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Secular (Neo-Pagan) Fatalism: Why Americans are Helpless to Resist Evil
In his 2012 article, "James Q. Wilson" Thomas Sowell observed,
"There are undoubtedly many people who are alive today because of James Q. Wilson, who died last week...James Q. Wilson was a scholar who studied crime. He saved lives because his penetrating analyses of crime, and the effect of the criminal law, debunked the theories of....the intelligentsia, with their theories on how to "solve" our "problems." First of all, they claimed, we had to stop focusing on punishment and get at the "root causes" of crime. In other words, we had to solve the criminals' problems, in order to solve the problem of crime." (Sowell, townhall.com, 2012/03/06)
To punish someone for wrongdoing implies six things. First, that there really is such a thing as an objective standard of right and wrong, therefore there are some things that you "ought" to do, and some things that you "ought not" to do. Third, and by extension, there really is a transcendent Moral Law and fourth, a personal Moral Law-Giver. Fifth, punishment implies free-will, which means finally, that man is a free moral agent capable of choosing between right and wrong.
Man can freely choose to lie or tell the truth. He can choose to respect other people or to disrespect them. Though some men and women have same-sex desires because of their fallen condition, no one is "born" gay or lesbian anymore than he or she is "born" an adulterer or serial killer because all human beings without exception can choose between acting on such desires and compulsions (sin) or not. Punishment implies all of this.
Our secular (neo-pagan) intelligentsia reject punishment because they reject all six implications. The rationale for their denial is explained by Lester Crocker:
"There existed in the eighteenth century a widespread desire to equate the moral with the physical world..." What was desired above all was "total integration of man in nature, with refusal of any transcendence, even though it was admitted that (being God's spiritual image-bearer) gave him certain special abilities and ways of thinking. The important thing, as La Mettrie, d'Holbach and others made clear, is that he is submitted to the same laws; everything is response to need mechanically... like a tree or a machine. Man merely carries out natural forces without any freedom whatsoever in all he does, whether he loves or hates, helps or hurts, gives life or takes it." (Monsters from the Id, E. Michael Jones, pp. 5, 7)
In other words, men desired above all to liberate themselves and in particular their libidos from the Holy Trinity, the Book of Genesis, the Fall, fear of Hell, the Ten Commandments, all moral restraints, social taboos, and cultural institutions such as monogamous one-man, one-woman marriage. They wanted to be free to do as they desired, with whom or what they desired, whenever and wherever the impulse struck them. They desired above all to be the helpless victims of evil.
In his commentary, "Guns,Guns,Guns" Daniel Greenfield points out that if you reject the Genesis account and instead embrace evolutionary thinking as the rebels do, then evil is a chicken and egg question and man is its' helpless victim:
"... Violence had no beginning, except perhaps in the Big Bang, it was always here, coded into the DNA. If people are just grown-up animals, more articulate versions of the creatures who eat each other's young, and sometimes their own young, there is as much use in wondering about the nature of evil as there is in trying to understand why a killer whale kills." (Sultanknish BlogSpot, 12/2012)
This ultimate license is purchased at an eternally high price. Secular Progressives (God-haters and fools; Romans 1:30) would have to deny the supernatural Triune God, deny their own tripartite being (body, soul, mind) and pretend to be mechanical aspects of nature--- "trees, machines, plant-people." But it was not enough for only themselves to become machines. No, everyone else must be duped into following the rebellious God-haters into hell.
It was Freud who supplied God-haters and fools with an outwardly plausible psychological explanation. Building off of the Darwinian "man is an evolved ape" idea Freud explained anger, perversion, rage, jealousy, hatred, envy, and other destructive impulses as being caused by chemical and psychological changes in the brain and muscles of machine man. Since machine man lacks free will, he is fated to carry out natural forces without any freedom whatsoever in all he does.
Since chemicals are the cause then more chemicals (i.e., libido-enhancing drugs, brain-altering drugs) as well as abortion (in answer to promiscuity), easy divorce, and the advocacy of idols of the mind such as evolutionary theory (relativism/nihilism) and gender theory---being the only answers---must be forced upon everyone:
"The first of long anticipated resources that Ontario's bishops assured parents would allow Catholic schools to teach the Liberal government's controversial sex-ed curriculum through a "Catholic lens" have drawn fire from pro-family critics." (Catholic schools reveal how they'll teach Wynne's radical sex ed: it's 'pure moral relativism,' say critics, (Lianne Laurence, Lifesite News, Sep 25, 2015)
The Institute for Catholic Education's parent and facilitator guides uploaded on its website earlier this month contain passages of "pure moral relativism," "secular bafflegab," that are so vague they leave room for even heretical interpretations of Church teaching. This is particularly true when it comes to the hot-button issue of gender identity, which Liberal sex-ed curriculum teaches students by Grade 8 the existence of six genders as opposed to two biological sexes, a theory introduced to children in Grade 3. Moreover,
"....ICE's parent guide for Grade 7 and 8appears to condone teaching the theory of 'gender expression' in Catholic schools, which in laymen terms means that is natural and normal for boys to present themselves as girls." "Released by the Liberals in February and rolled out in all the province's publicly funded schools this September, the sex-ed agenda also introduces homosexuality in Grade 3, masturbation in Grade 6 and oral and anal sex in Grade 7."
In the secular neo-pagan view, the brain is a biochemical machine that can react to its environment, perhaps with envy, covetousness, and mindless rage, but is unable to not act upon destructive, even murderous impulses anymore than it is able to resist impulses such as sodomy and rape because it is a conscienceless force of nature void of free will.
Some seculars have finally begun to question secular fatalism. One of these is Thomas Dixon, a young doctoral student who has published a paper explaining how the flawed secular notion had replaced the clinical use of the helpful biblical view of the soul having passions and affections. Dixon had learned of the biblical view from reading Jonathan Edward's book, "The Religious Affections" (1746).
Jonathan Edwards based his teaching on St. Augustine's trinitarian (body, soul, spirit) view of man, which Dixon sees as far more useful for clinical psychology than Darwin's evolutionary explanations contained within his book, "The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals." Most twentieth-century philosophers and psychiatrists, including Freud, had adopted Darwin's evolutionary conception which leads to the flawed idea that man is merely an emergent product of nature, a somewhat more highly evolved ape whose thoughts, emotions and actions are caused by chemicals. (The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization, Vishal Mangalwadi, p. 373)
Darwinism and secular fatalism are utterly contrary to and destructive of Anglo-American law which is based on the assumption that a person who makes free choices is responsible for them. This assumption is grounded in the trinitarian view of man (i.e.,the free moral agent) and to the principles and concepts found in the Bible. William Blackstone, one of the most influential figures in the development of the common law explained:
"The doctrine thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law and they are to be found only in the Holy Scriptures. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws, that is to say, no human law should be suffered to contradict these." (Back-Fired: A Nation born for Religious Tolerance No Longer Tolerates Religion, William J. Federer p. 256)
Humans differ from animals in that we are capable of subjecting our passions to choices that are either wise and moral or unwise and immoral. And when we choose the latter, punishment comes into play. But when the worst of our kind have no fear of punishment they will freely act upon their disordered passions and compulsions.
This being the case, disrespect, parasitism, bullying, riots, road-rage, car-jackings, beatings, lying, rape, pedophillia, pederasty, sodomy, lesbianism, murder, theft, adultery, and casual cruelty are increasingly the way of life. Meanwhile, education, entertainment, and 'news-media' are mediums for propaganda, degradation and dissolution and America's founding documents mere scraps of paper attached to the West's decaying Anglo-American Law.
What was once obscenity, lying, envy, and rage is now the popular currency. The most popular obscenities are God the Father, the Ten Commandments, monogamous marriage, "He made them man and woman," and decent, morally-ordered, law-abiding people .
In America there is no fear. None of God the Father, none of temporal or eternal punishment. Man has been told that Moral Law does not exist and further that man cannot resist doing evil, as even Christian schools are impressing upon students, so increasingly man gives himself over to the doing of evil. And why not? He can get away with it.
Written by Linda Kimball On September 27, 2015 In Evil
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Avenue 74 Art Gallery hosts blockbuster art show Avenue 74- A Miami Art Gallery owner Adam Brand (center in black t-shirt) and some of the 65 exhibiting artists coordinated by Adam and his team at Frames USA for the show.
and white background decorated with protest posters and stark images of which she is a part. "It's not just about me," said photographer and painter Fleischmann. "I use the body as canvas and the subject becomes part of the environment and the art." New York City and Miami based Artist Chris Riggs displayed a portion of his 25 foot long by 20 foot high Graffiti Pyramid composed of 36 separate pieces. Riggs says he thought about doing it for years and when he finally set to work it took him about a week to complete. "My main message is about peace and love," said Riggs. "There is so much messed up in the world right now. If you turn on the TV or go on the internet it's all negative. I want to put positive images and colors out there." The positivity was palpable at the Avenue 74 show where excited artists joined by family and friends snapped photos, swayed to the live music, and enjoyed dishes served up by the neon lit food trucks nearby. "This is our biggest show ever in the five months we've been open," said Brand the night of the event. "We had over 500 people tonight. Stay tuned for Lionfish next month." To find out more about Avenue 74 art shows in the Bird Road Arts District visit ave74artgallery.com, call 305-666-3355 or email ave74artgallery@gmail.com.
SIGHTINGS Scenes from The Bird Road Art Walk Every third Saturday of the month from 7 - 10 p.m.
Artists (l-r) Humberto Benitez, Holly A. Jones, Roxy Sora and Julio Bordas exhibit at H. Benitez Fine Art Gallery II.
Artist T. Eliott Mansa (with "Elegba at the Crossroads") is inspired by family, concepts of worship and Yuruba and West African traditions.
Artist Humberto Benitez at his second gallery: H. Benitez Fine Art Gallery II located at 4277 SW 75 Ave, Bird Road Art District.


