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Who writes the history books?
ancient, methodology, modern, propaganda, Xenophon
Michael Ignatieff, former head of the Liberal Party of Canada, has been musing about why he lost the election of 2011 (see eg. this excerpt from his book in the Toronto Star). One of his consolations is that succesful political thinkers often fail as practical politicians, because theory and practice are different arts and require different virtues. Canadian readers will have their own opinions about Ignatieff's career, and I don't expect that anyone else cares, but this has reminded me of the curious idea that history is written by the victors. It seems to me that this commonplace is more misleading than helpful.
It is certainly true that the victors sometime write the history books. For example, we know little about many ancient sects, because after they died out nobody preserved their sacred texts or their doctrines. Augustus and his supporters conducted a magnificent propaganda campaign against their enemies Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra, and little of their own perspective survives, so that historians who wish to tell their story need to wield all their powers of imagination. In these cases, the defeated side died out and its story died with it.
Yet other times, each side preserves its own story. Plutarch and Appian are rather sympathetic to the Gracchi brothers, even though they were killed and their political programs were violently supressed. Although more than two hundred years had passed between the careers of the Gracchi and Plutarch's and Appian's writing, some pro-Gracchan stories clearly existed and could still win converts. French victory in the Hundred Years' War did not make the English stop telling stories about their three great victories and their warrior kings. And because the War of 1812 ended ambiguously, both Canadian and American patriots have been able to use it to tell cheering stories. Canadians often remember the siege of Detroit and the sack of Washington, Americans the Battle of New Orleans and the exploits of their navy.
Most interesting are the times where the victors busy themselves with ruling, while the vanquished sit and argue with themselves about how they could have lost or why the defeat was not really their fault. Consider Xenophon the Athenian. He was born an Athenian knight (hippeos), grew up while his class suffered a series of defeats as they tried to seize power from the faltering democrats, and saw Athens defeated by Sparta and forced to give up its walls, its fleet, and its empire. He then left Athens for Asia Minor, where he joined the army of Cyrus the Younger, who tried to become king but was killed. Xenophon and part of Cyrus' army fought their way back to the Aegean coast, where they joined a Spartan army which was campaigning in Asia. After a few successful campaigns, the Spartans were forced to retreat to Greece, and Xenophon followed them and was granted an estate in the Peloponnese. He lived well for several decades until the Thebans overthrew Spartan hegemony. He was driven from his farm and settled in Corinth until his death. Xenophon and his friends were defeated again and again. Yet he devoted a great deal of time to writing, and the stories which he tells dominate our view of Greek history from say 411 to 362 BCE. Ancient and medieval readers loved Xenophon's literary style and his aristocratic values, so they preserved his writings and accepted his stories, and because Xenophon's version is often the most vivid and detailed which survives, modern writers tend to be strongly influenced by him even when they acknowledge that trusting him is risky.
If it is skillfully written and says what they want to hear, people often accept history as written by the vanquished. Often, each side composes a story which makes it happy and tries to ignore other versions. Professional historians can't control the sources which are passed down to them, but they can search out as many versions as possible, consider the perspective and limitations of each, and try to be fair. If the results are not perfect, neither are they a simple repetition of the victor's point of view.
Edit 2019-08-27: See also T. Greer, "History is Written by Losers" (2016) https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2016/11/history-is-written-by-losers.html which looks at Sima Qian, the great historian of the Han Dynasty who submitted to castration rather than die with his work unfinished … and whose words shape how the emperor who punished him is remembered.
The Monuments of the Sertorii
ancient, aquilifer, army_studies, centurio, epigraphy, Roman
In the early Roman Empire, it was fashionable for wealthy soldiers to put up a stone with an inscription and their portrait at their tomb. Two such soldiers were Quintus and Lucius Sertorius, who erected their monuments at Cisolino (about 10 miles east of Verona) sometime in the late first century CE.
The slab at the left belongs to Quintus Sertorius Festus. The rod in his right hand indicates that he was a centurion with the right to beat soldiers. The inscription reads Q SERTORIUS/L. F POB FESTUS/CENTUR LEG XI CLAUDIAE PIAE/FIDELIS or in English "Quintus Sertorious Festus, Lucius' son, of the tribe Poblilia, centurion of legio XI Claudia Pia Fidelis."
The slab at the right belongs to Lucius Sertorius Firmus. The eagle standard (aquila) in his right hand indicates that he was the aqulifer or bearer of the sacred standard of the legion. The Clauss-Slaby database transcribes the inscription as L(ucius) Sertorius L(uci) f(ilius) / Pob(lilia) Firmus / signif(er) aquil(ifer) leg(ionis) XI / Claud(iae) Piae Fidelis / missus curat(or) veter(anorum) / leg(ionis) eiusdem / Domitiae L(uci) f(iliae) / Priscae uxori. I translate that as "Lucius Sertorius, son of Lucius, of the tribe Poblilia, standard bearer and aquilifer of legio XI Claudia Pia Fidelis, honorably discharged, curator of the veterans of the same legion, (dedicates this monument) to Domitia Lucius' daughter and Prisca his wife."
Behind the standing slabs is an altar with a third inscription. It reads DIS MANIBUS / L . SERTORIO / L . F . POB / SISENNAE / PATRI / TERENTIAE . L . F / MAXIMAE MATRI. The altar was dedicated "to the memory of Lucius Sertorius Sisenna, Lucius' son, of the tribe Poblilia, father, and of Terentia Maxima, Lucius' daughter, mother." The altar would have been erected at their tomb, and Quintus and Lucius probably intended to be buried at the same place when they died.
The inscriptions were eventually printed in the Corpus Inscriptionorm Latinarum as numbers CIL 5, 3374 (Quintus), 5, 3375 (Lucius), and 5, 3347 (parents). Some thoughtful scholars in Germany have digitized that volume on the Arachne website.
These inscriptions compactly describe a small family: Lucius Sertorius Sisenna and Terentia Maxima the parents, their children Quintus Sertorius Festus, Lucius Sertorius Firmus, and Domitia, and Prisca the wife of the younger Lucius. We might guess that Lucius was the elder brother, since he received his father's praenomen, was already discharged, received what was probably the higher office, and erected the more splendid monument. In the Roman empire, people often put up monuments to themselves while alive, since life was uncertain and erecting the monument while living was a way to make sure that one would have it in death. The stone probably dates to the late first century CE, since legio XI was given the rolling title legio XI Claudia pia fidelis ("Claudius' trusty and loyal eleventh legion") in the year 42, and as Jona Lendering writes that successive emperors moved the legion further and further from Italy (source). An art historian or epigrapher might be able to date it more closely based on the style or the letter forms, but I am travelling and cannot check whether one has done so. For the same reason, I cannot explain what a curator of the veterans did or whether aquiliferi commonly took that role when they retired.
The Sertorii were clearly proud of their achievements and their family. They now sit in a quiet portico of the Museo Lapidario Maffeiano, Verona, where they are still telling passers-by about themselves.
Two Views on Punching in Late Medieval Italy
Posted by Sean Manning in Uncategorized
fiore_dei_liberi, medieval, single_combat
This image illustrates drunkenness (Lat. ebrietas) in a Tacuinum Sanitatis from Italy in the 1390s (Bibliotheque Nationale du France, Paris MS. Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673 folio 88v: for this and other images see their Mandragore website http://mandragore.bnf.fr/jsp/rechercheExperte.jsp). The Tacuinum is a Latin translation of an Arabic book on the medical implications of various foods, activities, winds, and kinds of clothing. The man without a dagger stands ready to punch. Is he grabbing his opponent at the neck, or trying to catch his opponent's dagger hand? The artist does not make it clear.
By itself, the image of the man without a dagger would be hard to interpret. Is the way he has drawn back his arm before punching meant to show that he is clumsy or untrained, or just a way to make his hand visible in a crowded picture? It is certainly different from the boxing stance which many people today recommend for unarmed combat. But this image can be compared to another kind of source, didactic literature.
Some time around 1405 or 1410, the Italian fencing master Fiore dei Liberi had someone sketch his first defense against a dagger for a new version of his fencing manual. The following image of MS. Ludwig XV 13 folio 10v at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu comes courtesy of their Open Content Program.
Here, the man with the crown (a Remedy Master) has intercepted the attack and pushed it aside. He is about to strike his opponent in the face and twist the dagger out of his hand.
The position of the master's right hand looks odd to modern eyes, but the comparison with the Tacuinum suggests that it might have been an ordinary way to punch in late 14th century Italy, in the way that many Canadians today will adopt a boxing stance if asked to throw a punch.
Edit 2017-09-06: The late Will McLean found a passage in Les mémoires de Messire Oliver de La Marche: augmentés d'un estat particulier de la maison du duc Charles Le Hardy, composé du mesme auteur. Paris: [s.n.]. 1837 Vol. 3, ch. 22 p. 443 where one party in a feat of arms is reduced to punching his opponent in the face while the other tries to bring the point of his axe to bear. After they were separated, the other complained that "It is not honorable to fight with your fist like a woman" and his opponent replied "If you had not taken my axe I would have fought you with my weapon, and the hands of a man are made to attack and to defend." https://willscommonplacebook.blogspot.com/2012/02/jaques-de-lalaing-vs-jean-pientois-1450.html
Edit 2019-04-24: And Pietro Monte's Collectanea, book ii chapter LXXIX, complains that armoured combat with axes is like naked men fighting with fists: since neither can easily hurt the other, the bigger man has the advantage. Like many later martial artists, he felt that proper combat rewarded the skilful, not those with the right body type or a well-behaved horse; unlike today's martial artists, he didn't think there was much skill in fist fighting. Latin text at http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/topics/sources/Monte_Collectanea/monti076.jpg (edit the URL to see pages 77 and 78)
The Race to the End of the Earth
modern, not_an_expert
I recently visited the Royal British Columbia Museum for their exhibit on the British and Norwegian South Pole expeditions of 1911/1912 (no permanent URL: temporary one at http://explore.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/ ). The basic story is well known in Canada: how two expeditions both arrived in Antarctica in hope of being the first to the South Pole, how the Norwegian expedition traveled quickly to the pole and returned safely, and how the British came late, ran out of food and fuel, and froze just short of a supply cache. I have been thinking about the story they tell about this expedition (which is definitely not one of the areas of my expertise).
Canadian patriots often criticize the British for not learning how to survive in the North from the Inuit then applying their knowledge in the South. I didn't know just how poorly they were prepared. The British expedition relied on four kinds of traction: mostly nineteen ponies, but also three tracked vehicles, twenty-five dogs, and their own feet. Since the ponies had wintered in the Antarctic, and the motor vehicles broke down or fell into the sea, this put very great demands on the men. The final stages of the haul to the pole and the whole march back were done by men on foot and skis hauling sledges with belly-bands. The Norwegians just used dogsleds. The British also wore mostly woolen clothing and patent sungoggles, whereas the Norwegians wore fur anoraks and leather sungoggles. The British fuel tins leaked, possibly because they had not tested their fuel cans in sufficiently cold and windy conditions. Every volunteer for the polar expedition showed great nobility and courage, but sometimes those virtues are not enough.
I also could not help thinking of the coming world war. Europeans would have all too many opportunities to display stoic courage in the coming years, and tracked vehicles remained alluring but imperfect. The late John Keegan once wrote a detailed comparison between infantry and mountaineers, but it seems to me that arctic and antarctic exploration has some similarities to soldiering as well.
I also did not know that the British polar party under Scott was just a small part of a large group which used its time in Antarctica to do scientific research. The British expedition included a number of scientists who came home with their sketches and measurements and penguin eggs. In the story as they tell it, the Norwegian expedition under Amundsen was less interested in scientific research. If the British pole party had not earned immortal glory for their courage in the face of disaster, they would have earned a quieter kind for their contributions to human knowledge.


