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Examining anew the notions of media imperialism and globalization of media, this book disrupts the generalised consensus in media scholarship that globalization of media has put an end to media imperialism. One elemental aspect of media imperialism is the structural dependency of television systems in the global South on the imperial North. Taking India and Pakistan as its case studies, this book views globalization of media as the unleashing of processes that have translated into the liberalization of air waves and privatization of television systems whereby commercialization of television is privileged over public interest television. Additionally, it argues that the globalization of media has contributed to corruption, tabloidization, and marginalization of subaltern classes in the Indian and Pakistani media.
Is the bicycle, like the loudspeaker, a medium of communication in India? Do Indian children need trade unions as much as they need schools? What would you do with a mobile phone if all your friends were playing tag in the rain or watching Indian Idol? Children and Media in India illuminates the experiences, practices and contexts in which children and young people in diverse locations across India encounter, make, or make meaning from media in the course of their everyday lives. From textbooks, television, film and comics to mobile phones and digital games, this book examines the media available to different socioeconomic groups of children in India and their articulation with everyday cultures and routines. An authoritative overview of theories and discussions about childhood, agency, social class, caste and gender in India is followed by an analysis of films and television representations of childhood informed by qualitative interview data collected between 2005 and 2015 in urban, small-town and rural contexts with children aged nine to 17. The analysis uncovers and challenges widely held assumptions about the relationships among factors including sociocultural location, media content and technologies, and children's labour and agency. The analysis casts doubt on undifferentiated claims about how new technologies 'affect', 'endanger' and/or 'empower', pointing instead to the importance of social class – and caste – in mediating relationships among children, young people and the poor. The analysis of children's narratives of daily work, education, caring and leisure supports the conclusion that, although unrecognised and underrepresented, subaltern children's agency and resourceful conservation makes a significant contribution to economic, interpretive and social reproduction in India.
Sexuality in India offers an expression of nationalist anxieties and is a significant marker of modernity through which subjectivities are formed among the middle class. This book investigates the everyday experience of queer Indian men on digital spaces. It explores how queer identities are formed in virtual spaces and how the existence of such spaces challenge and critique 'Indian'-ness. It also looks at the role of class and intimacy within the discourse. This work argues that new media, social networking sites (SNSs), both web and mobile, and related technologies do not exist in isolation; rather they are critically embedded within other social spaces. Similarly, online queer spaces exist parallel to and in conjunction with the larger queer movement in the country. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, especially men's and masculinity studies, queer and LGBT studies, media and cultural studies, particularly new media and digital culture, sexuality and identity, politics, sociology and social anthropology, and South Asian studies.
This article is concerned with understanding the role of satire as a crucial narrative and communicative form for thinking and caring about politics in contemporary India. In an era marked by the relentless corporate makeover of news media and a concomitant decline in public trust in journalism, satirical videos that took on Narendra Modi, Arvind Kejriwal, Rahul Gandhi, and other political figures during the 2014 election campaign season offered a strikingly different and immensely popular mode of engagement with the political. Moving past well-worn paradigms for understanding the relation between entertainment and politics, this article situates online satire within a vibrant field of everyday digital media production that marks contemporary Indian public culture. I show how satirical videos became part of an intricate, networked, yet comprehensible intertextual field that linked the 2014 elections to long-standing political issues and debates around caste, class, gender and sexuality, and religious nationalism.
South Asian Media Cultures' is a collection of essays that pulls together field-based audience and textual research in areas such as the politics of new media, contemporary television and film in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and their audiences. Through a careful analysis of the various media cultures and practices from across South Asia, this collection addresses pertinent issues such as how discourses on gender, nationalism, ethnicity and class are being expressed by mainstream media texts across South Asia, and how different groups within the public discern meanings from such discourses. With this collection, Banaji aims to reduce the reliance on commercial Hindi cinema ('Bollywood') for reference on the politics and history of South Asian Media. Instead, key current research and theoretical debate are presented in an accessible manner. They are organised around three clear themes: 'Audiences, meanings and social contexts', which focuses on the responses of particular social groups to specific media formats, ideas or genres; 'Media Discourse, Identity and Politics', which discusses the complex links between media representations and socio-political identities; and 'Alternative Producers: New Media, Politics and Civic Participation', which describes and assesses the various civic practices and possibilities opened up in South Asia by digital and mobile communications.
The dramatic expansion of the media and communications sector since the 1990s has brought South Asia on the global scene as a major center for media production and consumption. This book is the first overview of media expansion and its political ramifications in South Asia during these years of economic reforms. From the puzzling liberalization of media under military dictatorship in Pakistan to the brutal killings of journalists in Sri Lanka, and the growing influence of social media in riots and political protests in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, the chapters analyse some of the most important developments in the media fields of contemporary South Asia. Attentive to colonial histories as well as connections within and beyond South Asia in the age of globalization, the chapters combine theoretically grounded studies with original empirical research to unravel the dynamics of media as politics. The chapters are organized around the three frame of participation, control and friction. They bring to the fore the double edged nature of publicity and containment inherent in media, thereby advancing postcolonial perspectives on the massive media transformation underway in South Asia and the global South more broadly. For the first time bringing together the cultural, regulatory and social aspects of media expansion in a single perspective, this interdisciplinary book fills the need for overview and analytical studies on South Asian media.


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In Milan, AGC showcases a mesmerizing installation featuring high-tech glass panels with an innovative technology that allows to capture projected videos and display see-through moving images.
Installation GLACIER FORMATION by Asahi Glass Company (AGC) – Photo by Takehiko Niki.
Milan Design Week 2015. With the installation GLACIER FORMATION, Asahi Glass Company (AGC) introduces a revolutionary and high-tech glass technology able to expand the potential of glass walls and surfaces for architecture, design and communication. The world-leading manufacturer of glass, chemicals and high-tech materials presents GlasceneTM, an in-house developed double layered glass panel that is able to capture a projected video and display it on the glass transparent surface.
Recently launched in Japan, GlasceneTM, debuts internationally at Milan Design Week and will be availabe in Europe from the latter half of 2015. The slabs are available in many sizes up to 4 x 2 metres so far and do not require electrical power to work.
Hioryuki Wakasugi, says to archiPanic: "GlasceneTM, creates a new relationship between information and glass space that will overturn conventional concepts of digital signage. This technology can open many chapters in architecture and design, especially for retail projects but also in visual communication".
The GLACIER FORMATION installation welcomes visitors to enter in a digital glass maze composed by three-meter-high GlasceneTM, screens. Each panel displays an abstract semi-transparent video and invites to walk through a mesmerizing path of overlapping shadows and projections. The glacier's inspired mood is set als thanks to LEDs and a vibrating sound effect. The space design is curated by ARTENVARCH of Norihisa Kawashima & Keika Sato under the artisitc and technical direction of LUFTZUG of Yutaka Endo, visual design by qubibi by Kazumasa Teshigawara.
The AGC Group, with Tokyo-based Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. at its core, is a world-leading supplier of flat, automotive and display glass, chemicals and other high-tech materials and components. Based on the world's leading technologies accumulated over more than 100 years of innovation and continues to meet the needs in different areas.


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ProElite are having a troubled time as they approach their second event on November 5th with news emerging that their scheduled main event has once again fallen through.
German fighter Andreas Kraniotakes had been lined up as a replacement for Pedro Rizzo to take on former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia in the headline attraction of the event, but he's now been withdrawn after failing to get a license to fight in the U.S.
The problem lay with the fact that Kraniotakes has never fought outside of Europe, with the vast amount of his fights taking place in his native Germany.
Despite a solid 12-4 record the Fighter Commission wasn't comfortable licensing a fighter who didn't have any prior sanctioned fights in the U.S.
It seems a somewhat curious decision, but nonetheless it leaves ProElite scrambling yet again to find a suitable opponent for Sylvia.
It's believed they do have someone in mind and there may be an announcement as soon as today on who that might be.


