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21-Dec-2009 12:54 PM
UK transport nightmare deepens: The winners and losers
Severe snowstorms and the suspension of cross-Channel Eurostar train services has added to the misery of UK travellers this holiday period.
Last week's strike threat at British Airways and the failure of Flyglobespan created considerable disruption and inconvenience for travellers. Rivals, including Virgin Atlantic, easyJet and Ryanair, noted an increase in bookings on both short-haul and long-haul services.
The Eurostar's woes should provide carriers on the UK-France segment, including easyJet (which accounts for 28% of UK-France capacity), Air France-KLM (25%), British Airways (21%) and Ryanair (14%) and others, a substantial short-term boost.
UK to France capacity share: Week commencing 14-Dec-09
Source: Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation & OAG online
This may be reflected in share trading in Europe today. On Friday, easyJet advanced 2.7%, while Air France-KLM was virtually flat and British Airways continued to lose ground, falling 1.9%. Ryanair surged 6.5% as the carrier announced the suspension of negotiations with Boeing over a mid-term order for 200 more B737-800s. See related report: Where to next for Ryanair? Long-haul venture beckons.
Europe selected airlines daily share price movements (% change): 18-Dec-09
Source: Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation & Yahoo! Finance


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KEEL LAYING - A TRADITION WITH A LONG HISTORY
At the beginning of February, a keel laying ceremony was held for the first of a total of four new RoPax ferries at AVIC Welhai Shipyard in northeast China. Stena RoRo is leading the construction of the four ferries ordered by Stena in April 2016 and with delivery planned for 2019 and 2020. Three of the ferries will sail in Stena Line's route network. The keel laying ceremony is the starting signal for the construction phase where the hull and the exterior parts are placed in position.
By tradition, a number of coins are placed under the keel during the ceremony to wish fortune and pros-perity on the seven seas. This time there were four different currencies – Swedish Krona, Chinese Yuan, British pound and Euro.
"It's exciting that we're now entering the next phase. We are now beginning to see that it's a ship and 84 of a total of 305 steel sections are at varying stages of completion. The work is proceeding according to plan and the collaboration between us and the shipyard is both close and good", comments Magnus Olsson, project leader at Stena RoRo, who attended the ceremony.
The new RoPax vessels, which are a further development of Stena Line's successful business model of combining freight and passengers, will be 50 per cent larger than today's standard RoPax ferries. They will be state-of-the-art when it comes to energy efficiency, flexibility and customer service.
"We are also placing heavy emphasis on developing a range of exciting new digital features which will give our customers new experiences. This is part of our digitalization work, which will take us into the future and provide our customers with new and unique additional services and onboard experience", says CEO Niclas Mårtensson.
"Three of the vessels under construction will be deployed in Stena Line's system and the fourth has been chartered to the French shipping company Brittany Ferries. The vessels are designed with a focus on energy efficiency and flexibility and will be very attractive to both Stena Line and other operators in other markets", adds Per Westling, MD, Stena RoRo.
"An important part of the newbuilding project is the mockup, a prototype where examples of the physical environments are built up before implementation begins on board. With the help of the mockup, we can see in detail both appearance and function and any corrections can then be made at an early stage", says Bo Christensen, Stena RoRo's site manager, who will lead the work at the shipyard in Weihai from March.
During the next six months, the hull sections will be joined together and the hull placed in a dock. This will be followed by a year for equipping the vessel and conducting rigorous tests before it is time for her sea trials. Work on the other three ferries is tasking place parallel with the first ferry.
Draft 6.4m
Capacity, car deck 3100 lane metres and 120 cars
Passenger capacity 1000
Cabins 175
TEXT Birgitta Plyhm PHOTO Stena RoRo
Stena Logistics // December 16, 2020
STENA RORO AND STENA LOGISTICS
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing companies to get creative. This autumn, Stena Logistics-owned company NMT International Shipping and Stena RoRo came up with a mutually beneficial solution to put a Stena RoRo vessel to good use on a route from Europe to Africa.
Stena RoRo // October 23, 2020
STENA RORO INCREASES CAPACITY
The sister ships Stena Lagan and Stena Mersey are being rebuilt by Stena RoRo at the Sedef shipyard in Turkey. The method used to increase the capacity of the vessels is extreme. In addition, the technology and interiors are being upgraded to the benefit of the customer, passengers and the environment.
Stena RoRo // September 4, 2020
STENA RORO'S E-FLEXER GALICIA DELIVERED TO BRITTANY FERRIES
The Galicia, the first of three ships in the E-Flexer class ordered by Brittany Ferries was delivered on September 3. The vessel is the third E-Flexer of nine ordered by Stena RoRo from the Chinese shipyard CMI Jinling (Weihai). The Galicia will be chartered by Brittany Ferries on a long-term basis and has been especially adapted to the wishes of the French ferry company.
Stena RoRo // July 9, 2020
STENA RORO'S RECORD-FAST CONVERSION
Conversion of the former ferry Stena Superfast X is currently underway in Pireaus in Greece. The customer is the French shipping company Corsica Linea, which provides service on the Marseille — Corsica — North Africa route. Stena RoRo received the order in December and delivery is expected after a scant five months, as early as mid-June. The conversion includes a general freshening-up and adaptation of the interior, as well as repainting, expansion of the number of cabins and installation of hybrid scrubbers.
Stena RoRo // December 12, 2019
STENA RORO - SEVEN SHIPS IN PRODUCTION
After a very careful selection process, in 2016 Stena RoRo placed the first order for now a total of nine ships in the Stena E-Flexer RoPax class at the Chinese shipyard CMI Jinling Weihai Shipyard in northeast China. All ships are based on the same hull, but have been adapted to different customers' wishes and needs.
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Dries van Noten always follows his own feeling, that makes his collections so real and honest. For ss2013 the Belgian designer mixed everything he loved – mens/womenswear, grunge and spontaneity – in a contemporary collection. He had enough of minimalism and plainness – just at the time nearly every designer is going for minimal elegance. Van Noten took basic pieces and cut them in the plaids and checks of retro street culture, pattern clashing against pattern, sometimes in the same garment. Yet lightness reigned, in both color (muted pastels that held court with earthier tones) and in the constructions of the fabrics.
Like much of the tailoring, the decorativeness was informed by the designer's fascination with couture. Skirts were adorned in front with appliqués of rosettes; a sweater got embroidered sleeves; organza ruffles became a wrap.


