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Shaquille O'Neal Reportedly Entering Metaverse
Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O'Neal and Authentic Brands Group filed for three trademark applications for the word SHAQ last month for "non-downloadable virtual footwear, clothing, headwear, eyewear" and more "for use in virtual environments," Footwear News reported Wednesday (Jan. 13).
That sounds an awful lot like Shaq's first steps toward the metaverse. ABG owns and manages O'Neal's branded merchandise, and the man of many nicknames is the company's second-largest shareholder, according to the report. Forever 21, Barneys New York and JCPenney are other brands under the ABG umbrella.
"Just like you might buy a branded product in the real world that says 'Shaq' on it, now you might buy one of those in the virtual world," trademark attorney Josh Gerben of Gerben Law Firm told Footwear News.
O'Neal has said he wants his name to "go on forever," one of the reasons he said he wanted to partner with ABG, which owns the rights to several other celebrities like Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali, the report stated. ABG filed trademarks in December for Elvis and Sports Illustrated for virtual rights.
"The existing registrations that they have on these brands do not cover virtual goods because virtual goods was not a thing five or 10 years ago," Gerben told Footwear News. "No one really thought that you might need protection on something like this."
New York-based ABG owns and manages more than 40 media, entertainment and lifestyle retail brands, ranging from Marilyn Monroe to Eddie Bauer.
See more: From Clothing to Crypto, Celebrity-Owned Brands and Endorsements are Bigger Than Ever
Of course, O'Neal is hardly the only celebrity looking to broaden his brand. The House of LR&C, a Seattle-based fashion startup started by Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and singer Ciara, will seek between $20 million and $50 million from investors this spring in a Series A fundraising round.
Read more: Fashion Startup by Russell Wilson and Ciara Seeking up to $50M in Series A Funding
Meanwhile, Gap and singer, designer and entrepreneur Kanye West have a 10-year, $1 billion deal for his Yeezy line that is 18 months and two product launches deep.
As PYMNTS reported, celebrity endorsements usually work well, but the narrowness of their nature creates a disproportionate exposure linked to the continued good behavior of a single individual.
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Walmart filed a series of trademark applications late last month that indicate the retailer has bigger plans for the metaverse, including through the development of cryptocurrencies and nonfungible tokens (NFTs). CNBC first spotted the batch of documents that were submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Dec. 30.
The applications, of which there are seven in total, encompass concepts like "virtual goods" across product categories such as furniture, toys and sporting gear, along with downloadable software for managing cryptocurrency portfolios or establishing an electronic wallet.
Games and other services powered by augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) technology also make appearances. The news suggests the metaverse could play a significant role in Walmart's strategy as the big-box brand centers more of its business around the digital world.
Walmart isn't the first marketer to show budding interest in the metaverse, but a potentially substantial push to build out its offerings could go a long way in sparking more mainstream adoption of technologies that are foundational to the channel, including cryptocurrencies. The big-box store is the largest retailer in the world, reaching a massive audience of shoppers, and rivals may follow Walmart's lead in ramping up their bets lest they lose an early-mover advantage in a market some view as the next evolution of the internet.
That said, many metaverse-related technologies like NFTs haven't served a purpose in marketing beyond one-off stunts or generating some headlines. But the broader vision of what the metaverse could eventually become is appealing to companies like Walmart, with shared virtual realms acting as a venue for customers to try out experiences and products and eventually make purchases of digital goods as they look to customize their online avatars and living spaces. Though businesses clearly smell an opportunity, consumers haven't quite come around to the idea, even as categories like gaming provide a loose sense of what's possible in the metaverse.
Some groundwork has already been laid for Walmart's metaverse approach. Last year, it began seeking a digital currency and cryptocurrency product lead, following in Amazon's footsteps. Recent executive changes point to a possible strategy switch-up. Longtime merchandising chief Scott McCall is retiring, Bloomberg reported, while Chief Customer Officer Janey Whiteside — a key player in rounding out Walmart's e-commerce playbook — will depart in March.
Walmart dipping its toes in the metaverse could support other ventures that are important to staying competitive in retail. In 2020, it introduced its long-awaited Walmart+ e-commerce portal meant to tackle the growing threat of Amazon Prime. Several of the trademark applications were also made under Walmart Connect, the marketer's fledgling advertising business. Walmart has quickly built out the unit as the demand for retail media soars during the pandemic and packaged goods brands seek alternative targeting methods to cookies, which are being phased out next year.
Other marketers are more firmly planting their metaverse flags. Nike in December acquired RTFKT, a digital studio that designs virtual collectibles like NFTs. The sportswear marketer also recently established Nikeland, an interactive experience inside the Roblox gaming platform that lets visitors participate in activities like dodgeball and trying on virtual apparel.
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STEM, Community
MIND Participates in SETDA and ECS Edtech Policy Discussions
By Liz Neiman
MIND Research Institute is a proud partner of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and the Education Commission of the States (ECS) – two of the most prominent and important venues for edtech policy discussion.
And fresh off what I've been unofficially calling "Policy Week" – the virtual meetings of SETDA on November 16-17 and of ECS on November 18-19 – I wanted to share some of my thoughts and impressions of the key discussions.
SETDA Leadership Summit
SETDA's annual Leadership Summit brought educational leaders from more than 40 states together with experts in educational technology, assessment, instructional materials and professional development.
Kenneth Shelton provided an inspiring keynote address that challenged educators to design for inclusion and let students hold us accountable. He spoke about "techquity" – the intersection of technology and equity – where educational technologies merge with culturally competent learning experience to support the development of students' essential skills.
Of all the "techquity" issues brought into sharp relief by COVID-19, few have been more concerning than the lack of reliable internet access for students who are distance learning. Keith Krueger, CEO of CoSN, the Consortium for School Networking, shared some exciting news on that front: CoSN, together with SETDA, are beginning a student home internet research project. Funded by a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the project aims to release public recommendations on upload/download requirements in early 2021.
As part of the event, SETDA offered its private-sector partners an opportunity to exhibit in the virtual expo hall. My MIND colleagues and I were delighted to share more about what makes an effective distance learning tool, how to help families combat math anxiety, and how ST Math's unique learning model works. We even played some games, which you can try out for yourself at www.stmath.com/play.
ECS Live!
Hundreds of state commissioners and edtech policy leaders joined the ECS Live! events, which delivered the latest news and thinking on education policy.
ECS staff shared information about their COVID-19 resources available at ecs.org/covid-19-pandemic, with seven new policy guidelines focused on:
Accountability & School Improvement
Professional Learning for Teachers & Leaders
Funding Equity
State Task Forces & Advisory Groups
Upskilling & Reskilling
From the whole week of events, one of the most informative sessions I attended was "Funding K-12 Education Through Unique Circumstances" with Michael Griffith of the Learning Policy Institute and Dr. Marguerite Roza of the Edunomics Lab.
Districts are having to spend money in ways that are atypical – plexiglass, PPE, rapid testing, hot spots, and more. And while districts have been afforded emergency spending powers and funding to make this feasible, the pandemic has also illuminated inequities in facilities and maintenance that are more challenging to address. For example, Mr. Griffith cited an estimation that 40% of school buildings don't have proper HVAC systems.
While many districts do have reserves in place to help with extraordinary spending needs, a concern is that many of them have already had no choice but to dip into those funds, which makes looking ahead to next year a worrying prospect.
Looking to what the education community can do to meet these significant challenges, the presenters spoke of the general innovative spirit that has transformed so many industries during this pandemic, like mobile health and food service. And while there are individual organizations that are meeting the moment for kids, it will be a challenge for the "full machine of U.S. education" to shift as effectively as other industries have done. Ideas like extending the school year, extending the school day, and offering tutoring resources were all discussed, but the panelists acknowledged that a sustained, well-funded, multi-year effort at the federal level will be required.
While signs point toward another federal stimulus, how much of that will be targeted to education remains in question. With ARRA, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, funding was aligned with state population. However, this pandemic has affected states disproportionate to their population, and therefore needs are unevenly spread. Panelists also cautioned against an impulse to tie funding to Title I, citing that it may put rural districts with fewer pupils at a disadvantage.
And speaking of fewer pupils, panelists were especially concerned about enrollment drops, which have ranged from 3 to 12%. Even a 1% drop can be difficult for a district with respect to funding impacts, so such large drops will surely have massive implications. The question remains: is this a one-year phenomenon of homeschooling and pandemic pods, or does this signal a longer-term change?
On behalf of MIND, I extend our thanks to both ECS and SETDA for their informative and dynamic programs. We look forward to joining both organizations at their next meetings in summer 2021.
Liz Neiman is Vice President of Engagement at MIND, leading the marketing team's plans and activities to promote MIND's initiatives and impact. Besides education and gaming, her interests include music of all kinds (from musical theater to heavy metal), cooking and baking, and fashion. Follow her on Twitter @lizneiman.
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Dr. Perfect: Meet Dr David Graham
At Mr. Perfect we regularly communicate our non-clinical purpose, but of course, seeing a healthcare professional if your mental health becomes poor is a vital part of your strategy and toolbox. THEY are the experts.
So here is our Dr. Perfect series, and you may not be surprised to learn that healthcare professionals such as GPs, Psychiatrists and Psychologists need as much support, connection and community as we do, and want it for us too.
This post is one that pleases me more than most, as I have met this great human and keep in semi-regular contact, being someone I admire.
Meet Dr David Graham. Depending on how you count it, Dave is embarking on his 3rd or 4th career. After completing postgraduate research in mathematics he spent the next decade working for Defence, which included deployments to Afghanistan and the Middle East. He's now a Psychiatry Registrar, a research fellow, a fiction writer, and loving life as a dad of three.
Terry: How did you hear about Mr. Perfect?
Dr Dave: It was actually over coffee with you back in 2015. I was a medical student and you and I were talking about mental health. I don't remember how we met, maybe Linked In through a common connection.
I wasn't sure which direction I'd take with medicine, but was interested in psychiatry. I'm not sure when we got onto your idea for Mr. Perfect, but you slid your new Mr. Perfect card across the table and sketched out your idea. I thought it sounded pretty cool and offered to write a few blog posts. I think I still have the card!
Now it's so much bigger than it was back then, with so many BBQs across Australia and MRP FC. It's amazing what you've grown. I've recommended Mr. Perfect to a few patients who I felt could benefit from the support offered by Mr. Perfect.
Terry: What made you choose the medicine specialty you did?
Dr Dave: It's hard to pin down the factors that contributed to my decision. I love psychiatry. I really enjoy seeing people at their best, after overcoming their battle with mental illness. I enjoy being there at their darkest moments. I enjoy really getting to know my patients, their hopes, their dreams, their journey along the way.
Medicine is a second career for me. A touchstone moment came before med school while I was doing some work in Afghanistan. I remember talking with a young commando about his tour. His thousand yard stare said so much and the trauma really resonated. He really opened up over ice cream in the dusk heat outside the special operations mess.
I don't remember how many tours he'd done, but he'd been shot 4 times and lost 4 friends. And there was no down time at the end of the tour - he was going straight back home to counter-terrorism operations. He talked of the family break downs and there was a sense of despair glimpsing through the duty he felt he owed. I've since had friends who were medically discharged with PTSD and endure a daily battle with their invisible wounds.
I think he had a big influence on my choice of specialty, and in the last few months with Defence, I ended up scouring the literature on PTSD in soldiers who had been involved in roadside bombs blasts. But I also think I would have landed in psychiatry anyway as I'm very interested in the human condition as understood through philosophy, art, and literature. Plus I think that having made a few big mistakes in my life helps build an authentic alliance with people at their lowest ebb.
Terry: If there was one superpower you wish you had for patients, what would it be?
Dr Dave: Having more time.
Terry: What does connection and community mean to you?
Dr Dave: We're social creatures. We evolved to live in groups, and the weight of evolution has deeply ingrained that into us. We grow through interpersonal connectedness. We become who we are through our experiences and our relationships. And these vibrate throughout our lives - we bring an image of our community with us, through patterns of behaviour that we may not even be aware of.
Social connectedness has been well-established to enhance mental health. But is it really enough? As a patient of mine once said, "it's not being alone that hurts, it's loneliness." Connecting people together in a community fosters belonging; loneliness is about that (lack of) belonging.
Yet a community is so much more than connections. Whatever shape that community is, in whatever realm of reality or virtuality, together in community, we create a shared narrative with a shared stable of signs and symbols and rituals. Through that narrative, we create meaning from hardship and develop a better understanding of who we are in context with the community. And so, with a place in the world, we can feel empowered.
Community creates a safe base. As we grow from infancy through childhood and onto adulthood then old age, the span and nature of that community changes. Along the way, different brain structures mature, enabling us to engage in different ways with increasing complexity. This engagement establishes and strengthens brain circuits that foster social connectedness, which in turn open up new communities.
There's a flip side: it can be disrupted.
Trauma (particularly childhood trauma), mental illness, drugs, neurological pathology, and so on, all disrupt these brain structures and brain circuits. Depending on the brain structures and circuits, this disrupts the capacity to connect, and social withdrawal follows along with loneliness, which further deepens the withdrawal and the disruption of structures and circuits. You literally become hardwired to repeat that pattern, and with repetition, the wiring becomes stronger to the point that you anticipate rejection and expect to remain lonely.
To be sure, depending on the disrupted brain circuits, you may not actually be concerned about connection or community. And that neurodiversity is ok. The problem is when it eats away at your very sense of self, or your behaviour patterns unwittingly destruct your precarious world.
Reconstructing a community is the key to recovery. After all, we bring an image of our community with us. So building the scaffolding through community helps to build the capacity to connect, which in turn rebuilds the brain structures. Start from the top and work your way down accepting the dignity of risk. It's a long process, but building those brain structures was a long process anyway.
Terry: If you had one piece of advice or quote that you think is helpful in times of struggle, what is it?
Dr Dave: "There is no sun without the shadow, and it is essential to know the night." Albert Camus.
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A new client called our House Clearance Bathgate office requesting a full clearance of a three-bedroomed terraced house dating from the 1950s and located in Bathgate – West Lothian. The client, a businessman in his 50s, had been renting out the property, and the last tenant had been there for over a decade until she sadly passed away. The man told us that his tenant had been a compulsive hoarder and unfortunately the small house was crammed from top to bottom with a huge variety of junk, rubbish and, of all things, a huge collection of cuddly toys. He had considered evicting her, but as she had been quite vulnerable and isolated, he'd never had the heart to go through with it. Now he wanted the house completely cleared as he planned to refurbish it then sell it. Property values in the neighbourhood had risen considerably in the past 10 years.
We reassured him that we have carried out numerous house clearances in the Bathgate area for properties affected by hoarding in the past, but suggested that the house clearance would probably take two days rather than the one day a property of this type would normally need.
On-street parking was available outside the property, so we parked up our vehicles outside at 7 a.m. and immediately got to work. Our first task was to carry out a quick appraisal to make sure that the property was safe to work in. Properties affected by compulsive hoarding can be unsafe due to the hazard posed by falling objects, but we soon decided that it was safe to work in and we then set about clearing it.
We made quick progress despite the quantity of personal effects and general clutter. We cleared out the items from the hallway, then the living room and kitchen, before moving upstairs.
We managed to clear most of the house on the first day, and returned on the second day to clear the last two bedrooms. These were the rooms filled with soft toys, and it was quite a melancholy affair to dispose of them.
We reused anything that we could from the clearance, which included a few items of furniture such as a table, three chairs and an old bed frame. These were donated to a local charity in Bathgate to be resold. Unfortunately a lot of the items from the house were in no state to be reused, including the cuddly toys. The toys would have needed professional cleaning and sterilising before children could have used them, and this would have been prohibitively expensive.
The client was present during much of the house clearance, and was very pleased with the speed and efficiency of our work. He could not believe the difference that our Bathgate house clearance team made, and was now confident that he'd be able to sell the property after refurbishment.