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First Impressions: A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
From the New York Times bestselling author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic. With flawless mastery, Naomi Novik creates a heroine for the ages—a character so sharply realized and so richly nuanced that she will live on in hearts and minds for generations to come.
We rounded up a couple of bookworms to share their first impressions of Naomi Novik's latest tale of magic and adventure, A Deadly Education. We've got Your Tita Kate, Prin of Princess and Pages, Salve of Cuckoo for Books, and Shealea of Shut Up, Shealea.
Read their thoughts below.
How do you like the story so far?
Kate says: I'm intrigued! I started reading it over the weekend and really find myself drawn into the universe Naomi Novik created her. For me, the best speculative fiction books let the readers jump into the deep end of the pool, so to speak, but toss in floaties very quickly. The balance between exposition and good storytelling is a thin line, but so far it seems like the author has an incredibly good grasp of that.
Prin says: I'm really loving the main character El. She is deliciously feisty without being annoying. She is definitely not your average YA heroine, nor is she a stereotypical anti-hero. The book starts really strong. There is no sense of gradual build up, you just know that you'll have to do your best to keep up with El, and I'm saying that as a compliment. I also love how the world building is not just there as a backdrop, but it's a dynamic element that really affects the plot. I feel like Scholomance is really a character on its own.
Salve says: From the first sentence of A Deadly Education, I was hooked—what a way to start off a novel! Within the next paragraph, I was already completely charmed by the heroine, El. Even though in the book, her character is shunned by her peers for being an strange outsider, as a reader, her quick wit & dark sense of humor were utterly entertaining. I loved getting to brave the dangerous world of the Scholomance by her side!
Shealea says: Right from the get-go, A Deadly Education lives up to its title: a school where learning powerful magic can mean losing yourself or losing your life. More specifically, it introduces the dangerously high stakes imposed on Scholomance students who can either succumb to dark magic (and risk corrupting themselves) or fall prey to monsters or their own classmates. My first impression of El, our protagonist in A Deadly Education, is angsty, resentful, and viciously determined. Her immense power makes her both a threat and a liability -- and this puts her at a very precarious position within the school.
What are your expectations so far? Anything you're looking forward to?
Kate says: The concept of magical schools in fantasy has always been fascinating - my personal fave is the Earthsea series - so I'm really excited about this trope being reworked to be darker and more feminist. Looking forward to ravenous monsters and dark academia aesthetics!
Prin says: I'm looking forward to El's character development. Will she show a sweeter, gentler side? Will she make real friends?
I also really want to see how she will find a way to control her strength. I want her to finally have her moment, and be able to showcase her impressive potential without worrying about harming others. I am thrilled with the direction Naomi Novik is taking us in showing that evil is not defined by who we are (in terms of race, gender or family background), but by the choices that we make every day. I can tell there's still a lot more to discover and learn from this book.
Salve says: I can't wait to see the rest of El's journey to graduation, and perhaps in the sequels see a little bit more of the magical world outside of the school!
Shealea says: I'm anticipating a lot of huge twists and stomach-turning suspense in this book. But most of all, I'm looking forward to seeing El strategize her way to graduating from Scholomance and securing her future.
Describe A Deadly Education in three words.
Kate says: Death. Chaos. Darkness.
Prin says: Immersive, unique, unapologetic.
Salve says: Cheeky, fearless, and fascinating.
Shealea says: Grim, angsty, and ominous.
Where to find these bookworms
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic.
I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life.
Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I'm concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I'm not joining his pack of adoring fans.
I don't need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts, I'm probably the most dangerous thing in the place. Just give me a chance and I'll level mountains and kill untold millions, make myself the dark queen of the world.

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Ocio Territorial Hotel is in the Rilán Peninsular in the middle of the Big Island of Chiloé.
Chiloé is a unique place in the world due to its cultural heritage, its local identity, its people, its architecture, and its geographical beauty.
OCIO Territorial Hotel invites you to discover the authentic Chiloé, with an excellent location to explore all corners of this archipelago, privileged views of Castro's fjord and top-level services.
"Ocio Territorial Hotel is located at Rilan's Peninsular area in the heart of the great Chiloé island. This area is definitely a unique place in the world due to its cultural heritage, its local identity, its people, its architecture, and its geographical beauty."
"In 2004, all of this motivated my wife Yasna and I to make a promise to Sandalio and Orfelinda, who were the original owners of the 20-hectare rural property where the hotel now stands. This promise was to protect the land, the culture and to always talk to future generations about Chiloé's traditional uses and ways of living off the land. From that moment on, we began a process of restoration of the traditional and original house and "fogón" (traditional smokehouse) as well as the trails used by the sheep to get to the natural springs and the forest and the sea."
"That is where our dream began. We then started to build three suites where the landform allowed us to build. We always had a sustainable vision of not-intervening with nature and not-competing with it either. We understood that nature gave us permission to build on the land. We then built the reception and restaurant centre where we also have two more rooms for accommodation. This is a meeting point for the guests where there is a unique view of the fiord and city of Castro but from a far-away-country point of view."
Rooms are hidden in a wonderful hillside full of native vegetation, each one settled to earth and occupies the place that nature allowed; thus the rooms all have different qualities that make each of them unique.
There are 3 independent rooms, that are made up of 60 m2 each, hidden between native trees and vegetation on the hillside.
A wing of 6 separate rooms each, in which each seeks a timely view of stunning scenery.
It is a 4 bedroom lodge for those who want to stay in a family environment, with friends, or for work teams seeking cohesion in a magical and different environment.