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Vatican in Rome
Rome, Center, Italy
Vatican is an independent state, the residence of the Pope. However, tourists are more interested not in its state structure but in its sights, such as the Basilica of St. Peter with its large colonnade and the Vatican museums.
In ancient times Vatican was a swampy area behind the city wall. Under the emperor Caligula the area was drained and his mother Agrippina had a villa and garden built there. Later the emperor Nero decided to construct there a small circus (similar to the Coliseum), where not only games but also executions were conducted.
The apostle Peter was elected the first bishop of Rome in 43 A.D. And in 64 A.D., as a result of a large fire, 11 of 14 quarters of the city were almost completely burnt. The emperor Nero accused the Christians of arson and most of them were executed, including the apostle Peter. In 64 A.D. he was crucified at the circus of Nero and buried at the adjoining cemetery. The grave of the apostle Peter at once became a sacred place for the Christians of Rome. They decided that as soon as they could build a church in this place, its altar should be just above the grave of St. Peter.
In the center of St. Peter`s square was placed an Egyptian obelisk brought to Rome by Emperor Caligula in 37
The Vatican Museum consists of several museums, and every one has valuable collection
The first basilica was erected above the grave of the apostle Peter under the emperor Constantine in 326 A.D., when Christianity became a legal religion of the Roman Empire. The basilica became one of the main sacred things of Christianity. All the Popes were crowned in the basilica, and in 800 A.D. even Charles the Great was declared emperor of the Holy Roman Empire there.
In the period of feudal disunity Rome, as well as large surrounding territories, belonged to the the Papal state. For several centuries the Pope was not only the spiritual head of the Catholics but also the ruler of a large state in the center of Italy.
The Creation of Adam - one of the most famous subjects of the Sistine Chapel
Marble sculpture Laokoon and sons, made in the 1st century by the masters of Rhodes, in the Museum of Pio-Clementino
Pieta sculpture or the Mourning of Christ - one of Michelangelo`s earliest works, which he made at the age of 24
In 19 century the separate principalities of Italy were united into a centralized state. The process of unification was completed in 1870 when Rome was included in the new united Italy and the Papal state ceased its existence. However, the Holy See demanded independence from Italy. And in 1929 Benito Mussolini granted independence to Vatican but its area was only 1.5 km2. The Basilica of St. Peter, as well as several papal palaces, are on the territory of Vatican. Some palaces house the most valuable collections of the Vatican museums.
Facade of the St. Peter Cathedral in Rome
Kivory above the main altar of the Cathedral, where was found the tomb of St. Peter
View on St. Peter Square from the dome of the Cathedral
The frescoes of the Sistine Chapel were created by the great Michelangelo in the 16th century
The famous alcove with a Pine cone Vatican, which called the court of the Pigna
The height of the dome of St. Peter Cathedral is 139 meters - it is the highest dome in the world
Tomb of St. Peter in the underground crypt of St. Peter Basilica in Rome
The chair of St. Peter in apse of St. Peter Cathedral in Rome
Equestrian sculpture of Charles the Great in St. Peter Basilica in Rome
The Baroque ensemble of St. Peter square was formed in the 17th century by architect Bernini
The Pope addresses to Catholics during prayer from window of this The Lateran Palace
The fresco of Michelangelo - the Fall and expulsion from Paradise in the Sistine chapel
The School of Athens - one of the masterpieces of Raphael in Stanza Raphael, Vatican Museum
The Room the fire in the Borgo, painted by Raphael in the Vatican Museum
The picture of the Transfiguration (Raphael, 1518) in the Vatican Pinacoteca
The picture Madonna di Foligno (Raphael, 1511) in the Vatican Pinacoteca
Giant porphyry bowl from the Golden Palace of Nero at the Pio-Clementino Museum in Vatican
Apollo Belvedere - Roman marble copy of 130 years from the bronze original of the work of Leohar (4 BC)
Apartment Borgia painted by artists Pinturicchio and Perugino (teacher of Raphael)
The hall of the Sibyls - the most famous room in the apartment Borgia in the Vatican
In the center of the court of Pinia in 1990 was established composition of The Golden Ball, sculptor Arnoldo Pomodoro
The statue of the baboon God Thoth from the temple of Karnak (1300 BC) to the Gregorian Egyptian Museum
Sarcophagus of Anet found at Deir El-Medina (1196 BC) to the Gregorian Egyptian Museum
Legal documents on clay plates from Mesopotamia (Ur, Northern Iraq, 2100 BC)
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This is the page about Frozen Face-Off. If you were looking for the article about the DVD, then see SpongeBob's Frozen Face-Off.
"Frozen Face-Off" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season eight. In this episode, everyone in Bikini Bottom is participating in a worm-sled race to win one million dollars.
Johnny Elaine and Perch Perkins announces on the news that a sled race is occurring in Bikini Bottom with the prize being one million dollars and that all of Bikini Bottom has entered. Patrick says that he hopes he wins but only has gummy worms that lead his sled. Mr. Krabs, Plankton, Squidward, SpongeBob, and Sandy also prepare for the race. However, Plankton sneaks off to the Krusty Krab just before the race begins and uses a robot as his replacement in the race. Patrick soon catches up to SpongeBob and he agrees to let Patrick come along, much to Gary's dismay. Meanwhile, at the Krusty Krab, Plankton has trouble opening the safe of the Secret Formula.
Back in the race, Sandy's sled crashes and Squidward's worm stops racing due to tea time. Squidward gets angry and goes on foot, only to fall through the ice and freeze. He is soon discovered by SpongeBob and Patrick, who take him along with them. Shortly after, they find Sandy in a pile of snow and they bring her along too. Mr. Krabs' worms become hungry, and they get mad and chase Mr. Krabs. SpongeBob lets Mr. Krabs come along as well. The worms chase SpongeBob and the gang, and Gary has trouble pulling all of them. They are cornered at a dead end and Gary roars like a lion to scare the worms away.
The gang decides to stop there and make a fire. Squidward thaws, just before encountering The Abominable Snow Mollusk who tries to attack the group. Squidward runs away and jumps into a cold body of water which freezes him again. The group (minus Squidward) continue the race and realize that they forgot Squidward soon after. They go after him and save him from the Snow Mollusk with the help of Patrick's last gummy worm. They continue on and Sandy realizes that Mr. Krabs has betrayed the group and gone off on his own so that he could win the prize himself, but got stung by a jellyfish that went into his mouth in the process.
Patrick then points out that he "saw something shiny" and SpongeBob notices that it is Karen. They also discover robot Plankton who is buried in the snow and Karen explains that the whole race was a plot for him to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula from the Krusty Krab undetected. SpongeBob and the group go southwest to find Mr. Krabs. Gary is unable to go any further.