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The Old Witch is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in his 1894 book, More English Fairy Tales. It is also included within A Book of Witches by Ruth Manning-Sanders and A Book of British Fairy Tales by Alan Garner.

It is Aarne-Thompson tale 480, the kind and the unkind girls. Others of this type include Frau Holle, Shita-kiri Suzume, Diamonds and Toads, Mother Hulda, Father Frost, The Three Little Men in the Wood, The Enchanted Wreath, The Three Heads in the Well, and The Two Caskets. Literary variants include The Three Fairies and Aurore and Aimée.

Synopsis
Once there was a couple who had two daughters, but their father had no work. The daughters wanted to seek their fortune, and one said she would go into service. Her mother said she could, if she could find a place.

The daughter searched but, unable to find anything, eventually came upon an oven full of bread. The bread begged the girl to take it out and she obeyed. The girl continued and eventually came to a cow that begged her to milk it which she did. An apple tree that begged her to shake down its apples which she did.

Continuing her search, the girl came upon an old witch's house and the old witch set her to clean the house, but forbade her to ever look up the chimney. One day, she did just that and bags of money fell down. The girl immediately gathered them up and fled.

Realizing what the girl had done, the old witch chased her. Each time the old witch came close to grabbing her, the apple tree and the cow hid her. When the girl came to the oven, it hid her behind it and tricked the old witch into entering, trapping her for a long time. The girl used her obtained bag of money to marry a wealthy man.

Her sister decided to try the same thing, but instead she refused to help the oven, the cow, and the apple tree. When she stole the gold, the apple tree refused to hide her and the old witch caught her, beat her, and took back the bag of money.