Back at Beerus's place, Xeno Goku and Vegeta return to their own time with the threat of Fu and Cumber past. Vegeta is pissed. Before he can voice his frustrations the Supreme Kai of Universe 6 shows up.
Champa is un-contactable for some reason, and so Vegeta grabs the kai by the lapels and threatens to help him. I mean, he offers to help, but he does it in a pretty aggressive way. Maybe he's angry that Goku managed to switch on the white hair again.
In Universe 6, Zamasu's robotic lackeys seen in the previous episode are battling against Hit and the Universe 6 Saiyans. These two look like a combination of Androids #17 and #18 merged with Jaco. And that have that same smug gittiness that Fu has about him.
They seem quite powerful though as they make short work of Universe 6's strongest. I actually kind of take exception to Hit's portrayal in this episode. I really like Hit a lot, mostly because he has a very unique fighting style, even not taking his time skip abilities into account. Which conveniently don't work on these enemies.
The way he's fighting just seems very generic looking here, much like the Ultra Instinct fight against Cumber. The actual combat is very basic in Heroes, the most creative thing comes from Caulifla getting a surprise attack on the female android. And that's only because she pulls a daft face.
That being said, the animation is decent in this episode.
After taking a few hits, the two androids restore themselves to full stamina, which seems like it's showing off considering how one sided this fight has been.
And in what has quickly become a Dragon Ball tradition; Cabba gets the shaft and is already out of the action before the fighting begins. Vegeta and Trunks show up just int time to confirm the jobber role that both Hit and Cabba are probably going to fulfil for the rest of Dragon Ball.
We cut away to a mysterious elven looking chap in a fur coat and Punished Zamasu watching the battle unfold. The man in the coat tells Zamasu he needs to hinder his rage at the Universe 7 saiyans until they "deal" with the Omni-Kings. Ooh ominous.
The two androids seems to be having a slightly harder job dealing with Trunks and Vegeta, so announce they're about to "do their thing". Which probably means fuse in some way.
I actually really liked this episode. It felt like a story that could take place in the main continuity. The whole "what if?" aspect of the show I thought it would have going in felt completely squandered in the first story arc, the most interesting thing to happen being an appearance of Super Saiyan 4 Vegito.
This episode already feels far more interesting. Involving Zamasu and some brand new characters. Not to mention Universe 6, which I have a big soft spot for in its entirety. It's just a shame Hit is never going to do anything useful ever again. The upcoming story involving eliminating the Omni Kings seems really interesting too.
He did it, he said the "N" word. Unleash your applause.
For the first time ever, I end an episode of Super Dragon Ball Heroes genuinely interested to see what happens next. And not a Goku to be seen.
Posted on January 17, 2019 January 15, 2019 by WooderonPosted in Anime, Condensed Reviews:Tagged dragon ball, epsiode 7, hit, super dragon ball heroes, trunks, universe 6, vegeta, zamasu.