Abstract: A well-known principle in symplectic geometry says that information about the smooth structure on a manifold should be captured by the symplectic geometry of its cotangent bundle. One prominent example of this is Nadler and Zaslow's microlocalization correspondence, an equivalence between a category of constructible sheaves on a manifold and a symplectic invariant of its cotangent bundle called the Fukaya category.
The goal of this talk is to describe a model for a relative version of this story in the simplest case, corresponding to Legendrian knots in the standard contact 3-space. This construction, called the augmentation category, is a powerful invariant which is defined in terms of holomorphic curves but can also be described combinatorially. I will describe some interesting properties of this category and relate it to a category of sheaves on the plane. This is joint work with Lenny Ng, Dan Rutherford, Vivek Shende, and Eric Maslow.
Abstract: The Langlands program is an intricate network of conjectures, which are meant to connect different areas of mathematics, such as number theory, harmonic analysis and representation theory. One striking consequence of the Langlands program is the Ramanujan conjecture, which is a statement purely within harmonic analysis, about the growth rate of Fourier coefficients of modular forms. It turns out to be intimately connected to the Weil conjectures, a statement about the cohomology of projective, smooth varieties defined over finite fields.
I will explain this connection and then move towards a mod p analogue of these ideas. More precisely, I will explain a strategy for understanding torsion occurring in the cohomology of locally symmetric spaces and how to detect which degrees torsion will contribute to. The main theorem is joint work with Peter Scholze and relies on a p-adic version of Hodge theory and on recent developments in p-adic geometry.
I will present a recently developed theory for scalar conservation laws with nonlinear multiplicative rough signal dependence. I will describe the difficulties, introduce the notion of pathwise entropy/kinetic solution and its well-posedness. I will also talk about the long time behavior of the solutions as well as some regularization by noise type results.
Homogenization is a well known technique used to approximate the macroscopic behaviour of a material with microscopic impurities. While this originally arose in the study of composite materials, it has applications to various other fields, and I will focus on a few results motivated by fluid dynamics. One well known result in this direction is by GI Taylor estimating the dispersion rate of a solute in a pipe. The length scales involved in typical pipelines, however, are too short for this result to apply. I will conclude with a few recent "intermediate time" results describing the effective behaviour in scaling regimes outside those of standard homogenization results.
An almost isometry (AI) is a quasi-isometry (QI) with multiplicative constant =1. Given two metrics on a closed manifold, Milnor-Swarc implies that the lifted metrics on the universal cover are QI to each other. When are they AI to each other? In the rigidity direction, we give various examples where the only time such lifts are AI is when they are isometric (joint with Kar and Schmidt). In the flexible direction, we show that for higher genus surfaces, any two metrics have lifts which, after possibly scaling one of the lifted metrics, are AI to each other (joint with Schmidt and van Limbeek). In the latter examples, one can further show that the AI is usually not equivariant with respect to the group actions.
In the talk, I will propose a model equation to study the crystal growth as a prototype, which is described by a level-set mean curvature flow equation with driving and source terms. We establish the well-posedness of solutions, and study the asymptotic speed. Interestingly, a new type of nonlinear phenomena in terms of asymptotic speed of solutions appears because of the double nonlinear effects coming from the surface evolution and the source term, which is sensitive to the shapes of source terms. This is a joint work with Y. Giga (U. Tokyo), and H. V. Tran (U. Wisconsin-Madison).
Abstract: Incommensurate materials are found in crystals, liquid crystals, and quasi-crystals. Stacking a few layers of 2D materials such as graphene and molybdenum disulfide, for example, opens the possibility to tune the elastic, electronic, and optical properties of these materials. One of the main issues encountered in the mathematical modeling of layered 2D materials is that lattice mismatch and rotations between the layers destroys the periodic character of the system. This leads to complex commensurate-incommensurate transitions and pattern formation.
Even basic concepts like the Cauchy-Born strain energy density, the electronic density of states, and the Kubo-Greenwood formulas for transport properties have not been given a rigorous analysis in the incommensurate setting. New approximate approaches will be discussed and the validity and efficiency of these approximations will be examined from mathematical and numerical analysis perspectives.
I will survey some rigidity phenomena in dynamics and also geometry, with emphasis on the notion of higher rank. This first emerged in Margulis' celebrated work on superrrigidity but has also been important in more recent work on symmetry in dynamical systems. How special is it for maps commute with each other? Smale asked this problem fifty years ago, and answers are finally emerging. Much depends on the differentiability of the maps: it gets harder the more differentiable the map is. Sometimes we can even classify such maps. I'll discuss this and related phenomena.
I will talk about some recent work on long-term/global regularity of solutions of water wave models in 2 and 3 dimensions. The models we consider describe the evolution of an inviscid perfect fluid in a free boundary domain, under the influence of gravity and/or surface tension. This is joint work with Fabio Pusateri and, in part, with Yu Deng and Benoit Pausader.
We show that the topologies and nestings of the zero and nodal sets of random (Gaussian) band limited functions have universal laws of distribution. Qualitative features of the supports of these distributions will be determined. In particular the results apply to random monochromatic waves and to random real algebraic hyper-surfaces in projective space.
The talk should be understood to any advanced undergraduate student.
Random matrix statistics were proposed by Eugene Wigner as a new class of universal statistical laws for highly correlated systems. We will first review established instances of this conjecture for mean-field matrix models. We will then propose an approach towards the spectral analysis of non mean-field models, which are closer to Wigner's original vision. A key role is played by a new patching of quantum unique ergodicity estimates.
Liquid Crystals, the materials in your iPhone, are complex materials with varying degrees of internal order. I will discuss and demonstrate how algebraic topology can be used to identify and characterize long-lived configurations. I will also describe how conic sections naturally arise in these structures as intersections of simple polynomials.
We discuss the transitivity properties of the group of morphisms generated by Vieta involutions on the solutions in congruences to the Markoff equation as well as to other Markoff type affine cubic surfaces. These are dictated in part by the finite orbits of these actions on the algebraic points. The latter can be determined effectively and in special cases is connected to the problem of determining all algebraic Painleve VI's. Applications to forms of strong approximation for integer points and to sieving on such affine surfaces, as well as to Markoff numbers will be given.
Joint work with J.Bourgain and A.Gamburd.
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American retired hockey commentator
Michael "Doc" Emrick (born August 1, 1946) is a sportscaster. He is best known for calling ice hockey games especially for the NHL. He is called The Voice of Ice Hockey.
Mike 'Doc' Emrick
(1946-08-01) August 1, 1946 (age 75)
La Fontaine, Indiana
Sports commentator
CareerEdit
Emrick has been a sportscaster professionally since 1973. He was hired by the Port Huron Flags. In 1977 he started to work for the Maine Mariners. Emrick then was the Devils first voice in New Jersey. He was there from the 1982–83 NHL season until 1986. In 1993, he returned to the team to replace Gary Thorne. He continued to be the team's voice until July 2011.[1] He announced the team's 1995 Stanley Cup victory.
Emrick became the lead play-by-play announcer for the NHL on Fox Game of the Week. He called regular-season games and Stanley Cup Finals from 1995 to 2000. He has called eight NHL All-Star Games. He called the 1996 World Cup of Hockey and the 2004 World Cup of Hockey.
Emrick has worked on many Olympic Games. He has called both ice hockey and water polo.
He also called some National Football League and men's NCAA basketball tournament games. He called the National Lacrosse League All-Star Game and Championship Game.
AwardsEdit
Emrick received the NHL's Lester Patrick Award in 2004. He was the first of three people to get the award for media work. He got the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award by the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008. Emrick was the first member of the media to be in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. This was on December 12, 2011.[2]
In 2011, Emrick won the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Sports Personality - Play by Play."
↑ "Emrick joins NBC/Versus exclusively". July 21, 2011.
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NME: The Stone With The Golden Arm
This the original text of the Dick Tracy story that appeared in the NME on Noveember 18th, 1978.
Valuable additional research for the story was done by Jamie Mandelkau in Canada plus help from Kathy Kelly in London.
It seems it was just one of those strange coincidences that the bad boys of the old wave and the new wave were both in court within a week of one another. Down in New York, Sid Vicious was charged with murder at the Chelsea Hotel, while in Toronto Keith Richards was facing the trial of his life over a rather different kind of a hotel room incident.
Strongest of all connections was the junk network.
Vicious was undergoing methadone treatment for heroin addiction, a habit that Richards, perhaps more than any other rock star, had made chic. Richards' title of The World's Most Elegantly Wasted Human Being had served to make the hard drug socially acceptable in certain circles, the ultimate hip kick; Vicious subsequently earned the title of The World's Most Inelegantly Wasted Human Being . . .