See also

 The Magic Swan Geese
 The Little Girl Sold with the Pears
 The King of Love
 Kallo and the Goblins

References

English fairy tales
Female characters in fairy tales
Fictional witches
Witchcraft in fairy tales
ATU 460-499
Joseph Jacobs

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New Home Sales measures how many single-family homes were sold during the previous month in the U.S. This report tends to have an impact on USD pairs as it is considered an indicator of economic growth. Home sales in the U.S. came in strong for September but the forecasts point to a lower reading for October. It is important to note that a lower than expected reading at 15:00 GMT today, could push USD pairs lower.
U.K.'s GDP is seen as the primary indicator of economic health and can therefore greatly affect the price of the sterling. Last Thursday, third quarter GDP was confirmed to have undergone only a 0.4% expansion. This Tuesday, at 9:30 GMT, GDP is expected to come in a bit lower at 0.3% which could have a negative effect on GBP pairs.
Forecasts point to a higher US GDP for Q3 this Wednesday at 3.2%, versus a previous 3.0 percent. It should be noted that U.S. GDP has been pointing to a growing economy since May. The latest U.S. GDP reading is expected to be released at 13:30 GMT this Wednesday and a higher than anticipated GDP could boost the USD against its rivals.
German Unemployment Change measures the change in the number of unemployed people during the previous month. Germany's unemployment rate held steady at a record low in October, bolstering optimism over the health of the eurozone's largest economy. Another lower than expected reading, this Thursday at 9:00 GMT, can push the EUR higher.
The Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) measures the activity level of purchasing managers in the manufacturing sector. Any reading above 50 indicates expansion in the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing PMI is watched closely by traders as it is considered a leading indicator of overall economic performance. The UK manufacturing sector continued to expand at a solid pace in October but forecasts point to a lower reading at 55.8 for November, which could be a negative signal for GBP pairs. U.K.'s Manufacturing PMI is expected to be released this Friday at 9:30 GMT.
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Men and women of all ages are living together outside of marriage in our society today. Many do not believe it is wrong. But what does God say about it? This short volume is a comprehensive look at cohabitation from a biblical perspective, along with a response to the many logical reasons why this is considered by many to be acceptable.


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FEATURES Clay Parker and Jodi James Raise Money for Flood Victims Through Song By Amanda Wicks · August 31, 2016
Clay Parker and Jodi James.
Following a natural disaster, music may not proffer the hammer and nails needed to begin the rebuilding process, but it can offer something that's almost as important. As Baton Rouge-based singer songwriters Clay Parker and Jodi James hunkered down in Baton Rouge during the historic storm that would become the worst U.S. disaster since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, they knew they wanted to do something to help their neighbors and their friends—friends like Jade Amber, the photographer who took their publicity stills, whose family had lost their home.
But what exactly? The duo set about writing "On the Water," recording their original folk tune on a four-track tape machine before digitizing it to share on Bandcamp in order to raise money to help those impacted by the flood. With Parker's and James' low, mournful harmonies sung over a lead banjo, "On the Water" offers up a hopeful prayer, and has so far raised over $500. All of the money the track earns will go towards the Louisiana United Way Flood Fund.
On The Water Clay Parker and Jodi James .
How quickly did the song arrive?
Clay Parker: I called [fellow singer-songwriter] Ryan Harris, to see if they were flooding over there. He mentioned that he was messing around with a song, and so we just kind of got to messing around with that song over here. I'd been playing banjo for a few minutes, and it came together real quick. It's one of those folk songs about a disaster, and it just kind of came out. We got it to where we could sing it well, and where we could actually record and do it quick enough. We don't have a whole lot to give, but we thought if we could do something to raise money, then maybe that would be our best way of helping out.
Jodi James: We thought also that we had so many people on our email list, because we travel a whole lot around the country, so we had a way to reach out to people that weren't local and that didn't really know what was going on. Everybody who lives here, they don't really have much to give because everybody is helping themselves and families and friends. So if we could reach out to other people and get the word out that way, we thought that would be a good way to do it.
Parker: Our two biggest contributors were someone out in California, and someone out in north Alabama.
You both primarily play guitar. Why did the banjo end up being the lead instrument?
Parker: At the time when we were writing the song, I'd been playing banjo for a little while, kind of like the clawhammer style thing. It felt fitting to write a folk song like that on the banjo. No real particular reason.
James: I think the tone of it fit the mood and the way we were feeling, watching all this devastation around us while trying to figure out to do. We were in this place where we were just kind of sitting around. It's not like we could think of anything else.
The line that arises throughout the song, and which you also end on, is "May the sun come and shine upon my soul." It sounds like more of a prayer than an assertion of things eventually getting better. Why pose it that way?
Parker: We wrote the song on Saturday night, and we kind of assumed that everything would be over with the next morning. The feeling was, 'Ok, tomorrow's gonna be clearer, and the devastation will have run its course.' But it didn't turn out that way.
Listening to the song feels like looking at photographs from an early 20th century flood rather than an early 21st century flood. Where did you look for inspiration?
Parker: The opening lyric, 'God moves on the water' was taken from an old folk song written about the Titanic. That was kind of the phrase used in several songs about the Titanic, so that's where that beginning thing came from. There is one by Blind Willie Johnson, I think it is called 'God Moves on the Water.' There are others.
Besides this song, several other local musicians have been playing at the local shelters and trying to lift people's spirits through song. It seems like the important things come down to supplies, donations, etc. But we really shouldn't overlook music, and the community it fosters, when figuring out the practicalities of recovering from a disaster. Why do you think it helps?
Parker: It's how people have coped with things since the beginning of time. We just have this small peek into that window, since recorded music is only as old as the 1920s. The songs that are most important to [Jodi and I] are stories about people who have endured or not endured natural forces.
James: It's been passed down and carried on. There's always some sort of solace, I guess, being able to rejoice and sing out loud.
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How about a few random, quick sketches from my Moleskine notebook today? I'm working on overcoming my fear of vulnerability and being that my sketchbooks feel private it seems a decent place to start. I stopped using pencil/eraser/charcoal long ago as I can't stand the contagious smear-factor & eraser confetti. Always pen. Fast. Energetic. No erasing.
An update on one of the series of experiments in the adventure of my life.
There i'd stood for hours in the studio of the empty art building, late at night. floor-to-ceiling windows filled with dark evening, tall against the bright studio light. time had ceased. i'd been set free. one with brush, paint, the world, my canvas. nothing mattered. no problems. there was only purity. peace. love. gratitude.
I remember practically floating home to our off-campus house. Filled with joy. I'd found my life's calling!
I realize now that it doesn't matter what I do. It's not what but how. I suppose if I had to put it in terms of do, I want to... spend my life in presence. And for some lucky reason, painting has the capacity to illustrate that for me- what presence is. It's letting go. A freedom and easiness. Not trying hard. A commitment through simply showing up. Most importantly it has nothing to do with me. In fact, I learn how to get out of the way. I learn this through meditation also. And sometimes, yet rarely, through conscious choice no matter what I'm doing.
I'd like to continue to be a lot more open on StyleNectar, about things that really matter to me. Perhaps I'll share a poem and it will go unoticed by the masses. that's ok. Perhaps those readers who look forward to my healthed-up cupcakes will yawn at my favorite choral piece. No, I still don't think I'm going to begin photographing my food with tea-towels on a rotating variation of wood slabs. Yes, my photos will mostly be taken at dinnertime, after the natural light of day has unfortunately passed, when we're starving and just want to eat our food rather than wait for me to take pictures of it until it gets cold:-) No, probably no instagrams either.
I'm going to be me. Not that I haven't been. But I'm constantly growing and this blog is going to reflect that.
What was the other topic- I've already forgotten:-) Oh yes, An update on one of the series of experiments in the adventure of my life. As you may recall, this summer we launched head first into a Raw, Vegan lifestyle. It makes a person feel amazing! However, now that the weather is cooling and I've figured out just how much time it takes to strictly follow a raw, vegan lifestyle, I'm shifting to a nutritarian lifestyle. Basically, it's the same thing, just allowing for cooked food too! I'll share more on this later.
Until next time, here are a few quick sketches from my Moleskine which I may be turning into paintings one day soon. Oddly, the 1st two are my faves, yet they ended up posting incredibly tiny in an unfairly shrunken & sparse representation:-) If you're so inclined, feel free to click on them for a larger, better view.
I'll continue sharing a few pages here & there going forward.
sandy path to Madeket Beach, Nantucket, summer 2012.
some dunes, sand & ocean. Madaket Beach. Nantucket, summer 2012.
overlooking the front yard, driveway & woods, summer 2012.
partial view of cast iron urn of pansies on front steps. fall 2012.
sitting on the front steps. fall 2012.
Are you a meditator? If so, how did you get started?
Or, simply tell me what's going on with you so we can share your in your journey!
This English translation of "A Sunset" was composed by Francis Thompson (1859-1907).
INGREDIENTS & METHOD: Make sure you follow the method exactly! You will need a high-powered blender such as a Vitamix.
1/2 Tbs. Maca Powder for stamina, endurance and mental clarity.
1 Tbs. Raw Cacao Powder for that HAPPY BLISS feeling.
3. DO NOT add fruit yet... Blend preceding ingredients into a green concoction FIRST!
4. Finally, add 1 1/2 cups frozen blueberries & 1 frozen banana to your green concoction & blend into a chocolate, soft-serve ice-cream. BLUEberries + GREEN = Chocolate BROWN!
5. Optional: top with a teaspoon of cacao nibs.
Now go out and have the BEST Day Ever!
* Superfood Note: Super Foods like Maca and Cacao are very powerful foods bordering on medicine. This is a good time to do your own research on these two amazing foods. Start in small doses and listen to your body.
"Water Night" first took my breath away when I heard it performed on "From the Top" by the highly aclaimed Norman North High School Chorale in Oklahoma. This translation of a Spanish poem, adapted by Eric Whitaker, is a beautifully evocotive, metaphorical piece formed in a series of vignets about the connection of the water to the soul, and the quest to find the innermost spirit in ourselves. Further interpretation reflects the experience of holding something difficult inside over a period of time, and finally letting it go to find peace.
"Water Night" is the inspiration for one of my upcoming paintings.
**The original poem is "Agua Nocturna" by Octavio Paz. Peace is connected to a long tradition of "night" in visual art, poetry and music.


