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Actor Robbie Magasiva. Photo / Fiona Goodall / Getty Images.
By: Jennifer Dann
Actor Robbie Magasiva was intrigued to learn about his genetic heritage on the new series of DNA Detectives. As his two children near adulthood, the 45-year-old empty-nester is enjoying having time to take up hobbies like motorbike riding and surfing.
1. What was your childhood like?
I grew up in Wellington. When I was 5 we moved back to Samoa for five years. Dad was getting bad asthma attacks here so he decided to go back home. He got a bit of land from family, just bush, excavated it and put a taro plantation down. It was very basic. We stayed in a shack for years. The aim was to be self-sufficient but Dad ended up getting a job as a bank manager as well. I remember walking everywhere. The nearest bus stop was about 5km away.
2. Was it hard coming back to New Zealand at age 10?
I remember being on the plane and my brother Pua, who was a baby, doing this massive dump that stunk out the row. That's ingrained in my memory. When I went over I could only speak English but when I came back I could only speak Samoan. The English came back quite quickly and all the kids would say, "You don't sound like a FOB". We moved in with our aunty and uncle. There were nine cousins all in the same house - five boys in one room. That was just the norm back in the day. Most of the time you were outside anyway until you got called in for dinner.
3. When did you discover acting?
The Strathmore Primary talent quest; I remember performing and all the kids laughing and clapping. I just loved it. At Marist Holy Cross I did musicals. My sixth form drama teacher picked three of us Polynesian boys to audition for a commercial his friend was casting. On the bus trip there me and my mates Henry and Noel all said, "If you get it I'll be happy for you" to each other. At the audition they asked us to walk down a corridor and act excited as each door opened on to a new career. I was the tallest and as soon as they said "action", I was right out the front going, "Ooh, I could do that! Ooh! Ahh!" I was in the moment. On the bus trip home the boys were really quiet. I said, "How do you think you went?" and Henry goes, "I don't know. I wasn't seen. Someone hogged the camera." He still brings up that story.
4. Did your parents have any concerns about you becoming an actor?
No, and I'm grateful for that. The thing I had on my side was I was good at rugby. I got to representative level and was approached by some NRL clubs. Choosing acting was easy. I enjoyed the social element of rugby but in my heart I wanted to be an actor. I already had a foot in the door and was getting regular work. There were very few Polynesian actors around, so me and Dave Fane got most of the roles.
5. Did you ever feel like Polynesian roles were stereotyped back then?
I was on Crimewatch a lot. I was everything - the rapist, the robber, the basher. I got rich off crime. But after that I was fortunate to get roles where I wasn't the stereotypical Polynesian.
6. Your younger brother Pua Magasiva is in Shortland Street. Did you encourage him to become an actor too?
I didn't encourage or discourage him. I think it motivated him seeing me pursue that career path. He thought, "Well if my brother can do it..."
7. You've just shot the sixth season of the Australian drama Wentworth which will air here next year. How are you finding it?
I'm enjoying the challenge. Emotionally it's been hard. When I'm shooting tragic scenes and I need to think of something really terrible, I think of how I'd feel if something happened to my kids. You've really got to go there emotionally and it takes it out of you.
8. You must be almost an empty-nester by now?
Almost. My son is almost 21 and my girl is 17. It's funny, one of my best mates and I had our sons quite early so while all our mates were off doing their OE and living it up we were working our asses off back here. Now, they've all got young kids and we get to kick back and relax. I'm buying toys, a motorbike, and enjoying it.
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9. Do you get out on your motorbike much?
Yeah, me and Danielle Cormack started riding during season two of Wentworth. We probably weren't supposed to with our contracts. We started off with cruisers and just got hooked. Dan still has my first bike, a Yamaha 650 cruiser. I bought a Harley streetbike when I came back after season five. I'm an emotional buyer. I've had terrible luck with cars. Every car I buy craps out. A Range Rover was the most embarrassing one. I spent thousands on it but it was a dud. I think I was going through a mid-life crisis. I bought a surfboard too.
10. Can you surf?
My mate Kirk Torrance taught me out at Muriwai. I'd been talking about learning for years so one day I picked him up, bought a nine-foot board, a wetsuit, and we were off. Long boards float easier so within six months I was actually riding and turning it. My brother and his mates started surfing soon after. They bought little boards because they wanted be the cool kids but to this day they can't actually ride the waves.
11. Which role has been the most challenging of your career?
I played a psychopathic P-addict who takes people hostage in Club Paradiso at the Basement Theatre. My mate Victor Roger who wrote it goes, "What role would you like?" I normally play good guys so I said, "Someone real evil". The content of that play is so horrific we never did it 100 per cent during dress rehearsals. On opening night we did and most of us came off in tears. We refused to extend the season past one week. It's taken a full year to recover enough to do it again.
12. You're set to appear in the new season of DNA Detectives. Did you enjoy exploring your ancestry?
My friends Dave Fane and Kirk Torrance were in season one. Dave said before he did the DNA test, "I'm 100 per cent Samoan - there's nothing else in me" so I thought "Let's see how pure I am". I got to travel to China and Taiwan where the indigenous people originally set out across Polynesia. It's fascinating how similar their language is to Samoan and some of their art work as well.
DNA Detectives starts tonight, Tuesday 7 November, on TVNZ 1 at 8.30pm with Jacinda Ardern and Stan Walker. Robbie Magasiva appears on 28 November.
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Argentina captain Lionel Messi has received his fair share of requests from his fans over the course of his long career.
The Paris Saint-Germain forward has had to deal with people in the crowd asking for his match-worn jersey, posed for selfies with pitch invaders and even put his signature on one man's huge back tattoo of the six-time Ballon d'Or winner's image. But it's not often that Messi is asked to offer forgiveness.
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However, that's exactly what happened this week when an 11-year-old fan turned up at Argentina's training base in Ezeiza on Tuesday clutching a hand-made sign. In an image posted on social media by TyC Sports journalist Gaston Edul, the youngster was pleading forgiveness from Messi because his mother had decided to name him after a different world footballing superstar.
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Written in Spanish, the sign read: "Messi, forgive my mother, she didn't know what she was doing, SHE CALLED ME CRISTIANO."
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According to TyC Sports, the young Cristiano is a youth player in the academy at Racing Club but supports rival Buenos Aires side River Plate. His mother decided to name her son after Cristiano Ronaldo. Clearly, though, he grew up to favour Messi, whom he travelled with his father to meet at the national team's training ground.
Unfortunately, Messi was unable to greet his admirer in person due to the strict COVID-19 guidelines in place at Ezeiza, where Argentina are preparing for Thursday's 2022 World Cup qualifier against Peru.
However, he said after Sunday's 3-0 home win over Uruguay that he hopes the "the communion between fans and the team will last for a long time."
Messi, who captained Argentina to win the Copa America in July, wrote a message on Instagram to his fans ahead of Thursday's World Cup qualifier against Peru at the Monumental stadium: "How beautiful it is to enjoy these moments that we are experiencing! Great triumph!!! Thanks again for making me feel this way. May it continue. See you on Thursday."