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Just Back From The Farmers Market?
Delicata squash, pears, eggplant, figs and apples are on our list to pick up at the market. While there are many sweet treats to make with pears and apples in the fall, this week we are putting pears in a savory tart and apples in a cocktail. And instead of roasting up squash for dinner, we are bringing it to brunch by swapping out the toast for squash rounds!
Change up your egg-in-a-hole game by using delicata squash rounds!
Pears go savory in this tart!
These eggplant strips are packed with flavor!
Serve this cake warm with a scoop of ice cream!
AKA the grown-up version of apple cider!


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using namespace std;

inline void use_io_optimizations()
{
    ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
    cin.tie(nullptr);
}

int main()
{
    use_io_optimizations();

    unsigned int test_cases;
    cin >> test_cases;

    for (unsigned int test {0}; test < test_cases; ++test)
    {
        string letter;
        cin >> letter;

        unsigned int operations {0};

        for (string::size_type i {0}; i < letter.size() / 2; ++i)
        {
            operations += abs(letter[i] - letter[letter.size() - 1 - i]);
        }

        cout << operations << '\n';
    }

    return 0;
}

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The so-called German question is one of the most important features of German history during the last 200 years. 1 It began to develop in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the Germans became aware that they were lagging behind their neighbours, especially France and Great Britain, in the progress of nation building. 2 For the second half of the twentieth century the German question was about the future of Germany after it had been split up into two states economically and politically after the Second World War. 3 To the solution of the German national question there existed two alternative choices: to re-establish unity or to confirm the separation into two independent states, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in the west and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the east. It seemed to be that the latter option had been narrowly avoided, 4 when Germany in 1990 once again had one government and one economic system (the market economy of the Federal Republic). Only later did East and West German politicians and social scientists learn that the so-called 'inner unification' ('innere Wiedervereinigung'), 5 which could be reached only after the 'demolition of the wall in the minds' that separated East and West Germans, was a task that would last up to the end of the century or even longer.
Publication information: Book title: Economic Change and the National Question in Twentieth-Century Europe. Contributors: Alice Teichova - Author, Herbert Matis - Author, Jaroslav Pátek - Author. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Place of publication: Cambridge, England. Publication year: 2000. Page number: 48.


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Das Riesenchamäleon (Furcifer oustaleti), auch Madagaskar-Riesenchamäleon genannt, ist mit einer Länge bis zu 70 cm die größte Chamäleonart. Es ist in den Savannen und Wäldern der afrikanischen Insel Madagaskar beheimatet.

Aussehen

Riesenchamäleons beeindrucken mehr durch ihre Größe als durch ihre Färbung. Der Helm wirkt sehr mächtig, Rücken- und Kehlkamm bestehen aus auffälligen Kegelschuppen. Das Männchen weist meist eine schmutzig wirkende Tarnfarbe auf, die aus braunen und grauen Tönen besteht. Dagegen wirken die Weibchen um einiges farbenfroher. Bei ihnen dominieren Grüntöne, die häufig durch weiße Flecken auf den Flanken ergänzt werden.

Ernährung, Fortpflanzung, Lebensdauer
Das Tier ernährt sich hauptsächlich von Insekten, darunter Fliegen und Schaben, die für den Menschen lästig sein können. Es wird deshalb von den Bewohnern Madagaskars als Insektenvertilger gerne gesehen. Zu seinen Beutetieren gehören auch kleine Säugetiere und Echsen.

Die innerartliche Aggressivität von Furcifer oustaleti ist nicht allzu stark ausgeprägt. Trotzdem sind sie wie fast alle Chamäleons Einzelgänger. Generell sind Männchen untereinander und trächtige Weibchen immer unverträglich.
Die Tragzeit dauert etwa 40 Tage. Dann legt das Weibchen bis zu 50 Eier in den Boden ab. Es dauert bei 28 Grad Celsius etwa 250 Tage, bis die jungen Chamäleons schlüpfen.

Junge Riesenchamäleons wachsen schnell und sind bereits nach einem Jahr geschlechtsreif.
Als Terrarientier kann das Riesenchamäleon bis zu 15 Jahre alt werden.

Gefährdung
Die IUCN stuft die Art als "nicht gefährdet" (least concern) ein. Sie ist im Anhang II des Washingtoner Artenschutzübereinkommens (CITES) gelistet. Es werden jährlich etwa 2000 Tiere aus Madagaskar exportiert. Die Art ist in diversen Gebieten verbreitet. Schutzgebiete in denen sie vorkommt sind die Nationalparks Andohahela, Tsimanampetotsa, Zombitse-Vohibasia und Tsingy de Bemaraha.

Taxonomie
Die Art wurde 1894 von dem französischen Zoologen und Herpetologen François Mocquard als Chamaeleon oustaleti erstbeschrieben. Der wissenschaftliche Name oustaleti ehrt den französischen Zoologen Émile Oustalet. Der Gattungsname Furcifer  leitet sich aus dem lateinischen Wort furci ("gegabelt") ab und beschreibt die Fußform der Chamäleongattung.

Literatur
 Petr Nečas: Chamäleons. Bunte Juwelen der Natur. 3., verbesserte und überarbeitete Auflage. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-930612-02-X.
 Wolfgang Schmidt, Klaus Tamm, Erich Wallikewitz: Chamäleons. Drachen unserer Zeit. 5., vollständig überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Natur-und-Tier-Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-86659-133-2.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

Chamäleons
Endemisches Reptil Madagaskars

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Leliusz Socyn (, , ur. 29 stycznia 1525 w Sienie, zm. 4 maja 1562 w Zurychu) – włoski działacz reformacyjny i teolog unitariański. Jego bratankiem był Faust Socyn – późniejszy teolog i jeden przywódców braci polskich.

Życiorys

Nauka i podróże
Leliusz Socyn urodził się jako Lelio Francesco Maria Sozzini w bogatej i wpływowej rodzinie włoskich bankierów i prawników. Jego ojciec Mariano Sozzini był znanym wykładowcą prawa na uniwersytetach w Sienie, Pizie, Padwie i Bolonii. Ojciec był człowiekiem zainteresowanym sytuacją religijną, krytykującym "bałwochwalstwo katolicyzmu" i korespondującym z reformatorami luterańskimi m.in. z Melanchtonem. Leliusz był szóstym synem Mariano i Camilli z domu Salvetti.