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American YouTuber and comedian Joe Santagato never failed to impress his audience via his comedy content videos. He has 2.46 million+ subscribers on his self-titled YouTube channel, Joe Santagato with 388 million views as of October 2018. Besides that, he has another channel, Extra Joe which contains daily vlogs, and a sports channel titled Veterans Minimum. He is also best known for his weekly podcast, The Basement Yard released by Fullscreen.
Joe Santagato was born on February 25, 1992, in Astoria, Queens, New York, the United States. He is the youngest son of Elizabeth Santagato, a school secretary at a public school, and Joseph Santagato; a retired firefighter. He has three elder siblings, Keith Santagato, Shannon Santagato, and Thomas Santagato. He was raised Roman Catholic.
Santagato attended St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School for kindergarten. Then he joined Louis Armstrong Middle School, later he went to St. Francis Preparatory School for high school where he was on the school football team. He enjoyed sports and facing camera since his early days. In 2010, one of his friends suggests him to post his videos on YouTube.
Joe Santagato first worked as a producer and editor for American online news platform, Elite Daily before starting his career as a full-time YouTuber. In 2014, he started his self-titled YouTube channel, Joe Santagato where he posts comedic content regularly. As of 2018, he has 2.4 million+ subscribers with over 388 million views.
Apart from that, Santagato runs another YouTube channel, Extra Joe which contains daily vlogs, a sports channel, Veterans Minimum, and The Basement Yard which features clips from "The Basement Yard" podcast. Previously he has a Vine account. He was also a former member of the Youtube channel titled "SDK".
Santagato also helped to create the Hasbro board game Speak Out which was released in August 2016 which was based on his video "Watch Ya' Mouth". It helped players to recite phrases while a dental retractor is placed in their mouths.
He is also a promoter of Hasbro's Hearing Things board game. In October 2017, he announced he will introduce a new telecommunications company called Wing.
Joe Santagato is one of the popular YouTubers with more than two million subscribers on his self-titled YouTube channel, Joe Santagato. He earns $718 - $11.5k monthly and $8.6K - $137.8K per annum from his channel.
Besides this, he earns a good sum from his other YouTube channels, The Basement Yard, Extra Joe, and Veterans Minimum. Considering his career growth his net worth is over $0.7 million, in 2019.
The YouTuber has also owned a clothing line (merch) called The Santagato Store. Most of his items are D-Hive Pullover Hoodie, D-Hive Longsleeve Shirt, and etc. Their price ranges from $20-$40.
Joe Santagato is in a romantic relationship with her longtime girlfriend, Samantha "Sammy" Rickey, a former Instagram model. The couple started dating since 2015 and shares a healthy relationship as of 2018. He is very close with his brothers and they often featured on his YouTube videos.
Santagato is a fan of New York sports teams, such as New York Rangers and New York Giants. He has often mentioned that George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and Robin Williams are always been a great inspiration to his comedic influences.
He is quite active on social media and has more than 834k+ followers on Instagram as of 2019.
In October 2015, Santagato accused YouTuber, Alfie Deyes of copying his ideas without giving him any credit on his "The Mad Lib Story Challenge" but Deyes denied even seeing his video before making his own. Alfie's girlfriend, Zoella came to defend her boyfriend on this issue. Later, another YouTuber posted similar videos and gave Joe due credit which intensified the question of fair-play for Alfie.
Age: As of 2019, he is 27years old.
Height: He stands at an average height.
Weight: He weighs 77kg (170 pounds).


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7 Questions for Parisian Dealer Kamel Mennour on the Expanding Horizon of Digital Platforms, δημοσίευση στο Artnet News [4/1/2023]
Gallerist Kamel Mennour
For over two decades, gallerist Kamel Mennour has championed contemporary art and its worldwide dissemination. He founded his eponymous gallery in Paris in 1999 and since then has expanded to multiple locations throughout the City of Light. Through these spaces and the gallery's participation in major art fairs and collaborations with cultural institutions worldwide, Kamel Mennour gallery has become known internationally for its diverse and fascinating roster of artists as well as for its compelling exhibition program.
Launched in the midst of the pandemic lockdown, the gallery's online viewing room (OVR) has added another dynamic dimension to its exhibition program. The platform features a themed exhibition series, which provides access to the art and artists Kamel Mennour presents to a much broader audience. Additionally, many of the digital shows complement physical exhibitions staged at the gallery. These include highlights from art fair booths or installations that are too large to be shown in the traditional gallery space, amplifying the work and voice of the featured artists.
We reached out to Kamel Mennour to learn more about the inception and execution of the gallery's OVR program and how it's been received by the art world at large.
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Malachite Capital LP Being Investigated For Investment Losses
Malachite Capital Partners LP is currently being investigated for possible fraud or breach of fiduciary duty to investors. At Meyer Wilson, we have extensive experience handling these cases and are ready to help investors who have suffered losses after investing in Malachite Capital Partners LP.
What Is Happening With Malachite LP & Investment Loss Claims?
Malachite Capital Partners LP is under investigation based on allegations of breach of fiduciary duty and possible fraud of investors. We know that Malachite was channeled endowment and foundation money through Fund Evaluation Group.
Fund Evaluation Group is responsible for advising or directly operating portfolios of many universities, charities, and other institutions. Malachite is based in New York and oversees around $600 in investments. Malachite recently announced plans to dissolve its fund due to adverse market conditions.
This firm was founded by former Goldman Sachs traders Joe Aitken and Jacob Weinig. They recently told Bloomberg News that, "[d]ue to the extreme adverse market conditions of recent weeks and the resultant funds' performance, the current and projected assets will not justify or support the current structure of the funds. It is in the best interest of the funds and their investors to dissolve the funds immediately pursuant to their governing documents in order to commence an orderly wind-down."
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Malachite represents various educational organizations and charities, along with other institutions. Fund Evaluation Group consultants allegedly recommended Malachite as a suitable firm for investments as recently as late 2019. This includes Utah's public education trust, the University of Toledo Foundation, and the University of Illinois.
At the end of 2019, Malachite represented 5.6% of a pool of hedge fund investments that Fund Evaluation Group built for their clients (in a fund-of-funds). This is called the "FEG Absolute Access Fund," and is one of several vehicles that the firm uses to channel money from institutions whose portfolios the firm is responsible for.
As we have previously stated at Meyer Wilson, hedge funds are known for underperforming or shutting down entirely. Recent volatility in the stock market has led many industry experts to indicate that hedge fund dissolutions could become inevitable.
In a brochure used by Malachite in 2019, the firm stated that it "seeks to capture short-term volatility risk premium within the global equity markets while diligently monitoring risk and adhering to a strict risk management process." Unfortunately, it seems that when stock prices dropped significantly, and market volatility peaked, Malachite did not take steps to protect investors.
If you believe you have been misled or have suffered losses after working with Malachite Capital Partners LP, contact Meyer Wilson today. You can contact us by calling (614) 532-4576 or contact us online to speak confidentially with an attorney today. At this point, the investigation into Malachite is ongoing, and it is not clear right now whether there are any investor funds left at all. Not only will we keep a close eye on this investigation, but we will also monitor whether or not Fund Evaluation Group becomes involved in any investigations.