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By TOM HAMILTON CBN Senior Editor on	 March 6, 2008 Building Central Oregon-Archives
To truly appreciate the new facilities at Black Butte Ranch, one simply has to look at the antiquated amenities that the resort was offering to its homeowners, visitors and staff over the past ten years.
For openers, picture general manger Loy Helmly in a cramped office that was once the ranch's fire hall stooping over to retrieve a file report in a makeshift storage area underneath a stairwell and bumping his head when he rose.
Or picture Chief Gil Zaccaro and his staff of the Black Butte Ranch Police Department sharing workstations in a hand-me-down office that was outdated years ago.
Try to imagine the throngs of visitors on a Fourth of July weekend cramming into the ranch's swimming pool where guests often joked that recreating in the pool was standing straight up and moving your arms from side to side.
Finally, imagine the residents picking up their daily mail in a narrow hallway at the ranch's lodge, jostling to get to their post office boxes.
"We've spent the past 10-15 years in facilities that were either never designed for the present uses or had been hopelessly outdated and overgrown by users," said Helmly, who oversees the day-to-day operations of the recreational and residential resort just north of Sisters.
Seeing it was time for some big changes, the ranch residents overwhelmingly approved an assessment of property owners to the tune of $12.5 million in 2005 and coupled with $3.3 million in reserves, began plans for a four-phase project that would address the needs of one of Central Oregon's premier resorts.
A taskforce identified the process in four phases that included a new recreation center, community center with administration offices, postal center, police station and meeting space, maintenance and housekeeping facilities and a new welcome center.
Three of the four phases have now been completed blending the ranch's distinctive design elements that includes shed roofs, light-stained vertical cedar siding coupled with modern sustainability features and contemporary interiors that have given the ranch a fresh new look.
Architects Gary and Amy Holbrook of HD Architecture, who moved to Central Oregon from New Mexico in 2003, are relatively newcomers to the high desert design landscape but have boldly demonstrated their dedication to the region's outdoor lifestyle with the new community center, police station and maintenance facilities at Black Butte Ranch.
The 12,078 square-foot community center is the centerpiece of a campus that includes the postal office and meeting space on two levels and blends nicely with the 3,086 square-foot police station next door.
Gary Holbrook spent nearly three years working with individual homeowners, a taskforce headed by program manager Frank Buehler and the Black Butte Ranch Association Board in creating the campus. R & H Construction served as the general contractor for the community complex, recreation center and maintenance/housekeeping facilities.
The first floor includes human resources, payroll, human relations, the ranch's architectural review committee and break room plus information technology for the ranch that was previously scattered in several closets.
The second floor includes accounting, the chief financial officer, general manager, administrative assistants and marketing. The post office and meeting room(s) are adjacent to the main entry with a separate entrance. The administrative offices are separated by a large sliding door that can be secured during off hours and weekends, allowing residents access to the meeting room(s) or post office.
The North Sister and South Sister Room with a main entry has the ability to be split, a seating capacity of 60 and includes a wet bar, coffee bar and is wired for audio/visual and recessed screen for power presentations.
The operable windows on the south and north end of the meeting room(s) allow for natural ventilation and the contemporary lighting is a nice touch.
Next door, the post office offers private boxes and two employees who staff and serve from 9am to 4pm on weekdays and also offers UPS and Fed Ex services.
The police station, operating on an annual budget of $700,000 through the Deschutes County Service District formed in 1989, is a typical small-town police force that serves generally older community members with little or no commercial areas on the ranch.
The station serves as backup for the sheriff's department as the last law enforcement base in the northern part of the county, assisting Camp Sherman and Metolius and major traffic accidents in the Hoodoo area.
"The new building is a big boost for the morale of our officers," Chief Zaccaro said. "Our old facility was a hand-me-down that we outgrew years ago."
The new station also includes a locker room and shower area for officers on "fire mode" that work 12-hour shifts during the height of the fire season and a heated garage area for patrol vehicles to prevent snow and ice buildup.
HD Architecture also designed the 21,000 square foot maintenance and housekeeping center where all of the ranch's equipment is now kept under cover. As a resort, Black Butte Ranch is responsible for maintaining all of the roads and amenities on the property, so prolonging the life of the ranch's rolling stock is invaluable.
The 18,500 square foot Glaze Meadow Recreation Center, designed by Robertson-Sherwood Architects of Eugene, includes a 25-yard indoor pool, a kidney-shaped outdoor pool and children's "spray ground."
It also includes an exercise area, open room for yoga and Pilates classes, men's and women's locker rooms, snack shop, espresso bar, equipment rental for bicycles, skis and snow shoes, retail shop and a spa with six treatment rooms.
The indoor and outdoor pools are connected with a series of creative glass rollup doors that allow for passive solar heat and provide natural ventilation.
Head golf pro and group coordinator Terry Anderson also reminds everyone that the Robert Muir Graves-designed Big Meadow Course has been upgraded with new traps, tee boxes and a driving range and will open in mid to late April pending weather conditions.
The final piece of the $15.8 million package will be a new welcome center at the front entry. The ambitious project was a long-time coming, and each of the major players on the project points to key elements that they like best.
"This is one of the smoothest projects that I've worked on," said Adam Bowles, project manager for R & H Construction. "I really like the way Gary blended the lodge look of the ranch with the contemporary interior styling. Plus, you couldn't pick a better construction site to work on."
Loy, who has experienced the growing pains and helped usher in the new project, welcomes the new amenities.
"We now have some luxuries that are actually necessities in operating the ranch on a day-to-day basis that we've never had before," he said. "I like the new work spaces, meeting space and postal service center. We now have sufficient space to do a good job."
Holbrook, a 14-year veteran in the architectural field who specializes in custom home design, surprisingly didn't point to a design feature but rather the order of business that brought the project to life.
"The process was most gratifying," he said. "Working with the taskforce and homeowners was very rewarding. I really have to credit (program manager) Frank Buehler who served as the ranch's project manager and kept everyone focused on this project from start to finish."
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Victorious Christians includes: 32 Chapters with 32 Character studies and 32 pictures. The book includes: 10 Reformers, 6 Martyrs, 6 Missionaries, 4 Evangelists, 4 Professors, 3 Soldiers, 2 Musicians, 2 Kings, 1 Artist, an Inventor, an Historian and a Queen. This book provides fascinating insights to virtually every age of Church history by focusing on Christian characters, their courage and convictions in times of crisis. Lavishly illustrated, this book can be used for recreational reading by those who enjoy reading biographies, or as a treasure trove of illustrations and examples for pastors, teachers and homeschoolers.
Christians today have short memories. They sometimes feel rootless, for they have forgotten their heritage. But it was not always so. When the Reformers and Puritans wrote, they quoted godly leaders from a thousand years before them as still relevant for their day. Today we have an even richer treasury of Christian biography. We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses indeed—at least six thousand years of Covenant-keepers. And the Bible says, Remember them. Get to know the men of God who adorn the pages of church history. For in remembering them you will see Jesus Christ, and He remains ever the same.
This book will help you to do that. Written in language ordinary people can understand, and beautifully illustrated, it is a welcome introduction to remembering our spiritual fathers and mothers. Here you will find ministers, musicians, missionaries, and martyrs. The table is spread with many dishes—thirty-two biographies ranging from the second century to the twentieth century. Yet each comes in a bite-sized portion which you can read in a single sitting. When the meal is done, you will be satisfied. You will know that you have roots, an identity, and a legacy from godly ancestors. The Christian has a family tree that is older than any nation on earth. And your appetite will be whetted to learn more about your spiritual family through the ages.
May God graciously add His blessing to Dr. Hammond's book, grant it a wide circulation, and continue to bless his courageous and multifaceted ministry to the building up of His Kingdom and the breaking down of the strongholds of satan.
The title of this book – Victorious Christians – Who Changed the World is a title that well describes those who hungered and thirsted for Righteousness. They tasted and saw that God was good but their Salvation experience did not stop there. Taking up the name of Christian, they went on to lead victorious lives, which still inspire the Church of Christ on earth today!
The characters who fill these pages are men and women of differing natures and abilities, diverse in their talents and individual in their contribution to history, but they all have the common mark of the Cross upon them.
From age to age, from century to century, from decade to decade, God has His peculiar people set aside for His glory. That glory is diligently recorded in these pages. This work is not only a book which will encourage the believer, but it is a book which will help the scholar. Dr Peter Hammond has done the donkey work – you and I are indebted to him for his labour.
More importantly, he has recorded for another generation these 'Pilgrims of Valour' who 'come wind, come weather', were faithful unto death.
As you begin your journey through their lives I would encourage you to take time to ask their God to instil in you the same fruit of the Spirit that turned their human weakness into Christian victory!
I am a Christian! Those who refused to worship the emperor were condemned to death.
From her diary, and that of another prisoner, we have some insights as to her witness in prison. Her pagan father visited her and pleaded with her to deny that she was a Christian. Perpetua responded that it was impossible that she be called anything than what I am, a Christian.
Some days later, when her father again visited her, Perpetua was nursing her young son. The father pleaded with her: "Have pity on my grey head. Have pity on me, your father…do not abandon me to be the reproach of men. Think of your brothers; think of your mother and your aunt; think of your child, who will not be able to live once you are gone. Give up your pride!"
Perpetua remained steadfast. It will all happen in the prisoner's dock as God wills, for you may be sure that we are not left to ourselves but are all in His power.
As the governor turned to question Perpetua, her father, carrying Perpetua's son in his arms, dramatically rushed to Perpetua and, grabbing hold of her arm, pleaded: Perform the sacrifice. Have pity on your baby!
The governor, Hilarianus, added: Have pity on your father's grey head; have pity on your infant son. Offer the sacrifice for the welfare of the Emperor.
The response of Perpetua was straightforward: I will not.
A wild heifer charged and tossed Perpetua into the air. As she fell on her back she sat up and adjusted her ripped tunic, thinking more of her modesty than of her pain. She then walked over to help Felicitas, her servant to her feet. Perpetua encouraged the other Christians: You must all stand fast in the Faith and not be weakened by what we have gone through.