Leliusz poznał języki biblijne – hebrajski i grekę, a także język arabski. Ojciec wysłał go do Wenecji, gdzie mieszkało wówczas wielu zwolenników Reformacji. Zaczął głosić konieczność reformy Kościoła w duchu ewangelicznym. W 1547 przeniósł się do Chiavenny, gdzie poznał Camilla z Sycylii – mistyka, głoszącego doktrynę religijną, zbliżoną do teologii kwakrów. Następnie odbył liczne podróże (Francja, Niderlandy, Szwajcaria i Anglia), podczas których zapoznał się z europejską reformacją. W Wittenberdze przebywał rok (1550–1551), gdzie doskonalił znajomość hebrajskiego u Melanchtona i Forstera. Następnie odwiedził ośrodki reformacji w Pradze, Wiedniu i Krakowie. Po powrocie do Sieny w 1552 spotkał się ze swoim bratankiem Faustem Socynem, którego zainteresował ideami ewangelicznymi. W 1554 wrócił do Szwajcarii, gdzie osiedlił się w Zurychu. Najbliższym przyjacielem wśród reformatorów był dla Socyna Johann Heinrich Bullinger.

Teolog unitariański
Podczas pobytów w Genewie spotykał się z Kalwinem. Jednak obu reformatorów różnił problem zmartwychwstania ciała, predestynacji i sakramentów. Kalwin krytykował Socyna za zbyt daleko idące wnioski wynikające ze studiowania Pisma, a Socyn zarzucał Kalwinowi obstawanie przy własnych poglądach. Późniejsze spotkanie z Bernardino Ochino w Zurychu doprowadziło do skrystalizowania poglądów Socyna.

W kwietniu 1554 Socyn, kilka miesięcy po śmierci Serweta, zaczął podważać dogmat o Trójcy Świętej i kształtować swój pogląd unitariański. W 1556 po śmierci ojca, który nic nie zapisał mu w testamencie, Socyn znalazł się w trudnościach finansowych. Z pomocą Kalwina w 1558 zaczął szukać wsparcia na dworach w Wiedniu i Krakowie, aby odzyskać rodzinny majątek. Te zabiegi nie zmieniły sytuacji Socyna we Włoszech, gdzie cała jego rodzina była ścigana przez Inkwizycję za "herezję" (jego brata Cornelio uwięziono z tego powodu). Socyn wrócił do Szwajcarii w 1559 i trzy lata później zmarł. Jego rękopisy i dokumenty przejął Faust Socyn i przypuszczalnie korzystał z nich (niekiedy mówi się nawet o plagiacie jednego rękopisu) przy tworzeniu własnych dzieł teologicznych (Komentarz do pierwszej części pierwszego rozdziału Ewangelii Jana).

Leliusz Socyn dwukrotnie odwiedził Polskę – w 1551 i 1559. Jego poglądy miały olbrzymi wpływ na rozwój unitarianizmu w Polsce w XVI-wiecznej Europie, zwłaszcza wśród braci polskich w Polsce i Litwie oraz w Siedmiogrodzie. Jego autorytet wśród braci polskich utorował drogę Faustowi Socynowi do przejęcia przywództwa w ich zborach.

Prace
Do dzisiaj zachowały się bardzo nieliczne dzieła Leliusza Socyna:
 De sacramentis dissertatio (Rozprawa o sakramentach) (1560), 4 tomy
 De resurrectione (O zmartwychwstaniu) (fragment)

Zobacz też
 Giorgio Biandrata

Przypisy

Urodzeni w 1525
Zmarli w 1562
Historia protestantyzmu we Włoszech
Włoscy teolodzy antytrynitariańscy
Ludzie urodzeni w Sienie
Włosi w I Rzeczypospolitej


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GIS expert and educator Sarah Rollins will assist DATAMARK's national business development efforts
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Coronavirus: Italy death toll rises to 1,809 as new restrictions applied globally
The country, which is on lockdown, reported 368 deaths from the virus in one day
Patients lie in bed at a temporary emergency structure set up outside the accident and emergency department, where any new arrivals presenting suspect new coronavirus symptoms will be tested, at the Brescia hospital, Lombardy, on March 13, 2020. / AFP / Miguel MEDINA
Global efforts to combat coronavirus have been stepped up in what has become a make or break week, as more cases were reported and new restrictions applied in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, the Vatican and elsewhere.
Italy reported its largest daily increase in deaths, 368 in 24 hours. More than 1,800 people have died in the country with the virus.
The number of positive cases rose to 24,747 from 21,157 a day earlier.
Lombardy, Italy's worst affected region, saw its death toll rise by 252 to 1,218 on Sunday, from 966 a day earlier.
A woman crosses a nearly empty Duomo square in downtown Milan, Italy. AP Photo
Iran's Health Ministry reported another 113 deaths, bringing the country's total death toll to 724, with the official leading the country's response acknowledging on Sunday that the pandemic could overwhelm health facilities.
In east Jerusalem, the Al Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, is to be closed indefinitely due to concerns about the outbreak, with prayers continuing to be held on the sprawling esplanade outside.
Similar measures have been taken at the nearby Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray. Outdoor prayers continue, but only 10 people at a time are permitted in enclosed areas, in keeping with measures taken by the Israeli government.
Egypt introduced school and university closures, while Iraq's President Barham Salih reportedly requested parliament move to impose a state of emergency on the nation.
Lebanon is also planning to declare a state of medical emergency following its third death on Thursday, and Sudan closed schools and universities for a month from Saturday, having announced its first death on Friday.
Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh ordered the closure of all malls, restaurants, coffee shops and public parks and gardens on Sunday, the municipality said on Twitter, with food deliveries exempt.
The UAE's Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, discussed the with Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif over the phone on Sunday.
The UAE announced 12 new cases of the virus on Sunday, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 98.
Sheikh Abdullah offered Mr Zarif his condolences to the victims of the global pandemic, affirming the UAE's support to the Iranian people as they come through this crisis.
Ali Reza Zali, who is leading the campaign against the outbreak in Iran, the worst affected country in the Middle East, told the state-run IRNA news agency that if the trend continues, there "will not be enough capacity" to contain it.
Iran is believed to have around 110,000 hospital beds, including 30,000 in the capital. However, Mr Zali acknowledged that "many" of those who have died from COVID-19 were otherwise healthy, a rare admission by local authorities that the virus does not only prey on the sick and elderly.
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Iranian figures show that while 55 per cent of fatalities were in their 60s, some 15 per cent were younger than 40.
ISIS also warned its followers in its Al Naba newsletter against travel to Europe and for those who may have become ill with coronavirus not to leave the region, in order to prevent the disease spreading.
Elsewhere in the world, the Vatican is to hold its Holy Week ceremonies, but without public attendance as Italy tries to contain the virus.
"The Vatican announces that #PopeFrancis' Holy Week liturgical celebrations will take place without the physical presence of the faithful, in an attempt to contain the spread of the Covid-19 #coronavirus," the Holy See's media arm tweeted on Sunday.
In an elaboration, Vatican media added that the office of the papal household was informing people that "until April 12 the General Audiences and the Angelus presided over by the Holy Father will be available only in live streaming on the official Vatican News website."
Spain says deaths from the coronavirus have more than doubled in a day to 288, infections near 8,000. Greece's death toll rose to four and confirmed infections rose by 103 to 331.
Eswatini, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Namibia and Rwanda reported their first cases on Saturday, with 24 of Africa's 54 countries now having COVID-19 patients.
Sportswear brand Nike said on Sunday that is to close all of its stores in the US, Canada, western Europe, Australia and New Zealand from Monday March 27.
France held an election on Sunday to choose all of its mayors and other local leaders, despite a crackdown on public gatherings. Voting stations opened just as a drastic new order came into effect shutting down all of France's restaurants, museums, and most stores. The country has some 4,500 cases, including 91 people who have died.
Leaders and officials from the eight South Asian nations held a video conference on Sunday calling for closer co-operation. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who initiated the conference, proposed creating a COVID-19 emergency fund to be used by South Asian nations to combat the spread of the disease.
Presidents and prime ministers from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, and a representative from Pakistan, shared steps taken by their governments in their efforts to control the spread of the virus.


