. Feelings of frustration may spur a story about escape through suicide. A loss of control in an area of my life goes on paper as a young girl developing cancer and learning to accept her fate.
As writers, and humans, we cope with our struggles in unique ways. So, yes, that is what I think about, and though it's difficult to reveal, I'm damn proud of it.


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He has carded an average score of -9 in his past four events.
Straka has finished below par six times and carded nine better-than-average rounds over his last 10 played.
He has posted the best score of the day in one of his last 10 rounds, while scoring among the top five in three rounds and the top 10 four times.
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TORONTO (AP) -- Auston Matthews scored the go-ahead goal in the second period, Patrick Marleau had two goals, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Boston Bruins, 4-2, on Monday night in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference first-round series.
Matthews was held without a point through 120 minutes where Toronto was outscored, outmuscled and outplayed in losing by a combined 12-4 margin at Boston.
However he came through to snap a 2-2 tie with 5:13 left in the second when he rifled a shot short-side highs on Rask from a sharp angle after a great feed down low by William Nylander.
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Majority of consumers ignore privacy and cookie info: stats
By Graham Charlton	 October 31st 2012 10:24
It seems that the vast majority of web users are not too concerned about viewing information about privacy and cookies, with just 1.47% clicking to find out more.
Stats from a sample of 35m users of 29 websites from TRUSTe show that a tiny minority are choosing to find out more about cookies, while the majority of those choose not to change settings.
This data suggests that, with the current implementation of the cookie law, online businesses have little to fear….
TRUSTe cookie consent
TRUSTe's 'Consent Manager' is used on several sites, including Forbes, Oracle, and Aldo Shoes. Here's an example from Aldo.
The link to the privacy and cookies info isn't too intrusive, which may explain why very few are clicking on it.
This then opens up a lightbox which provides users with the option to proceed with cookies or find out more:
Users can then choose to set preferences ad reject functional and advertising cookies if they wish:
1.47% chose to learn more about their preferences by clicking on the "Cookie Preferences" icon and going to the "About Cookies" page (this is over 10 times the average click through rate on the typical banner ad).
Of the visitors to the "About Cookies" page, 8.2% chose to view their Cookie Settings and took the following actions:
14.8% chose to change their settings to Functional Cookies, described as "cookies that allow us to analyse site usage so we can measure and improve".
26.8% chose to change their settings to Minimal Cookies described as "cookies required to enable core site functionality".
58.4% did not change their setting from the default of Advertising Cookies, described as "cookies used by advertising companies to serve ads that are relevant to your interests".
So, just 1.47% are viewing cookie information, and even then, less than half of them are actually changing settings. And this is sites which actually provide the option to change cookie preferences.
According to TRUSTe's MD EMEA Danilo Labovic:
We recently analysed the cookie compliance solutions for 231 of the UK's top websites and found that 63% had done something to address the Directive – of which 12% had implemented a robust consent management solution providing users with prominent cookie notice and robust / user-friendly controls.
Today's analysis shows that sites with a robust compliance solution are not experiencing significant opt-out rates and at the same time are further building trust with their customers by giving them both notice of the tracking activity and the ability to easily make an informed choice about their tracking preferences.
What was all the fuss about then?
For a variety of reasons, some to do with the unclear guidance around the cookie law, businesses were fearing losing sales due to intrusive cookie consent measures, as well as a loss of vital anlytics data as users opted out.
As it turned out, the ICO updated its guidance at the eleventh hour, and an 'implied consent' model was said to be acceptable.
In any case, while sites like the Mirror and BBC have implemented implied consent solutions, very few e-commerce sites are crazy enough to apply a strict consent model which might deter customers.
The worst I've seen comes from Games Workshop, which won't allow customers to enter the site without accepting cookies. This must be deterring customers:
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