Back at the Krusty Krab, the real Plankton fails to break open the Secret Formula safe yet again. Frustrated, Plankton proceeds to rip an "atom" in half which causes a nuclear explosion, destroying the Krusty Krab and opening the safe. Meanwhile, SpongeBob pulls the sled until they find a frozen Mr, Krabs, whom they inform about what Plankton is doing. All of them, except Sandy, freeze. Sandy saves their lives by starting a fire with parts from the sled. Sandy figures out how to use the members of the group as a substitute sled. They return to Bikini Bottom to see that the Krusty Krab has been destroyed and Plankton has stolen the formula. However, he cannot get the bottle open. The group finds Plankton trying to open it. An angered Karen zaps Plankton. When Plankton expresses his frustration at not being able to open the bottle, Patrick opens the bottle, allowing Plankton to finally take the formula out.
Plankton then pretends to surrender and uses a pen to fly away out of the Chum Bucket. The group chases Plankton into a net trap that Plankton trapped them in. However, the Snow Mollusk returns, frees the group, and eats Patrick's Jelly Beans, then hugs the little pink sea star. Plankton escapes but the Snow Mollusk mistakes him for a jelly bean and eats him dropping the secret formula in the process, returning the formula to Mr. Krabs with Karen showing no sympathy for Plankton. The episode ends as Plankton waits to be digested.
The production name for this episode was "The Great Sleigh Race," as seen on some of the original character storyboards on Facebook. To take a look, click here. It may have been possible that they changed the name because it sounded too similar to "The Great Snail Race."
‣ Cartoon Sting 1 - "Whoa, whoa, whoa! You can't cut in line! We've been waiting for a Krabby Patty for three stinking days!"
This episode is available on the SpongeBob's Frozen Face-Off and Complete Eighth Season.
As of January 21, 2019, The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) gives this episode a rating of 7.7/10 based on 167 ratings by users. TV.com users give this episode a rating of 8.7/10 based on 92 votes.
After "Help Wanted," "Tea at the Treedome," The Camping Episode," "Idiot Box," "Perfect Chemistry," and "Christmas Who?"
After the flashbacks in "Friend or Foe" and "Pull Up a Barrel," the young Mr. Krabs clip in the "Krusty Krab Training Video," the story Mr. Krabs told SpongeBob in "My Pretty Seahorse," Mr. Krabs' Naval days (mentioned in "Shell of a Man"), the first flashback in "Grandpappy the Pirate"
Before the second flashback in "Grandpappy the Pirate" and the clip of Mr. Krabs making improvements to the Krusty Krab in the "Krusty Krab Training Video"
To promote the premiere of this episode, the Nickelodeon website featured poems from Patchy that gave clues about the abominable snow mollusk. They were advertised in on-air commercials, and viewers could visit Nick.com to guess what Patchy's clues meant.
The Frozen Tundra reappears in the Nick.com point-and-click games SpongeBob's Big Adventures and SpongeBob's Next Big Adventures.
This is the first half hour special of season 8.
This marks the 300th episode segment of the series.
The title card (and most of the episode) is winter-themed. However, this episode premiered in mid-summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
There are 18 snowflakes on the title card.
The original title of the episode was "The Great Sleigh Race."
The title card background for this episode is similar to that of "Survival of the Idiots."
Although this episode premiered in 2011, it was made in 2010 according to the credits.
Squidward's outfit resembles those worn in Russia during winter.
SpongeBob mentions the "Campfire Song Song" and Squidward reacts annoyed again. This breaks the fourth wall, as SpongeBob references a previous episode.
This episode was promoted as "SpongeBob's Frozen Face-Off." The DVD cover still has this title.
When this episode was first advertised, the original plot was that Bikini Bottom became the coldest place on Earth, and SpongeBob and the gang would race for survival.
This is the second episode that had a plot change occur between airing and advertisements, the first being "Truth or Square."
This is the second episode where Gary roars like a lion, the first being in "Your Shoe's Untied" to talk to SpongeBob. This time he roars like a lion to frighten off vicious worms.
This is the second appearance of claymation in the series, with the first being the SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song for "Truth or Square."
Coincidentally, the next episode to feature claymation, "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!", is also a 22-minute episode.
This is the third episode where an Atomic Bomb explosion is shown. The first is "Dying for Pie" and the second is "The Krusty Plate." The next episodes to show a live Atomic Bomb explosion are "Ghoul Fools," and "Teacher's Pests."
Alongside, it also reuses the explosion from "Dying for Pie" and "The Krusty Plate." However, this time the explosion only destroys the Krusty Krab instead of the entire Bikini Bottom.
The fighter jet that Plankton flies resembles the real life Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon. The F-16 was first manufactured by General Dynamics, the same company that created the F-111, and later by Lockheed Martin. Today, the F-16 is used by the US Air Force and its export customers such as Israel.
Plankton couldn't open the Krabby Patty secret formula bottle because he couldn't get the cork off with his hands. However, in "Plankton's Army" and "Bucket Sweet Bucket," he is shown getting the cork off by using a corkscrew.
In Indonesia, "One Frozen Wasteland Later" time card was changed to "Satu Menit Kemudian" (One Minute Later).
It is unknown where the finish line was, or if there even was a finish line to begin with.
This episode most likely takes after "Perfect Chemistry" as Karen and Sandy met in that episode.
This episode premiered in Canada four years after "The Krusty Sponge" and "Squid Wood" premiered.
This episode takes place after "Christmas Who?" as Mr. Krabs mentions Santa Claus.
When Plankton rips an atom, he is ripping off protons and neutrons from the atom. Such acts can cause an atomic explosion to occur, as shown in the episode.
The plot of Plankton keeping everyone busy in a race, so he can easily get the Krabby Patty secret formula, is similar to that of Baytona 500.
Pearl is the only major character to not appear in the episode.
One of the fish in line for the Chum Bucket yell at Mr. Krabs, Sandy, Karen, SpongeBob, Gary, Squidward and Patrick when they ambush Plankton: "We've been waiting for Krabby Patties for three stinking days!" - this is a reference to the Orcs in "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers."
The Abominable Snow Mollusk's name is a reference to a Yeti, which is commonly referred to as the "Abominable Snowman."
The Abominable Snow Mollusk's design, along with it attacking Mr. Krabs' ship, is a reference to the mythical Kraken, a creature that was said to devour ships. A Kraken appears in "Grandpappy the Pirate."
Fred appears as a cameraman on television, and is then shown sleeping in his house.
Realistically, the atomic explosion would have disintegrated Plankton and irradiated the surrounding waters. However, this discrepancy could be chalked up to SpongeBob's cartoonish logic.
When SpongeBob says "She loves your jellybeans, Patrick!," Sandy's boots are white instead of gray.
When the parachute falls onto Plankton, his mouth is missing for a split second.
When Squidward is falling off the cliff, he has a displeased expression on his face. However, after everyone (including Squidward) hits the ground, his expression changes.
Everyone's clothes inexplicably change right before the campfire scene.
Squidward falling into cold water and being frozen solid.