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Opened in 1988, it is the largest butterfly park in the world, and the first park of its kind in the Western Hemisphere. The facility houses around 20,000 live butterflies. In addition to the birds and butterfly exhibits, visitors can view the laboratory where the butterflies are raised and can see the different stages including eggs, caterpillars, and pupae.
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Splash Adventure Water Park is an exciting destination for thrill-seekers and family fun alike. Featuring five main attractions - Shady Swamp, River Rapids, SplashDown, AquaPlayset, and Gator Lagoon - there are activities suitable for guests of all ages and skill levels. On the River Rapids, riders can brave the twists and turns on double tubes or individual rafts. The DropZone provides a free fall of up to 30 feet into a watery abyss.
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The Fern Forest Nature Center is a great destination for a fun and educational day out. The natural center consists of 310 acres of land, filled with a variety of different structures and features. Visitors can enjoy the woods, marsh, and wetland trails that allow them to explore the plants and wildlife in the area. In addition to these trails, the nature center offers interactive exhibits about the importance of protecting the environment as well as educational programming .
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The Deerfield Beach Historical Society is a non-profit organization that's committed to preserving the unique history of Broward County, through various preservation and educational efforts. Founded in 1965, the society oversees an array of activities, including historical tours, educational programs, and restoration projects. In addition to promoting public appreciation for the local heritage of Deerfield Beach, they also research and document historical events related with Broward County.
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Chillicothe school district officials call inaugural high school offering a success.
CHILLICOTHE – District officials say Chillicothe High School's experiment with putting Google Chromebooks into the hands of every student attending the high school has gone better than expected, and plans are now in the works to expand the program into the middle school.
The Chromebook initiative provides each student attending the high school with one of the laptop-style devices that are preloaded with electronic versions of textbooks, a suite of Google software similar to Microsoft Office and an ever-changing lineup of educational applications picked by teachers. Teachers, who were trained on the devices last fall before the roughly 900 were deployed to students in the high school, then integrated the Chromebooks into their lesson plans.
District technology coordinator Josh Montgomery said the way the educators latched onto the initiative right away was a pleasant surprise.
With students being permitted to take the devices home with them each day, Montgomery had some initial concerns about how secure the district's $250,000 investment would be. The concerns, he said this week in evaluating the first half-year of the program, proved unfounded.
"One of the things I really didn't expect to have happen was the lack of damage to the devices," Montgomery said, noting that currently only two of the Chromebooks are out of service and the only remaining damage involves some minor things like cracks in the screens that are repairable.
District Superintendent Jon Saxton said one of the changes coming to the program involves a shift in student responsibility for damaged machines. At the beginning of the program, it was determined that if anything was broken or damaged, the student would be responsible for the full $250 to $280 expense of replacing it. Now, the district has done some additional training and received some equipment that will allow for more repairs to be done in-house, reducing the expense to the student to the cost of what it takes to fix the problem.
The program has been gaining attention from elsewhere. Saxton said the district was asked to present on its use of the Chromebooks at an ITIP Ohio Summit Featuring Google in Education conference in Sandusky and has applied to make a presentation at the Ohio School Boards Association capital conference in November.
With the success of the first half-year at the high school, district middle school teachers have started training so they can offer the program in those grade levels as well with the hope of getting middle schoolers onto the Chromebooks by the middle of the next school year. Unlike the high schoolers, middle school student use of the devices will likely be restricted to the school day without the option of taking them home.
Eventually, both Saxton and Montgomery said the intent is to incorporate the Chromebooks at the elementary level as well, probably for third-graders on up. At the elementary level, the biggest benefit may come in work involving standardized testing and will not involve a one computer per student ratio. Instead, the Chromebooks would likely go from classroom to classroom on tech carts.
Saxton said the 1-to-1 high school initiative does not include students involved in the Chillicothe Alternative Pathway Academy, the district's alternative school, or to other virtual learning programs done by students living within the district but not physically attending the high school. The superintendent said there are no plans at this time to provide those students with the Chromebooks.
That fact has upset at least one parent, who took to Facebook anonymously, claiming that since the district gets the same per-pupil funding from the state for students involved with CAPA or the virtual learning academy, it should be required to provide the devices to the students. CAPA students have desktop computers available for use and are provided with the curriculum needed to meet requirements.
Moving forward, the district is examining the best way to create a sustainable budget that will allow for periodic replacement of the Chromebooks. Students will turn the devices back into the district at the end of every school year, with this year's freshman class potentially being the first class that, as seniors, may be given the option to keep their Chromebooks or purchase them at very discounted prices due to their age.


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Samsung Awards Schools $100K for Using STEM to Tackle School Shootings, Pedestrian Fatalities and Healthcare Access
By TL Editors 03 April 2019
Each school will receive $100,000* in technology and classroom supplies to meet the needs of their students such as Samsung Flips, Samsung Chromebooks, 3-D printers, tablets, microscopes, lab materials, and more.
Samsung Electronics America, Inc. announced today the three grand prize national winners in the ninth annual $2 million* Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest – a national competition that challenges public school students in grades 6 through 12 to use STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) skills to address real-world problems.
Owensville High School in Owensville, Mo.; Holly Grove Middle School in Holly Springs, N.C.; and Deep Creek Middle School in Chesapeake, Va.were named the three national winners for their respective efforts to confront school shootings, pedestrian fatalities and healthcare access using STEM. The winners were announced today after students presented their projects to a panel of judges at the National Finalist Pitch Event this week in New York City. Each school will receive $100,000* in technology and classroom supplies to meet the needs of their students such as Samsung Flips, Samsung Chromebooks, 3-D printers, tablets, microscopes, lab materials, and more.
The national winners and their STEM projects are:
Owensville High School – Owensville, Mo.
With school shootings on the rise, students at Owensville High School designed a simple and secure door lock to help keep students and teachers safe in the event of an armed intruder. Because traditional door locks can be quickly dismantled by a firearm, Owensville High students designed, modeled and created a steel lock that cannot be easily disengaged from outside of the classroom. Once installed on the interior of a door, the one-piece lock can be easily and quickly put into place to prevent an intruder from entering and attacking students and teachers.
View Owensville High School's project video here: https://youtu.be/eQ3bkoOzrCY
Holly Grove Middle School – Holly Springs, N.C.
Nationally, 88 percent of school bus drivers have reported cars illegally passing stopped school buses, causing student injuries and fatalities every year. In North Carolina alone, there are approximately 300 illegal passes reported each day. After a classmate was almost hit by a car, students at Holly Grove Middle School were inspired to take action. Research and consultation with transportation officials told them that traditional bus stop signs were not working. So, the students created a Smart School Bus Stop Sign and bus sensor to alert drivers of an approaching bus before it even arrives. Approximately 400 feet before reaching the stop, the Smart Stop Sign will change colors, indicating to drivers that they must slow down and stop. The students' invention was so successful in testing that they're working with city officials to install Smart Stop Signs at the locations where the most violations have occurred.
Holly Grove Middle School was also named this year's Community Choice Winner for generating the most public votes online. As the Community Choice Winner, the students have won an additional $10,000* in technology for their school.
View Holly Grove Middle School's project video here: https://youtu.be/sOHxZvsAg9s
Deep Creek Middle School – Chesapeake, Va.
Studies show 25 percent of American school-aged children have undiagnosed eye problems, which can impact learning and ultimately their academic success. Many of these students continue to go undiagnosed due to the high cost of vision exams and prescription eyeglasses. The students at Deep Creek Middle School developed a mobile app and website to match their fellow students with poor visions with free exams and donated prescription eye glasses. Since launching their app, every student at Deep Creek Middle School who needs glasses has received them or soon will receive them, and the students are working to expand the service to other local schools.
View Deep Creek Middle School's project video here: https://youtu.be/VF_nNUnuY18
The three national winners will be honored at a luncheon in Washington, D.C. the first week of May and will also have the opportunity to meet with and present their projects to their respective congressional representatives.
To learn more about the contest and this year's winners, visit: www.samsung.com/solve.