Perpetua was only 22 years old when she died in the arena in Carthage. Her bold testimony: I am a Christian and cannot deny Christ was repeated throughout the empire. Those in the amphitheatre who had witnessed her martyrdom reported that Perpetua and Felicitas came into the arena joyfully as though they were on their way to Heaven. Witnesses described Perpetua in the arena as young and beautiful , "a pure and modest Christian lady , with shining countenance and calm step, as the beloved of God, as a bride of Christ, putting down everyone's stare by her own intense gaze." As Perpetua means perpetual and Felicitas means faithful, their courageous martyrdom together spelled out what is today the motto of the Marines: Always Faithful.
Perpetua became the most famous Christian lady to die a martyr's death in the Roman Empire. Her example of Christian resolve and courage, choosing to suffer and die with a clear conscience, rather than deny her Saviour, inspired generations of Roman Christians to stand firm in the face of relentless persecution. Her published diary also made her the first female Christian author.
The Missionary who won Ireland to Christ.
Patrick was only 16 years old when he saw a fleet of 50 longboats heading for the shore. As the Roman Legions had long since departed Britain, Patrick's home town was vulnerable to attack. As the Irish raiders leapt from their boats onto the pebbled beach, sounding their war-horns, the population fled in terror. The attackers looted and burned the village and carried away captives, including young Patrick.
The year was AD 405. Patrick's name in Latin was Patricius, meaning Noble . He was the son of a Civil Magistrate, but now he had become a slave in Ireland. Patrick was sold to a cruel warrior chief whose stockade in Northern Ireland was surrounded by sharp poles with the heads of his opponents impaled on them. Patrick was put to work as shepherd to care for his master's pigs and sheep. He lived a lonely existence in the nearby hills, enduring long bouts of hunger and thirst, isolated from human company for months at a time. Patrick witnessed the superstitions of the druid priests who sacrificed prisoners of war to their war gods and newborns to the harvest gods. Skulls were used as drinking bowls; heads of decapitated enemies were used as footballs.
In this strange place at the ends of the earth amongst these fierce people, Patrick remembered the faith of his father and grandfather, and the prayers of his mother and turned to Christ. Kneeling on the slopes of the Slemish Mountain, near what is now the town of Ballymena, Patrick prayed, sometimes a hundred times a day.
After six years of slavery, Patrick was led of the Lord to escape and run nearly 200 miles to a coastal port where he was able to persuade a captain to take him along with a shipment of Irish wolfhounds. A storm blew them off course to land on the coast of Gaul (France). Attacks by Vandals had devastated the area and there was no food to be found in the once fertile area. Here Patrick was able to repay the kindness of the ship's captain by praying for the Lord's provision and seeing a herd of pigs appear.
Patrick received a Macedonian call. In a vision, an Irishman named Victorious presented him with letters entitled The Voice of the Irish : We appeal to you, holy servant boy, to come and walk among us again. Patrick was pierced to my very heart and he returned to the land where he had suffered as a slave many years before.
Patrick was over 40 years old when he arrived as a missionary to Ireland in AD 432. He faced fierce opposition from the Druids. Patrick survived numerous attempts on his life and confronted the idolatry, immorality, slavery and human sacrifices of the savage tribes.
"Daily I expect murder, fraud or captivity, but I fear none of these things because of the promises of Heaven. I have cast myself into the hands of God Almighty who rules everywhere."
Patrick delighted in taking risks for the Gospel. "I must take this decision disregarding risks involved and make known the gifts of God and His everlasting consolation. Neither must I fear any such risk in faithfully preaching God's Name boldly in every place, so that even after my death, a spiritual legacy may be left for my brethren and my children."
At Tara, Patrick challenged the Druids to a contest. The Druids invoked demons and brought a dark fog over the land. Patrick prayed and suddenly the fog cleared and the sun shone brightly. The king ordered 27 chariots to go and seize Patrick. He prayed aloud: May God come up to scatter His enemies and may those who hate Him flee from His face. The charioteers fell dead.
Patrick rebuked the king: If you do not believe now, you will die on the spot, for the wrath of God descends on your head. The king fell on his knees before the missionary and pledged his realm to Christ. Many turned to Christ on that day.
One of Patrick's writings was a letter excommunicating a tyrant Coroticus who had carried off some of Patrick's converts into slavery. Within his lifetime Patrick ended the slave trade in Ireland. The legend that Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland has to do with his spiritual warfare in driving the demons from the land.
Patrick was one of the first great missionaries who brought the Gospel beyond the boundaries of the old Roman civilisation. Patrick's missionary strategy was to concentrate on converting the tribal kings. As the kings converted, they gave their sons to Patrick to be trained as missionaries. From kingdom to kingdom, Patrick converted pagans, built churches, trained disciples, ordained deacons and ministers and built mission stations. Patrick provided pastors with written doctrinal standards with which to teach their people.
For 30 years Patrick evangelised Ireland, converting many chiefs and kings, establishing over 300 congregations and baptising 120,000 people.
Patrick became an inspiring example for Celtic Christians. His life of continuous prayer, his love for the Scriptures, his love of God's Creation and his missionary vision inspired many hundreds of Celts to take the Gospel to Scotland, England and throughout the continent of Europe.
Although Patrick is commonly called Saint, he described himself as a sinner. Although Patrick is the Patron Saint of the Irish, he was not actually born in Ireland, but in Britain. It may also surprise people to know that Patrick was never canonized by the Roman Catholic church, but has been considered the Patron Saint of Ireland as a result of popular devotion and long-standing tradition.
On the last Sunday of every July, up to 30,000 pilgrims pass Saint Patrick's statue and climb to the top of Croagh Patrick, commemorating Patrick's 40 day fast on that 2,710 foot summit. 17 March is celebrated as St. Patrick's Day worldwide.
The greatest legacy of Patrick was the tremendous spiritual movement he launched in Ireland and his followers who sent out missionaries to evangelise not only the rest of the British Isles, but much of the continent of Europe.
Columba preached, practised and lived missions. He instilled a love for poetry and for music in his converts.
The handsome and hot-headed Columba was one of the most successful missionaries in history. In A.D 521 in Ulster, Northern Ireland, he was christened Colum (from the Latin word for Dove). Columba's grandfather, Conarl, had been baptised by the great missionary to Ireland, Patrick. Columba's parents were both Christians; his father was a member of the royal O' Neill family, from which the High King of the Irish was chosen at Tara. His mother, Ethme, was a descendant of a king of the Irish province of Leinster.
Columba was described as a robust child, full of mischief and energy and combative. He was described as a fine figure, his splendid colour and his noble manliness made him beloved by all. Tall and strong, his first rate mind and zeal for learning, combined with a powerful voice and a well developed sense of humour, made him very popular.
Columba loved reading and praying the Psalms and, as his relationship to Christ developed, he began a systematic study of the Scriptures and entered monastic life. Columba was ordained to the priesthood and studied further. Columba developed a fervent calling to missionary outreach and began to conduct evangelistic campaigns. He established monasteries throughout Ireland. His reputation as a Godly and scholarly Christian increased.
However, in the year of 561, a traumatic incident occurred that altered the direction of Columba's life. Eager for Scriptural knowledge and for the best Bible texts, he copied (without permission) a manuscript of Jerome's translation of the Psalms and Gospels. When the authorities learned of this, they demanded that his copy of the rare text be destroyed. When Columba refused to do this, a judgment was sought from the High King, Ataru, who decided against Columba. When he still refused to surrender his precious copy of the Psalms and Gospels, a civil war erupted between Columba and his cousin the High King.
Columba and his allies were victorious at the Battle of Culdrevmey in which more than 3,000 men were killed.
Columba felt such remorse over the carnage he had caused that he left Ireland determined to convert the same number of souls in Scotland as those whose deaths he felt responsible for in Ireland. Selecting 12 companions from among his old and trusted friends, Columba set out and established a mission station on the island of Iona, about half a mile off the Scottish mainland. From this missionary base camp, Columba and his co-workers launched missionary outreaches amongst the war-like Picts and Scots.
Columba himself lived a Spartan lifestyle in austerity, sleeping on a bare rock, with a stone pillow. Under his leadership the Iona community was a place of constant activity where the monks engaged in agricultural work, carpentry, prayer and study – with evangelistic preaching and missionary work in nearby Scotland.
From A.D 563 – 597, Iona was the centre for the evangelisation of Scotland and Northern England. Using the political contacts of his royal lineage, Columba developed relationships with the chiefs and kings to aid in the conversion of their subjects. Columba and his monks founded possibly more than 100 monasteries throughout Europe. Columba and his men undertook missionary outreaches as far afield as France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy.
He feuded with popes, kings, bishops and even his own followers. At one point, he had a conflict with the polygamous king, Theuderic, and his mother, Brunhilde, and was expelled from Gaul.
From Iona, Columba and his missionary monks spread out to make an immeasurable impact for the Gospel on Scotland and the entire Celtic Christian world.
On his last day, at age 75, after a day spent transcribing a Psalter, he rose from his stone bed to join his brethren at their traditional midnight service. He collapsed while kneeling in prayer at the altar, revived briefly to give his beloved monks a farewell blessing and died peacefully in the early hours of Sunday 9 June A.D. 597.
Columba's life served as a model of devotion and dedication for future generations of Christians. To Columba his ideal of the Christian life consisted of Work, prayer and reading. This was the heart of his monastic code and central for his converts.
Columba's emphasis was living the Bible. His preaching was direct, simple and Biblical. He called on his hearers to submit to Christ as Saviour and Lord, living the rest of their lives in devotion and service for Him.
Columba left an indelible mark on Irish and Scottish Christianity, bequeathing to his converts a love for books, especially for the Bible. Columba's emphasis on bold evangelism and missionary vision inspired thousands of missionary volunteers from Scotland and Ireland through the centuries.
Columba had a passion for missions. He preached, practised and lived missions. He wrote poetry and instilled his love of poetry and music into his converts. He emphasised the evangelistic impulse in Christianity and promoted it in every way he could throughout his productive life.
Bede dedicated his life to prayerful study and writing for the strengthening and edifying of the Church of Christ.
Bede was one of the most influential Bible teachers and historians, and it is from his practice of dating events from the incarnation of Christ – Anno Domini – that our present dating method of separating events before Christ (B.C.) and after Christ (A.D.) came into general use.