Vicious only had a few friends, his mum, Malcolm McLaren and Virgin Records to call to his aid. Richards, an important lynch pin of the Stones corporate empire, had money, influence and power. The verdict should surprise no one, but the events surrounding the case have been undereported over here.
What follows is the fullest account to date in the British press of the case of the Stone with the golden arm.
The tangled tale began on February 24,1977, when Keith Richard, Anita Pallenberg and their son Marion arrived at Toronto Airport. Maybe they hadn't heard of the airport's reputation of being a 'suicide alley' for drug smugglers, with a crack narcs squad always on hand.
Anita had 28 pieces of luggage with her, and customs became suspicious. In the search a bag containing 10 grams of "high-quality hashish" was unearthed, plus a spoon with traces of heroin on it.
According to a source close to the Stones, Keith "was groggy at the airport and, when their luggage was being searched, actually thought it was record company people who had come to the airport to help him. He had no idea it was the RCMP."
Pallenberg, 34, was arrested and was later to be fined $400.
Meantime Keith and his family checked into Rooms 3223-24-25 at the Harbour Castle Hotel under the name of K. Redland. Another Stones employee reported that their suite was "almost a fortress, with security guards imported from Buffalo to keep watch." Inside, he said, "their room looked terrible, because they didn't want maids snooping around. Both Keith and Anita looked awful."
It was just three days after the airport incident, at 4.30 am on the Sunday morning, that the big bust came down.
Rumour has it there was a tip-off from another guest in the hotel. An unspecified number of Mounties and Ontario provincial police arrived at the hotel with a warrant in Pallenberg's name, spent 45 minutes locating Richards, burst in and searched the suite. In the bathroom they found a leather pouch containing heroin, a hypodermic needle and a teaspoon with traces of what later turned out to be cocaine. Richards and Pallenberg were arrested, their passports confiscated, and all hell broke loose.
MICK JAGGER arrived in town on March 3 and, by all accounts, took control of the situation.
The Stones were in town to complete their live American tour album and start work on a new LP. Out on bail, Richards attended the rehearsals held every night at Cinevision, a film studio in the suburb of Lakeshore.
A Stones employee later told reporters: "I was amazed Keith made it to rehearsal every night because his situation with the arrests had almost ostracised him from the band. They were supportive, but they felt uneasy about the pressure."
Worse was to come when the Stones appeared at the El Mocambo Club and in the audience was Canada's First Lady, Margaret Trudeau. She followed the band to New York, bringing scandal and sensationalist publicity in her wake.
Canada had been a bad place for the Stones — and the future of the band looked bleak indeed.
THE WHEELS of justice everywhere in the world grind slow, and it was almost 18 months before Richards
was to return to Toronto for his court appearance.
One can only speculate on the deals that went down over that period. Richards' only public interviews concentrated strongly on what was to be the main plank of his defence — his cure at a clinic in New York. The man in the dock was obviously to be presented as a reformed character.
With the huge financial investments at stake in the Stones' future, nothing was to be left to chance. Obviously, the Stones' power as a live and recording act wou'd be severely muted if Richards spent time inside.
Court Drawing: Laurie McGaw/Toronto Star
CUT TO Toronto a week before the trial is to begin. Down at the courthouse on University Avenue, special security precautions are being arranged. Rumours are circulating the city that Richards will not show, a story quickly squashed by Stones publicist Paul Wasserman, whose other clients include Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan.
"That's silly," he pointed out. "After all, if he didn't turn up for the trial, he could be extradited from almost anywhere, with the exception of somewhere like the Yemen. And they don't have 24-track recording studios, so he couldn't go there."
Sure enough Richards arrived, very much the family man, with his mother and two kids, Marion and Dandelion, in tow. There was no trace of the man who had a string of drug and other convictions stretching back ten years, the hedonist who had once owned a yacht called Mandrax. Richard was under heavy manners and facing the heaviest bust so far.
With money no object, the Stones had hired the best Canadian lawyer they could find: Austin Cooper, a 49-year-old criminal lawyer with 25 years experience, a man well respected in legal circles for being the prime mover behind introducing the legal aid system in Ontario. He was to tell reporters: "I'm just a lawyer and I'm really awfully dull. I don't even play the guitar."
The case was to be heard by Judge Lloyd Graburn, a 52-year-old with a college haircut and two sons. Unaware of who exactly Richards was, he had to ask around before realising the true celebrity credentials of the defendant.
As is common in most legal cases, plea bargaining was the order of the day.
With the judge's approval, the more serious charge of trafficking heroin was dropped, as was the cocaine possession charge, leaving Richards to face a simple heroin possession rap. This still meant, though, that he was looking at the chance of going down.
The defence tactics soon became clear. Cooper explained to the court that Richards had bought the heroin in bulk to reduce the chances of detection. His New York score amounted to 22 grams of 34% pure smack which, when diluted, was enough for 440 injections with Richards shooting them up at the rate of 10 a day.
Cooper's oratory was overwhelming. Richards was described to the court as a man with "a poor self-image .... a tragic person who became addicted to heroin to prop up his sad personal life." His name was ranked alongside such other tormented artists as Van Gogh, Judy Garland, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
The Cooper version of Richards' habit began in 1967. "H was after a very gruelling schedule with the group, and he was exhausted after all the playing and touring. He experimented with drugs.
"In 1969 he started with heroin, and it got to the state where he was taking such quantities of the drug and getting no euphoria from it. He was taking such powerful amounts — as much as 2 1/2 grams a day — just to feel normal."
The first cure came in 1972, "but he fell back into the cauldron." Another cure attempt at a Swiss clinic the following year worked for a while. Cooper claimed, "but again he fell off the wagon, so to speak."
In 1974 he failed again, but since May 1977 Richards had been undergoing treatment at the Stevens Psychiatric Centre in New York, and this time he was winning the struggle.
Health factors aside, Richards' habit took a heavy financial toll. In just two years, the court was told, Richards spent $650,000 on heroin.
Cooper pleaded eloquently: "He should not be dealt with as a special person, but I ask your honour to understand him as a tortured creative person — as a major contributor to an art form. I ask you to understand the whole man."
Perhaps the strangest note of Cooper's defence came when he claimed that Richards was in the process of setting up an international addiction centre at an undisclosed location. Richards later told a press conference that he did not instruct Cooper to say that, and claimed: "It may be true and it may not. I'll let you know when I've paid the lawyers."
The defence rested, and the prosecutor asked the judge for a jail sentence on the grounds of the amount of heroin snatched, Richards' previous record and his age. The judge decided to retire and deliver sentence the following day.
THE VERDICT was a shock to nearly everyone. The judge said jail was out because Richards was taking the cure. "His efforts to remove himself from the drug subculture can only have a salutary effect on those who admire him." Secondly, because Richards had money — it has been revealed that in 1977 Richards earned some $300,000 — he was unlikely to resort to crime to support his habit.
So Richards was put on a year's probation, ordered to continue his cure and to play a concert for the blind. Richards gave a clenched fist salute to the packed courtroom before leaving with his bodyguard. Another trial, another day.
Reactions to the verdict in Canada were mixed. Former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker was outraged and urged an appeal, but the largest paper in Canada, The Toronto Globe, described the verdict in its editorial as "a model of enlightened sentencing, one which should pave the way for a more equitable and civilised treatment of convicted drug addicts in Canadian courts."
It should be made clear that less than half the people convicted in Canada of simple possession of heroin go to jail.
But it was the concert for the blind that raised most eyebrows. How had the judge reached that idea? Onestrong rumour was that Cooper had suggested it, but this was tracked down to blind superfan Rita Bedard,who attended the trial every day and was invited in by Cooper to meet Richards and get his autograph. It turned out that she was responsible for the story; Cooper dismissed it.
In fact the judge had called John Simmons of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) just 30minutes before going into court onthat final day. Simmons claims: "He asked me if I would object if he sentenced a young musician to play music at the Institute. We only foundout later it was Richards. We were *shocked and pleased."
But not everyone was that euphoric. CNIB's John Rae said it could negatively affect public attitudes towards blind people, and called the verdict "outrageous, bizarre and patronising".
"We're seeking equal rights, not a handout," he said. "If the judge intended to help blind people, there are a number of organisations besides the CNIB that should have the opportunity to benefit as well."
The big problem for the CNIB now is that their auditorium on Bayview Avenue only holds 200, and their switchboard has been jammed with people hustling for tickets. The owner of the 16,000 seatcr Maple Leaf , Gardens has offered his venue for the event, but no final decision has been reached.
THE COURT scene over, Richards arrived an hour late for a press conference, his last public appearance before waving Canada goodbye. Wearing jeans, a scratched leather jacket and a T-shirt with the legend 'Robbie Rocker' on it, he fielded a barrage of press enquiries.
How had the whole incident affected him?
"Oh it's all show business. Every day of my life is show business. I didn't give it much thought until the last few days. I mean, it wasn't as if I was waking up each day thinking the trial is coming."
Had he made any jail contingency plans?
"I just wondered if the uniform was with stripes or arrows?" He described his probation officer as "sweet".