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Watch: Iowa State Women's Signee Scores 48 Points
New Iowa State women's basketball signee Audi Crooks dropped 48 points on an opponent during a recent high school game.
Crooks, a 6-foot-3 center who plays at Bishop Garrigan in Algona, Iowa, signed with the Cyclones as part of a five-player class considered to be the highest-rated class in program history.
Crooks is just starting her senior season with Bishop Garrigan,
Audi Crooks dropped 48 points! Iowa State commit is unstoppable in the paint 😤 @AudiCrooks @garriganbb pic.twitter.com/LBsqhD5EXT
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Crooks is rated No. 57 in the ESPNw Hoop Gurlz Class of 2023 recruit rankings and plays multiple sports at Bishop Garrigan. She is the three-time Iowa Class 1A Player of the Year and has led Bishop Garrigan to the Class 1A state title game three times, claiming the title last season.
Entering this season, Crooks has career numbers of 1,845 points at 71.1 percent shooting. She also has 955 rebounds and 287 blocks.
In track and field, she has won the last two Class 1A shot put state titles, breaking the division record last year with a throw of 45 feet one inch.
In volleyball, Crooks was a three-time all-conference honoree and led the Golden Bears with 254 kills and 70 blocks this past season.
The rest of the signing class includes forward Jalynn Bristow from Wichita Falls, Texas; forward Addy Brown from Derby, Kansas; guard Arianna Jackson from Des Moines; and guard Kelsey Joens from Iowa City. This quintet ranks at No. 10 in the 2023 ESPNw/HoopGurlz Recruiting Rankings at the time of publication.
Joens is the younger sister of current Iowa State guard/forward Ashley Joens and of Oklahoma guard Aubrey Joens. The Cyclones are ranked in the Nation's Top 10 this season.
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And Steam have shown how difficult it is to find the balance as they have decided not to take responsibility for those placing content on the site.
While morally, some would argue not policing their site as a bad thing, I can see the reasons behind Steam doing this.
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OK, so maybe I'm engaging in a little click bait with the title but err… well I'm actually saying it in a positive way.
Cultist Simulator appears at first glance to use techniques based on Skinner's techniques as well as the same countdown clocks you get on mobile games and… yet it is the perfect simulator game I have played. They have taken mechanics you could argue as negative and uses them in a positive way… and through it the perfect simulator.