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Being a Cheesy noodle means you're super amazing. You help me through rough times by helping to support the channel and get better games/components for my computer, and even food. and alllll that soda. Haha.
You're the butter to my bread noodle. You'll help me with games, gear, food, and that tasty soda. <3 hehe.


Last fall I was asked to give a presentation on WordPress to the Cleveland Web Development SIG. I've talked about WordPress quite often, and have conducted training sessions for end users on the care and feeding of their WordPress sites, but this was a different scenario. This time I had 90 minutes to advise developers on how to use WordPress to build their sites.
Need feedback? Ask the crowd.
As I was planning the presentation it seemed to grow more daunting every day. I don't know everything about WordPress, I'm constantly learning more, but even so, how could I cover enough in 90 minutes to give these folks a good foundation? What I realized was that I had to do some sort of messaging triage to focus on the most important topics. And I needed to identify which issues would be of the greatest interest to my audience. For the latter I would need to ask for input. So that is what I did.
I began by asking Stuart Smith, the leader of the Web Development SIG for his thoughts. As someone who knows his audience, and who had recently been digging into WordPress himself, he was able to give me some good insights. Next I thought it would be helpful to get opinions from people who already knew WordPress. This is when I turned to the crowd.
Answering questions on LinkedIn is a regular part of my personal branding and marketing strategy, so I've learned that the people there can be a great resource. Thus I posed the following question on LinkedIn.
If you were attending a 90 min. presentation on using WordPress as a CMS, what would you want to learn about?
I'm giving a presentation on WordPress to our local Web Developers group in a few weeks. In the past I've given 60 min. talks geared towards users, but this is aimed at a more technical audience. I'd like to cover installation, theme development, plug-ins and other functionality, but I also realize that 90 min. isn't really enough time to cover the breadth and depth of the WordPress Codex. So I want to focus on whatever points would be most useful to a Web developer (someone comfortable with HTML, CSS and a bit of PHP) who is about to do his/her first WordPress site.
If you're thinking about using WP and haven't yet, what would be helpful to you? Or if you're already comfortable with WordPress, what do you wish someone had told you before you did your first WordPress installation? Thanks for your input!
By now, the list was still too broad, but I felt I had a sense of what developers would want to know.
Knowing I would be covering a lot of material quickly, I felt I should provide resources that attendees could access later. So instead of using Keynote or PowerPoint, I chose to build a WordPress Sample Site as my presentation vehicle. This would allow me to go page by page, rather than screen by screen, while also leaving examples in place that people could refer to at any time. This also made it easier to demonstrate the features of WordPress as I could also show them things in the WordPress dashboard for the site, or in the php files for the templates.
I used pages on the site to explore key topics, such as the WordPress template hierarchy, and blog posts to share plug-ins and related tidbits. I'll continue to add to that blog as I find new plug-ins worth sharing. So what started out as a presentation has now turned into another site that I can expand and refine over time. If you have suggestions on plug-ins or WordPress topics I should cover, please share them below and I can start adding them to the Sample WordPress Site Blog.
I still get nervous about speaking, and it can be hard to tell how a presentation really went. After all, most people are too polite to tell you that you bombed. But overall the feedback was positive, and the audience asked (and often answered) many good questions. Thinking back on the process, I may have come up with a decent plan on my own, but I think I came up with a better plan because I asked what people wanted. The responses I got really helped me in shaping the nature of the presentation, and gave me the confidence to feel I was on the right track.
When we think about crowdsourcing we think of many different things. We may peruse Digg or StumbleUpon to find the most interesting news or sites. We may ask friends on Twitter for tips on what router to buy. We may even use the crowd for project collaboration. And there will be times when we disagree with the crowd. That's O. K. too, it doesn't have to be a democracy. But if you ask the crowd for their input, it can be a great place to start—whether you're planning a presentation, a marketing campaign or a blog post.
Hope your speech went well. I have been using wordpress for many years and have had great success. Ran into a few small issues when I didn't update the software, but other than that, it did very well.
« Will you link to me? Things to ponder before asking this question.


Unfortunately, this book only gets 3 stars from me. On one hand, the writing is great - very readable and compelling. Unfortunately, the plot and story just didn't do it for me.
A small village exists, surrounded by fencing to keep out the "Unconsecrated" - which are zombies that like to feed on the humans. The village is run by the Sisterhood and protected by Guardians. The village has survived for so long that no one really knows why they live this way, why there are the Unconsecrated.
Mary has heard stories of the ocean from her mother all her life, and when the village is breached, she decides to leave and try to find another village and other humans. Together with a few other survivors, they set out.
The story could have been fabulous, but nothing was ever explained. Why are there zombies? Why was the village set up the way it was? How many other villages are there? What about the paths - how and why are they there? Why does no one travel them????
With a bit more work, this book could easily have been a 4 1/2 star book, but as it is, I don't really recommend it.
I, surprisingly, loved this book! I am so shocked at how much I liked it because zombies are NOT my thing, lol! But you make some very good points with those questions! I didn't even question them, lol, but I can see where the answers would have added a lot to the story.
I have to agree. This book didn't do it for me. Even though I love Zombie stories!


Three pastors took a day off and decided to go fishing after a busy Sunday.
They agreed its so difficult preaching to people all the time and no one preaches to them.
Sitting by the river with little response from the hooks one pastor thought of sharing his heart with others.
He said " guys its rare to get such an opportunity to be among ourselves like this. It would be good if we look into our lives and help each other with our weaknesses". They all agreed to this.
This pastor said " Gentlemen I need help! The people in my church give a lot of money every week. I started taking little by little but now I take a big chunk. I can't stop stealing from the church please pray for me. The day they will find out I will be fired"! Another pastor said "brothers your sins are better than mine! I have slept with every woman in the church including married women. As I preach my eyes hover over the congregation looking for the next prey. If this is discovered people will not fire me, they will kill me!" The last pastor's feet were shaking as they were talking. They thought he had a big story to tell.
He stood up and said " My brothers my problem is gossip! I can't sit anymore. I have to share this! I will be back!


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Anybody else come across this?

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Hi Liat! Character breakfasts are lots of fun, and a lot more relaxing than lining up to meet the characters in the parks. However, to dine at Tusker House or any of the other restaurants inside the theme parks, you'll need a park admission ticket. If you weren't planning to visit the Animal Kingdom park that day, you unfortunately won't be able to dine at Tusker House either. However, several character meals occur in the resort hotels, where park admission is not necessary. Instead of Tusker House, consider Chef Mickey's at the Contemporary, Cape May at the Beach Club, 1900 Park Fare at the Grand Floridian, or 'Ohana at the Polynesian. You can have a great breakfast with characters at any of those restaurants, and you won't need to use a park ticket.
Hope you have a magical vacation with your daughter! Come visit us again at the Moms Panel if you have more questions! We'd love to help!


Education: BSc in Sports Science with Management at Loughborough University followed by an MSc in Exercise Physiology and PhD research into the effects of an exercise programme in haemodialysis patients on cardiovascular and immune parameters.
Warwick appealed to me because the whole cohort are graduates and therefore there are people with similar priorities in life to me. For me, the location was also important as my girlfriend is in the Midlands and Coventry has pretty good transport links to the rest of the country.
So far, the course has been tough but good. The first year is very intense and mainly lecture and CBL (Case-Based Learning) based, but we also got into the hospital straight away and started learning and practising clinical skills. Medicine is such a broad topic that even when an area hasn't interested me, we have quickly moved onto the next topic.
I also like the way the course is organised, integrating the different themes throughout (e.g. anatomy, pharmacology, cell & tissue biomedicine). I found that having a bit of crossover really helped my learning, so when I had touched on an area three times from different perspectives it eventually stuck.
I have mostly been based at UHCW (University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire), which is a great hospital. There is so much going on and provided you are proactive there are always learning opportunities and patients to talk to. We only started in the hospitals full time a couple of weeks ago, so now I have got over the initial feeling of being slightly overwhelmed and intimidated (!) I am adapting to a new style of working and learning.
What do you particularly like about your course?
I like the level of independence we have with our learning, particularly now in the clinical environment. We have to take responsibility for our own learning and therefore we have a lot of control over how we learn and what experiences we get. This is a huge positive for me. In addition, my experience with the consultants at the hospital has been very positive so far - those I have met have gone out of their way to teach.
During the first year I very much focused on the course and this didn't leave a huge amount of time for extracurricular activities. I exercise most days and have been involved in the medics' squash club as well.
Do you have an idea about which specialty you'd like to pursue after the MB ChB?
I have approached the MB ChB with an open mind as to which specialty I will pursue. I think the experience I get over the next year or so will give me a better idea of which specialties I enjoy most. However, I do know that I want to follow an academic pathway and continue to do research throughout my career.
What advice would you give to people considering applying?
My advice would be to get experience before you apply to make sure that medicine is the career for you. The course is hard work and takes a huge commitment, so be prepared for that. I would also recommend putting hard work in early because the things you learn at the start lay the foundations for the rest of the course. With that all said, it's also really enjoyable and rewarding!