On the subject of heroin, he said he gave up his addiction because it was boring and commented: "You lose your respect and confidence. Once you get to the stage of addiction it is just where you get to ask, 'Where is the dope?' You wonder what you're doing sitting in an apartment with four men who are dribbling . . .
"I'm happy to be off it ... I have become a lush."
When asked about the Stones' reaction to the verdict, he said: "They were very ticked off I didn't get put away for 30 years. I'm going to use the bail money to bribe the rest of the band to do the benefit."
Of the judge's comment that some Stones' songs glorified drug use, he said: "I think that is a misconception. There are drug overtones in about one per cent of the band's material and Mick wrote them, not me."
So Richards is out once more. Meanwhile Vicious spends time in Bellevue psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt. Another week in the history of rock and roll.
NME: Adventures in the Music Press
Dick Tracy's first and only cover story, investigating record
and tape piracy. July 22nd, 1978.
It was a recent weekend Guardian magazine profile of Tony Parsons that initially triggered all this off – a flood of memories. Tony, now a best-selling novelist and a regular columnist for The Mirror, was interviewed in connection with his just-published novel 'Stories We Could Tell' based on his time at the New Musical Express (NME). The least said about that the better. Paul Morley's review 'Those Weren't The Days' is right on the button I think.
My story begins back in the days of what was then called the 'underground press'. I was part of Frendz magazine, one of a number of nationally-distributed haphazardly-produced mags and papers that documented the counter-culture of the period. It was here that I met Nick Kent who turned up and asked me if he could write some rock reviews for the papers. Good writers of any kind were hard to come by, particularly ones that didn't want paying, and within a few weeks Nick was pumping out live and record reviews that immediately convinced that here was man with real talent. We became best mates
Within a few weeks it seemed, Nick was suddenly everywhere, hanging out with the Grateful Dead and Keith Richards. (He took me once to Richards house in Chelsea but he wasn't in). I remember travelling down to Brighton with him on a coach with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, hanging out in Wembley with the legendary San Fran rock band The Flaming Groovies (later seeing them live with Nick at their appearance at the legendary Iggy Pop gig at the Kings Cross cinema)
Frendz, in its last incarnation, was being designed in Osterley by Pennie Smith (later to acquire legendary status as a rock photographer par excellence for the NME) in her funky converted railway station pad, helped by our dear departed friend Kevin Sparrow. I remember Roxy Music being the big thing at the time.
Inevitably Frendz came to a close – there was no money left and only a few survivors on the staff – and our last issue, designed by George Snow, featured news of an exclusive Lou Reed piece by Nick Kent which never materialised, we had to print a big apology in the paper. By now Nick and Pennie had migrated to the NME.
The New Musical Express (NME), founded in 1962, had begun recruiting from the underground press and Nick and Charles Shaar Murray, one of the schoolkids featured in the infamous OZ issue that became the subject of the longest obscenity case in British legal history, between them ushered in a whole new era of rock writing – inspired by Lester Bangs and Creem magazine – that made the paper a must-read for so many at that time. This was New Journalism of an irreverent drug-fuelled kind that captured the spirit of the times.
It must be remembered that, at that time, there was no coverage of music in the national press at all – except for headlines when one of the Beatles got married or such like. Hence the strength of the music press and feelings that attached to them. This was vital reading for music fans and the NME along with its rivals Melody Maker and Sounds saw their circulations rise rapidly during the 1970s with the NME way out on top in a dominant position before the decade was out.
Clustered here were the some of the best writers and editors around – the late great Ian McDonald, Tony Tyler and the editor Nick Logan, who would go on to found Smash Hits and subsequently his own magazine The Face, the style bible for the decade to come.
I was determined to get into the paper if I could and it was thanks to Mick Farren, former editor of International Times, who had also joined up, that I managed to get a gig around 1976. I believe my first piece was a three-line story about a guitar-plucking contest which carried my by-line. I remember leaping up-and-down with excitement. I had made it into the NME – the nearest thing we've ever had in this country to a national youth newspaper.
Amongst the great writers on NME were Tony Parsons and Julie Burchill, perhaps the best known now to a mass audience, but music journalist afficianados will recognise not only Kent, Murray and Farren but also the truly excellent Chris Salewicz, Vivien Goldman, Brian Case, Danny Baker, Paul Morley et al
The best source of information to date on NME and the other papers of the period is 'In Their Own Write: Adventures in the Music Press' by Paul Gorman [Sanctuary Publishing 2001], consisting entirely of interleaved interviews with the above mentioned and others.
What is missing from this account, and from other assessments I have read about the NME is the fact that although the paper carried principally music journalism, there was also a great deal of material on books, films and the general youth culture.
From my earliest days at the NME it was clear to me that I wasn't going to be able to compete with the music writers but I found my niche as the person who wrote everything that wasn't music. In the process, I became Dick Tracy, investigative journalist and, under that nom de plume, wrote a considerable amount of stories between 1976-82. A few pieces appeared under my own name but Dick Tracy acquired a bigger profile and cachet than my real identity.
So much so that the following small notice was run in the paper on May 20th 1978 in connection with a piece I wrote called 'Cloning Papers':
'Contrary to popular belief, Dick Tracy is not the pseudonym used for NME team efforts. Tracy is one man who works alone, albeit with occasional help from both inside and outside NME central. The only journalist to unearth the covert activities of the Animal Liberation Front, the only journalist to present an alternative view of Operation Julie acid purge, Dick Tracy now offers the most convincing theory to date about The Man Who Was Cloned.' [An interview with David Rorvik, author of 'In His Image' which claimed to be the true story of the first human cloning]
I don't have a complete record of everything I wrote during this period so what follows is a fraction of the total but includes some of the most important stuff:
FILMS: During the mid-1970s cinema attendances had collapsed, to be subsequently revived by the new generation of sfx films led by Star Wars. The film industry was desperate to get coverage in the NME and I was, in the beginning, one of the paper's principal film writers, with access to major film studios, artists and writers.
- Exclusive first- run interview with Julian Temple about the first Sex Pistols film
- The first piece, some six months before the film was released, on 'Quadrophenia' followed by interviews with Franc Roddam and Phil Daniels.
- Interview with Milos Forman about 'Hair'.
- Interview with Steven Spielberg about 'Close Encounters'
- Interview with Billie Hayes and Brad Davis, the actor who played him in 'Midnight Express'
- Feature on the films of Clint Eastwood.
- UNPUBLISHED: Interview with David Mingay on the Clash film 'Rude Boy.'
PLUS: Numerous reviews of movies beginning with 'The Missouri Breaks' (Jack Nicholson/Marlon Brando)
DRUGS: Wrote a regular drug column called Inside Dope. Major pieces on Keith Richard's heroin trial, on British drug prisoners on foreign jails, on Operation Julie.
- Worked as part of a team, with Angus Mckinnon, Ian McDonald and others, to produce the four-page NME Guide to the Nuclear Age. There was a nuclear explosion on the cover of that week's issue. (June 11th 1977)
- Numerous pieces on the Animal Liberation Front and the birth of what has become a worldwide radical movement.
- Number of pieces on the Save The Whale movement and campaigns – the biggest environmental issue of that time. Also the seal culls in Newfoundland
Much of this sort of coverage was taken up in a more expansive form by Andrew Tyler, who now runs the excellent Animal Aid. Hats off to a great writer. See details of his latest campaign here.
MUSIC BUSINESS: I was one of the first journalists to write investigative pieces about the music industry itself, profiling major corporations and pillaging the trade papers of the times for juicy leads. This led to MY ONLY COVER STORY, on Record Piracy. Also did major piece on The Elvis Industry following the death of the King plus similar piece on the mass cross-marketing of Saturday Night Fever.
The NME years were genuinely exciting. The power and reputation of the paper was such that doors opened wherever you went. Johnny Rotten, Paula Yates, The Stranglers and the like would drop round the office, always full of the pressure cooker atmosphere of a weekly paper.
Yes, I spent a lot of time in the legendary 'kinderbunker' with Tony and Julie, who liked what I was doing and were real mates to me, inviting me to a number of punk events – like the memorable Johnny Thunders deportation party – encouraging me to go and interview Blondie but also supporting the animal liberation coverage I was writing for the paper.
I was not a major figure on the paper but I made a contribution. Thanks to Chris Salewicz for saying in 'In Their Own Write': 'John May was very good as Dick Tracy. He started the film coverage with what was called Silver Screen and he was quite instrumental in changing the paper.'
Thanks also to Phil McNeill, who took a real interest in the investigative journalism I was writing and supported some very ambitious and difficult stories.
So much more to be said. Consider this a 1st Draft memory exercise.
1. Mick Farren's account of those times can be found in his biography 'Give The Anarchist A Cigarette'. I am covered by a sentence that reads: 'Old underground press contacts came up with stories on bizarre media events, weird performance art, animal rights, the environment, recreational drugs and drug enforcement.'
2. For Neil Spencer's recent account as his period as editor (1978-85), see here.
3 Am currently chasing up the 'Inky Fingers' documentary on the NME, shown on July 4th, 2005, on BBC4. Some of you lucky people who can get digital tv will have seen it already. Further comments to come.
4. A huge amount of journalism from the NME and other music papers can be found at
www.rocksbackpages.com. Highly recommended.