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1. The History
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"The church lies in the central section of the valley, set within its large, rhomboid churchyard on the low-lying valley floor, set back from the road. The church is perhaps seventeenth century in origin, and the centre of a separate parish centred in the Pennant valley. It was considerably altered in the nineteenth century, to designs of Henry Kennedy, architect, of Bangor; its restoration scarcely influenced by gothic revival principles.
The church is built of local coursed stone rubble with a slate roof. It is a long, single-cell building, continuous nave and chancel, with a boarded west door within a pointed arch and, above, a gabled bellcote. There are three pointed-headed windows to each side, and a similar window over the west door, all furnished with diamond pattern lead glazing. The east window is composed of three equally sized round-headed lancets with transomed timber frames, each containing coloured glass in the upper half.
Inside, a western entrance lobby with store on the south side is formed under a western gallery dated 1847. Internal features include plastered walls above a dado formed with seventeenth-century panelling (probably from earlier box pews) and bearing the dates 1687 and ST RM 1688; six roof trusses forming seven bays, of collar and king-post form with knee braces carrying the roof on two tiers of purlins, all probably nineteenth century or refurbished at that time; the west gallery with panelled cornice front, raked and carrying four ranges of pews; two timber lecterns; and an octagonal Gothic pulpit with openwork tracery sides. On the north and south sides of the nave are memorials of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century date."
2. The Explore
Or non-explore. Coudn't get in as it was (understandably locked). Situated on the banks of the Afon Dwyfor, got some nice externals and several peep shots of the interior of this lovely little redundant church so just enough to merit a report. Back in April 2017 St Michael's Church was up for sale for offers more than £30,000. Looks like no one decided to take a punt.
3. The Pictures
Pictured with Isallt Slate Quarry in the background:
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And back to the grey skies!
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Peeking down the aisle:
Pews and stained-glass windows:
Memorial stone of Jane Brynkir (1706-1760) who lived at the nearby Brynkir Hall:
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For 700 years, Christian pilgrims have sought out the Razzouk family for their tattoos. Generations of the Razzouk family have tattooed people to commemorate their spiritual journey to Jerusalem. And yes, they're still very much open for business today, in a dusty back ally in the Old City. The family's incredible history adorns the walls of the small studio as modern day pilgrims wait for their certificate in ink — typically a cross with a date.
Wassim Razzouk, 43, now runs the business (as seen in the video link below.) He's busy placing the outline of a design on a former US soldier — an example of his diverse clientele. The tattoo will be an Armenian cross, which holds special meaning for Andrew Seropian, a veteran of the US campaign in Afghanistan embarking on his own pilgrimage.
Pilgrims make the journey to the Holy Land searching for something. It could be an adventure, inner peace, or God. Christians, Muslims and Jews claim Jerusalem as a holy city. It houses the holiest of sites of Christianity and Judaism and the third holiest in Islam.
The Razzouk family business began in the 14th century in Egypt then moved to Jerusalem in the 17th century after discovering there was a high demand for their services in the holy city.
Pictures of four generations of the Razzouk family hang on the stone wall of the studio. "We are not only old school … you can say we are ancient school. We have designs hundreds of years old," says Wassim, holding a long wooden stick with a pointed end. "The way they did it hundreds of years ago was done by a stick like this one with thick needles attached to it. This created a thicker, blurrier line that wasn't too sharp," he says. It was both painful and painfully slow, adds Anton.
Thankfully, the inking process has modernized. But many of the tattoo styles remain the same. Wassim pours small wooden blocks on a table. Carved on each one is a stencil of a tattoo. He pulls out one with a large cross and four small crosses in the corners — it's known as the Jerusalem Cross and dates back centuries. It's also one of the most popular designs. "This one is 500 years old. This actual block was used in 1669 by a man who documented his pilgrimage," he explains.
There is a distinctive divide in the tastes of Razzouk's clientele. Pilgrims prefer the traditional Christian iconography, while young local Christians prefer modern-looking tattoos with intricate designs and coloring. However, they do have clients from other faiths who choose non-Christian designs.
"You cannot deny your Christianity by having a tattoo," says Anton. "That's why in Egypt and in many other Arab countries where Christians are a minority, parents tattoo their children so they can't deny their faith." This is still very common in Egypt.
The ink almost dried up when Wassim initially had no interest in the family business. "I read an article about my family and my father said he was afraid that tradition would end with him," he recalls.
Wassim eventually relented and decided to pick up the tattoo machine after all. "This is not a tradition and a heritage that is easy to let go of and I am not going to be the one who is going to stop it or kill it," he says. The mark of faith is also secured for the next generation. Wassim's 13-year-old son, Nizar, is learning the family business to certify future pilgrimages in ink.
Story derived from CNN video, watch it here.