Born at Wimborne, Dorsetshire, England; died at Schornsheim (near Mainz), Germany, c. 779.
Saint Lioba's mother, descended of an illustrious family and closely related to Saint Boniface (f.d. June 5), had been barren for a long time before the saint was born. Nevertheless, Ebba immediately offered her to God and raised her in piety. She received her first education at Minster-in-Thanet. While Lioba was still young, she was placed in the care of the king's sister Saint Tetta (f.d. today) at the Benedictine convent in Wimborne (Winburn or "fountain of wine"). Lioba matured spiritually and emotionally under Tetta's tutelage, and eventually took the religious veil.
Tetta also ensured that she had a good education. Letters to Boniface reveal that Lioba understood and wrote verse in Latin. She limited her reading, however, to books that would stir her spirit to love of God. She knew by heart the divine precepts of the Old and New Testaments, the principal canons of the Church, the holy maxims of the Fathers, and the rules of the monastic life.
Boniface kept in touch with his young relative through frequent correspondence. Recognising her virtue and abilities, in 748, he requested of her bishop and abbess that she be sent to him with about 30 pious companions to undertake charitable work with women in Germany. Although Tetta regretted the loss of her protege, she could not refuse.
Upon their arrival in Germany, Boniface settled the women religious at Tauberbischofsheim ("bishop's home," possibly his own previous residence). Lioba's zeal attracted so many vocations that her convent was populating many other foundations throughout the country. Lioba's convents were one of the most powerful factors in the conversion of Germany.
The saint organised her convents in the true monastic tradition with a combination of manual labour (in scriptorium, kitchen, bakery, brewery, and garden), intellectual study (all had to learn Latin), community devotions, and leisure. No extreme austerities were permitted to interfere with the corporate life established by the Rule.
Her love of God was so appealing. She was always ready to set her hand to any task she might ask of others and did it with cheer and modesty. It is said that she was beautiful, that her countenance was angelic, and that her nuns loved her. Perhaps this is so because Lioba took to heart Saint Paul advice: "Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves" (Philippians 2:3) and "anticipate one another in showing honour" (Romans 12:9b). Thus, Lioba often washed the feet of her sisters in emulation of her Lord. The corporal acts of mercy were her delight, especially extending hospitality to strangers and caring for the poor. She was always patient, kind, and accessible to all who needed her.
Nevertheless, kings and princes honoured and respected her, especially Pepin the Short, Blessed Carloman (f.d. August 17) and Charlemagne. Charlemagne often called her to court at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) to seek her advice. His wife, Blessed Hildegard (f.d. April 30), loved her deeply and always heeded her advice, as did some of the bishops.
Before his martyrdom, Saint Boniface commended Lioba and her community to the care of Saint Lullus (f.d. October 16) and his monks at Fulda, and requested that her bones be buried next to his at their deaths that they might be raised at the resurrection and spend eternity together. It is said that the tender affection uniting Boniface and Lioba forms one of the most charming episodes in church history. Following Boniface's death in 754, Lioba frequently visited Fulda. By special dispensation, she would be allowed with two elder sisters to join in the choir.
Upon the advice of Lullus, Lioba resigned her offices in her old age and retired to the convent at Schornsheim, where she redoubled her prayer and penance. Occasionally she would answer Empress Hildegard's plea to visit her, but return to her cell as quickly as she could. On her last visit, she embraced the queen, kissed her on her garment, forehead, and mouth, then said: "Farewell, precious part of my soul; may Christ, our Creator and Redeemer, grant that we may see each other without confusion in the day of judgement."
After her death, Lioba was interred at Fulda, on the north side of the high altar, near the tomb of Saint Boniface. Her tomb was honoured with miracles; her biographer, Rudolph of Fulda, assures us he was himself an eyewitness to several. Her relics were translated in 819 and again in 838 to the church of Mount Saint Peter. Her name was first inserted into a martyrology by Hrabanus Maurus c. 836 (Attwater2, Benedictines, Bonniwell, Coulson, Farmer, Husenbeth).


Stencils have become so much more than simple alphabets. Stenciling today is a great way to decorate rooms, scrapbooks, and just about any flat surface. The sites participating here include sites offering stencils for sale as well as great stenciling and painting tips and ideas.
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Extensive how to information for using stencils in decorative painting, such as step by step stencil painting, how to make a stencil and spray paint stencils. Find hints on decorating clothes and furniture. If you need the very basic information on stencils and stenciling or if you need some expert tips and techniques to breathe more life into your stencil, this is the place for you. Come find ideas on decorating furniture and customizing clothes and even free stencils to get you motivated.
How to prepare a paper stencil for multiple uses? My favorite way to make a paper stencil last a long time and endure many paintings is to carefully run lines of packing tape over the front side of the stencil before you cut out the islands (openings). Be careful to have edges of tape overlay each other just a little to be sure that you have a good protective coating. It take s a little practice to avoid wrinkles and bubbles but you will get the hang of it soon.
Also, I prefer to cover only the front of the paper stencil with a layer of clear tape. Having a slick back will encourage paint to seep under the stencil.
We offer some great downloadable stencils designs in categories such as Gardens, Children's, Oriental, Architectural Details, Frogs, Fairies, Angels, Cherubs, Vintage Travel Labels, Halloween Masks, Christmas, Seashore, Wine & Spirits and Fleur de lis...You don't have to pay shipping and your designs can be adjusted to fit your project size (one size fits all). Also, you will get your stencil emailed to you quickly. You'll find lots of how to info with ideas and tips on using stencils.
Remember that a paper stencil can be re-sized to fit whatever your project size requires. Just take your paper stencil to a copy machine and reduce or expand the size of the copy. For example, let's say your stencil is on an 8-1/2" x 11" (letter size) sheet of paper and the stencil edges are measured at 9" x 6". You want the image to be on the cabinet door of a small armoire and the interior space is 27" x 18". Copy the stencil by increasing the size 200%. Your copy will produce an image that would be 18" x 12" leaving a 4-12" space at the top and the bottom and a 3" space on either side. Pretty close. But be creative and move the stencil around or readjust the copy percentage until the image is eye pleasing.
Custom made decorative lettering stencils are a fun way to create a beautiful, relaxing environment for every room in your home. You can transform dull, boring walls into a work of art with a custom made lettering stencil. Favorite saying, quotes or inspirational messages are a popular choice. Custom stencils come in a range of different fonts and sizes so the ideas are endless.
After you've taped your stencil to wall and are ready to paint, have all of your stencil brushes ready. You'll need one stencil brush for each color paint that you use. Dip your stencil brush into the paint then swirl it back onto a paper plate so that your stenciling with a nearly dry brush. Don't tilt your stencil brush,hold it straight as you pounce or swirl the paint onto the stencil. I like to use a hand held hair dryer to speed up the drying time. If you follow these tips your stencil will turn out smudge free.


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Amable de Bourzeis (6 April 1606, Volvic – 2 August 1672, Paris) was a French churchman, writer, hellenist, and Academician.

A founding member of the Académie française, in 1663 Jean-Baptiste Colbert also made him one of the five founding members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Publications (partial list)
 Discours à monseigneur le prince palatin pour l'exhorter à entrer dans la communion de l'Église catholique, 1646, Read online
 Lettre d'un abbé à un président, sur la conformité de Augustin d'Hippone avec le concile de Trente, touchant la manière dont les justes peuvent délaisser Dieu, et estre ensuite délaissez de luy, 1649
 Contre l'adversaire du concile de Trente et de sainct Augustin : dialogue premier, où l'on découvre la confusion & les contradictions estranges des dogmes théologiques du P. Petau, & où l'on réfute un libelle du mesme père, intitulé insolemment « Dispute contre l'hétérodoxe », c'est-à-dire contre l'hérétique : où est aussi réfuté par occasion un petit libelle de M. Morel dont le titre est « Défense de la confession de la foy catholique alléguée, etc. », 1650, Read online
 Apologie du concile de Trente et de sainct Augustin : contre les nouvelles opinions du censeur latin de la Lettre franc̜oise d'un abbé à un evesque ; où est refutée aussi dans une preface une autre censure latine de la preface franc̜oise de la Lettre d'un abbé à un president, 1650
 Conférences de deux théologiens molinistes sur un libelle faussement intitulé : Les sentiments de saint Augustin et de toute l'Église, 1650
 Sermons sur divers mystères de la religion et plusieurs fêtes des saints, prêchés dans Paris, par l'abbé de Bourzeis, 1672
Ouvrages parfois attribués
 Saint Augustin victorieux de Calvin et de Molina, ou Réfutation d'un livre intitulé « Le Secret du Jansénisme », 1652
 Traité des droits de la Reyne tres-chrestienne sur divers Estats de la monarchie d'Espagne, 1667

Sources and bibliography
 Oscar Honoré, Honoré [Amable] de Bourzeïs. Un académicien oublié, le premier XXXVe fauteuil, Paris, 1879
 Akimid Edo [pseudonyme de Yasushi Noro], « Note sur la naissance et la mort d'Amable Bourzeis » in Courrier du Centre international Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, , 2002, -50
 Yasushi Noro, Un littérateur face aux événements du XVIIe : Amable Bourzeis et les événements dans sa biographie, thèse, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II, 2006
 Claude-François Lambert, Histoire littéraire du règne de Louis XIV, Prault, Paris, t. 1, 1753, -46
 Philippe Le Bas, L'Univers. Histoire et description de tous les peuples. Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la France, Firmin Didot, Paris, t. 3, 1842,

1606 births
1672 deaths
Greek–French translators
Latin–French translators
French classical scholars
17th-century French writers
17th-century French male writers
French theologians
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
17th-century French translators

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Naranjal ist eine Kleinstadt und die einzige Parroquia urbana im Kanton Simón Bolívar der ecuadorianischen Provinz Guayas. Die Parroquia besitzt eine Fläche von 128,4 km². Beim Zensus 2010 betrug die Einwohnerzahl der Parroquia 14.585. Davon lebten 7300 Einwohner im urbanen Bereich von Simón Bolívar.

Lage
Die Parroquia Simón Bolívar liegt im Tiefland nordöstlich von Guayaquil unweit der westlichen Anden. Der Río Los Amarillos durchquert das Gebiet in nordwestlicher Richtung. Der Río Chilintomo fließt entlang der nordöstlichen Verwaltungsgrenze ebenfalls nach Nordwesten. Der  hoch gelegene Hauptort Simón Bolívar befindet sich knapp 50 km ostnordöstlich der Provinzhauptstadt Guayaquil. Eine 14 km lange Nebenstraße verbindet Simón Bolívar mit Jujan, das an der Fernstraße E25 (Milagro–Babahoyo) liegt.