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Condolences on the Passing of Prof. Charles Mercieca
OBITUARIES, 18 Jul 2022
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service
TRANSCEND Member and Founder of the Association of Educators for World Peace-IAEWP
Prof. Charles Mercieca
I am extremely shocked to hear the news about the death of Prof. Charles Mercieca on 10 July 2022.
The great world renowned initiator of Peace through Education established the IAEWP, which is based on three big Zeros: Zero-Politics, Zero-Bureaucracy, Zero-Budget. Its genuine democratic Constitution can be the best role model for all the NGOs of the world. I have been associated with this peace organization for more than five decades, since 1970, holding different positions, viz. National Chancellor for India, Deputy-Secretary-General, Secretary-General, Executive Vice President and President (for four terms).
I met Prof. Mercieca personally on several occasions at international conferences in different countries, including 1978-79 in India–when I organized Second World Congress of IAEWP; 1997 in Turkey for attending International Eurasian Congress of IAEWP; 1998 and 1999 in Korea for attending International Peace conferences, where once his wife Sherry Mercieca was also with us, and in the same year in different months in Italy and Spain for delivering guest speeches in international peace conferences, and our latest meeting was in 2016 in Riverside, California, at the residence of my son Dr. Maneeshi Prasad, where his daughter Ms Juliette Mercieca also joined with us.
Prof. Charles Mercieca had been instrumental in organizing World Congresses, Continental Conferences and National Conventions in different parts of the world for peace through education. He travelled in more than 100 countries at the service of peace.
He founded the Peace Progress Journal (published by the President of IAEWP), Diplomacy Journal (published from South Korea), and an occasional IAEWP Newsletter (which he himself used to publish).
His name will certainly be recognized and recorded in the history of Peace through Education. He will always be known and remembered as Messiah of Peace, and one of the pioneers of peace studies, peace activities and peace education.
I deeply with my heart pray to the almighty God to grant him peace to his immortal soul, and give courage to the far, near and dear family members, and to those who have very much concern to him to bear the irreparable loss.
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad, Former President, Executive Vice President & Secretary-General of the International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP); associate professor of education emeritus, the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea. Founder and editor-in-chief of Peace Education: An International Journal. dr_suryanathprasad@yahoo.co.in
Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.:
– Former President, International Association of Educators for World Peace, Dedicated to United Nations Goals of Peace Education, Environmental Protection, Human Rights & Disarmament.
– Ex-Professor Emeritus, Alabama A&M University.
– Ex-Hon President & Professor, SBS Swiss Business School, Zurich.
– Former Member, TRANSCEND-A Network for Peace, Development and Environment
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This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 18 Jul 2022.
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One Response to "Condolences on the Passing of Prof. Charles Mercieca"
Mitchell l Gold says:
21 Jul 2022 at 15:22
I join Dr Prasaud in offering condolences on the passing of Dr. CHARLES Mercieca. I worked with the IAEWP for 20 years supporting numerous peace initatives of the organization. I do not recommend the three zero philosophy of the organization as it unfortunately serves dictatorships and not democracy. Many secrets die with the passing of Dr Mercieca who will be missed by many. I am thankful that I met Dr Prasad and many other world peacemakers through the IAEWP. Playing various roles in the organization over the years.
One can only wonder how our work may have been more productive with a different structural philosophy.
May peace prevail on Earth.
Mitchell Gold h9bgr9
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Joanna Stokinger '19 thought that she was done with school 12 years ago. It had taken her a long time to get her undergrad degree because she took a break to raise her family. Joanna never thought she'd be graduating from a one-year master's program this month, but she's so inspired from what she's learned and the people she's met while here at Thomas College.
"I thought because I have a good job that that was it for me," said Joanna. "I never really considered that I was capable of getting to this level. I learned through this process how much I can accomplish."
Joanna works as a Victim Advocate with the Attorney General's Office in the Criminal Division, Homicide Unit, working with surviving family members of homicide victims. She provides support to the families beginning right after the incident, all the way through trial, appeal, etc., and supports the prosecutor.
She says this new degree won't necessarily move her up in this job but will open opportunities for her to teach at the college level.
Gaining her master's at Thomas College was a lot of work while maintaining a full-time job and home life, but Joanna gained some great influencers while she was here.
"Professor Steve Dyer has influenced me to expand my career and to explore teaching and branch out. His work with a human trafficking nonprofit is inspiring. He has helped me realize that I have a valuable skill set in the CJ world," she said. "Professor Jeremy Pare has also influenced me; he has done so many different things throughout his career, and that has inspired me to not let myself be pigeonholed into one area – because that's where I happen to be right at the moment."
Joanna will graduate with her Master's in Criminology degree on May 11.
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Is Barack Obama a Socialist?
by Berthold Gambrel	on March 10, 2010 February 11, 2012
"If we allow that Socialism (in the ethical, not the economic, sense) is that world-feeling which seeks to carry out its own views on behalf of all, then we are all without exception, willingly or no, wittingly or no, Socialists…. All world-improvers are Socialists."–Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West.
It is common among President Obama's critics to say that he is a Socialist. The evidence for this claim rests upon his administration's expansion of government spending, as well as Obama's infamous line to the so-called "Joe the Plumber" that he would like to "spread the wealth around." This, combined with the standard Democratic party platform of welfare and general reliance on the Federal government, forms the basis for their case.
And, in the very broadest sense, they're right. Obama's philosophy seems to me to be, at its least redistributionist, one of Utilitarianism, which in my opinion is inevitably Socialistic in practice if not in theory. To say otherwise requires a narrow definition of Socialism. Nor does the fact that his critics themselves have in mind a particular brand of Socialism that may not in fact be Obama's refute their basic claim.
Now, it is true that most of the people charging this do not understand the definition under which Obama can most certainly be described as a Socialist. If they did, the charge would lose much of its sting. Indeed, much of the cries of "Socialism" seem to simultaneously suggest Obama is a Marxist or, more broadly, a Communist. But these are not the same as Socialism, and it is inaccurate to describe Obama's policies as such.
Among Obama's supporters, it is common to point out that expansions of the Federal government also occurred under George W.Bush, and that there were no outcries of Socialism then. This, they say, proves the case that the accusations of Socialism are in fact simply attempts to scare people. In my view, it actually shows a truth that neither side would likely care to admit: that Bush was also a socialist, though of a different flavor than Obama.
The easiest way to describe the difference between each man's socialism is to say that Obama's is an international Socialism, whereas Bush's was National Socialism. Regrettably, describing it thus will inevitably lead to associations with the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party), often abbreviated as "Nazi". Understand that I have absolutely no intention of describing Bush (or Obama) as a Nazi. Their brands of socialism are nothing like Nazism. A better term might be "American-exceptionalist Socialism".
Bush's socialism was also closely intertwined with his professed Christian faith. Much of the government's power under Bush was focused on carrying out tasks that were associated with the Christian right. And these policies are as Socialist as any others which seek to use government power to impose a philosophy on the people of a country.
Likewise, it must also be said that while the redistribution policies may not have increased much under Bush, they did not cease altogether. Likewise, the tax-cuts he implemented notwithstanding, Bush did not fundamentally change the socialistic nature of the U.S. government, and, in his own way, enhanced it.
Finally, Bush initiated the use of military force in an effort that is, all but technically, a war. War is a fundamentally Socialist undertaking. For a successful war effort to be made, the power of the State must be increased. That Bush and his Administration appears to have been unwilling to admit this fact does not disprove it. Furthermore, Bush's attempt at waging a "capitalistic" war through the use of private security contractors and the effort to avoid actually paying for it proves the Socialistic nature of War by its very failure. And, in what is shaping up to be the defining issue of the administration, it expanded the power of the government to encroach on what were hitherto considered rights of private citizens in the interests of defending National Security. (The "greater good" that is at the core of all Socialist thought.)
The true Capitalism, of, say, Ayn Rand, is a philosophy which tells its adherents to enrich themselves through production of goods and trade. This is a philosophy to which war is indeed alien. A successful war is waged only by making the Individual sacrifice for the sake of the Team. Similarly, no True Capitalist would engage in "faith-based initiatives" and foreign aid, as Bush did.
Hence, Bush's brand of Socialism differed from Obama's in that (1) It placed more emphasis on the use of governmental power for the purposes of advancing the religious beliefs prevalent in the administration and (2) it encouraged the United States to act unilaterally in advancing its interests.
Nor was Bush's Socialism a fundamental shift in the American philosophy of government. The American government has been, at least since FDR, a socialist one. So too have been all subsequent Presidents, except perhaps Ronald Reagan. And even if Reagan was indeed a Capitalist, he did not change the nature of the government.