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Q: TYPO3 MenuProcessor with dynamic uid I want to use the MenuProcessor dynamic in my fluidtemplate.
Configured in TypoScript, I want to call it with the cObject ViewHelper and pass the uid of a page to it:
{f:cObject(typoscriptObjectPath: 'lib.menuTest', data:{menuId:'28'})}
This is what I have tried - it should be a special = directory with the the given uid in special.value = XXXXXX.
lib {
    menuTest = FLUIDTEMPLATE
    menuTest {
        templateName = MenuTest
        templateRootPaths {
            10 = EXT:hatemplate/Resources/Private/Templates/
        }

        dataProcessing {
            10 = TYPO3\CMS\Frontend\DataProcessing\MenuProcessor
            10 {
                special = directory
                special.value = XXXXXX
                levels = 1
                as = menuItems
            }
        }
    }
}

If I set a uid directly it works, but I don't know how to insert the variable. Has anyone a hint or a working solution?
Thank you

A: I have solved it with the help of a friend who is much more experienced in TypoScript.
I wasn't as wrong as I thought.
This is the Code in TypoScript. I added the tamplate,layout and partial paths for future copy/pasting :) :
lib {
    menuDirectory = FLUIDTEMPLATE
    menuDirectory {
        templateName = MenuDirectory
        layoutRootPaths {
            10 = EXT:hatemplate/Resources/Private/Layouts/
        }
        templateRootPaths {
            10 = EXT:hatemplate/Resources/Private/Templates/
        }
        partialRootPaths {
            10 = EXT:hatemplate/Resources/Private/Partials/
        }

        dataProcessing {
            10 = TYPO3\CMS\Frontend\DataProcessing\MenuProcessor
            10 {
                special = directory
                special.value.field = menuId
                levels = 1
                as = directory
            }
        }
    }
}

With this configured you can use the f:cObject ViewHelper like this:
<f:cObject typoscriptObjectPath="lib.menuDirectory" data="{menuId:1}" />

Or inline
{f:cObject(typoscriptObjectPath: 'lib.menuDirectory', data:{menuId:1})}

This renders the Items into the fluidtemplate:

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Sky awards £125,000 to five new Women in Technology Scholars
Sky has announced its second cohort of Women in Technology Scholars, awarding five talented women a total of £125,000 to accelerate a business idea which harnesses technology innovation.
The winners are a diverse mix of ages and industry experience however, they share a desire to use technology to bring about positive change. The five Scholars will focus on: improving children's cultural experiences; helping the elderly stay independent; interactive television; advancing agriculture and educating young people on mental health.
From hundreds of applications, ten high quality candidates were shortlisted, before the impressive final five were selected by a panel that included Sky's Group Chief Information Security Officer, Elaine Bucknor, who said: "I was blown away with the ingenuity of the projects presented and the calibre of talent and creativity. It's widely acknowledged that attracting women into technology is a challenge, so we have a responsibility to bring about change. Boys are more than twice as likely to be encouraged to work in tech, so it's little wonder that half the girls we spoke to had ruled out working in the industry by the time they reached 18-years-old. Our Women in Technology Scholars programme enables us to nurture new talent and highlight inspiring role models to encourage others to follow."
Tech Talent Charter CEO, Debbie Forster MBE , also on the panel, added: "It's been fantastic to help select such a brilliant group of women with ideas that can help shape the future of tech. It's vital that organisations like Sky take action like this to deliver greater diversity in the UK tech workforce and better reflect the make-up of the population."
Girls switch off
New research shows that nearly half of boys are advised to consider a career in tech – compared to only one in five girls. And by 18-years-old 48% of girls have already discounted a career in technology completely .
At present, just 22% of the UK core STEM employment is female*. As a leading UK technology organisation serving 23.7 million customers, Sky wants to attract and attain women of all ages and levels to our technology teams and to help achieve this we have introduced a range of programmes, including our Get Into Tech coding course and our Sky Software Academy and Apprenticeships.
Sky's Women in Technology Scholars for 2019 are:
Olga Kravchenko (24, Ukrainian): Olga's VR App Musemio transforms the way children experience culture by using engaging VR elements to educate. She now plans to develop the app so that parents and families can track how their children are learning, whilst also continuing to help cultural institutions improve how they interact with younger digital generations.
Colleen Wong (43, British/Canadian): With no technical experience Colleen set-up the successful My Gator Watch. Now, the inspirational mother of two plans to evolve the product from a tracker for kids, to a wearable mobile device for seniors that can track location and detect falls, to help the elderly maintain independence.
Rebecca Saw (23, British): Rebecca is looking to create never-before seen interactive story-telling that will mix linear television and gaming to provide viewers with a dynamic blended reality. She recently worked on Traitor, a VR-live theatre thriller that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival .
Mary Murphy (20, Irish): Our youngest Scholar, Mary, alongside her twin sister was a CEO at 16 years old after designing and manufacturing the Sheep Marking Gun to help on her family farm. She will continue to engineer agritech products and develop a new software-based product that could prevent sheep theft .
Rachel Clancy (27, Irish): Rachel is looking to develop a game she has made called 'Get Closer', where players open dialogue with a forest creature who needs their help. The game teaches young people how to talk about emotions and support themselves and others through mental health issues.
Sky's Women in Technology Scholars will receive financial investment and have access to an expert network of mentors and leading industry executives to accelerate their innovation. Following the success of previous years, Sky has increased the number of scholars on the scheme from three to five, emphasising its position that female potential must be supported for the successful and inclusive future of the technology industry.
For more information: https://www.skywomenintechscholars.com/
Key statistics from Sky's survey:
Boys are 50% more likely than girls to be advised to consider a career in technology
45% of boys have been advised to consider a career in technology versus only 20% of girls
Almost half of girls (48%) aged 16 - 18 have discounted a career in technology compared to only a quarter (26%) of boys the same age
Girls are three times more likely to think the technology sector is sexist than boys
Families are much more likely to support boys pursuing a career in technology than girls (54% vs 41%)
An online survey, across the UK and Northern Ireland
500 young men and 500 young women aged 16 – 18
11 questions asked between 28 May – 03 June 2019
*Data from WISE's 2018 Workforce Statistics
Sian Parry
Sian.Parry@sky.uk
About Sky Women in Technology Scholars
In September 2017 we launched the search for our first Women in Technology Scholars – an exclusive Sky initiative designed to encourage more women to pursue a career in technology. Hannah, Oishi and Kike were successful in securing a place and have spent the past year developing their projects in the areas of Virtual Reality, Machine Learning and an app for Black Young Professionals.
About Sky
With 23.7 million customers across seven countries, Sky is Europe's leading media and entertainment company and is proud to be part of the Comcast group.
We have 31,000 colleagues and together we want to connect our customers to more of what they love, including our award-winning original productions, like Patrick Melrose and Save Me, and great shows from our partners including HBO, Showtime and Warner Bros. And our ever-improving technology makes it even easier for customers to watch more of the shows they love with personalised recommendations and voice control and, our online streaming service, NOW TV, brings all the enjoyment of Sky with the flexibility of a contract free service.
We treat our customers better than anyone else in our field, as Ofcom's complaints data shows, and we look after our staff too. Sky is one of The Times Top 50 employers for women and we're in Stonewall's list of Top 50 LGBT-Inclusive employers.
We also use our position as the leading entertainment business in Europe to do the right thing. As part of Sky Ocean Rescue campaign, we're committing to be completely single-use plastic free by 2020, we're investing £25million over five years in ocean-saving tech and we're supporting the WWF to protect our oceans with designated Marine Protected Areas.
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Rapid climate change has made the job of water managers harder and has increased the imperative for considering climate change impacts on rainfall and runoff predictions. The purpose of this study is to predict future runoffs at the Yongdam and Daechung dams under meteorological regimes adjusted for the impacts of climate change. For this study, weather series data including temperature and precipitation forecasts up to the year 2090 were used. These forecasts are compiled and disseminated officially by the Korea Meteorology Agency (KMA). The forecasts are generated using mesocale (MM5) Regional Circulation Model (RCM) (27 km resolution) and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) A1B emissions scenario, employing the results of coupled climate model ECHO-G (400 km resolution) as boundary conditions. SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) was used for rainfall-runoff modeling for the period 2011 to 2010. The GIS based SWAT model can simulate temporal and spatial distributions of surface and subsurface flows. The weather series was fed into the SWAT model to simulate the streamflows associated with other hydrologic components such as subsurface flow, soil moisture contents etc. This approach is applied to the Yongdam Dam and Daechung Dam in the Geum River Basin, Korea. The results show that annual mean inflow to the dam reservoirs will be decreased by 7.6% compared to the latest 10 year observation. Regarding the seasonal variation, dam reservoir inflows during winter and autumn are going to increase, while in summer less inflow is predicted. It is necessary to conceive a strategy for dam development and management, which is cognizant of the impacts of climate change. Keywords: climate change, discharge, RCM, SWAT, A1B scenario.