Die Parroquia Simón Bolívar grenzt im Nordosten an die Provinz Los Ríos mit der Parroquia Febres Cordero (Kanton Babahoyo), im Osten und im Südosten an die Parroquia Coronel Lorenzo de Garaicoa, im Südwesten an die Parroquia Mariscal Sucre und an das Municipio von Milagro (beide im Kanton Milagro) sowie im Nordwesten an den Kanton Jujan.

Geschichte
Das heutige Simón Bolívar gehörte früher zur Parroquia Coronel Lorenzo de Garaicoa und war unter dem Namen "Vuelta de Gallina" bekannt. Im Jahr 1940 wurde das damalige Caserío zu einer Comunidad aufgewertet und hieß von nun an "Simón Bolívar". 1956 wurde Simón Bolívar zu einer Parroquia rural im Kanton San Jacinto de Yaguachi. Am 27. Mai 1991 wurde der Kanton Simón Bolívar gegründet und Simón Bolívar wurde eine Parroquia urbana und Sitz der Kantonsverwaltung. Namensgeber des Kantons, der Parroquia und dessen Hauptorts war Simón Bolívar, ein südamerikanischer Unabhängigkeitskämpfer.

Weblinks
 https://www.gobiernosimonbolivar.gob.ec/ – GAD Municipal de Simón Bolívar
 Bevölkerungsstatistik bei www.citypopulation.de

Parroquia in der Provinz Guayas
Gegründet 1956
Ort in Ecuador
Ort in Südamerika
Simón Bolívar als Namensgeber


Published: January 12, 2015 7:05 pm Updated: Jan. 12, 2015 8:29 p.m.
The Public Service Commission is going to launch a study to determine a full range of costs and benefits if Rocky Mountain Power were to charge a net metering fee for residents who are also plugged into rooftop solar systems.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Public Service Commission is going to launch a study to determine a full range of costs and benefits if Rocky Mountain Power were to charge a net metering fee for residents who are also plugged into rooftop solar systems.
Before it embarks on that study, the utility company, solar power advocates and a host of others get to weigh in on what types of costs and benefits are examined as part of that analysis.
In a meeting Monday at the Public Service Commission offices, groups such as Utah Clean Energy, Utah Citizens Advocating Renewable Energy, the utility company and Utah Office of Consumer Services mapped out of tentative schedule for the process that will unfold before the commission in the coming months.
"We really want to have a robust and transparent analysis that fully evaluates all the benefits that solar brings to Utah, as well as the costs," said Sarah Wright, executive director of Utah Clean Energy.
At issue is an order issued in late August by the commission that rejected an initial attempt by PacifiCorp to charge an extra monthly fee of $4.65 a month to solar customers for what the utility company said was to help cover its fixed costs of delivering energy to households.
Critics of the controversial proposal called it a "sun tax" and asserted it would discourage the transition to clean energy.
In its ruling rejecting the fee, the commission said it could not justify the fee without further analysis, directing instead that a "better course" would be for the utility company and other parties to gather and analyze information on the fee and present those results and recommendations in future hearings.
Net metering allows electricity customers who wish to supply their own electricity from the grid from on-site generation to pay for only the "net" energy they obtain from the utility.
Alternatively, if the customer's system generates excess electricity, it is exported to the grid. The customer then gets a credit for those kilowatt hours of generated electricity — much like rollover minutes accumulate on a cellphone bill that can be used to cushion averages in the future.
The fee would have impacted 2,500 households in Utah.
Solar advocates want any decision on an imposition of a net metering fee to take into account the "offsets" that come when residential households are plugged into renewable energy that is absent of carbon emissions and the corresponding health impacts, as well as other considerations.
Conversely, the utility company wants to make sure its costs of still having to have infrastructure in place such as substations and lines are appropriately part of the analysis, as well as what shifted costs might be to non-solar customers.
PacifiCorp is already engaged in a "load study" in which energy consumption and output is being examined for 62 solar sites.
The commission is slated to make a decision on the type of study in late fall, with hearings now scheduled for Oct. 6-8 to take testimony.


The Disney x Gigi Burris 14k Gold Plated Signature Minnie is a special delivery limited edition partner style to the Signature Mickey Mouse silhouette.
Inspired by Minnie Mouse's favorite polka dot pattern, a dotted ball chain embellishment creates her iconic ear silhouette. Of course, Minnie Mouse's ensemble isn't complete without her bow, and a delicate pressed metal bow with a daisy center sits in between the ears.


Tons of Virginia fans—possibly even more than UConn's contingent—and they were loud. This was very much of a road game for Michigan State.
In this age of transfers, Kevin Ollie did a fabulous job keeping UConn's core personnel together after last year's postseason ban and the Big East divorce.
Michigan State-Virginia could have been the national title game. That's how good both teams are. Virginia's off-the-ball defense was the best I've seen this year, by a lot.
Sparty is a solid favorite against UConn at 2:20 p.m. Sunday.
Who's left in the Elite Eight? Three Big Ten teams. Looking to repeat the Big East's feat of putting three into the 1985 Final Four. Plus 2 SEC, 1 Pac-12, 1 AAC, and 1 Atlantic 10. The Big 12, generally considered to the best league this year, is done.
The Barclays is a nice building, but the Garden is the mecca for a reason. Nothing they build in Brooklyn or elsewhere will ever be a more suitable host for a big event.


This week's Shakespeare news review podcast includes Roman histories about our present, punk rock, drunk Titus, Michelle Terry, and lots of reviews. PLUS our usual recap of this week's daily highlights in Shakespearean history.
"Women doing Shakespeare knackered." Titus Andronicus is lewd, bloody and free!
We need robots to have morals. Could Shakespeare and Austen help?


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Q: SMTP always fail on first attempt I tried PowerShell to test SMTP, but the first attempt or first few attempts will always fail and receive the same error
Send-MailMessage : Unable to read data from the transport connection: net_io_connectionclosed
However, it will become successful after one or several fails, and keep on being successful until I do not run the script for a long time. Like if I do not keep sending emails by using the script for about 30 minutes, the "first attempt" will fail again.
And below is the script I used for testing.
$creds = get-credential
Send-MailMessage –From <O365 email address> –To <Recipient email address> –Subject "Test Email" –Body "Test SMTP Service from Powershell on Port 587" -SmtpServer smtp.office365.com -Credential $creds -UseSsl -Port 587
I keep pinging smtp.office365.com and telnet port 587 of smtp.office365.com, the connection is fine. And I researched on the internet, other people also having the same error, but their attempts are all failed, unlike mine.
I tried solutions like IIS SMTP binding and set it to All unsigned in https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/7242541e-5722-4064-86bf-a108daf8711a/sendmail-powershell-issues?forum=winserverpowershell , but it does not help.

A: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/new-opt-in-endpoint-available-for-smtp-auth-clients-still/ba-p/2659652
It seems that Microsoft ended support of TLS1.0 and 1.1 of Exchange Online started from October 2020 caused this issue.

A: I agree.....but MS must be implenting this change little by little in theirs servers...thats the cause it works from some country and fails from other.
I add this line to my script, and now it works:
[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = 'Tls,TLS11,TLS12'

from other site, the same scripts works without this line.