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Bird's Eye View of New Braunfels Comal County Texas 1881.
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Rare view of New Braunfels, Texas, in 1881, published by Augustus Koch.
As noted on the Amon Carter Museum Website exhibition of Bird's-Eye Views of Texas:
In depicting New Braunfels, founded in 1845 under the auspices of the Adelsverein (also known as the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas), Augustus Koch chose the perspective from the Sophienburg (Fort Sophia), the headquarters that Prince Solms-Braunfels established for the colony. Built on a hill on the south side of the new settlement with a view of the Comal River and its confluence with Comal Creek, the Sophienburg was to have included a headquarters building and a fort. The fort was never completed, but the original log cabin headquarters building (14 on map), shown in the center foreground of the print, is easily recognizable because of the sagging roof that seems about to collapse. In fact, the building was destroyed five years after Koch's visit by a hurricane that annihilated Indianola.
New Braunfels had been a regional agricultural center for decades by the time the International-Great Northern Railroad linked it with Austin and San Antonio in 1880 and 1881. "We have now entered into communication with the whole world by rail-road," announced the editor of the Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. He predicted that the "steamsteed" would connect the city with the Pacific as well as "Montezuma's legendary residence," Mexico City itself. The railroad is prominently featured in the foreground of the print, with two steam locomotives heading toward each other on the same track. The passenger depot (6) is located at the intersection of San Antonio and Hill streets and the freight depot is at Church and Hill streets.
Next in importance seem to be the mills along the Comal River: Landa Flour Mills on Comal Springs (4), which feeds the Comal River; Comal Mills (13), on the Comal Springs on the north side of town; the New Braunfels Woolen Manufacturing Company (5); and a brewery (8). The cotton gin and oil mill (15), only a block off the Public Square, suggest the growing importance of the city as a processing and transportation center. Two churches-one of the German Protestant churches (9) and the Roman Catholic Church (10)-are equally as prominent. The Comal County Courthouse is not as prominent as courthouses in many Texas towns because the public square is open, rather than having the courthouse located in its center.
While Koch did not trace the course of the Comal Creek and river as precisely as he might have, the features of the landscape are generally accurate and would have been easy to recognize by residents. The large building on Academy Street, between Bridge and Mill streets, is the public school, which New Braunfels residents established even before the Texas Constitution of 1876 made support of public education mandatory. Much of the strip of land between Comal Creek and the river became Landa Park, which attracted tourists and excursion trains from San Antonio and Austin. Koch showed Comal Town, which grew simultaneously with New Braunfels, on the north side of both the river and the creek.
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Koch's view of New Braunfels is quite rare. Repps locates only a single example (Amon Carter Museum).
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Liathmore – New(ish) to the party
Every now and then, a new round tower gets added to the list of known towers. In 2018, some mortar from a ruined tower in the grounds of a grammar school in Derry were radiocarbon dated. It had been thought that the tower was a ruined windmill but the analysis of the mortar revealed it to be an older building. Evidence suggests it could quite likely be a round tower that had been known to have stood in the area.
The rediscovery of the tower at Liathmore, Co. Tipperary took place nearly 50 years before this. In 1969-70 Dr. Robin E. Glasscock from Queens University, Belfast led excavations at this site. The foundations of the tower were found, along with some worked ashlars which were later used to reconstruct the base. The foundations went to a depth of 2.6 metres which is unusually deep for a round tower. As to why the tower vanished and was forgotten about, that's anybody's guess. Subsequent to the excavations, the Office of Public Works (OPW) reconstructed the base of the tower using the material found during the dig. The base is surrounded by a larger circular stone wall, constructed by the OPW to protect it from cattle.
The reconstructed base of Liathmore Round Tower. To its north is the smaller and older of the two churches here.
The monastery here was founded by St. Mochoemóg in the early 7th century. Tradition has it that he is buried in the larger church. And in a blurring of fact and fiction, he features in some versions of the Children of Lir story as the monk who baptised the four swans and turned them back into humans. Local folklore has it that every four years, four swans return to the area and spend a week here.
The tower base is situated almost half way between two ruined churches. Apart from these, there is evidence of a settlement which once existed here, perhaps until the 16th or 17th century. These lumps and bumps in the ground are easily visible in the area around the larger church
Aerial photo of the tower base and the two churches.
The smaller of the two is an 11th-century oratory. The larger church dates from the 12th century, though it was modified after that. Alterations made in the 15th century are quite noticeable here. There is a loft and steps that access the roof. This church has some interesting features, including some carved heads over the doorway and a Sheela-na-Gig that's a little hard to find unless you know where to look (fnar). I visited this site on a sunny summer's evening and wasn't able to get a decent picture of said exhibitionist. So if you're curious, there are pics on the "Ireland's Síle na Gigs" website.
This site wouldn't make it onto my "must see" list but it was a pleasant way to spend a sunny summer's evening. The larger church in particular is interesting to look at. Because it's a much altered building, there are random carvings set into doorways and masonry to look at inside.
Heads!
This site is trickier to find than most of the others because it is on private farmland and isn't signposted from the main road. The entrance to the farm, and the farm track out to the site, look a bit different to the 2009 Google Streetview imagery. Other online accounts of visiting this site mention the mud and advise wearing wellies, so I left my visit to this one until we'd had a dry spell of weather.
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Home | News | Aboriginal Teachers deliver professional educational development for SEDA
Aboriginal Teachers deliver professional educational development for SEDA
Culture is Life's Aboriginal educators delivered vocational and higher education providers with teacher training prior to a national roll out of The Australian Dream curriculum. An initiative in SEDA Groups commitment to strengthening Indigenous perspectives and knowledges for all staff and the young people they reach.
The Australian Dream Educational Resources were written by Aboriginal educators and informed by a collective of First Nations people to extend the critical messaging and lived experiences of Adam Goodes and other First Nations Australian's in The Australian Dream film.
'The team of dedicated educators at Culture Is Life have provided SEDA with skills and insight to increase our understanding of First Nations people, history and culture. Through a range of activities, we've engaged with over 1,000 SEDA staff and students across Victoria, NSW, SA, WA and NT to capture learnings and develop actions to move forward in SEDA's reconciliation journey. We highly recommend engaging with the online resources and training provided by Culture Is Life." Jethro Calma-Halt, National Indigenous Manager SEDA.
Culture is Life's Aboriginal educators, Belinda Duarte, Thara Brown, Shelley Ware and Brady Cooper developed the sessions with the aim to:
Inspire life-long connections to the founding ancestral stories of this country and encourage teachers to reflect on their own ancestral stories
Encourage honest conversations on teachers understanding of Indigenous culture and their own experiences and education with their students
Build confidence and competence in teachers to facilitate learning of the key themes; cultural identity, history and truths, racism, resilience and reconciliation
Advocate for place- based initiatives to connect and positively impact their community's relationship with First
Nations people, culture and history.
Teacher's pre-survey reflections indicated that 70% of teachers rated themselves as having 'a little knowledge' of First Nations Culture in Australia, which we hope to shift dramatically by providing further training and access to resources for educators nationally.
'The Australian Dream discusses the historical and social impact of colonialism and effects of long term institutionalised racism in Australia. It holds a mirror up to its Australian audience and asks us to address the casual and relaxed attitudes towards racist views within sporting cultures and beyond.' A SEDA teacher's reflection after watching the film.
The Australian Dream Educational Resources are available for free at ABC Education.
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Tracy Puckett works fused glass magic, mixing opaque, clear, iridescent and specialty glass to form creative objects that can be both useful and functional. Her studio is in the Las Vegas, Nevada area. While she is known for her bowls, plates and ornaments, our introductory selection here are her newest items, plant stakes! If you are unfamiliar, the fused glass flowers are mounted onto ultra sturdy metal stakes, you can stick them into your house plants to sizzle in the greenery, or outside to brighten up a bare spot.
5 inch flower is made of dozens of clear and iridescent glass pieces, fused together to form a unique shape. The color range is amber orange-yellow and soft brown. Flower is mounted in back to 6mm sturdy 12" metal stake, total height 13 inches. Ideal for potted plant accent, that will catch the sun or be colorful all on its own.
4-1/2 inch flower is made of dozens of clear and iridescent glass pieces, fused together to form a unique shape. The clear colors come to life in the sunlight. Flower is mounted in back to 6mm sturdy 12" metal stake, total height 13 inches. Ideal for potted plant accent, that will catch the sun or be colorful all on its own.
4-1/2 inch flower is made of dozens of opaque and translucent glass pieces, fused together to form a unique shape. The color range is soft petal pink with pearly white center. Flower is mounted in back to 6mm sturdy 12" metal stake, total height 13 inches. Ideal for potted plant accent, that will catch the sun or be colorful all on its own.
5 inch flower is made of dozens of clear and opaque glass pieces, fused together to form a unique shape. The color range is rich dandelion yellow with lime and red center. Flower is mounted in back to 6mm sturdy 12" metal stake, total height 13 inches. Ideal for potted plant accent, that will catch the sun or be colorful all on its own.
5 inch flower is made of dozens of clear and iridescent glass pieces, fused together to form a unique shape. The color range is teal blue, aqua and iridescent indigo center. Flower is mounted in back to 6mm sturdy 12" metal stake, total height 13 inches. Ideal for potted plant accent, that will catch the sun or be colorful all on its own.
5-1/2 inch flower is made of dozens of clear and opaque glass pieces, fused together to form a unique shape. The color range is cobalt blue with yellow and red-orange center. Flower is mounted in back to 6mm sturdy 12" metal stake, total height 13 inches. Ideal for potted plant accent, that will catch the sun or be colorful all on its own.
5 inch flower is made of dozens of opaque glass pieces, fused together to form a unique shape. The color range is rich tomato and brick reds with sunny yellow and charcoal center. Flower is mounted in back to 6mm sturdy 12" metal stake, total height 13 inches. Ideal for potted plant accent, that will catch the sun or be colorful all on its own.
4-1/2 inch flower is made of dozens of opaque glass pieces, fused together to form a unique shape. The color range is true sunshine yellows with earthy greens at center. Flower is mounted in back to 6mm sturdy 12" metal stake, total height 13 inches. Ideal for potted plant accent, that will catch the sun or be colorful all on its own.
5 inch flower is made of dozens of transparent and iridescent glass pieces, fused together to form a unique shape. The color range is royal blue and turquoise/teal. Flower is mounted in back to 6mm sturdy 12" metal stake, total height 13 inches. Ideal for potted plant accent, that will catch the sun or be colorful all on its own.
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CFP: [pl.] Exploring the Multiple
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, United States
Abstracts due: 02/09/2018
Conference date: 03/16/2018
In his dystopian novel Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami describes two parallel worlds—one similar to our contemporary capitalist society, the other a counterfactual world where people have no names but rather distinguish each other by their professions. One particular occupation, "Dreamreader," is assigned to read old, distant, and unremembered dreams through the touch of self-illuminating unicorns' skulls. Situated in what seems to be the only conceivable reality, we oftentimes limit ourselves to one conventional discourse or frame of thought, and forget alternative possibilities; we forget to cross the very thin line connecting one universe to another, where the potential to read and to be illuminated by multiple dreams is promised.
Binghamton University's Art History Graduate Student Union seeks Dreamreaders and others, from multiple disciplinary backgrounds, for the 26th annual Crossing the Boundaries conference, which will engage the concept of [pl.]: Exploring the Multiple. The recent return to issues of the real and unreal, stimulated by discourses around art objects, techno-culture, and systems theory, prompts continued searching for multiple, unstable, even incoherent statuses and possibilities, and their relocation within an ocean of networks. The making of such alternative constellations is the aim of this gathering.
Today, when dreamlands seem to be so far out of reach, we wish to invite scholars and researchers from different fields to join this exploration of the multiple: to cross discursive boundaries, to add an "-s" to every term we engage, and to once more hold close our seemingly remote dreams. The 2018 Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Crossing the Boundaries XXVI invites proposals for academic papers / creative practices from MA and PhD students, independent scholars, and artists. Potential topics for discussion include, but are not limited to:
Accidents and the accidental
Architectural free-spaces
Archived and unarchived histories
Corporeality / -ies and materiality / -ies
Counterfactuality
Cultural techniques
Dispositifs: cinematic, exhibitionary, photographic, or theatrical apparatuses
Ecological humanities
Heterotopias
Observation vs. ontology: working against speaking on images in ontological terms
Humanism and post-humanism
Soft architectures
The conference is scheduled for March 16-17, 2018 at Binghamton University and features keynote speakers Dr. Edward Eigen, Associate Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and Dr. Jeffrey Kirkwood, Assistant Professor of Art History at Binghamton University.
Those interested in participating in the conference should send a one-page abstract (no more than 250 words), CV, and cover page with institutional affiliation, if relevant, and contact information (phone number and email address) to: buctbconf@gmail.com
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Authors | Johanna Drucker
Johanna Drucker is the inaugural Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She has published and lectured widely on topics related to digital humanities and aesthetics, visual forms of knowledge production, book history and future designs, graphic design, historiography of the alphabet and writing, and contemporary art. Her most recent publication, Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production, was published in the MetaLab series in 2014 (Harvard University Press).
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ANTHOLOGY OF THE ILLEGIBLE
Poésie de Mots Inconnus, 1949, Paris, Edités par Le Degré 41
Poèsie des Mots Inconnus (1949) was an anthology of early 20th century experimental visual and sound poetry. Edited by the poet-printer-artist Ilia Zdanevich, (a.k.a. Iliazd), the anthology may be the first compendium of 20th-century radical avant-garde work. Produced in response to a challenge by the founder of Lettrisme, Isidore Isou, the book demonstrated the range, richness, and variety of work done by pioneering figures in Dada, Futurism, and Modern poetics. The book is an artist's publication, with typographic and graphic virtuosity in every contribution, including pieces by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Max Ernst, Velimir Khlebnikov, Raoul Hausmann and more than a dozen other prominent figures.
Micro Units and the Macro Scale
The forms of scholarly work create a kind of currency in the academic world, with credit for books, articles, peer-reviewed projects, and other traditional forms each garnering value according to established protocols. As networked formats of scholarly activity enabled by social media platforms begin to create new, distributed, fragmented, micro-units of discourse, how will this change the academic system of accounting? This article suggests some of the ways the credit system for scholarly work will or might change in these circumstances.