This species is accepted, and its native range is Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca) to Colombia.
Podocarpus guatemalensis is rated as Least Concerned (LC) according to IUCN Red List criteria and has received a EDGE score of -8.29, which places it in position 954 on the EDGE Gymnosperm list. It has a Evolutionary Distinctiveness of 5.04, ranked 781. More information on the EDGE Gymnosperm project here https://www.edgeofexistence.org.
Tropicos.org (2009- continuously updated). Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden http://www.tropicos.org/.


Helium atom, conceptual model. Computer artwork representing the atomic structure of helium. Helium has two protons and two neutrons (large spheres) in its nucleus (faint circle, centre), with two electrons (bright dots) orbiting it. Each proton and neutron contains 3 quarks (smaller spheres): a neutron has one up quark and two down quarks, whereas a proton has two up quarks and one down quark.


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Covid-19 Omnicron panic: Person returned from South Africa kept in isolation
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A 32-year-old man who tested positive for coronavirus in Maharashtra after returning from South Africa has been kept in isolation at a civilian COVID-19 care center and his sample sent for genome sequencing, potentially more transmissible. Amid concerns there is a new 'Omicron' version of the virus, an official said on Monday.
The result will be known after seven days, said Dr Pratibha Panpatil, Epidemic Control Officer, Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC).
The official said it was not yet known whether he had contracted the 'Omicron' version of the virus, which was identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a type of concern.
KDMC Commissioner Dr Vijay Suryavanshi has appealed to the citizens of Kalyan-Dombivli township not to panic over the recent developments and strictly follow the COVID-19 safety protocols.
The Merchant Navy engineer had reached Dombivli town in Thane district on November 24 after traveling from South Africa, Dubai and Delhi.
Panpatil said that he later underwent a test as per the recent protocol of the government due to the new virus variant, and was found to have contracted the coronavirus.
Another official said that eight members of his family were also tested and their reports came back negative.
Panpatil said that the civic authorities are collecting the details of his co-travellers to know their health status.
After the engineer arrived from South Africa, his brother went for the test and it turned out to be negative for coronavirus.
He then informed a laboratory that his engineer brother, who had come from South Africa, had tested positive for coronavirus but was asymptomatic and was being given a regular course of medicine, the official said.
"At present, the engineer is under isolation and is being treated at a civilian COVID-19 care center in Dombivli. He is responding to medication but is depressed for which he is being counselled," the official said. has been."
He said that the person would be under observation till the report of his genome sequencing analysis is received.
Another Omnicron panic in Madhya Pradesh
Officials search for woman from South Africa who went to Madhya Pradesh amid fear of Omicron
Madhya Pradesh authorities are searching for a woman from Botswana who had come to Jabalpur on November 18. "A Botswana embassy official told us that he is in isolation at a military organization in Jabalpur. We have asked him to share his mobile number and his local contact," said an official. Botswana is a landlocked country in southern Africa where omicrons have been detected.
Crypto Named 'Omicron' Soars Over 900% As WHO Names New COVID Version
A relatively unknown cryptocurrency called Omicron (OMIC) surged over 900% as the WHO gave the same name to the newly discovered COVID-19 variant. The crypto token, which was priced around $65 (approximately ₹4,880) on November 27, touched a peak of $689 (approximately ₹51,730) on Monday. This also came as the crypto market collapsed following the discovery of the variant.
Horrors in the sky: The plane windscreen broken by large block of ice that felled from another plane flying 1,000 feet above
Joe Biden Administration likely to issue U.S. citizenship to over 5 Lakh Indians
Covid-19: 100 million doses to India by December 2020


Something really big in Tokyo are huge light displays. There are tons all over town, each one trying to outdo the rest. This one held a light show called "The Birth of the Universe," which I didn't manage to get a good photo of.
Just a few snapshots of a pretty (and extremely cold!) night.


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Anommatium ashmeadi är en stekelart som beskrevs av Mayr 1904. Anommatium ashmeadi ingår i släktet Anommatium, och familjen hyllhornsteklar. Arten är reproducerande i Sverige.

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An important learning process is impaired in adolescents who were abused as children, a University of Pittsburgh researcher has found, and this impairment contributes to misbehavior patterns later in life.
Associative learning — the process by which an individual subconsciously links experiences and stimuli together — partially explains how people generally react to various real-world situations. In a newly released study, published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Pitt assistant professor Jamie L. Hanson detailed the connection between impaired associative learning capacities and instances of early childhood abuse.
To uncover these relationships, researchers asked 81 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 to play computer games where the child had to figure out which set of visual cues were associated with a reward. Forty-one participants had endured physical abuse at a young age, while the remaining 40 served as a comparison group. The most important aspect of the test, said Hanson, was that the cues were probabilistic, meaning children did not always receive positive feedback.
Hanson and his colleagues also observed that mistreated children were generally less adept at differentiating which behaviors would lead to the best results for them personally when interacting with others. Additionally, abused children displayed more pessimism about the likelihood of positive outcomes compared to the group who hadn't been abused. Taken as a whole, these findings clarify the relationship between physical abuse and the aggressive and disruptive behaviors that often plague abused children well into the later stages of childhood.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, also contributed to the study.


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Petralia Soprana (A Suprana in ) è un comune italiano di 2975 abitanti della città metropolitana di Palermo in Sicilia.

Fa parte del parco delle Madonie ed è il più alto comune delle Madoniee tra i più alti di Sicilia.

La cittadina è inclusa nel circuito dei borghi più belli d'Italia ed è stata proclamata "Borgo dei borghi 2018".

Geografia fisica

Territorio
L'abitato è collocato sul versante meridionale della catena montuosa delle Madonie. Il territorio è percorso dal fiume Salso ed è compreso tra un'altitudine di 1.657 metri (pizzo Corvo) e 600 metri, ed è ricoperto da boschi, macchia mediterranea, pascoli, terreni seminativi e colture arboree.

Storia

Età antica
È generalmente identificata come Petra, la città sicana.
Diodoro Siculo riporta che nel 254 a.C., durante la prima guerra punica, dopo la conquista di Palermo consegnarono la cittadina ai consoli Aulo Attilio e Gneo Cornelio, passando sotto la dominazione romana.

Petra, una delle principali fornitrici di grano di Roma, venne inserita tra le civitates decumanae, cioè tra le città sottoposte al tributo annuo della decima in natura.

Età medievale
Nel IX secolo, durante il regno degli Aghlabidi venne ridenominata Batraliah. Dopo la conquista da parte dei Normanni di Ruggero, conte di Altavilla, avvenuta nel 1062, la cittadina venne fortificata, ed assunse l'aspetto che conserva ancora nel XXI secolo, con il castello, le torri ed i bastioni, e "latinizzata", con l'edificazione di diverse chiese. Ruggero l'assegnò al nipote Serlone.

In un documento del 1258 appaiono per la prima volta distinte Petra "inferior" (Petralia Sottana) e Petra "superior" (Petralia Soprana) in origine quasi certamente un'unica comunità.

Nel 1258 entrò a fare parte del patrimonio dei conti Ventimiglia di Geraci Siculo, per passare poi alla contea di Collesano, del patrimonio dei Centelles, dei Cardona, dei Moncada e degli Alvarez di Toledo, fino all'abolizione della feudalità nel 1817.

Simboli
Lo stemma comunale è stato concesso con decreto del presidente della Repubblica Italiana del .

Lo stemma civico rappresenta due figure simbolo del comune. Da una parte è raffigurato un castello che ci ricorda l'esistenza di due castelli di cui uno è un rudere mentre l'altro è stato trasformato in chiesa. Nell'altra sezione dello stemma è raffigurato una pianta di cardo delle Madonie sradicato.