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STAMFORD, Conn., June 22, 2016
Gartner Says By 2020, a Corporate "No-Cloud" Policy Will Be as Rare as a "No-Internet" Policy Is Today
Hybrid Will Be the Most Common Use of the Cloud
By 2020, a corporate "no-cloud" policy will be as rare as a "no-internet" policy is today, according to Gartner, Inc. Cloud-first, and even cloud-only, is replacing the defensive no-cloud stance that dominated many large providers in recent years. Today, most provider technology innovation is cloud-centric, with the stated intent of retrofitting the technology to on-premises.
"Aside from the fact that many organizations with a no-cloud policy actually have some under-the-radar or unavoidable cloud usage, we believe that this position will become increasingly untenable," said Jeffrey Mann, research vice president at Gartner. "Cloud will increasingly be the default option for software deployment. The same is true for custom software, which increasingly is designed for some variation of public or private cloud."
This does not mean that everything will be cloud-based, and concern will remain valid in some cases. However, the extreme of having nothing cloud-based will largely disappear. Hybrid will be the most common usage of the cloud — but this will require public cloud to be part of the overall strategy. Technology providers will increasingly be able to assume that their customers will be able to consume cloud capabilities.
Gartner made a number of further predictions, including:
By 2019, more than 30 percent of the 100 largest vendors' new software investments will have shifted from cloud-first to cloud-only.
The now well-established stance of cloud-first in software design and planning is gradually being augmented or replaced by cloud-only. This also applies to private and hybrid cloud scenarios.
"More leading-edge IT capabilities will be available only in the cloud, forcing reluctant organizations closer to cloud adoption. While some applications and data will remain locked in older technologies, more new solutions will be cloud-based, thus further increasing demand for integration infrastructure," said Yefim V. Natis, vice president and Gartner Fellow. "Rigid organizations cannot produce agile IT solutions. As delivery shifts more to the cloud, most IT organizations will have to reorganize to reflect the business realities of cloud computing: continuous innovation and change, pervasive integration, competing with cloud providers for some initiatives, and crucial prevalence of influence over control in IT's relationship with lines of business. While historically the greatest competitor to external service providers has been internal IT, with spend shifts, structural reorganizations and the business realities mentioned above, cloud providers will be in the position to gain the upper hand."
By 2020, more computing power will have been sold by IaaS and PaaS cloud providers than sold and deployed into enterprise data centers.
The Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market has been growing more than 40 percent in revenue per year since 2011, and it is projected to continue to grow more than 25 percent per year through 2019.
By 2019, the majority of virtual machines (VMs) will be delivered by IaaS providers. By 2020, the revenue for compute IaaS and Platform as a Service (PaaS) will exceed $55 billion — and likely pass the revenue for servers.
"With the growth of both bimodal computing and cloud provider offerings, software-defined enterprise data centers have become less centrally important than building a strong multiprovider management capability," explained Thomas J. Bittman, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. "Unless very small, most enterprises will continue to have an on-premises (or hosted) data center capability. But with most compute power moving to IaaS providers, enterprises and vendors need to focus on managing and leveraging the hybrid combination of on-premises, off-premises, cloud and noncloud architectures, with a focus on managing cloud-delivered capacity efficiently and effectively."
Additional information is available to Gartner clients in the report "Market Insight: Cloud Computing's Drive to Digital Business Creates Opportunities for Providers."
Gartner analysts will provide additional analysis and information on the outlook for the cloud market at the Gartner Data Center Infrastructure & Operations Management Conference 2016, November 28-29 in London and December 5-8 in Las Vegas. Follow news and updates from these events on Twitter using #GartnerDC.
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Posts Tagged 'Christos Stratigopoulos'
Christos Stratigopoulos is released on bail (Greece)
Today 30 July the decision of the court of Patras (Western Greece) was to let anarchist comrade Christos Stratigopoulos free on bail.
The trial has been postponed to November 5 / 2012
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON
FIRE TO THE PRISON
Tags: Christos Stratigopoulos, Greece
Dark Nights #13 released – Anarchist & Anti-Prison newsletter NYE 2011-2012
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Dark Nights is an anarchist & anti-prison PDF freesheet to download and print out on the fly.
Click here: 4 pages A4 / Double sided A3 / Print to size.
This issue has a special front-page contributed by the comrades in Mexico of Conspiracion Acrata, an insurrectionary anarchist magazine, about refusing the legalistic demands of the State, and the anarchist-individualist thought which informs this. Plus, round-up of news : from UK, about police repression of an anarchist demo during the N30 General Strike; from Greece, news about the continued political-judicial harassment of Christos Stratigopoulos, who was arrested for a bank robbery alongside Alfredo M. Bonanno in Trikala, now accused of more 'crimes' of expropriation; Montreal, Canada, was the place of a great solidarity action for G20 prisoners, with an interesting and critical flyer denouncing the prison system and capitalist society; and not least, again from Greece, a short report of an action with molotovs against riot police in Exarchia outside the Culture Ministry, Athens, shortly after the attempt by imprisoned members of CCF and P.Vlastos to escape from Korydallos prison.
1. About "Anti-Judicial Anarchism", Max Stirner, Luigi Galleani, CCF & More.
2. UK: Mass Arrests in Hackney.
3. Montreal, Canada: Counter-info action in solidarity with the G20 prisoners.
4. Greece: Solidarity with Christos Stratigopoulos.
5. Greece: Riot police attacked with molotovs at the Culture Ministry in Exarcheia, Athens.
Organise & Resist – Zines are for life not just Xmas!!
Anti-Copyright Network 2011
Tags: Athens, Canada, Christos Stratigopoulos, Conspiracion Acrata, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Dark Nights, G20, Greece, Hackney, Luigi Galleani, Max Stirner, Molotovs, Montreal, PDF, Repression, UK
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Inmates' letter from the Greek prisons, in solidarity to the persecuted for the Revolutionary Struggle case (Greece)
'The insurgents are right'
On Thursday, June 9th, 2011, the three anarchist fighters Sarantos Nikitopoulos, Vaggelis Stathopoulos, Christoforos Kortesis are confronted with a juridical paradox. After an appeal filed by the advocate of the Supreme Court [Areios Pagos], the Appellate Judges Council [Symvoulio Efeton] of Athens (following orders from above) is prepared to re-judge the fate of their physical liberty –although all three of them were recently released on bail after a decree issued by the same council. (more…)
Tags: Christos Stratigopoulos, Greece, Letter, Revolutionary Struggle, Sarantos Nikitopoulos, Solidarity Action, Vaggelis Stathopoulos
Report from Trial of Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos, Larissa (Greece)
indymedia athens/actforfreedomnow!
a statement by one of the comrades:
From the first instance it became clear that the judge and attorney wanted a fast trial without any ideological characteristics and with the only guide being the criminal record of the accused. In short, they wanted to prove that Alfredo Bonanno was the leader, the moral perpetrator of the robbery and that Christos was the pupil, the one who executed the plan. (more…)
Tags: Alfredo M. Bonanno, Christos Stratigopoulos, Greece
Alfredo M. Bonnano Released (Greece)
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
In the 22 November trial of Alfredo and Christos for bank robbery in Trikala, Alfredo M. Bonnano was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment (which practically means that with the time served so far and the fact that he is over 70 years old, he was released). Christos Stratigopoulos (who took responsibility for the action) was sentenced to 8 years and 9 months and with the Greek law will probably be released at the end 2011. (more…)
Tags: Alfredo M. Bonanno, Bank Robbery, Christos Stratigopoulos, Greece
Serco van torched, Bristol (UK)
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
"In the early hours of Tuesday, April 20th, a van belonging to Serco – a big player in the construction and management of private prisons – was torched in Montpellier, north Bristol.
We took this action to express our solidarity with the anarchist comrades in Turin whom the Italian state continues to attack under the precarious appearance of conspiracy, for nothing other than the distribution of anti-racist propaganda. We also attack for the comrades in Greece accused of participation in the 'terrorist' organization, Revolutionary Struggle.
Need it be said that we remember Alfredo and Christos, imprisoned in Korrydallos for a revolutionary act of expropriation against a bank in Trikala last October.
Until every filthy manifestation of this social prison in nothing but broken glass and burnt rubble, we will continue to fight.
Tags: Alfredo M. Bonanno, Arson, Bristol, Christos Stratigopoulos, Serco, Solidarity Action
Probation Offices Attacked in Bristol (UK)
"At 2am on 17 March, anarchists attacked the inner-city probation offices in Stokes Croft, Bristol.
Paintbombs were thrown, the windows destroyed, were to personnel gates locks attached and slogans " No Prison – No State" and " For Lambros" on the walls were spray-painted. This activity is inaugurated on the death of our comrade Lambros of Athens in Greece, who was murdered by cops and represents part of our active denial of the control system. This attack came also in solidarity with Alfredo and Christos, with G20 and Gaza defendants, and with all prisoners who fight."
Hooligans with Conscience
Tags: Alfredo M. Bonanno, Christos Stratigopoulos, Lambros Foundas, Solidarity Action
Déjà vu: the frame up against Alfredo Bonanno has begun (Greece)
translated from: cette semaine via angry news from around the world
Greece: Anarchist Bonanno suspected of second robbery
Athens, 25 Feb. – Alfredo Bonanno, the Italian anarchist over 70 years old imprisoned last October following an accusation of concourse in robbery of a bank in Trikala, is suspected of being the author of another robbery carried out last July at Argostoli, on the island of Cefalonia. Bonanno's lawyers contest this accusation.
According to police sources cited by the media, Bonanno, with a false beard and wig, would have been recognised by one of the witnesses on the basis of a cctv video, while he robbed the Bank of Cyprus, pistol in hand, 6 July in Argostoli. The information has been partially confirmed to Ansa by a spokesman of the central police station, according to which "an old Italian is considered author of the robbery at Argostoli, which rendered 26 000 euros". The spokesman did not give Bonanno's name directly but implied that it was him.
Joanna Kurtovic, the Greek lawyer of the old Italian imprisoned in Korydallos (Athens), has expressed her doubts concerning the identification on the basis of a video and a critique of the way this accusation was made public. Bonanno, who suffers from diabetes and has cardio-respiratory problems, is one of the main theoreticians of anarcho-insurrectionnalism (sic). He was arrested at the beginning of October with the Greek anarchist Christos Stratigopoulos following the robbery of a bank in Trikala, for 47 000 euros. The Italian was later arrested in an hotel where the police found the proceeds of the robbery. Bonanno's defence is that he received the bag from Stratigopoulos, without knowing what it contained. (more…)
Tags: Alfredo M. Bonanno, Christos Stratigopoulos, Frame-up, Greece, Repression