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Jim Becker discusses Chevron Phillips Chemical's sustainability initiatives with BIC Magazine
Jim Becker, vice president, polymers and sustainability at Chevron Phillips Chemical, manages the company's sustainability program in addition to its polymers business, so his mission is not only to ensure the responsible manufacture of company products amid rising global demand, but also to identify proactive, sustainable solutions to various global issues. That includes collaborating with select industry groups, customers and the public sector.
"Chevron Phillips Chemical is in growth mode, and with that comes an opportunity to advance our culture of environmental stewardship," Becker said. "That is why we recently intensified our focus on sustainable growth in our corporate strategy. We also developed a new company trademark, Performance by design. Caring by choice.TM. This is something we believe represents our longstanding tradition of caring about safety, the environment and the communities in which we operate."
As part of its main sustainability initiatives, Chevron Phillips Chemical is among the founding members of a new, unprecedented consortium of nearly 30 top global companies, the Alliance to End Plastic Waste.
"This is the first time companies across the value chain have come together in such a significant way to attack this concern," Becker said. "Following our launch in mid-January, our global group has already pledged more than $1 billion with a goal of investing $1.5 billion over five years to eliminate plastic waste in the environment and especially the oceans. In the months ahead, the alliance will make investments and drive progress to reduce plastic waste, as well as encourage reuse and recycling."
Becker has worked in a variety of positions for Chevron Phillips Chemical, and he believes his assignments have afforded him a comprehensive understanding of the global issues surrounding plastics in the environment and how the industry can help solve the problem.
"I am part of an industry of problem solvers," Becker stated. "We recognize poorly managed plastic waste is a global issue and solving it will require global solutions. There is no simple, single solution. It will require a lot of hard work, and our company and its joint ventures are actively involved in finding viable solutions to address this environmental issue."
In addition to its work with the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, Chevron Phillips Chemical recently furthered investments in recycling technologies through its America Styrenics joint venture with Agylix. With the ability to turn polystyrene products back into usable building blocks (styrene monomer), the venture is designed to keep waste out of the environment and create a circular solution with industry value.
"What's really energizing for me is the level of innovation in our industry, fueled by booming global demand for plastic products and record growth in U.S. shale," Becker said. "Such unprecedented, favorable market conditions have created a manufacturing renaissance across the country. And to meet the levels of growing demand sustained by this record market momentum, it will be even more important to focus on advances in mechanical and chemical recycling. The potential for rapid progress in this area is one of many reasons why it is such an exciting time to be in petrochemicals.
"When it comes to innovation and environmental sustainability in particular, the level of leadership our company and the industry are providing can bring lasting change in North America and globally. We are looking at exciting new ways to create a truly circular industry. We strongly believe plastics are an important part of a sustainable future."
Plastics provide tremendous value to society, from lifesaving medical applications to packaging that helps keep food fresh longer. They also use less material than alternatives and offer dramatic reductions in energy use, material consumption and greenhouse emissions.
"But they can't end up in unintended places in our environment, including our oceans," Becker said. "We want our products used and disposed of properly and look forward to the many contributions we can make to bolster sustainability efforts here in the United States and overseas."
This article first appeared in BIC Magazine.
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Kingdom Fresh Adds Persian Limes and Cucumbers, Jaime Garcia Comments
Thu. February 7th, 2019
- by Melissa De Leon
DONNA, TX - It's not a secret that our industry is constantly changing, therefore keeping a steady balance and a versatile point of view are crucial. Knowing this, Kingdom Fresh is shaking up its traditional practices, adding not one but two categories to its roster: cucumbers and Persian limes.
"We have always been a tomato house, and we will always be a tomato house, but we want to diversify and grow into a more efficient one-stop-shop for our customers," Jaime Garcia, the company's General Manager, says.
The way Jaime tells it, it was a rapid one-two punch. Kingdom Fresh picked up its new fresh Persian lime program in September and then cucumbers in October.
"Cucumbers go hand in hand with tomatoes, so the reception was amazing, and the process was fairly intuitive," Jaime explains.
The cucumbers, I agree, make sense in what I know of complementary commodities. The limes, Jaime says, are where the team wanted to shake things up a bit.
"You always want to have more to offer to your customers, especially in this business when so many factors outside your control can affect what you have," he comments. "Our first big harvest for cukes is in April; after that we'll have them year-round, and we are really excited to offer this to consumers."
Another big plus to this newest adventure? Exposure.
"Being based in the Southwest, sometimes we don't think about selling to the West Coast—but with the majority of Persian limes crossing going through Texas, it makes sense to go to L.A., Seattle, and more. So this has helped us expand not just our products but our business and our awareness to new markets and new customers."
With Spring on the way and bearing all kinds of new 'fruit' for the company, as it were, continue to read AndNowUKnow as we follow all the latest developments in our expanding industry.
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Eddie Murphy To Reprise "Akeem" Role In "Coming To America" Sequel
Hollywood, CA – Eddie Murphy has reportedly signed on for Coming To America 2, the sequel to the 1988 authentic. According to Deadline, the illustrious comedic actor will reprise his position as African prince "Akeem" who traveled to Queens, New York to discover a potential spouse.
Paramount Pictures has employed director Craig Brewer to carry the movie to life. Brewer lately directed Murphy in Dolemite Is My Name.
In the sequel, Akeem discovers he has a protracted misplaced son and returns to America to fulfill the inheritor to the throne Zamunda.
"After a few years anticipation, I'm thrilled that Coming to America 2 is ficially transferring ahead," Murphy stated in a press release. "We've assembled an awesome workforce that will probably be led by Craig Brewer, who simply did a tremendous job on Dolemite, and I'm trying ahead to bringing all these traditional and beloved characters again to the large display."
The first Coming To America additionally starred Arsenio Hall as Akeem's ever-loyal aide Semmi and he's anticipated to reprise his position as properly. Shari Headley, who was courted by Akeem, John Amos, who performed Headley's father and James Earl Jones, who performed the king, are additionally on board for the sequel.
In 2017, Murphy's daughter insinuated a Coming To America sequel was "pretend information," however evidently that wasn't the case.
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El teatre llatí és el teatre que es feia a l'antiga Roma, incloent-hi texts, música, escenografia, indumentària i costums, representat en llengua llatina. Alguns dramaturgs romans cèlebres van ser Plaute, Terenci i Sèneca, tot i que també destaquen, per exemple, Fabi Dossè, Luci Atti i Titini. Algunes obres són encara ben conegudes, com el Truculent, de Plaute, o nombroses tragèdies de Luci Atti, com Medea o Les troianes, algunes d'elles sobretot gràcies a nombroses adaptacions (de teatre, cinema, òpera, dansa, etc.) d'autors posteriors.