Now, it is true that, generally speaking, Republicans are less like stereotypical Socialists then Democrats. The Republicans obviously prefer to cut taxes, and profess to believe in smaller government, less government intervention in matters of business. On the surface, at least, it would seem that they are right to claim they are not economically socialist like the Democrats.
Yet, there are still divides in the party, even in the matter of business. Many Republicans support the criminalization of drugs such as Marijuana. This not a pro-business move. Indeed, it means the use of tax dollars to suppress a substance that people take for pleasure. One can imagine the outcry if Democrats proposed similar measures for, say, soda or alcoholic beverages. The libertarian wing of the party may object; but the fact remains that many Republicans support this anti-capitalistic behavior.
Thus, while it is justifiable to claim that Obama is a socialist, it is nonetheless very remiss to pretend that his philosophy is a "new" or "alien" one to the way America has for some time behaved. He may be more of an internationalist than has been previously seen, but this itself is an unremarkable development. The trend of globalization to some extent necessitates that existing socialistic codes evolve to account for this.
In closing, I must note that government inherently attracts Socialists to it, and the power granted to those in government must, I think, encourage the Socialistic tendencies in all people. Individualists do not seek office. "All world-improvers are Socialists" wrote Spengler. I have always interpreted this comment to mean not that all who actually do improve the world are socialists, but rather that all who believe themselves to know what is best for all people are socialists. And it is just such people, whether from the Republican party or the Democratic party, who seek office.
Oswald Spengler
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2022 Advertising and Marketing Predictions
by Kurt Anagnostopoulos
Welcome to a new, adventurous year of advertising and marketing. The traditional tech giants are going to continue to fight each other for dominance – while TikTok will tap into the burgeoning creator economy to challenge them all for a slice of the advertising pie. Retailers everywhere are creating ad networks, but Amazon and Walmart have already established strong leadership early on. For the most part, businesses will be spending more – more on TikTok, more on Amazon, more on Google, and probably more on Apple's fledgling ad business. But will they spend more on Meta? Read on for our insights into the year ahead.
Retailer Media Networks Proliferate – and Meta Loses Ground
One of the big stories of 2021 was the proliferation of media businesses operated by retailers such as Amazon, Macy's, Target, and Walmart. In 2022, we'll see more of them. Retailers are under great pressure to squeeze more margin out of their core businesses as the industry endures uncertainty. The most well established networks – Amazon and Walmart – are thriving because they tap into the data they collect about their customers (first-party data) to sell targeted advertising on their sites. In 2022, more retailers will use first-party data to help businesses create more targeted ads off-site, too, as an antidote to Apple's privacy controls. In addition, non-retailers with large troves of first-party data, such as TikTok, will expand the same way.
I also believe Meta's ongoing push into immersive reality will lose momentum. Meta has made an even bigger push into immersive reality (e.g., virtual reality and augmented reality) as part of its attempt to become the builder of the metaverse. Meta also intends for immersive reality to help the company maintain a dominant hold on social media and to squeeze upstarts such as Roblox out of the market. But the horse is already out of the barn: there are just too many players such as Roblox and Snapchat developing immersive reality applications for Meta to play copycat and use its size as an an advantage. And Meta has faced so much public blowback over its size and reach that squeezing out smaller players makes Meta more of a target for anti-trust regulation. Meta will lose ground, and gaming platforms such as Roblox will ascend in power.
— Tim Colucci, vice president, digital marketing
TikTok Dominates
TikTok is the world's most visited site in the Internet in 2021, toppling Google, according to Cloudfare. TikTok will become the leader in paid social. Videos and fast-breaking cultural trends are becoming more prominent factors across all social media marketing, and TikTok has mastered both. Oh, and TikTok has another big trump card to play: the site is a magnet for Gen Z and Millennials, who together comprise about 42 percent of the U.S. population. As a recent New York Times profile noted, advertisers "are present like never before, their authentic-seeming advertisements dropped in between dances, confessionals, comedy routines and makeovers." But TikTok is just beginning to monetize all that interest from advertisers. TikTok will follow the example set by Amazon Advertising and roll out more ad units that capitalize on the customer data the company is collecting. And look to TikTok to become a social commerce giant. If you thought 2021 was the year of TikTok, you ain't seen nothing yet.
— Bella Schneider, digital marketing manager
The Creator Economy Gets Real
The creator economy refers to a class of businesses comprising millions of independent content creators and influencers. We are reading more about them partly because apps such as TikTok have given them more power and influence. The creator economy will become even more powerful. That's because collaboration networks are proliferating. These networks give creators an all-in-one platform to create communities and build influence. In addition, gaming sites such as Roblox and Twitch offer creators opportunities to monetize their work with potential partnerships with brands, and crypto currency sites such as Rally.io make it possible for creators to mint their own currency. The big social networks such as Meta are responding by making themselves more attractive to creators. More businesses will tap into niche networks to partner with emerging creators who are lesser-known but possess tremendous street cred. Big-name partnerships with stars will still thrive, but the social media icons will need to make room for the new kids in town.
— Mark Smith, co-founder
Tech Titans Roar
We hear a lot about the big technology firms facing increased scrutiny from Congress and legislators around the world. But to me the more intriguing story is how the tech titans keep trying to outmuscle each other for advertising revenue, an example being Apple enacting privacy controls to hurt Facebook's ad business. 2022 will ratchet up the fight:
Apple will start leveraging and monetizing the data they are collecting (and not allowing others to collect) in the form of some type of advertising platform. This is the culmination of Apple's stricter privacy controls.
Google will remove more visibility and targeting options in the name of advances in machine learning and automation, thus protecting its core ad business by taking more control of it.
An increasing number of platforms will emerge that use first-party data to target and track and savvy advertisers will take advantage of this and diversify their advertising spend
Amazon will grow with even more ad units for Amazon Advertising and marketing offerings such as livestreamed commerce for businesses of all size, especially smaller ones. Google and Meta will lose market share.
Unfortunately, we can count on CPCs to rise across all platforms as they attract more businesses competing for ad inventory and keywords. It's going to be a more expensive 2022, but also a more interesting one with more ad units proliferating.
— Kurt Anagnostopoulos, co-founder
Google Ads Become More Powerful
Given the evolution of keyword matching (now AI-powered to serve ads based on the meaning of a search query), and the simplification of the ad product offerings (as Google deprecating Expanded Text Ads next summer), we will see Google Ads become leaner but more powerful. Advertisers will be forced to rely more and more on Google's algorithm to drive results – all this, at the expense of reduced control advertisers have over campaign settings (ad content, keyword matching, targeting choices, etc.). I believe the biggest changes will continue to happen on Google's back end as it seeks to make the algorithm (automated bidding strategies used in ad campaigns) smarter. Thus, we will see increased focus on cookie-less conversion tracking and an expansion of first-party data collection capabilities in Google Ads (i.e., scaling up enhanced conversions).
— Héctor Ariza, digital marketing and analytics manager
Social Media Ad Dollars Get Redistributed
Lush Cosmetics recently said it is quitting Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok over concerns that those platforms have a negative impact on teens' mental health. (The company will remain active on LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, and YouTube.) Lush said it will happily lose $13 million in sales because of the digital detox. It remains to be seen whether Lush will reactivate the accounts it quit (Lush quit some social sites in 2019 before returning), and of course a big question is whether more businesses will take such a drastic approach. I don't think we'll see more businesses take the Lush approach – social media is just too important – but they will shift some of their ad dollars away from Facebook and Instagram. In the past, businesses have remained loyal to Facebook (now known as Meta) because the site is critical to their advertising and marketing strategies. But the whistleblowing activities of ex-Meta employee Frances Haugen have raised the stakes. She asserted that Meta has kept internal research secret for two years that suggests its Instagram app makes body image issues worse for teenage girls. Businesses will monitor what their customers, investors, and employees say about Meta especially in this era of purpose-driven branding. Some will shift their advertising to Snapchat and TikTok while Meta takes the heat for brand safety issues. But this shift may be temporary. Meta will probably mollify brands with some updates to its products to create more brand safety, as it is already doing with its news feed to address concerns over lack of user control over their news feeds. In addition, Meta faces the ongoing threat of regulatory oversight. More accountability will come to Meta in 2022.
— Beth Bauch, director, digital marketing
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Sadness es un videojuego de terror cancelado para Wii que estaba siendo desarrollado por la compañía polaca Nibris. De acuerdo con Piort Orlovosky líder de Nibris, "El guion tendría asociación con la narcolepsia, nictofobia y la esquizofrenia paranoide. El guion sorprendería." De acuerdo con un comunicado de prensa de Nibris, la acción en Sadness se situaba antes de la Primera Guerra Mundial en un país eslavo.
Según sus desarrolladores este juego era sólo para jugadores adultos y que tuvieran los nervios de acero.