NYC Solidarity with Alfredo & Christos (USA)
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"Capitalism is a system of relationships, which goes from inside to out, from outside to in, from above to below, and from below to above. Everything is relative, everything is in chains. Capitalism is a condition both of the world and of the soul."
-Franz Kafka
There is nothing left; nothing that hasn't been molded, molested, or completely crushed; nothing that has managed to escape the network of power as it scours every inch of the earth, lodging itself into every crevice.
Crowding each moment, the omnipresent asphyxiation provides ample evidence to this all-encompassing totalization. Heads bowed, backs bent, we bear the weight of the day in our beleaguered entrails.
Now taking on increasingly monstrous qualities, a vampire-likeness of achieved full nocturnality, even the sleeper finds his dreams inhabited. Robbing us of expectations, snatching away our latent potential, Capital has acquired the speculative capability to recuperate futures and integrate things before their invention. After colonizing the entire world, the enemy now works to conquer the collective realm of our imaginations where we once plotted and, consequently, envisioned its very demise.
The cooption of creativity signaled the predetermined defeat, which led the Marxists to surrender to the British Museum before they realized an 1848. The only pseudo-victory to their credit consists in pushing Negri out of
the spotlight by ushering "communization" and "insurrection" into the academy's discursive field. Both trends can be written off as failed experiments because each has neglected to activate the only concept capable of giving jargon any significance. The Struggle.
"To fight, to be defeated, to fight again, to be defeated again, to fight anew until the final victory."
-An old Italian adage
In practice, the clashes and occupations have divorced the leftist baggage and chosen everyday life as the terrain for conflict, yet unfortunately expression still continues to abide by the activist calendar. A day of action is paled by a year of misery. Like long fits of depression, extended bouts of downtime undermine each subversive act, resulting in the production of militant event planners: blinded to the past and merely anticipating the next unsuccessful Bastille storming. They strike at the same tempo ordinary citizens attend birthday parties, riot at the same rate of wedding crashers and surely, at this pace, they will never RSVP the bourgeoisie funeral.
Detached theory and relegated practice present themselves as nothing other than the comorbid symptoms of statified ideology. Now we can confidently diagnose that the much prophesized "coming" can only amount to a
passing fad.
We notice the relentless internalized repression masquerading as patience and so we refuse to wait for March 4th, the ides of March or, for that matter, any date to come. We expressed our distaste for the veiled technological prison of surveillance and electronic monitoring by sabotaging several of the soon to be installed ID-card scanners at the Hunter College campus. Against education as such, we then struck Brooklyn College's administrative building. Lastly, we attacked Marathon bank, a subsidiary of the same Piraeus bank that Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos are accused of expropriating. We extend our solidarity to the two imprisoned comrades and, as Bonanno's health deteriorates in a prison cell, we adhere to the following principle:
"For an eye, two eyes. For a tooth, the whole face."
Tags: Alfredo M. Bonanno, Christos Stratigopoulos, New York, Revolutionary Solidarity, Solidarity Action, USA
RBS attacked with rocks & fire over Tar Sands project (UK)
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In the early hours of Tuesday 23rd February 2010, anarchists attacked the Royal Bank of Scotland HQ in the heart of developing Bristol, UK.
Despite road traffic and proximity of security, the mob succeeded in breaking windows, smashing paint-bombs against upper floors and setting fire to tyres in the middle of the road.
A litany of abuses by RBS or any other bank could continue for pages, but it is enough to state that every bank is part of the financial prison which incarcerates and impoverishes all of us.
These actions will escalate and multiply.
We dedicate this action to all indigenous fighters and their allies struggling against the Tar Sands project in Kanada which RBS is an investor in, and also all those who fight against the 2010 Winter-Olympics.
This action is also in solidarity with Alfredo M. Bonanno, Christos Stratigopoulos, Polykarpos Georgiades, Vaggelis Chrisohoides, Giannis Dimitrakis, Gabriel Pombo da Silva, the entire London G20 defendants/prisoners and all other prisoners in struggle.
For international struggle against capitalism and the state.
Tags: Alfredo M. Bonanno, Christos Stratigopoulos, G20, Gabriel Pombo da Silva, Giannis Dimitrakis, Polykarpos Georgiades, Royal Bank of Scotland, Solidarity Action, Tar Sands, Vaggelis Chrisohoides
Alfredo & Christos denied bail (Greece)
The two anarchist comrades, Alfredo Maria Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos, accused of being involved in a bank robbery in Trikala, Greece have had their bail refused. Alfredo must come out of the prison now. Alfredo has serious health problems and needs medical treatment.
Alfredo Maria Bonanno remains inside the prison based on his ideas and long reputation as a writer and theorist of anarchism. An anarchism which is not yet dead, which is not yet decaying in the pages of history but is very much alive and growing in ferocity. An anarchism which will tear a hole in the guts of the European Union.
An anarchism long based in the South European 'Mediterranean Triangle', of Greece, Italy, and Spain, however finding fertile, rich ground to spread within many more minds not held by any borders, who are receptive to the anarchist vision of a future world without Church, State and Capital. Neither subjugation nor poverty.
This is an anarchism of freedom, joy and solidarity. An anarchism of stones and fire, of subversion and attack. This is the dynamite that explodes against the class enemy in Santaigo, Chile; the broken and smashed banks of countless dead cities of the USA & UK; the burnt BMW and Porsche of Berlin and Hamburg, Germany, which light up the night-sky for a precious passer-by; the gas-canister defence of Thessaloniki and Athens now turned quite deadly.
This is the anarchism of a complicit glance exchanged in a hostile crowd, or in a queue, or at work; sometimes like a smile, a warm expression of joy, sometimes like a friend who picks you up from the dirty punch you took all your life, or sometimes like the bullets which will find themselves periodically in the heads of powerful individuals and their pawns.
Alfredo; a writer who never betrayed his ideas in the pen and ink of conjecture, but wrote his words to express the realities around him, insights which came from the living social struggle that still remains in the hearts of many people, who will never stop dreaming about a beautiful life that has been denied to them by the prison society of capitalism and power.
This is an anarchism which cannot be jailed, cannot be repressed, cannot be put out, because it does not belong to anyone. This is an anarchism, which through the simple methods which people use to defend themselves from oppression, communicates itself through resistance and so finds friends everywhere that people have not given up hope that they can change the conditions that make their life miserable.
Destroy All Prisons – Free Alfredo & Christos.
Write the comrades :
Alfredo Bonanno
Christos Stratigopoulos
DIKASTIKES FILAKES KORIDALLOS
More Information: After Trikala
Tags: Alfredo M. Bonanno, Bank Robbery, Christos Stratigopoulos, Greece, Repression
Solidarity to Alfredo & Christos – Greek Consulate visit in Berlin (Germany)
On the 3.2 some anarchists paid a short visit to the Greek consulate in Berlin, located at the Wittenberg square. With a banner reading in both Greek and German "The passion for freedom is stronger than any prison – Freedom to Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos" we raised attention on the situation of the two comrades imprisoned in Greece. (more…)
Tags: Alfredo M. Bonanno, Bank Robbery, Christos Stratigopoulos, Germany, Greece, Solidarity Action
Political revenge against Alfredo Bonanno (Greece)
Compañeras and comrades,
From within a climate of daily anarchist action and the brutal repression of every aspect of our lives I am taking the liberty of informing you of two important developments concerning the detention of Alfredo Bonanno.
As you already know Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos were transferred to Korydallos prison one day before the transfer of the murderer Korkonea to the prison of Amfissa.
There, the pharmacy refused to grant him his medication for diabetes and severe pain in the shoulder caused by a tumour diagnosed by doctors at the health centre of Amfissa. Following pressure from their comrades a doctor sent by the Italian Embassy visited him in prison where his serious state of health was confirmed.
I would like to inform you that at this time the investigator in Trikala is deliberating the application for Alfredo's release on bail.
Following the new detention measures of the Ministry of Justice, Bonanno's advanced age (73 years), his compromised health and his detention for a misdemeanor (given that Stratigopoulos has assumed responsibility for the armed robbery), it is patently clear that his continued detention is an exemplary one of political revenge.
Alfredo Bonanno is a revolutionary anarchist comrade and a writer of many works. That is why he is being held, if it wasn't him, he would already be free until the trial. I decided to take generic medications, after reading the reviews at https://www.caladrius.com/online-pharmacy/.
But for us, for whom solidarity is our weapon and who know that in any uprising we will be dynamite, we will not abandon our comrade. We demand the immediate release of Alfredo Bonanno.
Freedom now for Alfredo Bonanno.
Eva Tziutzia
Ps. The following fax has been sent to the Minister of Justice Trasparency and Human Rights, Athens, the Italian Embassy in Athens and the press.
We wish to denounce the abusive and illegal detention of Alfredo Maria Bonanno in unacceptable conditions in the prison of Koridallos (Athens). The vindictive politic of the State is aimed at the physical and psychological annihilation of the 73-year old comrade who is facing serious health problems. Alfredo Bonanno is an anarchist, who has been involved in the movement for decades, militant in the resistance against the dictatorship of the Greek colonels (1967-1974), and writer and editor of many works.
We demand the immediate liberation of Alfredo Maria Bonanno
Solidarity initiative to Alfredo M. Bonanno
Tags: Alfredo M. Bonanno, Bank Robbery, Christos Stratigopoulos, Greece, Korydallos Prison
Alfredo & Christos in prison transfer (Greece)
Alfredo Maria Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos, anarchists imprisoned in Greece accused of carrying out a bank robbery, have been moved from Amfissa prison to the Korydallos prison of Athens. Alfredo was throughout the move in handcuffs, and Christos without, also the bag of Alfredo was 'lost' in transit by the screws.
More updates to come- from the 20th Jan 2010 there will be a legal decision over the question of them coming out of the prison on bail before the upcoming trial.
Here is a new solidarity poster for the two comrades.
Never give up – Never give in.
They can receive mail at:
Alfredo Maria Bonanno
Tags: Alfredo M. Bonanno, Bank Robbery, Christos Stratigopoulos, Greece, Korydallos Prison, Prison Transfer
The Passion for Freedom
Yet one more episode in the chronicles of repression is now well-known to all: on October 1 Alfredo Bonanno (from Italy) and Christos Stratigopoulos (from Greece), two anarchists who have already been hit by repression on a number of occasions, were arrested in Greece following a robbery, and imprisoned in the small town of Amfissa. It is not our intention to comment on their action, which nevertheless has our full appreciation, nor will we indulge in other details concerning the comrades' arrest, which have been abundantly exposed in previous leaflets and communiques. (more…)
Tags: Alfredo M. Bonanno, Christos Stratigopoulos, Greece, Solidarity Action