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Paul Jennings Hill (6 de fevereiro de 1954 – 3 de setembro de 2003) foi a primeira pessoa a ser executada nos Estados Unidos da América por ter matado pessoas que realizavam e facilitavam abortos.

Crime e punição
No dia 29 de julho de 1994, Hill foi até uma clínica de aborto em Pensacola, Flórida que ele já conhecia. Quando ele viu o médico John Britton e seu acompanhante da clínica, James Barrett, do lado de fora do prédio, ele atirou e matou ambos. Além dos duplo assassinato, Hill feriu gravemente a esposa de Barrett. No mesmo dia, Hill foi preso pela polícia.

No dia 6 de dezembro de 1994, Hill recebeu a sentença de pena de morte pela justiça da Flórida.

Em uma declaração antes de sua execução, Hill disse que ele não sentia remorso por suas ações, e que ele esperava "uma grande recompensa no Paraíso".

Criminosos dos Estados Unidos
Pessoas executadas por injeção letal
Violência antiaborto

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Die Domus de Janas von Corona Moltana in Sa Seas bei Bonnanaro in der Metropolitanstadt Sassari auf Sardinien wurden im Jahre 1889 von Antonio Taramelli (1868–1939) entdeckt und ausgegraben. Er fand sechs (noch fünf erhaltene) Domus de Janas (), auch als Necropoli ipogeica bezeichnete Felsgräber, die in den Kalkstein gehauen waren, von denen einige noch intakte Bestattungen enthielten.

Diese Domus de Janas stehen am Anfang elementarer planimetrischer Entwicklung. Vier von ihnen bestehen aus einer einzelnen Kammer, die von oben oder durch einen kurzen horizontalen Gang (Dromos) zugänglich sind. Domus 1, die wichtigste und am besten erhaltene Anlage, besteht aus zwei Kammern. Der rechteckige Vorraum von 3,9 × 2,7 m und 1,5 m Höhe, hat ein schräges Dach. Ein Durchgang in der Rückwand mit dekorativen Ornamenten führt zur Hauptkammer, die in diesem ungewöhnlichen Fall kleiner als die Vorkammer ist (3,1 × 1,8 × 0,50 m). Sie hat einen unregelmäßigen Grundriss und hat acht halbkugelförmige Schälchen an der Basis der Wände. In der Kammer wurde eine intakte Doppelbestattung und ein Satz bestehend aus 18 Vasen und einem Bronzering gefunden.

Die Besonderheit der Nekropole bestand in der bisher unbekannten Keramik, deren Typ die Bonnanaro-Kultur begründete, die sich von anderen sardischen prähistorischen Kulturen unterschied und in chronologischer Reihenfolge auf den Beginn des 2. Jahrtausends (1800–1500 v. Chr.), also kurz vor der die ganze Insel bedeckenden Nuraghenkultur, festgelegt wurde. Ein spezieller Brauch dieser Kultur, den es nur dank der Entdeckung dieser versiegelten Gräber möglich war zu entdecken, war die Trepanation, ein Brauch, den sie von der vorausgegangenen Glockenbecherkultur übernahm.

Die Domus de Janas sind derzeit in einem schlechten Zustand aufgrund der natürlichen Abplatzungen des Kalksteins.

Siehe auch
 Liste der vor- und frühgeschichtlichen archäologischen Fundplätze auf Sardinien

Literatur
 Alberto Moravetti, Carlo Tozzi u. a. (Hrsg.): Guide archeologiche. Preistoria e Protostoria in Italia. 2: Sardegna. A.B.A.C.O, Forlí 1995, ISBN 88-86712-01-4.
 Manlio Brigaglia (Hrsg.): Sardegna archeologica. (Guida turistica). Istituto Geografico De Agostini, Novara 1989, ISBN 88-402-0404-0.
 Rainer Pauli: Sardinien. Geschichte, Kultur, Landschaft. Entdeckungsreisen auf einer der schönsten Inseln im Mittelmeer. 7. Auflage. DuMont, Köln 1990, ISBN 3-7701-1368-3.

Weblinks

Corona Moltana
Corona Moltana
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Roger Ducret (ur. 2 kwietnia 1888 w Paryżu, zm. 8 stycznia 1962 tamże) – francuski szermierz, multimedalista igrzysk olimpijskich.

Życiorys
Podczas I wojny światowej był jeńcem wojennym.

Uczestnik letnich igrzysk olimpijskich w 1920, 1924 oraz 1928. Podczas letnich igrzysk olimpijskich 1924 brał udział we wszystkich odmianach szermierki - szpadzie, florecie i szabli, wygrywając trzy turnieje podczas tych igrzysk: drużynową szpadę, drużynowy floret i floret indywidualnie. Po zakończeniu kariery sportowej pracował jako dziennikarz dla Le Figaro, L'Echo des Sports i innych gazet.