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Ubicado en la época previa a la primera guerra mundial en Europa Oriental, Sadness sigue la historia de María, una mujer que tiene que proteger a su hijo Alexander de narcolepsia después de que su tren se descarrilara en medio del campo. Sus aventuras siguientes estaban basadas en leyendas eslavas, y esto se volvía cada vez más raro cuando Alexander comenzaba a actuar de manera extraña.

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De acuerdo a una entrevista de la web IGN, Sadness tiene la intención de asustar por la atmósfera y no por la sed de sangre o la violencia. Se sabe que gracias a las funciones del revolucionario mando de Wii en el juego se le podrá cortar la garganta a los enemigos o lanzar una soga sobre la pared con movimientos similares a la vida real. También fue anunciado que el juego tendrá una forma muy particular de salvar el progreso. Esto ocurrirá automáticamente, en momentos desconocidos para los jugadores así se lograra que la sensación del jugador no se aleje de la realidad. También se sabe que el juego no presentara visualizaciones en pantallas como vida, municiones entre otras cosas que estamos acostumbrados a observar en un videojuego común, así aumentaran la inmersión del jugador en el juego sin cosas artificiales como las barras de vida.

Estilo visual

Visualmente el juego es de horror gótico estilizado en blanco y negro. El 10 de abril de 2006 Nibris liberó un tráiler de Sadness, un empleado anónimo de esta compañía comentó que sadness llegaría a finales del 2008 o principios de 2009.

Información

El siguiente correo electrónico fue enviado por Nibris en Halloween, 2007.

Hola, Hoy es Halloween y queremos desearles un buen día y noche :) También quisiéramos hacerles saber que sus e-mails son muy importantes para nosotros pero no tenemos tiempo para responderlos todos. Nibris sigue vivo y bien. Desde agosto Nibris es representado exclusivamente por FOG Studios, Inc, (www.fogstudios.com), la agencia líder para representación interactiva desde 1979.
Aún seguimos trabajando en nuestros proyectos (Sadness - Wii- 2009, Double Bloob Q2 2008 y ROTR - DS Q3, 2008) se les será anunciado su lanzamiento en cierto tiempo. Cambiaremos nuestro sitio web pronto y entonces verán noticias (incluyendo Sadness) acerca de nuestros juegos. Una vez más ¡gracias por su apoyo! about our games.
Nibris team NIBRIS SP. Z O.O. (LTD.)UL. SZLAK 2831-153 CRACOWPOLANDNIP: 676-233-15-95. Nibris es representado exclusivamente por FOG Studios, Inc, (www.fogstudios.com), la agencia líder para representación interactiva desde 1979.

El 10 de febrero de 2008 Nibiris respondió al correo electrónico de fanes con la siguiente respuesta:

Gracias por tu correo electrónico
La página de Nibris se actualizará en abril de este año
Sadness será lanzado en 2009
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'American Horror Story: Apocalypse' Is the Craziest, Best Installment Since 'Coven'
Ryan Murphy's vision of the end of the world is harrowing with just the right amount of cheekiness to woo back skeptical 'AHS' viewers after some uneven seasons. Warning: SPOILERS!
Kevin Fallon
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Updated Sep. 13, 2018 4:04AM ET / Published Sep. 13, 2018 1:32AM ET
It's the end of the world as we know it, and it's a hoot. At least it is through the prism of Ryan Murphy's mind—a harrowing hoot, really, which is what we've come to crave from a season of American Horror Story.
Wednesday night's premiere of American Horror Story: Apocalypse marked a welcome return to camp for the long-running FX franchise. Murphy apparently hates that word, which is fair. It's become lazy shorthand that's siphoned meaning from the descriptor and minimized the scale and ambition of his work, not to mention dismissed its quality in homophobic fashion. Recent seasons of AHS have been more baroque and stylized than they are truly campy.
But when the opening to your show has Leslie Grossman, playing a wealthy aspiring Instagram influencer named Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt, spitting "This tastes like turtle shit!" at an assistant who gave her a green juice right before a ballistic missile siren sounds and the entire world is demolished... pitch a tent because you've arrived at camp.
Much of the first hour of Apocalypse reminded of Coven, which for most (at least me) is the standout season of Horror Story. It thrilled and was rich with mythology and estrogen-charged, sinister creepiness, all lacerated with a sarcasm and cheekiness—culminating in an endlessly quotable, meme'd, and yaaas'd embrace of camp.
It's no accident that the Apocalypse premiere evoked so much of the vibe of Coven. This is the long-awaited crossover season between the first American Horror Story season, Murder House, and Coven, which is ostensibly exciting news for those who have actually managed to finish a season of American Horror Story.
That's the bitchy tea about this series: Each season starts phenomenally—a concept so high you can see it from space and a vision so meticulous you want to lavish in its spooky, headiness—and then goes off the rails faster than Neil Patrick Harris can fuck a circus freak with two Sarah Paulson heads. The mythology becomes convoluted and over-complicated, the dialogue wilder and weirder, and the narrative unfolds as if it's being made up as it goes.
That's what makes this crossover season especially intriguing: It suggests that there is, indeed, a roadmap.
The episode starts with the end of the world. We meet Coco, her assistant, Mallory (Billie Lourd), and her hairdresser Mr. Gallant (Evan Peters) at a chic salon in Los Angeles when the news hits that World War III is happening. The missiles are already demolishing cities around the globe.
But Coco's father, who has an ungodly amount of wealth, has a contingency plan. He bought four $100 million seats on a private plane that would take the family to a secret safe house. Since he and the rest of Coco's family are trapped in Hong Kong and won't make the flight, Coco takes it with Mallory, Gallant, and his grandmother, Evie Gallant, played by JOAN COLLINS.
Meanwhile we learn that some scary organization has flagged a teenage boy and teenage girl, Timothy Campbell (Kyle Allen) and Emily (Ashley Santos), for their perfect genetic makeup, and dramatically whisked them away from their doomed families to the fallout shelters, presumably to help jumpstart a new human race. Neither one had any idea about this; Emily's DNA was in a database because she was in jail, while Timothy had done one of those online ancestry tests. (Watch 23andMe sales spike now from doomsday preppers trying to survive the end times.)
Two weeks later, nuclear winter has set in, and Timothy and Emily are taken to what's called Outpost 3, which is run by Ms. Wilhemina Venable (Sarah Paulson, in the first of at least three roles she'll play this season) and her minion, Kathy Bates's Miriam Mead. The rules of the Outpost are laid out (it speaks to what we've come to expect from this series that "no copulating" seemed the most disturbing) and, once the young, genetically-perfect hostages are united with the rich escapees, punishments are malevolently doled out. (Neither murder nor cannibalism are off the table.)
The sense of dread in these scenes is a tonal whiplash from the riotous pandemonium of the opening act, and appealingly so.
We watch a show called American Horror Story because we want darkness, to feel unsettled. While still surreal and dripping with outlandish style—we've yet to mention the horse-drawn arrival of the Antichrist through a nuclear haze—this is where the season, at least conceptually, capitalizes on our visceral anxieties. Surveying the gross injustice, be it through class entitlement or government force, that unites the people in Outpost 3, you get shades of the same palpitating stress you might from watching The Handmaid's Tale.
It's a canny concept for a franchise that has evolved its take on genre to incorporate political and cultural commentary, especially with its recent Roanoke and Cult seasons. You'd be a fool not to see the resonance here. Murphy is trading, with his signature blend of whimsy and barbed truth-telling, on our greatest prevailing fear, a fear all the more consuming because of its root in rationality. We watch what's happening around us, and we're certain the world is going to end.
It's a fear at once ludicrous and overwhelming in its possibility, and those opposing forces seem to inspire the tone of at least the first episode of the series.
Vignettes of people reacting to the world's end carried more emotional heft than Horror Story is known for, and the depravity that follows doomsday is, as depicted here, suitably chilling. Yet at the same time, we're watching Leslie Grossman shriek hilariously entitled freakouts and Joan Collins purr sassy one-liners while a Ryan Murphy-approved troupe of impeccably bone-structured twinks preen in fabulous clothes (and occasionally without!). It's fun!
That marriage of the grim and the grinning comes most majestically at the end of the hour, when Cody Fern's Michael Langdon was introduced, with a proper, "Hail, Satan," from Bates's Miriam as the familiar music from Murder House played.
A CliffsNotes explainer to keep this from spiraling into an American Horror Story Wiki: Michael Langdon is the Antichrist. He is the surviving son of Tate Langdon, Evan Peters' evil spirit from Murder House who impregnated Connie Britton's character. During that season, a medium warned that "a child born of human and spirit will usher in the end of times." End of times: Meet Michael Langdon!
And this is just the tip of the mushroom cloud, folks.
We haven't even seen how Emma Roberts's Coven character Madison Montgomery—Roberts is billed as a series lead in the opening credits—and the confirmed returning coven of witches factor into the plot, what to expect from a Murder House-themed episode that brings back Britton, Dylan McDermott, and Jessica Lange, or what, really, Ms. Venable and Miriam's endgame is yet.
But this is looking like an American Horror Story season we might actually follow to its end of days.
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Marine engineer denied 40 jobs because of something his parents did
A marine engineer who excelled in college has watched his friends all get lucrative jobs in similar fields, but for one reason, this man cannot get hired anywhere he applies. He claims that people are literally "scared" to hire him.
The reason? His name is Saddam Hussain, nearly identical to the Saddam Hussein who has been executed. Not sure the parents are happy with the name they picked after how Saddam Hussein turned out, but now the man is stuck with the name unless he changes it.
Even though he doesn't look like the Saddam who was executed by hanging on December 30, 2006, the man still cannot find a company who will hire him. Even though his college record is strong and he's in a great field of study that requires a specific skill set and a certain level of brilliance, he still cannot find a job. He is running out of suitable places to apply and it looks like he may have to change his name in hopes to find employment. Was this a cruel joke by his parents, or innocent mistake?
More than 10 years after being executed, Saddam Hussein remains a huge presence in the life of one man.
The marine engineer in India does not blame his grandfather for giving him the Iraqi dictator's name 25 years ago.
But after being refused a job some 40-odd times, he has concluded employers are loath to hire him – even if his name is marginally different – spelt Hussain, not Hussein.
So he went to court to become Sajid. But the wheels of bureaucracy are turning slowly – and so is his search for a job.
It may never have opened many doors in India – and has raised eyebrows and grins elsewhere – but one thing was guaranteed: a name like Saddam Hussain was not likely to pass unnoticed.
Two years after graduating from Tamil Nadu's Noorul Islam University, the man from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand is feeling the strain.
He did well at college, and his classmates have already found jobs, but shipping companies turn him away.
"People are scared to hire me," Saddam-turned-Sajid is quoted by Hindustan Times as saying.
Should Saddam Hussain change his name? What are some other things he can do to find a job? It's not usual that people are turned away from 40 jobs in a row! This guy is out there trying to make a living, but he's stuck with the terrible name of an executed leader who committed crimes against humanity and found himself at the peril of the people.
Is there any hope for a person with this type of name, other than changing their name?
You can change your name and things are fine. It's not like he's changing his gender. That's something the liberals would suggest. Liberals would tell him to become Madonna Hussain instead of Saddam.
I hope he finds a job soon. Being stuck with that name at birth must be a nightmare for him!