Monumenti e luoghi d'interesse

Architetture religiose
 Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli Pietro e Paolo (chiesa madre), affacciata sul piazza del Duomo, ricostruita nel XIV secolo per volere della famiglia Ventimiglia, con pianta a croce latina e con tre navate. Presenta in facciata due campanili, uno quattrocentesco e l'altro settecentesco, collegati da un portico di 18 colonne realizzate dai fratelli Librizzi di Petralia Sottana. Nel campanile settecentesco, (completato solo nel dopoguerra) nel 1998 è stata inserita una campana di 18 quintali ("campana dell'Unione"). All'interno si conservano tele seicentesche tra cui la Deposizione attribuita a Jusepe de Ribera detto lo Spagnoletto, le statue dei santi patroni (gli apostoli Pietro e Paolo) e il primo Crocifisso attribuito a frate Umile da Petralia.
 Chiesa di Santa Maria di Loreto, antica fortezza araba trasformata in chiesa dai carmelitani scalzi e rifatta nel 1750 con pianta a croce greca e facciata tardo barocca e due campanili con cuspide maiolicata. L'interno presenta degli stucchi del Serpotta, le preziose statue dei Santi Cosma e Damiano, la cinquecentesca statua policroma di San sebastiano e il polittico di scuola Gaginiana, opera rinascimentale con al centro la delicatissima statua della Madonna di Loreto. La chiesa con la sua imponente mole, con tre absidi e le cuspidi colorate, sovrasta il territorio circostante ed è visibile da chilometri di distanza.
  Chiesa del Santissimo Salvatore ha pianta ellittica con otto pilastri che sorreggono la cupola. sull'altare maggiore la seicentesca statua di Cristo Salvatore. opera del petralese Giovan Pietro Ragona. Nelle nicchie laterali sono presenti opere di scultura policroma ed al centro un grande lampadario, dono dagli emigrati sopranesi in America devoti a San Giuseppe.
 Chiesa di Santa Maria di Gesù e convento dell'Ordine dei frati minori riformati costruito alle porte del paese nel 1611. Di notevole rilievo artistico sono i bassorilievi della facciata.
Chiesa di San Teodoro martire, edificata in età normanna. Gli interni, come in diverse chiese del paese, vennero rifatti in stile tardo barocco nel XVIII secolo.

Architetture civili
 Palazzo municipale, già convento dei frati carmelitani scalzi, ristrutturato alla fine del XIX secolo con un nuovo prospetto neogotico e merli medievali. Conserva gli scaffali decorati in pirografia del Convento dei Frati Minori riformati.
 Palazzo Pottino, appartenuto alla famiglia baronale che ebbe in possesso il paese, conserva affreschi con motivi paesaggistici locali.
 Villa Sgadari, fuori dal centro urbano e con proprio parco, restaurata nel 2010.
 Piazza del popolo: è la piazza principale della città, al centro ospita un monumento in bronzo di Antonio Ugo, dedicato ai caduti di tutte le guerre.

Altre strutture d'interesse
 Resti di un acquedotto settecentesco sono ben visibili lungo la strada in contrada Cerasella.
 Miniera di salgemma, nelle vicinanze della frazione di Raffo; é tra le più grandi miniere di salgemma d'Europa e sede del MAACS, un museo di sculture di salgemma dentro la miniera.

Clima

Società

Evoluzione demografica

Tradizioni e folclore
La festa principale è quella dei santi patroni Pietro e Paolo; la festa si articola nei cinque giorni precedenti al 29 giugno. In questi giorni il comune ospita fedeli provenienti dai comuni vicini ma anche dalle numerose frazioni di Petralia. La tradizione prevede una processione che si svolge la sera con i simulacri dei santi in misura ridotta accompagnata dal suono dei tamburi. Il giorno della festa la processione avviene in modo diverso, con la partecipazione delle due confraternite religiose che portano in processione un numero di statue che può arrivare anche a 20. Durante l'estate invece il comune si popola di numerosi turisti, particolarmente numerosi il giorno di Ferragosto in cui si svolge la rievocazione di un matrimonio baronale. Questa rievocazione consiste nel riproporre il matrimonio di due nobili del luogo del Settecento.

Cultura

Cinema
 I mafiosi, regia di Roberto Mauri (1959)
 La fame e la sete, regia di Antonio Albanese (1999)
 Le stelle non hanno padroni (2018)

Geografia antropica

Frazioni
Fasanò
Gioiotti
Gulini-Sabatini-Cipampini
Madonnuzza
Santa Caterina Lodico
Santa Caterina Miranti
Pellizzara
Pianello
Saccù
Salaci
Acquamara
Raffo
San Giovanni
Santissima Trinità
Scarcini
Verdi

Amministrazione
Di seguito è presentata una tabella relativa alle amministrazioni che si sono succedute in questo comune.

Infrastrutture e trasporti
Il comune è interessato dalle seguenti direttrici stradali:

 .dell'Etna e delle Madonie

Galleria d'immagini

Note

Bibliografia
 Vito Maria Amico, Dizionario Topografico della Sicilia, 1737 p. 342
 Francesco Ferruzza Sabatino, Cenni storici su Petralia Soprana. Palermo, Pezzino, 1938
 Ferdinando Mazzarella, Rosario Ferrara, Petralia Soprana e il territorio madonita: storia, arte e archeologia, Atti del seminario di studi Petralia Soprana Chiesa di San Teodoro 4 agosto 1999, Comune di Petralia Soprana
 Guido Macaluso, Petralia Soprana, guida alla storia e all'arte, Palermo 1986.
 Guido Macaluso, Frate Umile Pintorno a Petralia Soprana scultore del XVII sec., Palermo 1978
 Salvatore Anselmo, I Tesori delle chiese di Petralia Soprana, 500g, 2016
 Pietro Lopresti, Inno alle Madonie, 1903
 Testo del documentario Petralia Soprana La città dei due castelli, Editrice Il Sole, 2002, Testo e regia di Giovanni Montanti, Consulenza storica Rosario Ferrara

Voci correlate
 Petralia Sottana
 Provola delle Madonie

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Madonie


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Адольф Виклунд () — шведские имя и фамилия. Может означать:
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Tamaracouta Scout Reserve (TSR) has been long regarded as our "jewel" for outstanding, memorable camping experiences by all members of Quebec Council as well as by many campers outside of Quebec. An important element for the future of TSR has been the recent appointment of Casey Rose as the new TSR Director who will replace Alison Bentley when she retires from this role at the beginning of November 2014.
During the past decade, ongoing work has improved TSR through program and infrastructure developments at both Camp Tamaracouta (CT) and Camp Jackson Dodds (CJD). To further promote this on-going development of TSR, the TSR Committee will be formed during the coming months which will provide support to the TSR Director and will be responsible for all aspects of the management of the property. The Committee will be accountable directly to the Quebec Council Commissioner, Youth Commissioner, and Executive Director.
Those interested in applying must submit a short note detailing why he or she would be a good candidate for a position on this Committee as well as a brief CV by Friday December 5, 2014.
TSR Committee Chair –Working directly with the TSR Director, this person would be responsible for all aspects of TSR management, represented by the other roles listed below. As Chair of the TSR Committee, he or she would communicate with the Quebec Council on behalf of the Committee. The ideal candidate will have proven leadership, communication, and management skills, and is resourceful and dedicated to protecting and building TSR. Business experience in management would be an asset.
Finance – This person will assist with preparing the TSR budget and maintaining accurate accounts of the Camp revenue and expenditures.
Fundraising – This person will develop and oversee a fundraising plan for TSR with the goal to increase TSR revenues.
Infrastructure – This person will help ensure that the infrastructure of TSR is safe and suitable for all activities at TSR, and complies with applicable codes and government regulations. As Infrastructure is a major expense for TSR, this person will work closely with those responsible for each of the Committee portfolios, especially Finance and Fundraising.
Marketing – This person will assist with the all aspects of promoting TSR to Scouts Canada members, to members of Scouting worldwide as and to potential 3rd party clients.
Communications – This person will manage the TSR website and social media pages and will maintain appropriate communication lists for TSR. This person will work closely with those responsible for each of the Committee portfolios and especially with Marketing.
Risk Management – This person will ensure that all TSR programs are conducted safely while still being adventurous. He or she will coordinate directly with the TSR Director to ensure compliance with Scouts Canada Policies and Procedures, and that general risk management is considered in all TSR operations.
Program – This portfolio will focus on maintaining existing programs and on developing new programs and adventure opportunities which can be offered at TSR.
School Programs – Integral to the general Program portfolio, this person will focus on the identification and promotion of educational programs to educators and similar 3rdparty organizations. The person responsible for this portfolio will work closely with those responsible for each of the Committee portfolios and especially with the TESC Program portfolio. The person responsible for this portfolio should be familiar with the education system and be able to contact key decision makers. Having a background in education would be an asset.
Scouts Canada Camp Accreditations– TSR, selected to be a pilot for the Scouts Canada Adventure Centre process, must file an application for this status as well as for accreditation for SCENES (Scout Centres of Excellence for Nature and Environment). This person will work closely with those responsible for each of the Committee portfolios to submit these applications in a timely manner to accredit TSR as a SCENES Camp and to establish the TSR Adventure Centre.
Volunteers – This person will work at engaging and recruiting support from the Scouts and Scouters of Quebec Council for the coordination of volunteer-work throughout the year, related to infrastructure and maintenance projects with special emphasis on events such as Work Weekends.
TESC – This person will work with the Tamaracouta Environmental Sciences Centre (TESC) Committee to integrate this important program with all other aspects of TSR operations.
Knights of Tamara – This person will act as a liaison between the Committee and the Knights of Tamara to maintain the support of the Knights to ensure the sustainability of TSR by keeping the Knights informed and engaged with TSR plans, developments and needs.