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Amos was the youngest of twelve children born to Amos and Estella Cobb on June 5, 1943 in Robeson County North Carolina. He passed away on Wednesday, April 10 in Chicago, IL. He was 75 years old.
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While globally IT firms witnessed an overall drop in new outsourcing contracts in 2006, Indian companies -- such as Infosys, TCS and Wipro -- bucked the trend with a sharp jump of over 14 times in their market share in the past four years, a new study shows.
In contrast to the massive gains registered by Indian service providers, the market share of 'Big Six' global outsourcing majors -- Accenture, IBM, HP, ACS, CSC and EDS declined to 46 per cent last year, from 71 per cent in 2002.
The market share of India-based providers rose to 7 per cent last year, from less than 0.5 per cent in 2002.
According to a new study by outsourcing advisory firm TPI, there are tougher times ahead for the global IT majors as they face intensifying competition from new market players.
"Indian firms are emerging as an attractive and credible alternative to the traditional players and over the next few years they are expected to compete directly with the 'Big Six' for larger value contracts," TPI's EMEA Managing Director Duncan Aitchison said.
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believe that was from The Competitive Edge by Rev Cotton Mather. Probably from Part III while Sean was in college. Was in Chapter 43.
Route 66 upside down is 99.
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Earlier this evening, I described my New Year's resolution: read fewer books. The first book I selected for 2013, Paul Elie's The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage, appears to be a good choice in pursuit of this goal, as I'll explain in conclusion. First, let me review how I came to read it.
I mentioned Elie's book last October, in writing about Gideon Lewis-Kraus's A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful.
Lewis-Kraus does have this odd habit of quoting people without any reference to the source of the quote or any explanation of who the quoted writer is. For instance, out of the blue, a section begins with a quote from Paul Elie: "Contemporary culture makes pilgrimage impossible. Experience is always second-hand, planned an described for one's consumption by others in advance. Even the rare, authentically direct experience is spoiled by self-consciousness. We're doomed to an imitation of life."
Do you know Paul Elie? I didn't, and L-K chooses not to help me out. It turns out that Elie wrote The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage, a 2004 study of four great mid-twentieth-century Catholics: Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy.
I went on to mention that just two weeks earlier, Elie's second book had "appeared, Reinventing Bach. The re-inventors are Albert Schweitzer, Pablo Casals, Leopold Stokowski and Walt Disney, Glenn Gould, and Yo-Yo Ma." Moreover:
Hours later, at the NYT website, I saw that the subject of the next day's book review was none other than Reinventing Bach. And a little later, I found that it was the subject of one of the briefly noted reviews in this week's New Yorker. Moreover, had I only been paying attention, I would have seen a review a week earlier in our local paper, the Seattle Times, by their former music critic, Melinda Bargreen, with Elie scheduled to speak in Seattle the next day as part of his book tour. Someone was trying to tell me something.
I began Reinventing Bach soon thereafter. On finishing it, I considered turning directly to The Life You Save May Be Your Own, but decided I wasn't sufficiently interested in 470 pages of text (plus notes) on Elie's Catholic quartet.
The matter might have ended there were it not for the appearance three weeks ago of a cover essay by Elie in the Sunday NYT book review, titled "Has Fiction Lost Its Faith?" In the essay, Elie observes that
Christian belief figures into literary fiction in our place and time as something between a dead language and a hangover. Forgive me if I exaggerate. But if any patch of our culture can be said to be post-Christian, it is literature. Half a century after Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Reynolds Price and John Updike presented themselves as novelists with what O'Connor called "Christian convictions," their would-be successors are thin on the ground.
So are works of fiction about the quandaries of Christian belief. Writers who do draw on sacred texts and themes see the references go unrecognized. A faith with something like 170 million adherents in the United States, a faith that for centuries seeped into every nook and cranny of our society, now plays the role it plays in Jhumpa Lahiri's story "This Blessed House": as some statues left behind in an old building, bewildering the new occupants.
It's a strange development. Strange because the current upheavals in American Christianity — involving sex, politics, money and diversity — cry out for dramatic treatment. Strange because upheavals in Christianity across the Atlantic gave rise to great fiction from "The Brothers Karamazov" to "Brideshead Revisited." Strange because novelists are depicting the changing lives of American Jews and Muslims with great success.
I am the author of a book about four 20th-century American Catholic writers, and I am often asked who their successors are. Usually I demur. I observe that we look in the wrong places. I point out that Graham Greene and J. R. R. Tolkien were considered baffling in their time. I cite Matthew Arnold to the effect that ours is a critical age, not a creative one. I reflect that literature is created by individuals, not compelled by social forces.
Inspired by the essay, I thought I should reconsider Elie's book. Doing a search on it, I was reminded that beliefnet had named it their 2003 book of the year and provided an interview with Elie, adding that
This group biography of four mid-20th century Roman Catholic writers—Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day and Walker Percy—explores an era when American Catholicism enjoyed an intellectual high tide. Far from portraying his protagonists as avatars of some vaunted Catholic golden age, however, Elie shows how they worked out their ideas and exemplary lives in a context no less daunting than our own. Elie's vivid group portrait is a serious work of criticism that can also serve as an introduction to the four writers' work and lives.
I still wasn't convinced that I wanted to spend 470 pages with Elie's chosen Catholic quartet, but I decided to put myself in his hands. I downloaded the book and began. Soon I was drawn in, by Elie's writing more than the content. I find it unexpectedly beautiful, in his construction of mood and of place. Sometimes I read just 3 or 4 pages at a time, but I immediately settle into Elie's world.
This approach has its defects. Reading in small bits as I follow the lives of four characters, I struggle to remember details. But I enjoy the book just the same, enjoy immersing myself in the New York of my parents' youth through which Day and Merton and Percy pass, the Mississippi and Georgia of Percy and O'Connor, the families and friends who shape their lives.
Plus, my piecemeal reading yields a bonus: it contributes to the success of my New Year's resolution. If I keep it up, I won't be reading many books this year!
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Lord Huron's set at Bristol's SWX falls a little short but support band Flyte impress
Maybe there's a reason their huge amount of Spotify plays doesn't translate into widespread UK appeal
Lord Huron at SWX in Bristol
Considering Lord Huron's top five songs on Spotify all have well over 10 million streams with the most played amassing nearly 200 million, you might expect them to have a large UK following.
But their music is rarely heard on the radio here, they never seem to play at UK festivals and their name doesn't ring a bell with many, so the Los Angeles indie folk outfit are probably hoping their current European tour – their biggest yet – will go some way in changing that.
While their fan base is relatively modest here, there is no doubt some interest in the quartet as the queue to see them at Bristol's SWX on Sunday night spiralled around Nelson Street and a fair way down Fairfax Street before doors opened at 7.30pm. The lengthy queue even included two lads who had flown over from Dublin just to see them – before watching them for a second time in the Irish capital next week. That's some serious commitment right there.
Flyte impressed at SWX
Many of those in the queue, Irish or otherwise, will no doubt have been eager to catch the support act for the night, English four-piece Flyte, who are currently riding the wave of their superb debut album. Taking inspiration from the likes of The Beatles and Lou Reed, the indie rockers delivered a barnstorming set which backed up the claims of those who expect them to go on to big things.
"Huron are in a massive sleeper tour bus and we're following them around Europe in a Ford Transit van. The Glasgow to Paris leg of the tour should be interesting," quipped frontman Will Taylor, whose excellent vocals certainly haven't been affected by the band's basic living conditions on the road. Cathy Come Home and an accapella cover of Alvvay's Marry Me Archie in particular allowed his voice to shine.
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After Flyte had more than warmed the crowd up it was the turn of their more experienced tour buddies, who have two albums to their name since forming in 2012, to take to the stage. While their set included a few memorable moments in the form of the aforementioned "Spotify hits", namely Ends of the Earth and Meet Me in the Woods, certain chunks of the set fell a bit flat; a tad formulaic, as if the band were just going through the motions. Maybe there's a reason their impressive amount of Spotify plays doesn't translate into widespread UK appeal.
Lord Huron frontman Ben Schneider
"It's nice but it's not really doing anything for me," said my mate after one particularly uninspired, tepid song, and that pretty much summed up most of their set; clearly very talented musicians and very tight from start to finish, but not much to really grip the crowd. The encore of The Night We Met and Fool For Love, two of their most renowned and best hits, did ensure the night finished on a high, though.
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Perhaps it had something to do with it being a dreary Sunday night in January, but Lord Huron's set didn't quite take off in the way in which the lads from Dublin surely would have hoped. Thankfully a fantastic support set from Flyte made their trip worth it.
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Wait, What? Ep. 303—Recursive Manic Tear
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0:01-32:08: Greetings! We continue our trend in "we don't really want to talk about 2020 too much, but on the other hand we should let you know how we're doing since we're both on the coast that is on fire" discussions. I don't want to totally spoil Graeme's discussion of what things are like in Portland, but here's the money quote: "Yesterday, We rewatched Robocop, the original Robocop? And that feels tame compared to our reality today."
32:08-35:59: As we transition to talking about comics, Graeme has a very hearty recommendation for the latest issue of the Judge Dredd Megazine. Not only is it the 30th anniversary of the the megazine, not only does it feature a strong lineup of strips, it also has the first installment of the 2000AD Encyclopedia, which is more or less as Graeme says, "The Official Handbook to the 2000AD Universe." For those who've been listening to Drokk!! and intrigued by the idea of jumping in on the current day action, it sounds pretty great?
35:59-57:00: From there, there's a bit of news pivot because Jeff is confused that this weekend was apparently *another* DC Fandome weekend? And more confusingly, Graeme was *not* covering it? We talk about that, the season two finale of Doom Patrol, what is news, why the follow-up weekend,and then transition into Represent #1 by Christian Cooper, Alitha E. Martinez, and Mark Morales, a free digital comic that DC dropped with no forewarning last Tuesday. It's a promising and challenging book—but is it going to be something DC keeps walled off in its own little corner, is its viewpoint going to be embraced and reinforced by the rest of the messaging in DC's other books, and a lot of other questions and possibilities.
57:00-1:01:33: After Graeme talked about it last week, Jeff felt compelled to pick up Death Metal: Trinity Crisis #1 and Graeme is right that it's an event tie-in book that feels like it should be an issue of the event, even though the whiplash between Francis Manapul as the artist here and Greg Capullo as the artist on the event it makes imagining the upcoming collection very difficult.
1:01:33-1:05:01: And also in "last week/this week" news, after talking so much about the Bill and Ted movies, Jeff picked up Bill and Ted Are Doomed, written by Evan Dorkin, the original creator on Bill & Ted's earlier comic series and drawn by…Roger Langridge? Dorkin are two great tastes, but do they taste great together?
1:05:01-1:22:41: And to get the final entry into Jeff's Trifecta of Meh, he read the first two issues of Adventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson, a book he had no idea had even been released. We discuss the pulps, casual comics readers, long-gestating projects, and more.
1:22:41-2:09:08: Back to our obsessions from last week! Graeme continued to make his way through the rest of the Alien movies (AvP movies excepted) as well as some amazing stories about the first Aliens omnibus! Come for the stories about "Billie" and "Wilks," stay for Graeme's comparison of Alien: Resurrection to "a Mountain Dew commercial from the same period."
2:09:08-end: Closing comments with bonus impromptu scheduling session! Look for us on Stitcher! Itunes! Instagram! Twitter together and separately: Graeme and Jeff! Tumblr, and on Patreon where a wonderful group of people make this all possible, including Dominic L. Franco, and Empress Audrey, Queen of the Galaxy, to whom we are especially grateful for her continuing support of this podcast. (Also, don't forget about Spotify!)
Next week: Skip week (and thank goodness, sez Jeff). Read Volume 18 of the Complete Judge Dredd Casefiles and Join us in two weeks for Drokk!!
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9 comments on "Wait, What? Ep. 303—Recursive Manic Tear"
David	Sep 14, 2020
Jeff, could you please leave a link in the comments so I can download the episode? Thanks!
Jeff Lester	Sep 14, 2020
Thanks, David, for reminding of that one thing I *knew* I'd forgotten!
David M	Sep 14, 2020
Happy to hear you are both (mostly) safe. Hoping that gets all the way to safe soon.
Ian	Sep 16, 2020
Graeme needs to watch Predator just because it's the Rosetta Stone for early Image comics. The reason why all their characters were muscle-bound covert ops is due to Predator (and probably Commando)
Dan Billings	Sep 17, 2020
Another great episode.
I'm halfway through Season Two of Doom Patrick and it is a great series. Graeme mentioned it just ended strangely and it looks like there are only 9 episodes. Was the ending of the a season affected by the pandemic?
Hope you both continue to be safe.
Matt for Hire	Sep 17, 2020
@Dan Billings: yeah, they had to stop production just before they would've done the season finale. The episode order was for 10 episodes, and they've said that what would've been the season two finale will be the season 3 premiere.
Joe Iglesias	Sep 18, 2020
Ian's comment is incredibly on point— Liefeld did a long, rambling, incredibly listenable podcast interview a couple years back where he described his inspiration for Cable as "He's Arnold Schwarzenegger in Predator and Terminator, at the same time!"
Samm	Sep 19, 2020
Doom Patrol ended the way it ended because they had to cut the season short by an episode.
So the final episode *was* the penultimate episode. It wasn't the way the creative team intended to end the season, but… stuff happens. You know… like Covid?? Maybe you've heard of it? It was pretty widely reported in like, every piece about the season two finale.
Voord 99	Sep 19, 2020
Good Lord, Graeme McMillan's heist-film-but-Alien sounds fabulous, better than the majority of actually-existing Alien films. Someone make that!
And that, incidentally, might be an answer to how you make an Alien film on Earth. The assorted team of criminals break into a Wayland-Yutani lab facility for something else, accidentally release the alien that's being held there for study, have to use their heist skills to escape, and, third act twist, discover what will happen if it gets out into the general population and have to turn around and go back in to use their heist skills to kill it.
Because I think Jeff Lester is right that Alien: Earth can only disappoint. (For what it's worth, of the two stories that he outlines, I think you have to go with the one where the aliens spread like wildfire and the survivors escape from Earth. That can work, as a disaster-movie-but-Alien.)
But if you *don't* ever up the stakes by going to Earth, you are left with the impression of a franchise spinning its wheels (Alien3, Alien: Resurrection) or else you have to go the Prometheus and Alien: Covenant route and start inventing a backstory to explore. And how much do we really care? There's some good stuff in Alien: Covenant, as our hosts discussed, but at the end of the day, who really feels that Alien (the original film, not the franchise) isn't better off with all that being left unaddressed?