Przypisy

Francuscy szermierze
Francuscy olimpijczycy
Urodzeni w 1888
Uczestnicy Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1920
Uczestnicy Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1924
Uczestnicy Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1928
Zmarli w 1962
Ludzie urodzeni w Paryżu


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UNILORIN to Host National Youth Games with Over N50million
September 17, 2016 Okegbemi Olusoji Sports 0
As a result of the premium it attaches to talent development by accepting to host the second edition of the National Youth Games, the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Kwara State is losing nothing less than N50 million which would have been generated from accommodation rates charged students that attend its sandwich programmes at the institution.
This was disclosed by the Director of Sports UNILORIN, Professor Olawole Obiyemi while commenting on the level of preparation of the institution about the game.
He explained that the Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Abdulganiyu Ambali who is a sports lover and a believer in the development of the youth has always emphasized that what the country needs most at this time is the development of its youth as a precursor of a brighter future.
"We would have generated about N50m from sandwich students who pay N15,000 each for accommodation, but because we want the National Youth Games to get the best, we asked them to seek accommodation elsewhere. The importance of the National Youth Games was made our priority as we are now making our accommodation available to over 4,000 athletes and officials free of charge," he said.
He said that the Vice Chancellor has since the beginning of the year commenced preparations towards its success, which involved series of meetings and signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development.
"The Vice Chancellor is a sports loving man. In February, he delegated four professors to attend a meeting of the National Council of Sports in Tinapa," he added.
On the preparations of the institution to host the Games, he said everything has been put in place to ensure a successful and memorable second edition.
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Making the choice between living off-campus and commuting or dorming can be an overwhelming decision when you are unsure of what's the right choice for you. A lot of people will tell you that you only gain the "college experience" by dorming. This might be true in a lot of instances, but you will lack in other areas over choosing to commute.
If it is feasible for you to imagine yourself living in a confined space with a stranger in order to be close to school, easier access to student facilities and necessities, and the ability to be involved with your school as much as possible, then dorming would be a good choice for you. If, however, the thought of being in a confined space with a stranger is completely out of your comfort zone then it would be wise to examine what your options are.
It is not only a matter of personal taste, but also a financial choice. If you have the means to live off-campus and are able to commit yourself to being available when needed at school, then commuting might be the right thing for you. When dorming, a lot of students find themselves without a car or other means of transportation at their will. It depends on where the school is located and what kind of public transportation is offered. This is a factor to consider when dorming and what you are willing to sacrifice for the sake of being close to school. A lot of students who can afford the time (or need the money) choose to get a job while in school. Living off-campus is the easiest way to hold a job and still go to school.
Living off-campus would require you to have a car and/or other means of transportation to get to class. If you are considering joining a sorority it is required that you dorm at the sorority house. If participating in a club or sports team where your time might not be so flexible outside of school, it would be best to dorm where you can devote all your time to being where you are needed on the campus. Each person's situation, schedule, and concentration will be different, and it is up to you, maybe with the help of your parents or mentor, to decide what's the best decision for you.
Make a detailed list of what you are needed for at school and how many activities you are planning on being involved in. If you are planning on living off-campus, find out if your student loans will cover student living costs. There are many options to make the right living situation for yourself. A lot of variables are involved and the most important is the school location. Being in the city makes it easy to be a student and have a means for transportation to nearby stores and restaurants, hospitals, gyms, clubs, etc. Some will be within walking distance.
The first year is a good year to dorm, where you can settle in and make friends while becoming accustomed to the school. Living off-campus will leave you detached in some areas, and it is in your hands to be there as you are needed and as much as you desire outside of the requirements. If you find you don't like dorming, you have three more years to change your situation.
Whatever your decision is, make sure you've thought about all the pros and cons and have done as much research as possible on what's best for you. Don't dorm because your best friend dorms, or live off-campus because your friends want to get a place though you would rather live on campus. These are your last important years before heading out, and this isn't high school anymore. Each decision you make must be about what's best for you. So stay true to yourself and try your hardest, and everything will fall into place.


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Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over Black Widow's streaming release
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Scarlett Johansson has filed a lawsuit against Disney over the simultaneous streaming release of Black Widow, which opened in theaters and on Disney Plus's Premier Access service on the same day.
The lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday, claims that Johansson's contract with Marvel Entertainment, which is owned by Disney, guaranteed the film's "wide theatrical release." According to the lawsuit, it was "clearly recognized" that the arrangement meant an exclusive distribution with no streaming. According to the lawsuit, Johansson's income was predicated in part on the film's box office performance, implying that the streaming deal may significantly reduce her remuneration.
According to the lawsuit, "Disney knew that cannibalizing [box office profits] through Disney+ would save Marvel (and, by implication, Disney) 'very big' amounts of money that it would otherwise owe Ms. Johansson." "On information and belief, Disney purposefully caused Marvel's breach of the Agreement without justification in order to deprive Ms. Johansson of the entire benefit of her Marvel contract."
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According to The Wall Street Journal, which originally reported the complaint, Johansson might lose $50 million as a result of the changed release plans. A Walt Disney Company spokeswoman said in a statement that the filing has "no validity whatsoever."
The case is particularly sad and troubling because of its callous disdain for the catastrophic and long-term worldwide impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Disney representative. "Disney has complied fully with Ms. Johansson's contract, and the release of Black Widow on Disney+ with Premier Access has considerably increased her ability to collect extra money on top of the $20 million she has already received."
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Disney is accused of having two principal objectives for the hybrid release, according to the lawsuit. First, it claims, Disney intended to increase the number of subscribers to its streaming service and inflate the value of its shares. "Disney wants to drastically devalue Ms. Johansson's agreement and therefore profit itself," the suit claims.
The lawsuit's claim that Disney pledged an exclusive theatrical release before breaking that commitment appears to rest on the definition of "theatrical release." According to the lawsuit, both Marvel and Johansson interpreted the contractual promise of a wide theatrical release to mean that the film "would initially be released exclusively in movie theaters, and that it would remain exclusively in movie theaters for a period of between approximately 90 and 120 days." However, it is unclear whether those details are included in her contract.
"A 'theatrical release,' as Ms. Johansson, Disney, Marvel, and nearly everyone else in Hollywood understands, is a release that is exclusive to movie theaters," the suit claims. "Disney was well aware of this agreement, but it nonetheless directed Marvel to break it by releasing the film on the Disney+ streaming service the same day it was released in theaters."
Disney appears to have realized that modifying the distribution plan would have an impact on Johansson's career. According to the lawsuit, Marvel's general counsel, David Galluzzi, wrote to Johansson's reps in 2019 saying that if the release plan modified, there would be a dialogue. Galluzzi is cited as writing, "We recognize that should the plan change, we would need to discuss this with you and come to an understanding as the arrangement is built on a series of (very high) box office bonuses."
Several Disney films that were supposed to be released exclusively in theaters instead debuted simultaneously in theaters and on Disney Plus's Premier Access program during the epidemic. Premier Access costs $30 extra to view these films on Disney Plus from home at the same time they're playing in cinemas. As cinemas collapsed under pandemic lockdowns and COVID-19 restrictions, a handful of films, including Black Widow, Cruella, and the live-action adaptation of Mulan, were released this way.
It's a substantial shift in the release structure that has arisen as a result of the pandemic. Many big streaming services, notably HBO Max, have chosen to release films in this manner. Major Hollywood directors such as Denis Villeneuve, the director of Dune, and Christopher Nolan have criticized the model.
Following Disney's statement that the film will be released as a day-and-date release, Johansson and her team attempted to negotiate with Marvel over the film's release, according to the lawsuit filed this week. It claims that Marvel "ignored this approach," and that the picture was still released on Disney Plus under the hybrid release strategy.
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Q: TypeScript "Expression expected" errors despite @ts-ignore on lines with Google Apps Script force-printing scripts I'm writing code for a Google Apps Script module using VSCode, which otherwise works well in checking syntax and so on.
The only problem is, this produces 5 TS errors, despite the @ts-ignore:
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It's the <?! and ?> that it's complaining about.  Those demarcate Google Apps Script force-printing scriptlets. *
I've tried this workaround specific to @ts-ignore but apparently not specific enough (to force-printing scriptlets.)  I do not wish to disable TS for the entire file with @ts-nocheck because it's useful for TS to help with the rest of the file.
How can I force TS to listen to the @ts-ignore command?  (Or support force-printing scriptlets?)
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With communion and confirmation season almost upon us, we've picked some of our favourite high-street dresses that won't be too hard on the bank, all dresses come in under €77.
There is plenty to consider, and plenty to stress about when it comes to suitable and appropriate attire for Communions and Confirmations. It's not quite as dressy as a wedding, but far more dressy than a typical Sunday. You probably will want to cover up to some degree, not too much leg on show(or other body parts!), especially in the church. Budget and style are a priority in this column, so with all these factors in mind, we have put together a few Lookbooks to give you some inspiration.
If you're like me, and favour comfort but enjoy style, this wrap dress from Warehouse could be the perfect option. A flattering shape, sleeves to cover the upper arms, and easy to wear i.e, sit down without sucking it in, and eat your dinner in peace without worrying about a food baby. Floral print is bang on trend at the moment too, perfect for this time of the year. The shoes and bag with the bow finish the look perfectly (both from House of Fraser).
We hope that provided some inspo for you Mammys, aunts, Godmothers, who find themselves in the midst of planning your little ones big day. The number one thing, no matter what the occasion, regardless of current trends, is that YOU are COMFORTABLE in what you are wearing. Although, that's coming from me, where comfort is my number one priority in life. Did someone say tracksuit bottoms and hoody???
We hope you have a great day, no matter what you end up wearing, and create memories to last a lifetime.
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Change4Life is a nationwide movement designed to help people make changes to their lifestyles, so that they can eat well, move more and live longer.
Freestyle uDance are proud to be a supporter of the Chane4Life movement and to encourage the children that see our coaches/teachers as role models, to Eat well, Move more and Live longer.
These days, 'modern life' can mean that we're a lot less active. With so many opportunities to watch TV or play computer games, and with so much convenience and fast food available, we don't move about as much, or eat as well as we used to. Which means that 9 out of 10 children today could grow up with dangerous amounts of fat in their bodies. This can cause life-threatening diseases - so it's really important that we do something about it. Our bodies weren't designed to sit down all the time – they need to walk, jump, run and move to be healthy, grow properly and use up the right amount of energy.
Simply being up, about and moving burns calories and helps fend off diseases. Being active will raise children's heartbeats and help pump blood around their bodies. It's like a mini workout for their lungs and muscles!
A good dose of fresh air and exercise will also help us all sleep better. So keeping children active will help them get a good night's sleep and make them feel more alert for the next day.
As a company we strongly believe that we can help with this and use our position as role models. We deliver school assemblies on the benefits of eating your 5 a day, the huge importance of being active and why to make the Change4Life.
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If you cut an apple in half the other way (sideways, not down the core) you'll see a star shape in the middle.
Did you know tomatoes aren't really a vegetable? They're actually a fruit because they have seeds in the middle.
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Colin has experience in litigation, including class actions, arbitration, mediation, and appeals. He has represented clients in several prominent commercial disputes and at all stages of litigation—from pre-suit to post-trial and appeal—in state and federal court. In particular, he has a deep background in arbitration and insurance matters.
Prior to joining Osborn Maledon, Colin served as a law clerk to the late Honorable Arthur L. Alarcón on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and by designation on in the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits. He was also a litigator at major firms in Chicago, New York, and California.