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SVG Air expands routes and destinations
Updated: 18 Jul 2020 - 05:50AM
SVG Air will expand its routes, effective this end of this month.
Whilst continuing to service the Grenadine Islands, the Vincentian-owned airline will now fly from St. Vincent to the following destinations: Grenada, Carriacou, Barbados, St. Lucia (Castries), Dominica (Cane Field Airport), Antigua and St. Kitts and Nevis.
In addition its Antiguan-based subsidiary will provide connections to Barbuda and Montserrat.
"We have discussed our operations with the Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and our new routes have been designed to increase flexibility and connectivity throughout the region," said Graham Waters, chief operation officer of SVG Air.
Waters said that SVG Air would have no fewer than eight flights into St. Vincent per day, and five flights per day into Barbados, thereby ensuring that business commuters can conduct their business efficiently and without unnecessary overnight stays.
"The challenge for SVG Air, and in fact all carriers, is that none of us is really sure about how many people will fly so we will be continually monitoring the situation to suit the needs of our passengers," Waters said.
With COVID-19 protocols now established across the region, SVG Air is expecting International travellers to start resuming travel to the Caribbean but at a reduced capacity.
SVG air operates a fleet of aircraft consisting of DHC – 6 300 series Twin Otters, Britten Norman Islanders and a Citation Jet 3
15 replies on "SVG Air expands routes and destinations"
arthur Durrant says:
COST OF TICKETS??????????????????
C. ben-David says:
My experience flying SVG-Barbados a few years ago was that the fare was well over twice the LIAT price whose fares most people considered to be much too high.
Don't forget that LIAT always lost money and would have gone broke years ago if it were a private entity with a bloated work force charging these money-losing fares.
Look all dem Rinky Dink CT Scan machines all over the region
How many passengers can these plane carry? Is it 9. 14. Or. 20?
E Taylor says:
The DHC-6 Twin Otter is a 19-passenger STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) utility aircraft developed by de Havilland . The aircraft's fixed tricycle undercarriage, STOL abilities and high rate of climb have made it a successful cargo, regional passenger airliner and MEDEVAC aircraft. In addition, the Twin Otter has been popular with commercial skydiving operations, and is used by the United States Army Parachute Team and the United States Air Force's 98th Flying Training Squadron. (source: Wikipedia).
Marvin busette says:
Will be there flight from Antigua to st Lucia
Ijahman says:
We gone from world class comfortable ATRs to over 30year old rinky dinky sardine cans with a questionable and dubious safety record. All while paying the same exorbitant fares! Is this what Dr Gonsalves wants and considers progress for his and the Caribbean people? The rest of the world laugh at our backward ways.
Fidus Achates says:
Now this is the end of SVG air. Too much pressure is placed on such small aircraft. It would be sad to see that Covid-19 gave the government the ability to over power the airline.
James H says:
A UK resident recently said that he could fly from the U.K to Poland and be out of pocket by as little as EC $100. Fly from the UK to Portugal and be out of pocket by just EC $96, even less. But fly from Barbados to SVG a shorter distance by far and he would be expect to be out of pocket by as much as up to EC $400 minimum. Why?
Eric Butcher says:
As a guide – cost in US$, one person, return, Canefield to Antigua in mid-August?
Source 1 says:
remember to empty your bowels b4 u fly as these aircrafts aren't so comfortable and has no rest rooms aboard. Good BYE Atr's
skeckpalmeryahoocom says:
21st July 2020 at 1:42 AM
I noticed there was nothing said about the virus that's controlling flights through the entire world. What plans does this aircraft have to protect passengers? The cargo could the COVID-19 virus travelling from one island to the next.
Jade says:
21st July 2020 at 11:11 AM
Distance is not main or only determinant in arriving at airfare
Phil Dennie says:
21st July 2020 at 1:14 PM
I know the Priminister main objective at the moment is to fill the Void and to maintain the capacity to move People in the region which is also directly linked to the Economic resiliency of the region as a whole.
There has to be a cohesive and a more comprehensive approach to Air servicing the Region.
To achieve seemless Air service while maintaining the ability to ramp up or down according to demand while remaining viability in a covid and post covid period.
There has to be flexibility with operators to provide service as needed using equipement at hand and on hand.
While actualy making a profit fuel cost considered…which means at least
90 %capacity on most flight.so in short people in the region have to support the service if it is to be sustained going forward and Government of EC Region need to provide incentives for increase traffic to the respective islands trough heavy concessions to both operators and passengers, to help rebuild a strong viable Air service in the region .These concession needs to be dispersed widely encompassing the tourisim sector as well ..we must be creative in its execution and whatever form it takes..and be seriously committed in achieving its outcome.
There has to be give and take. Moving people and cargo at a nominal cost trough the region, to operators .
Morgan says:
23rd July 2020 at 7:57 AM
What is being done for these airlines now with reduced taxes could have been done for list.


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Federico da Montefeltro, one of the most successful of the Italian condottieri, was born on this day in 1422 in Gubbio.
He has been immortalised by the famous portrait painted of him by Piero della Francesca, where he was dressed in red and showing his formidable profile.
Federico ruled Urbino from 1444 until his death, commissioning the building of a large library where he employed his own team of scribes to copy texts.
He was the illegitimate son of Guidantonio da Montefeltro but he was legitimised by the Pope with the consent of Guidantonio's wife.
Federico began his career as a condottiere - a kind of mercenary military leader - at the age of 16. When his half brother, who had recently become Duke of Urbino, was assassinated in 1444, Federico seized the city of Urbino.
To bring in money he continued to wage war as a condottiere. He lost his right eye in an accident during a tournament and later commissioned a surgeon to remove the bridge of his nose to improve his field of vision and make him less vulnerable to assassination attempts.
Subsequently, he refused to have his portrait painted in full face, hence he is depicted in profile by Piero della Francesca.
Federico fought on behalf of the Sforza family, the King of Naples and various Popes.
In 1482 he was asked to command the army of Ercole I of Ferrara in his war against Venice but he then caught a fever and died in Ferrara.
Federico imposed justice and stability on Urbino and supported up and coming artists such as Raphael.
He took care of his soldiers when they were killed or wounded by providing dowries for their daughters. As a result his soldiers remained loyal to him and he never lost a battle.
Urbino, which is inland from the Adriatic resort of Pesaro, in the Marche region, is a majestic city on a steep hill. It was once a centre of learning and culture, known not just in Italy but also in its glory days throughout Europe. The Ducal Palace, a Renaissance building made famous by The Book of the Courtier, is one of the most important monuments in Italy and is listed as a Unesco World Heritage site.
Gubbio, where Federico was born, is a small town in Perugia in the region of Umbria that still has many of its medieval buildings. It became absorbed into the territory of the Montefeltro family in the 15th century and Federico Montefeltro had the ancient Palazzo Ducale rebuilt in a similar style to his palace in Urbino.