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OR14 was captured and GPS-collared by ODFW in the Weston Mountain area north of the Umatilla River on June 20, 2012. OR14 is one of two known wolves using the area. OR14 weighed 90 lbs. and was estimated to be at least 6 years old. Photo by ODFW.
Photo courtesy of CDFW.
QUICK FACTS ABOUT GRAY WOLVES
Species: Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)
Diet: Carnivore
Size: 26-32 inches tall; 4.5-6.5 feet long
Weight: 55-130 lbs
Coloration: gray to black to white
Lifespan in the wild: 7-8 years
Why Wolves?
" Since then I have lived to see state after state extirpate its wolves. I have watched the face of many a newly wolfless mountain, and seen the south-facing slopes wrinkle with a maze of new deer trails. I have seen every edible bush and seedling browsed, first to anemic desuetude, and then to death. I have seen every edible tree defoliated to the height of a saddlehorn."
Aldo Leopold, Thinking Like A Mountain
Photo by ODFW.
Few species arouse such varied and strong emotions like wolves. The extirpation of wolves from the U.S. in the 1800's arose from centuries of hatred and distrust bred from myths, folklore, and misinformation. However, over the last several decades, growing appreciation for wolves and recognition of their vital ecological role created space for their recovery.
Now, for many people, wolves no longer represent a hated predator but rather an iconic species of the wild American West.
In light of the current proposal to delist wolves, it is important to revisit the important role wolves play both ecologically, and socially. Even now, researchers continually discover new cascading effects of wolves in our landscape.
As carnivores, wolves' primary prey consists of ungulates, or hoofed mammals, such as deer or elk. Though wolves largely rely on large prey species, they have also been known to consume smaller mammals, such as beavers or rabbits, as well as scavenge upon already dead animals. During periods of abundant food, wolves can eat up to 30 lbs of meat a day. Fluctuating environmental conditions require wolves to adapt to sudden abundances of prey often followed by days of prey scarcity.
At one point in time, wolves were common throughout the North American landscape. Due to a systematic extermination program of trapping, hunting and poisoning by humans, wolves came close to extinction. With the help of recovery efforts, wolf populations are beginning to rebound but are limited to Canada and portions of the U.S., including Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Currently, the U.S. is home to over 5,000 wolves in the lower 48 states and an estimated 7,000 to 11,200 wolves in Alaska. Globally, wolf populations are estimated to be 200,000 individuals spread across 57 countries. This is just a fraction of historical population estimates of 2 million wolves worldwide.
In a given year, the alpha male and female of a stable pack mate in January or February and produce four to seven pups. The alpha female gives birth at the end of April in a den. Pups are raised by the whole pack until they reach maturity at 10 months.
Wolves are social predators, living in close-knit family units called packs. A wolf pack consists of an alpha male and female (also called the breeding pair) and their offspring. Alpha males and females are responsible for tracking and hunting prey, establishing territories, finding den sites, and reproducing. Subordinate wolves assist in rearing young pups and sometimes depart from the pack to establish new territories and form new packs.
The spread of wolves across a landscape primarily depends on territoriality. Territories are areas of habitat occupied and defended by a single wolf pack. These territories can vary in size depending on prey density and wolf population density but must be large enough for adult wolves to ensure the survival of their offspring. Territories have been documented as small as 50 square miles to as large as 1,000 square miles. Within these territories, wolves can travel as far as 30 miles a day.
Communication is an important component of wolves' social structures. Wolves use a complex system ranging from barks and whines to growls and howls to communicate within and between packs. Researchers have recently found that howls are unique to individual wolves, allowing individual identification by wildlife managers and researchers.