In recent years, there has been an increased interest in South Carolina regarding the amount of water used by different consumers, especially agricultural producers. This interest has sparked conversations among different stakeholders, including the media, policy makers, producers, scientists, and the general public, regarding the current state and future of water resources in the state. Central to these discussions, from the agricultural sector perspective, is the question of how much water producers really need to grow crops. The objective of this study was, therefore, to develop an online tool to use local South Carolina historic weather data to estimate daily and seasonal crop evapotranspiration and irrigation requirements for different crops. The overall goal was for the new tool to assist farmers and other stakeholders to better plan irrigation water allocations and management. Therefore, an interactive online tool called ETcCalc was created to address this objective. ETcCalc, which is freely available online (http://sccropwater.com), was developed using historic weather data; therefore, it is suitable as an irrigation planning tool rather than a real-time irrigation scheduling tool.
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As the number of diagnosed COVID-19 cases in Ottawa continued to rise in April, we checked in with Dr. Lorne Wiesenfeld, vice-dean of Postgraduate Medical Education at the Faculty of Medicine and a practicing emergency physician at the Ottawa Hospital. This is the second of two instalments.
The last time we talked you'd worked the first weekend in April. And here we are the last weekend in April. What's different?
The numbers in the emergency room have started to pick up — not so much patients with COVID-19, as people with other medical conditions who should be a seeking medical attention. So things are a bit busier, but hardly overwhelmed. Things are still quieter than usual.
When we talked earlier, you'd said it was the calm before the storm. Do you think the storm is coming, or do you think we've somehow slid under the radar and avoided that storm?
Oh, boy, that's a tough one. I think we're managing with some great advice, and a lot of people doing their part: from the administration, to provincial and municipal leaders, to the citizens of Ottawa. I'm still worried that it might happen, if everybody just suddenly goes straight out and resumes what they were doing back in February or January. I'm worried, but I'm cautiously optimistic that we may be avoiding the worst of it.
We're seeing news about outbreaks in nursing homes in Ottawa. How are health professionals being deployed to help out with the situation?
At the Ottawa Hospital, there are discussions on having support teams that could go out perhaps to nursing homes, to assist. As it stands right now, due to provincial rules, if any residents of a long-term care facility come to hospital and they're admitted during this pandemic, they cannot be repatriated after their hospital stay, back to the long-term care facility. If we could have teams that went out to support people in the long-term care homes, that might mean they may not need to be admitted to hospital.
There's also discussion of having teams of residents, postgraduate trainees, to go to these long-term care facilities to see how they can assist. While providing care to the people, we could also make sure that our trainees get the experience that is necessary for them to become even better doctors.
When you hear people talking about starting to ease the social distancing restrictions, what thoughts go through your mind?
Well, it's going to have to happen at some point. We can't do this forever, obviously, but what is the best time to do it? I guess we'll only know in retrospect whether the time that was chosen was optimal or not.
When I went out for a walk after my shift this Saturday afternoon, it looked like a regular spring day of any other year, unfortunately, with respect to social distancing. I think the beautiful day made people forget their troubles a bit. And I think people were forgetting that we're in the middle of a pandemic.
Lots of people are being mindful, but it's very difficult, especially for people who aren't involved in the front line of health care. I just hope that whatever we do, we do it cautiously. Do it incrementally. We just don't open up, and everybody's life is back to normal.
Any other thoughts or concerns?
We talk now the first wave and the second wave. Another wave is this: there are going to be all the people who were waiting for care, who didn't or couldn't come in. All the delayed surgeries and postponed appointments. These people's conditions, their symptoms, are progressing as time goes on, and they're going to need care and there's going to be a backlog. This is something that's pushed us all back by over a month. But I don't think there's anything that anybody could have done to make that month of wait disappear.
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American, Delta, and United have all recently reported record profits after decades of struggle.
Last year, American Airlines saw its profits surge 50% to $6.3 billion.
According to Skift's Brian Sumers, one major airline CEO believes the industry has solved its profitability problem for good.
Although revenue growth across the board slowed down in the first quarter of the year, the airline industry is still going strong.
Even though Parker, as noted by Sumers, has long been an optimist in the strength of the airline business, his optimism is not unwarranted.
The airlines business has traditionally been a very volatile industry with thin margins and high capital requirements. That's means the room error is very narrow. As a result, in decades past, airlines have often teetered near bankruptcy.
Over the past few years, there's been a fundamental change in the way major US airlines are run. After the latest round of bankruptcies and consolidation that saw American merge with US Airways, Delta with Northwest, and United with Continental, it seems airline management has become more focused and efficient.
Airlines have been careful to exercises discipline in expanding capacity and routes. They have also keyed in on the areas that deserve the most investment and what customers can do without.
Although cheap crude prices over the past 24 months have certainly boosted airlines' financial performance, it would be unfair to attribute solely to lower fuel expenditures.
Last month at Delta's media day, CEO Ed Bastian noted that current oil prices are nearly identical to that in 2005. That year, both Delta and future merger partner Northwest filed for bankruptcy. In 2015, Delta reported $4.5 billion profits while returning $1.5 billion in profit-sharing to employees.