Al contrari dels grecs, pels romans la funció del teatre va passar de ser una forma de formació, filosofia o crítica social, a prendre-hi importància l'entreteniment i l'espectacle per si mateix. La comèdia era extremadament popular, però també es feien tragèdies i altres gèneres pel gust de gaudir d'altres emocions. Es van crear companyies de teatre professionals formades per grups d'actors que feien gires per diverses províncies.

Els romans estaven més preocupats de l'espectacle concret que oferia l'obra teatral que no pas d'estar en harmonia amb el conjunt del món, com feien per exemple els grecs. Així, de vegades van tapar amb fronts escènics bonics paisatges darrere de l'escenari perquè el públic es pogués centrar en l'espectacle dels humans, però també per a proveir-lo de més complexitat, ja que servia també de "decorat" monumental, que ornamentaven amb escenografies pintades de forma realista. També se sap que es van mostrar desitjosos de millorar l'acústica i la visibilitat, cosa palesa en les seves característiques pròpies a les construccions arquitectòniques dedicades a aquestes arts.

Estil i evolució
La comèdia togata és la que tracta sobre temes de la cultura romana, però també se'n van fer, al començament, d'inspirades en les gregues, gènere que posteriorment els estudiosos han anomenat comedia palliata. Aquest art d'entreteniment va començar a fer-se en espais cada cop més grans per a poder abastar més espectadors; la grandària i la consegüent distància entre el públic i els actors va fer evolucionar l'espectacle cap a una cosa més visual, on els diàlegs intimistes i detallats anaven substituint-se per altres de més simple i comercials; després, per escenes còmiques breus, i més tard per una successió variada d'espectacles que incloïen mim, pallassos i acrobàcies diverses (del mateix estil que l'actual Cirque du Soleil, per exemple). Posteriorment s'hi inclourien els animals, primer amb espectacles avui considerats de circ i més tard amb lluites entre ells. Finalment, tot això va ser reemplaçat per l'espectacle considerat més popular i desitjat pel públic, la lluita a mort entre humans (gladiadors).

Influència en altres estils i cultures
La dramatúrgia llatina, considerada clàssica junt amb la grega, ha tingut, com les belles arts d'aquestes civilitzacions, una forta influència en les cultures europees al llarg dels segles. Alguns textos de teatre llatins es representen encara avui dia. D'altres actualment "clàssics" es basen en anteriors obres romanes, de vegades al seu torn inspirades en creacions gregues, i així han contribuït al coneixement i l'expansió de la cultura de l'antiga Grècia. És el cas, per exemple, de la Fedra romana de Sèneca, que va inspirar directament la Fedra francesa de Jean Racine, malgrat existir una Fedra grega, la de Sòfocles.

D'altra banda, malgrat que moltes persones poden tenir el reflex de pensar que tot fruit de l'obra romana està basat en la cultura grega, no és forçosament el cas pel que fa a la dramatúrgia, ja que algunes tragèdies gregues van ser imitacions d'altres de romanes, per exemple les de Luci Atti.

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Blue Catfish or Channel Catfish?
The Blue Catfish and the Channel Catfish are two very similar species with a great deal of overlap in range, habits, and physical characteristics. Anglers will often catch one while targetting the other. Identification can be tricky at times for the uninitiated.
Blue catfish attain a larger size than the channel catfish, sometimes exceeding 100 pounds. Under optimal conditions channel catfish will occassionally grow beyond 20 pounds, rarely surpass 30, and only a handful have ever topped 50 pounds. All fish start small, so size is only definitively helpful in identifying the largest blues. As the name implies, blue catfish are usually bluish gray on the dorsal side. Fish coloration is highly variable, so you can't rely on that. Blues will typically have a more robust build with more weight in "upper torso" compared to the channel catfish. The body shape can be helpful for ID at a glance, but again, it's not conclusive.
Look at the pic above of the two fish in the net. The fat, silvery blue one is a blue catfish. The slimmer, brown one is a channel catfish. Sometimes a proper ID is that easy; sometimes it's not.
Above are examples of a blue and a channel of similar size, coloration, and body shape.
The key to the ID is in the anal fin. The blue cat (left) has a long straight anal fin, whereas, the channel cat (right) has a shorter more rounded anal fin. Although there is a difference in the number of rays in the fins, I pay more attention to the fin shape and overall length. The anal fin of a blue cat is long, straight, and somewhat angular. To me, it looks like a banner. The channel cat's anal fin curves gradually to its full width. It's shaped more like an elephant ear. I'm refering to an actual elephant's ear; not the pastry.
About 20 pounds, blue-gray coloration, big shoulders, and, most importantly, a banner-like anal fin – this is a blue catfish.


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