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According to kerstinflorian.com, liquid is the most common type of concealer in the market. It works perfectly well on almost all skin types — just save for dry skin. It offers both full and light coverage and can last throughout the day.
It can cover up blemishes, from spots and acne scars all the way to dark circles. Another reason it is fairly popular among beauty enthusiasts is it has the most natural-looking coverage.
This concealer is recommended for hiding the dark circles around the eyes and discoloration of the skin around the nose and mouth. A stick concealer is the best option for people who have dry or sensitive skin.
Its application is pretty straightforward. You just have to trace it on the area you'd like to cover up, and then blend it in until you fully conceal everything. In case you're wondering, it often comes in lipstick-like packaging, only bigger.
As compared with liquid and stick concealers, the cream concealer has a thicker consistency. Beauty experts recommend this to people who have dry and combination skin as it provides complete moisture on the skin.
For this luminizing concealer, it is best to use a brush or applicator to blend it in perfectly. One quick tip for this one to enjoy a longer staying power, you must never forget to set it with a loose powder before application.
Let your concealer work its wonder on your skin by knowing which type you should go for. Take time to understand the options and the proper way of applying this makeup. This alone could improve and do great things on your regular makeup regimen.


Today I received a surprise email informing me that I am selected as a finalist for the Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards 2011 for the Best Parenting Blog. I still could not believe that my new blog of less than one year is being shortlisted for this award. There are actually many good bloggers around who should be in the finalists.
I am thankful and humbled.
Why I start my blog?
One of my goals is to write a book for my only daughter, Dorothy – to document her childhood milestone, the exciting and fun events that happen in her mommy and daddy's lives, our family life, lessons that mommy learn while taking her of her and so on. This blog helps to compile my notes and materials for the book. Through my blog, I would also love to share our parenting experiences – joy and struggles – with other parents who may find courage going through what we had went through and to connect and learn from other like-minded parents.
If you love what I write on my blog, I would really appreciate that you cast your precious vote for me at http://awards.nuffnang.com/2011/votes.
Voting will start on 15 November 2011 till 27 November 2011.


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Anyphaenoides placens est une espèce d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Anyphaenidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce se rencontre au Panama et au Venezuela.

Publication originale
 O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 : Arachnida. Araneida. Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, ,  (texte intégral).