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How to write adult characters in children's books
April 5, 2021 by Nathan Bransford 3 Comments
Beverly Cleary's recent death has prompted a lot of people to revisit her wonderful novels. I picked up Ramona the Pest the other day and was immediately struck by how thoroughly five-year-old Ramona takes control of the action.
Ramona is headed to her first day of kindergarten, but does Ramona the Pest open with her kindly mother sitting Ramona down and telling her what to expect or asking her to get ready for school and telling her how she's going to get there?
No, it focuses on Ramona hurrying her mother along and Ramona deciding who she wants to take her to school. After shooting down her older sister's friend Mary Jane, who Ramona fears will treat her like a baby, she opts for a genuine grown-up, thank you very much.
Ramona is a very active protagonist. Even though she's "just" a kindergartener, she's the one making choices and driving the action. This is the best way to think about protagonists in all fiction, but particularly in children's fiction.
Adults often view kids as largely powerless and subject to a wide array of forces outside of their control, but children's literature is nearly always about kids' agency. One of the oldest cliches in middle grade is to immediately get rid of the parents like the rhinoceroses in James and the Giant Peach so the kids can run around on their own and make their own decisions.
So what's the role of adults in children's literature?
It's not about the adults
As Annie Barrows writes in her excellent essay on Beverly Cleary, adults have a tendency to insert kind and wise and cool adults into children's books in order to make themselves feel better.
Now, this isn't to say that there can't be wise and cool adults in a children's book, but remember: you're writing for children. The novel should genuinely be about the kids, not about how kids are surrounded by cool adults.
Writing for children means writing about children. Chapter books are often about kids learning how to navigate conflict with peers and adults, middle grade is often about exploration and imagining a world where you're making decisions without your parents, and young adult fiction is often about navigating emotional complexity.
But they're all about kids navigating their worlds and trying to get the things they want. Sometimes that needs to involve adults, sometimes it doesn't.
Keep the kid protagonists active. Make sure the novels are flowing from their motivations and children going after their goals.
The types of adults in children's novels
The good adult characters in children's literature tend to fall into three essential buckets. (Sometimes the same adult can occupy more than one category at different stages in the novel).
The key thing about these categories is that they are defined in relation to the child protagonist's motivations and whether the adult helps or obstructs them.
Rather than putting the adults wholly in charge and dictating motivations to the children, try as much as possible to put the adults in service of the kids.
In John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel's parents aren't the ones who decide Hazel should go to Amsterdam. Instead that originates with Hazel and Augustus. After putting up the barest bit of resistance, Hazel's mom gears up to help them make it happen.
The obstacle
Other times, adults may well be obstacles kids have to overcome and navigate. It's true that kids don't tend to have the same freedom and liberties as adults. Sometimes adults may crop up with restrictions, like curfews, detentions and, you know, rules, which constrain a child and make it more difficult for them to get the things they want.
Still, while adults can absolutely constrain a child protagonist, remember that these are obstacles in the characters' way. Snape is a classic obstacle adult for most of the Harry Potter novels.
The mentor
This is a specific variation on a helper. Sometimes adult characters may be a bit more deeply aligned with the children throughout a novel, whether it's a Gandalf-type figure on a quest or a teacher or parent who helps a child over the course of the novel, like Miss Honey in Matilda.
Here's the key thing about mentors: they don't tell the protagonist precisely what to do.
They may provide tools, powers, knowledge, or general guidance that aids the child in overcoming obstacles, but it should still remain up to the child to figure out the exact steps they need to take, and for kids to learn the ultimate lessons on their own.
Think of it like Obi-Wan teaching Luke some of the basics of the Force and serving as a spiritual mentor, but Luke still has to figure out how to blow up the Death Star himself.
Keep decision-making in kids' hands whenever possible
Sure, kids' lives are constrained by quite a lot of forces outside of their control. But they also retain quite a bit of power to shape and influence their own destiny. And that's really what children's literature is about.
Take decision-making out of adults' hands and give it to the kids, like Ramona deciding for herself how she's going to get to kindergarten.
Let kids be the active ones, let kids learn the lessons through trial and error, let kids be the true protagonists and the true decision-makers.
Do you have any tips for writing adults in children's novels and any favorites? Take to the comments!
Art: Garden Scene in Brittany by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Filed Under: Writing Advice Tagged With: Children's Books
Steve Cromwell says
One of the best representations of parents I've read is in The Hate U Give, where the parents are helpers and yet also caught in the same struggle. And in Patron Saints of Nothing, the uncle starts as an obstacle and becomes a mentor, which is always a great story arc. Just don't do like in one YA, where toward the end the parents literally sit down with their teen and tell him he's gay, resolving all his confusion.
Lilace Guignard says
Yes, The Hate U Give has such wonderful adults. The Uncle too really adds complexity without taking away from Starr's journey. Great example!
Some of my favorite adult supporting characters are ones who kept secrets from the children. There are predictable ways of doing that, but my favorite might be the Fablehaven and Percy Jackson series'.


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A Moral Panic In Great Neck
A series of mistakes by parents and therapists along with police procedural errors may have led to the wrongful convictions of a father and so more than two decades ago. Now the mother of one of the duo's "victims" is working to right the wrong.
Arline Epstein
Hella Winston writes in The Jewish Week:
A self-described introvert, Arline Epstein has never thought of herself as an activist, but more like someone who tries to do the right thing. And that's just what she thought she was doing 24 years ago when she put her 10-year-old son Mike in therapy after police and other parents convinced her — over Mike's initial insistence to the contrary — that he had been molested by a popular retired schoolteacher named Arnold Friedman and his son Jesse during after-school computer classes in their Great Neck home.
The local therapists working closely with parents and law enforcement at the time argued, Arline recalls, that denials of abuse like Mike's — particularly in the face of a detailed confession by Arnold and, later, Jesse and another defendant, Ross Goldstein — were caused by shame and/or an inability to remember the traumatic events. Healing, they believed, could come only through the children "opening up" about what had happened to them.
The only problem was that Mike was, in fact, never abused, though he did at some point decide to tell his therapist, Dr. David Pelcovitz, that he had been, hoping that such a disclosure would put an end to the unpleasant therapy sessions and get him back to his normal childhood life. It worked.
Though a number of other children agreed to press charges against the Friedmans, Mike never did, and the whole episode became a part of his past — until recently, when he decided to tell first the Nassau County district attorney and then his parents about his childhood lie.
And now, once again, Arline Epstein is trying to do the right thing.…
[Her notes show that a] detective's statement to parents that during the first weeks of the investigation they had found that "no child out of 30-plus interviewed had been sodomized, and most said nothing happened" now raised a red flag…
Her notes also indicate that one of the complaining witnesses — a 9-year-old boy— was interviewed for 5 hours [straight] before he produced a 10-page statement to police and that another mother was told by the detective who came to question her son that he had just been with another kid for seven hours and he wouldn't open up; the boy finally told the police that he had dreamed about some incidents, which the police interpreted as evidence of abuse.…
Behind some of what was wrong with the original investigation was Dr. David Pelcovitz, who many of you know for his affiliations with Yeshiva University and Ohel. Pelcovitz has been a defender of Ohel in cases where Ohel would seem to deserve no such defense. My understanding is that Pelcovitz refuses to comment on the Friedman case.
Thankfully, major and almost all minor police departments haven't conducted child sexual abuse investigations like what what was done in Great Neck for more than two decades.
The vast majority of American courts won't accept the kind of "evidence" gathered in Great Neck. Israel's courts are quickly catching up to that standard.
The Friedman case was essentially a moral panic egged on by well meaning parents, therapists (most of whom, perhaps all of whom, were also well meaning), and incompetent police. A similar situation exists in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem.
For those interested, a "new evidence reel" on the Friedman case will be presented on Nov. 18 at 4 p.m. at The Inn at Great Neck.
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