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Single-Family Rental Demand 'Through the Roof'
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NEW YORK – Lance Butler designed a tidy gain when he marketed his one,800-sq.-foot house in Nampa, Idaho, this calendar year.
"If I would have held out for one more 3 months, I probably could have gotten one more $40,000 out of my property," states Butler, who marketed his $250,000 house for $410,000.
But that was not an selection. Butler and his wife had just had their next little one and the loved ones wanted a lot more room. "Plus, my neighbor currently being a 'jackwagon,' I needed out of there, much too," he states with a chortle.
But in its place of shopping for a more substantial house, the pair resolved to lease a new two,000-sq.-foot single-loved ones house for $two,a hundred a month in Burlingame, Idaho.
The pair benefited in two strategies: They stayed out of a frenzied genuine estate marketplace that drove up the worth of their property by 64% in two decades. And they acquired to dwell servicing-totally free. Everything from landscaping to modest repairs about the property is managed by American Properties 4 Rent, which owns and operates the improvement of 74 houses.
"I never thoughts having down and soiled," states Butler, who functions in building. "But it was truly great to search out and be like, 'my yard's been mowed, my sprinklers are taken care of and the weeds have been pulled.' It is just a single a lot less factor that you acquired to do when you get house."
The intensive levels of competition and scarcity of houses for sale have contributed to the increasing attractiveness of the single-loved ones rental marketplace, spawning many built-for-lease communities. In the previous five decades, the amount of houses built exclusively for lease has elevated 30%, according to the Countrywide Association of House Builders. They now make up five% of new single-loved ones houses beneath building, states Robert Dietz, the chief economist at NAHB.
But that constructing press hasn't shut a major scarcity in homes to get. The U.S. has built five.five million less houses in the past 20 decades as opposed with lengthy-time period historical stages, according to a June report by the Countrywide Association of Realtors.
The shortfall has driven selling prices larger, lowering affordability at a time when millennials, the premier era team in the U.S, are approaching their to start with-time homebuying decades. And with a lot more employees doing work from house since of the pandemic, property hunters want massive outdoor areas, office rooms and fitness centers – want lists that are supercharging demand for single-loved ones houses.
Housing: A 'resilient asset class'
The $five trillion U.S. single-loved ones rental marketplace has also drawn the focus of Wall Road.
Institutional investors this sort of as financial institutions, pension cash and hedge cash poured $six billion into the single-loved ones rental phase for the duration of the to start with quarter of 2021. That investment marked a lot more than 50 percent of the $ten billion fully commited to the room more than the past 3 decades, according to Yardi Matrix, a genuine estate intelligence firm. By comparison, the quantity of investment in both equally office and retail fell by more than 40% calendar year more than calendar year for the duration of the exact period.
In the meantime, U.S. single-loved ones lease progress elevated 8.five% in July 2021, the fastest calendar year-more than-calendar year boost in sixteen decades, according to the CoreLogic Single-Relatives Rent Index.
The fascination in single-loved ones rental houses as an investment is rising since it has proven to be a a lot more resilient asset class than workplaces and accommodations, states Don Walker, handling principal and chief fiscal officer for John Burns True Estate Consulting.
"That was clearly demonstrated for the duration of the pandemic when many accommodations had to shut down since of COVID and people could not go to workplaces any more," he states, incorporating, "What I like about built-for-lease is that it's supplying new housing to the marketplace, and they are more recent and considerably a lot more electricity-efficient than the regular property that is 30 or 40 decades aged."
Though shut to 90% of houses are however owned by modest, mom-and-pop investors, there's been an infusion of cash focused at the single-loved ones rental room, states Walker.
About twelve% of new single-loved ones building in 2021 is dedicated to future rentals, according to John Burns True Estate Consulting.
Walker estimates that about $30 billion will be deployed to the single-loved ones rental sector in the up coming many decades, with at the very least 50 percent of that earmarked toward existing single-loved ones rental houses.
For houses, 'cash is king'
The regular worth of built-for-lease or the existing single-loved ones houses investors get up tends to fall in the $250,000 to $350,000, roughly the median U.S. house price tag, say experts.
That is a result in for worry, states Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the Countrywide Association of Realtors.
"High-revenue homes would somewhat get than lease. The institutional shopping for is for the function of lease and targets the minimal, average and middle-revenue homes," states Yun. "With the housing scarcity, money is king, and institutional potential buyers are blocking to start with-time potential buyers from getting into the marketplace and in a feeling forcing the homes to remain renters for a lengthier period."
Institutional potential buyers will continue to be fascinated till the housing provide increases significantly, states Yun.
Ed Golding, govt director at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Golub Center for Finance and Coverage, and previous head of the Federal Housing Administration, states institutional investors perform an crucial part in the marketplace by bettering the good quality of the housing stock and escalating the provide of fantastic good quality rental housing.
Improved good quality housing stock
He states institutional investors generally get houses that require repair service and can leverage their operational and financing benefits to take care of these attributes faster and a lot more competently.
And that, he thinks in not this sort of a terrible factor.
"It's fantastic for markets in typical. It is fantastic for people to be in a position to have this as an selection," he states. "It's a drag on homeownership but it's not a major drag."
Golding states there is a host of concerns that can be tackled to strengthen homeownership premiums, this sort of as supplying house rehabilitation financial loans, expanding down-payment support, changing some of the underwriting tactics and de-emphasizing debt-to-revenue ratios and developing a lot more entry-degree houses.
Two of the premier single-loved ones institutional buyers' annual reviews illustrate the sizeable amount institutional investors expend on these renovations, according to a report Golding co-authored for the Urban Institute.
Invitation Properties, the premier single-loved ones leasing company, implies in its annual report that it used $39,000 for each house for up-front renovations accomplished for the duration of 2020. And American Properties 4 Rent, for example, notes that they generally expend amongst $15,000 and $30,000 to renovate an existing house obtained.
"We calculate that the regular homeowner spends $six,300 for the duration of the to start with calendar year following paying for a house," he states.
American Properties 4 Rent was launched in 2011 following it obtained forty five houses in the aftermath of the Excellent Economic downturn. It at the moment owns fifty four,785 single-loved ones attributes in 22 states. Four decades ago, the company acquired into the business of constructing houses to lease and has accomplished 4,500 houses in 22 states.
"The demand for single-loved ones rentals is via the roof," states David P. Singelyn, CEO of American Properties for Rent. "We've been having five apps on each individual house."
The company has housing developments with 120-moreover houses every nearing or beneath building in the Atlanta Charlotte, North Carolina and Tampa, Florida, markets.
"We went to markets with higher populace progress, where people had been transferring to," Singelyn states.
Single-loved ones rentals now make up close to 35% of all U.S. rentals, according to Freddie Mac.
Charles Gullotta and his wife Kathryn moved from Tarrytown, New York, to South Carolina in August.
Gullotta, who worked as an govt chef, and his wife, who worked in the dental market, both equally experienced sizeable decline of revenue more than the pandemic and resolved to move to a a lot less high-priced and hotter put.
"All those factors put together designed it very tough to retain our life-style," he states. "We had to dip into retirement accounts to continue to be afloat for the duration of the situations when both equally of us had been out of perform."
The pair resolved to acquire gain of the incredibly hot housing marketplace and sell their property prior to transferring down south. "We purchased our house for just beneath $800,000 six decades ago and we marketed it for just more than $900,000. So at the very least it was a moreover," he states.
At the time in South Carolina, they located a four-bedroom rental property via American Properties 4 Rent for $two,250 a month in Summerville, close to Charleston.
"This is this sort of a major adjustment from New York to South Carolina that we require to genuinely get a superior concept of the bordering spots, irrespective of whether we want to be a lot more inland or we want to be a lot more on the coast," he states. "We didn't want to get right absent."
The very best component of the rental was the price tag, he states.
"We had been expending just about $29,000 a calendar year in taxes," he states of Tarrytown. "And it's just more than $27,000 to lease this put for the calendar year. And that is including utilities, lawn care, h2o and trash pickup."
Gullotta states they are going to lease for the foreseeable future till they find one thing they absolutely appreciate.
Butler, the Boise-space renter, feels the exact way.
"If we're going to buy one thing, it's acquired to be the permanently house," he states. "The house that my wife and I are in for the up coming 20 decades till my two young ones are grown and long gone."
Until eventually then, he's joyful to lease.
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Eddie Glorioso, one of the three brothers who founded the Milwaukee Italian grocery store Glorioso's in 1946, wipes tears from his eyes as he recalls when the family business opened in a new location across from the original building.
With the opening of a new store comes a change in ownership. Eddie, Joe, and Teddy Glorioso, who are all in their 80's are passing on managing duties to Michael and Felix Glorioso, the sons of Teddy and his wife, Rosemary.
The new Glorioso's opened on Dec. 2, and hundreds of people crowded the store as Mayor Tom Barrett cut the ribbon at the grand opening ceremony. Even with the larger size of the building, which is three and a half times larger than the old store, it was difficult to maneuver around the place because so many people showed up.
The new Glorioso's features a host of improvements that wouldn't be possible without the expanded space.
Indoor cafe- With Alterra coffee/ espresso bar, and fresh gelato served daily.
Trio's Pizza- A thin crust pizza and old family recipe that hasn't been served in 30 years, and it was the first delivery pizza in Milwaukee.
More fresh deli foods, with new breakfast menu and desert menu.
Expanded bakery and wine/ beer section.
Glorioso's is synonymous with Brady Street, so it's fitting that the new store is close to the original location. The inside of the store contains pictures of the Glorioso family, the original Glorioso's sign, and pieces of Brady Street history cover the walls.
The architectural design is reminiscent of the old world. Elements from the Italian Third Ward and the old 1901 Harp Lamps up in the balcony adorn the building. For the food portion, the store is overflowing with pasta, wines, and the largest selection of Italian cheeses in the state.
Some customers are unhappy with the changes made to the store because they feel the place lost some of its charm and feel that Glorioso's is just like every other grocery store in Milwaukee. Jaclyn Habck a customer of Glorioso's for eight years disagrees.
The Glorioso family business dates back to 1946. E. Glorioso said that he and his two brothers did everything themselves and worked 12 to 17 hours a day with just one helper. In 1968, the business expanded, and they hired more people to help out with the store.The new building used to house the old Astor Theater back in 1915. In May 2009, the theater closed and became the Brady Street Pharmacy. The business didn't last long, and once the space opened up, the Glorioso family began renovating the place.
The new Glorioso's building may be finished, but that doesn't mean the Italian family isn't done improving its business. The old building is being used for an expanded catering service, and a 12-month cooking class series where people can cook Italian specialty products with guest chefs. Also, work has begun on a new internet business that will sell Glorioso's products online.
Even with comparisons of the new store to Pick'n Save, and Whole Foods customers don't need to worry that Glorioso's is abandoning the people who grew up with them by going modern. "We're strictly an Italian supermarket, and it's going to stay that way," E. Glorioso said.
This article was originally published on Media Milwaukee.


On July 10, 2014 the Riga Business club arranged flower laying on Lucavsala Island in Riga at the monument to 400 Russian soldiers, who fallen down in 1701 during the Northern War (1700- 1721).
Tragic event in local history happened at the beginning of Northern War, when Swedes after winning the Saxons decided to get rid of Russians, who was on Lucavsala Island without any help. Strength Swedish army hoped to win quickly, but it turned out otherwise. There was such a bustle, that when king Charles XII arrived, he saw a lot of his soldiers dead and 20 Russian soldiers firing back in redoubt.King was admired by the boldness of Russian soldiers and commanded to take them prisoners. Killed soldiers made the first common grave in Riga.
«On July 10, 1891, the monument was built on Lifland's governor general Zinovjev donations. In 400 russian soldiers fallen in July 10th, 1701 memory».
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