Liens externes

Notes et références

Anyphaenidae
Espèce d'araignées (nom scientifique)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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Mississippi State routs Vanderbilt to send…
Mississippi State routs Vanderbilt to send College World Series finals to Game 3
Mississippi State pitcher Preston Johnson and catcher Logan Tanner celebrate the final out of their 13-2 victory over Vanderbilt in Game 2 of the College World Series championship series on Tuesday night at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
By The Associated Press | |
PUBLISHED: June 29, 2021 at 10:50 p.m. | UPDATED: June 30, 2021 at 12:00 a.m.
By ERIC OLSON The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — Mississippi State's first three wins in the College World Series were one-run games. The Bulldogs' fourth was a blowout, and it was well-timed.
Houston Harding and Preston Johnson combined on a four-hitter and MSU capitalized on struggling Vanderbilt pitching in a 13-2 victory on Tuesday night that forced a deciding third game in the College World Series finals.
The easy win allowed Bulldogs coach Chris Lemonis to hold back rested pitchers, including star reliever Landon Sims, for the winner-take-all Game 3 on Wednesday night.
"We're ecstatic because, one, we're still playing, and, two, we used two arms tonight," Lemonis said. "We have an opportunity to use some different guys tomorrow now because of the score. It was nice after the game. I grabbed Landon, I said, 'Man, it was sure nice not having to pitch you tonight' because I feel like in every win for the last month he has been out there."
The Commodores (49-17) will be going for their second straight national title and third since 2014 after their most lopsided loss in their 29 all-time CWS games.
"Just got to have a short memory," Vandy's CJ Rodriguez said. "I think we need to wash it out as fast as we can and get it done tomorrow."
The Bulldogs (49-18) will be playing for their first championship.
"This game is done, and we're going to remain cool, calm and collected and bring the same energy out tomorrow," MSU's Scotty Dubrule said. "Tomorrow is a new day and we're going to have to face some tough arms."
The start in this one was delayed two hours because of rain, but that didn't dampen the enthusiasm of another pro-MSU crowd that included Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott in a pinstriped "State" baseball jersey and former NFL QB Jay Cutler and basketball coach Jerry Stackhouse representing Vandy.
Like Game 1, when Vanderbilt scored seven first-inning runs on its way to an 8-2 win, this one was over early as Mississippi State broke things open with a four-run third inning.
"Big bounce-back game from our guys, just a resilient group," Lemonis said after MSU's biggest winning margin in Omaha since beating Georgia Southern, 15-1, in 1990. "We've had our back against the wall feels like all year long and they just keep responding."
The Commodores issued a season-high 10 walks, including three in a row by 17-year-old starter Christian Little (3-2) that fueled Mississippi State's big fourth inning.
The Bulldogs turned an error into a run in the first, and the decisive third inning started with shortstop Carter Young fielding Tanner Allen's grounder but unable to get the ball out of his glove. It was scored a hit, but probably should have been an out – and was a sign of things to come.
Little's three straight walks forced in a run and brought on reliever Patrick Reilly. Dubrule's hard comebacker deflected off Reilly's leg and scored two runs, and the Bulldogs got another on a bases-loaded wild pitch.
Mississippi State scored five times in the seventh to push its lead into double digits.
"We haven't played a game like that, but whether it's 13-1 or 2-1 – if you lose 2-1 it might have more of an effect than a 13-1 game," Vandy coach Tim Corbin said, shorting his team a run in his comment. "It's embarrassing."
The Bulldogs finished with 14 hits, with light-hitting shortstop Lane Forsythe leading them with three hits out of the No. 9 spot in the lineup after going 1 for 11 in his first five CWS games.
Johnson (4-0) allowed two hits and struck out seven in five innings of relief of Harding.
Prescott, MSU's two-time All-SEC quarterback in 2014-15, got big cheers during an in-stadium interview when he gushed over a Bulldogs' fan following in Omaha that far exceeds Vandy's in numbers and volume. When an MSU fan caught a foul ball and tossed it up to the section behind him where Prescott was sitting, Prescott signed it and tossed it back.
The all-SEC finals could come down to a pitching matchup between stars Kumar Rocker of Vanderbilt and Will Bednar of Mississippi State.
Rocker, the 2019 CWS Most Outstanding Player, is coming off four days of rest. Bednar, who struck out 15 against Texas in his CWS debut on June 20, would have three days of rest since throwing 97 pitches in the bracket final against the Longhorns.
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Q: Convert SQL Date result I want to convert the result of this query
select lo.Get_Date_proche@ivr_U('898989898') D
from dual

to this format: ddmmyyyy
Right now I get this format: 05/05/2016

A: The below query works for me
select to_char(sysdate,'ddmmyyyy') from dual;

Replace sysdate with your value

A: That's it. It works:
SELECT
  TO_CHAR(
      TO_DATE(lo.Get_Date_proche@ivr_U('898989898'),'DD/MM/YYYY'),
      'DDMMYYYY'
  )
FROM DUAL


Of course you don't really know Andi Land, since these are stolen photos used by African Scammers, but she is popular! If you see her photo on a dating site – guess what? She is being used by a Scammer!
Remember Andi Land's face for the next time you see her!
She's using Charlotte Marie Dorr as her name now.
I have been scammed for thousands of dollars by a woman using Andi Land's photos calling herself Lana Haxis and Lana Haxis Kwarteng. She says that she is in Manilla, Philippines.
Calls herself Erica Moses. From Winterhaven Florida. Currently going to school.
"She" doesn't call herself, it is the scammer that stole her photos that is using that name.


Act of War: High Treason adds new content and plenty of new features to the original game. The multiplayer and single player (both skirmish and campaign) modes have been enhanced, including 5 new multiplayer modes. The expansion pack includes 14 new maps and 33 missions. It also expands the game to naval combat with realistic ship behaviour and 15 all-new warships and adds 9 new units to even more balanced game.


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Thanks for your explanation clubversive.
Yes Club, ghost-nets have become the greatest indiscriminate marine killing machine man has created yet. And we get more than our fair share of them in the Gulf of Carpentaria Oz, floating down from Indo waters as the result of 'drift-netting' practices. These nets can be a mass of hundreds of metres long and weigh many ton. However, years ago, a guy I know set up 'The Ghost Net Project' whilst he was a ranger for EPA in Western Cape York. TGNP gained grants for vessels, equipment and the training of Indigenous rangers to patrol Gulf waters to locate and retrieve the nets to shore where they are burned. Most Gulf communities are now involved with this project and many people are using their ingenuity and artistic flair to produce brilliant artworks that are now featured in exhibitions. The following site does have sad stories and images but please read and browse their 'image' section to appreciate what has been achieved in this great program.
Its disgusting the destruction humans have caused on mother earth. The things we invent not only do harm in the present, but continue to due harm long after. It makes me very sad.
thank you botanic i never knew there was a concerted effort by any country to help.it brings hope.


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Q: react router 4 switch showing two components I'm trying to split my routes into many files, to achieve this I have a central file called routes.
import React from "react";
import { Router, Route, Switch } from "react-router-dom";
import history from "./History";
import StreamRoutes from "./stream/StreamRoutes";

const Routes = props => {
  return (
    <React.Fragment>
      <Router history={history}>
        <Switch>
          <Route path="/" exact component={props =>
hello world
} />
          <StreamRoutes />
        </Switch>
      </Router>
    </React.Fragment>
  );
};

export default Routes;

and then a route file for all the main component like so:
import React from "react";
import { Route } from "react-router-dom";

import StreamCreate from "./components/StreamCreate";
import StreamEdit from "./components/StreamEdit";
import StreamList from "./components/StreamList";
import StreamShow from "./components/StreamShow";

const StreamRoutes = props => {
  return (
    <React.Fragment>
      <Route path="/streams" exact component={StreamList} />
      <Route path="/streams/new" exact component={StreamCreate} />
      <Route path="/streams/:id" exact component={StreamShow} />
      <Route path="/streams/edit/:id" exact component={StreamEdit} />
    </React.Fragment>
  );
};
export default StreamRoutes;

this works except when I try to access "/streams/new" or "/streams/:id", in any of those cases the router show both components at once.
I would like to know how to fix this or a better way to organize my routes would be highly appreciated.

A: It is possible to use a regex like FuzzyTree suggest, but this can get messy in a bigger project. I would suggest replacing React.Fragment in your StreamRoutes with Switch. This way it works like you'd expect.


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Letters about Trump's tweets, Rep. Lewis
People who disagree with Trump not 'enemies'
Yesterday evening before President Trump left the last ball, he stopped to say a few words to those attending. He asked the crowd if he should keep twittering; they roared their approval. He then stated that his "enemies" did not want him to twitter.
I did not vote for him, I do not care for him, but I do not think I am an enemy of the country or the president. President Trump has said he will unite us again, hopefully he will. Calling people who have different views his enemies is not a good start.
I do not agree with many things he intends to do, but at the same time I certainly do not want him to fail. He needs to accept the fact that all presidents have taken heat from the people and the press. He has to understand the press is not there for him, it is there for the people.
Hazel Cunningham
Lewis an American icon
Mr. Johnston, your recent and rather disjointed letter to the editor denigrated Congressman Lewis for offering his opinion that Mr. Trump did not win the presidency legitimately. For that, you labeled Mr. Lewis a "party hack."
While we might have preferred that Mr. Lewis not perpetuate the divisiveness which was the hallmark of Mr. Trump's campaign, your characterization of him as a hack is far off the mark. By every measure Congressman Lewis is nothing less than an American icon.
Larry Wolfe
York Township
Lewis no party hack
To the letter writer who said that Rep. John Lewis is a party hack: do you sir have any idea what kind of man Rep. Lewis is and what he endured in order to fight for the civil rights of all Americans, not just African Americans?
You may not agree with Rep. Lewis' opinion regarding President Trump, but please reserve your accusations of hack for someone like Scott Perry or Reince Priebus. Now there's a couple of party hacks. Spouting their right wing drivel about climate change, anti-gay laws and deporting everybody who doesn't look like them. Pick on someone else and leave Rep. John Lewis alone because he is way out of your league, sir.
If any American deserves the right to question some of the workings of our government, Mr. Lewis has earned that right. Times two.
Now go back to watching Fox News.
Joseph Ambrosio
Springettsbury Township


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Graphic Adventures in Anthropology
This post kicks off a new blog series called Graphic Adventures in Anthropology. Once a week for the next 7 weeks, a guest contributor will write about some aspect of graphic anthropology (and by "graphic" we mean drawing in general, and comics in particular), from visual culture to visual communication, and from ethnographic method to dissemination device, culminating in the announcement of a new series we are launching at the press called ethnoGRAPHIC. Here's the line-up:
Andrew Causey: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method
Stacy Leigh Pigg: Learning Graphic Novels from an Artist's Perspective
Sherine Hamdy & Mona Damluji: Reflecting on Arab Comics: 90 Years of Visual Culture
Coleman Nye: Teaching Comics in a Medical Anthropology & Humanities Class
Gillian Crowther: Fieldwork Cartoons Revisited
Juliet McMullin: Comics in the Community
Nick Sousanis: Unflattening Scholarship with Comics
Anne Brackenbury: ethnoGRAPHIC: A New Series by University of Toronto Press
By Anne Brackenbury
The only comics I ever read growing up were of the Archie variety. Superheroes and weird fantasy characters never appealed to me, nor did the contrived dialogue and simplistic "POWs" and "BANGs" that characterized the action taking place. I was a realist for the most part, and when I ventured into fiction, I wanted characters I could relate to, and people grappling with serious concerns.
When I went to graduate school and worked in an academic bookstore, I only read political/literary theory or literary fiction. We did sell comics—mostly as a way to make abstract theory more accessible, as in the popular For Beginners series (Marx, Lacan, Foucault, etc.)—but I barely looked at them. I wanted my text delivered straight up, not watered down, or worse, served up in a fruity mix to make it more palatable. Maybe I was a little too earnest, or worse, pretentious (that IS what graduate school is about after all), but I think the medium wasn't quite where I needed it to be yet. So I went my way, and comics went theirs.
By the early 90s, comics were transforming, and though I would love to say that it was the publication of Art Spiegelman's Maus that marked the beginning of my rendezvous with comics, it wasn't. Despite the popularity of that book in academic and narrative theory circles, and despite the fact that I sold a lot of copies at the bookstore, I still found myself reluctant to pick it up. It was hip to exalt "low culture," but I was a book person damn it, and comics were not real books in my mind.
It took me another ten years to be ready for comics, and it was Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis that marked my breakthrough. I'm not sure why I picked it up. Maybe it was because comics had a new name—graphic novels—which hinted at something more serious. Or maybe it's because people I respected (i.e. serious book readers!) recommended it. What I encountered blew me away. I was awestruck at the way a serious subject could be made so powerful through the use of comics. Simple, almost childlike, images were used to tell a story about revolution and social change, and yet what I experienced as I read it was a complex set of emotions, as if I had lived through it myself. I laughed, I cried, I sensed the fear and tension hanging in the balance, and I understood the Iranian revolution in a completely different way, less with my head, and more with my senses. It was a quick read, but one that stuck with me for some time, the images etched in my memory.
And so the obsession began. I picked up Maus and finally understood what all the fuss was about. How could non-human characters be made to feel more human than humans themselves? I sought out comics and graphic novels from my favourite publisher and in bookstores across the city, from Yoshihiro Tatsumi's Good-Bye to Chris Ware's Building Stories and Marguerite Abouet's Aya: Life in Yop City, and from Joe Sacco's Palestine to Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Jeff Lemire's Essex County. These graphic novels so compelled me that I wanted to know more about the format itself, so I read Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics and Will Eisner's Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative. Heck, I even enrolled in a comic book bootcamp!
What struck me was the way large issues could be addressed by invoking the everyday, and the way text and image could work to support one another, and often against each other, in a productive way. A serious conversation, for instance, could be made less threatening and more approachable when juxtaposed with a humorous, or more lighthearted, visual. And a horrifying or intense image could be absorbed more effectively when accompanied by text that played it down. It had the opposite effect of romanticizing or aestheticizing the people and places in the story. It also had the dual effect of presenting a straight up story with a running commentary of sorts, only I didn't have to keep shifting to the footnotes below, I just had to learn to read it differently. Research has shown that when people read comics, they often look at the entire page before starting to read it in a traditional linear way. They study the setting, the colours, the style, and the characters before they read even one word. And that's what makes comics different. They tell a story that can unfold panel by panel, but they can also show multiple points of view, a complex world, and past/present/future simultaneously on one page. This "simple" format requires a pretty sophisticated set of decoding skills from readers, moving up and down and across panels to piece together the story in an active form of reading.
More recently, my infatuation with comics seems to have transformed into a long-term commitment. It's not exclusive (I'm still very happy to read straight up fiction and non-fiction, and in fact, I often find reading a novel less taxing than reading comics), but I'm pretty confident in our connection, so much so that I have wanted to introduce comics to my friends, and most especially, my anthropology friends. Yes, I've been coming out as a comics fan in recent years, extolling the virtues of the format and how it might fit really well with ethnography to every anthropologist who will lend me his or her ears. Amazingly, almost everyone I have talked to can see the potential and is excited about the idea. If they were once skeptical of comics, they aren't any longer. They know that anthropologists have been exploring the power of the visual, in particular photography and film, for a long time now. The focus has moved from documentary realism to understanding photography as both a method and a fiction of sorts, which has liberated it to be used in more creative and experimental ways. And comics, it seems, offer an opportunity to do something similar but with a different kind of potential. What does it mean to draw during fieldwork rather than take photographs? How would a visual artist document what he or she saw during fieldwork? What is it about the combination of text and visuals that would allow for less visible elements of fieldwork to be captured? What about re-presenting fieldwork ethically? What kind of imagination do comics encourage and how can they be rendered imaginatively but rigorously? And what pedagogical and communicative advantages do comics offer?
So sharpen your pencils, grab your doodling pads, and let's head out on this Graphic Adventure in Anthropology together.
Tags Alison Bechdel, Andrew Causey, Anne Brackenbury, anthropology, Art Spiegelman, Aya: Life in Yop City, Building Stories, Chris Ware, Coleman Nye, comics, Essex County, ethnoGRAPHIC, ethnography, fieldwork, Fun Home, Good-Bye, Graphic Adventures in Anthropology, graphic novels, Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative, Jeff Lemire, Joe Sacco, Juliet McMullin, Marguerite Abouet, Marjane Satrapi, Maus, Mona Damluji, Nick Sousanis, Palestine, pedagogy, Persepolis, Scott McCloud, Sherine Hamdy, Stacy Leigh Pigg, Understanding Comics, Will Eisner, Yoshihiro Tatsumi


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