For over 30 years, Carol has been exploring the multi-dimensional facets of the physical body. Since 1982, she has enjoyed an active practice in Rolfing® Structural Integration and Rolfing Movement® Integration. The Fabric of Wholeness (2001) explores somatic intelligence in the field of gravity. Continued inquiry into perception, touch and the dynamic interplay of the individual within their environment, continue to fuel her lifelong commitment to learning. As a devoted student of embryology and craniosacral therapy, her sensory understanding of the body as both movement and manifestation of consciousness is key. Carol teaches Rolfing SI, Rolfing Movement Integration and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy nationally and internationally, creating curriculums and approaches which tap the unseen talent of students.
Duffy Allen has been a member of the Basic Faculty at DIRI since 2005. She began her studies in the anatomy of the head, neck and thorax while still an undergraduate in the 1980's. Since becoming a Rolfer, she has continued to be intrigued by the interplay of the musculoskeletal system with other systems of the body. When teaching, she is committed to transmitting the work in a way that lends itself to integration into both the students personal embodiment as well as their practice.
Valerie Berg trained in 87 with Peter Melchior and Nicholas French. She is a big proponent of teaching the classical ten series to beginning students, as this is where a lot of our thinking and development occurs that takes us deeper into the work. The nuances and advanced work comes later developing out of knowing the territory of the ten series work. She worked in Guatemala for 5 years in the 90s and was exposed to the trauma of war and violence thus began studying Peter Levine's trauma work.
Valerie is also very interested in cultural and worldview influences on our structure and function. She has been teaching Rolfing SI for 11 years and received her Bachelors degree in Education and dance She is also a Rolf Movement Practitioner trained by Hubert Godard. She continues to study Visceral, and Neural work as a component of her practice. She has been practicing in New Mexico for 26 years Tango dancing, yoga, hiking, sculling and kayaking keep her moving and interested in the vitality of our bodies continuing through the changes of the years. Her focus over the last 6 years has been developing ways of working with Structural Aging.
Tessy Brungardt received her BA in Environmental Biology in 1976 from New College in Sarasota, FL. In her studies and career afterwards, she enjoyed exploring the interface of observing the natural world and the the science of how things worked. Once she was introduced to Rolfing® Structural Integration in 1979, she was inspired to take this exploration into the human realm. She became a Certified Rolfer™ in 1985 and a Certified Advanced Rolfer in 1988. Tessy completed her Rolf Movement® Certification in 1994. She also became certified to teach for the Rolf Institute in 1994 and became an Advanced Instructor for the Rolf Institute in 2002.
Rebecca Carli became interested in somatic movement studies while pursuing B.A. and M.F.A. degrees in dance performance and choreography. She earned certification in Rolf Movement Integration in 1987 with Janie French and Annie Duggan. In 1989, she became a Certified Rolfer and in 1992, a Certified Advanced Rolfer. In 1994, Rebecca graduated from the Pennsylvania Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training and joined the Rolf Movement faculty of The Rolf Institute.
Rebecca's understanding of gravity and human movement potential has been enriched by her long time studies with Hubert Godard. Godard's work provides the chief theoretical and practical foundation that inspires her teaching. Additionally, she draws from her interest in the work of Laban/Bartineff, Charlotte Selver, Julio Horvath and various forms of yoga. Rebecca believes that embodiment is a life long process, essential for somatic practitioners.
Rebecca is a past Chairperson of the Rolf Movement faculty and ISMETA board representative. She teaches a variety of somatic movement courses at several universities. Currently, Rebecca lives in the Washington D.C. area, where she maintains an active practice in Rolfing SI and Rolf Movement Integration. Presently, her major challenge is "moving with ease and finding grace" while parenting two teen-age daughters.
Libby Eason first experienced the transformative effects of Rolfing Structural Integration in 1975. She trained as a massage therapist in 1986, and practiced that profession for 12 years. In 1992, Libby graduated from the Rolf Institute. She completed her Rolf Movement certification in 1994, and advanced training in 1997. She became an assistant instructor in 1998, and became a faculty member in 2005.
Libby continues to explore the continuum of Structure - Function - Energy as it applies to the art of Structural and Movement Integration. She serves on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Structural Integrators® as the Chair of Law and Legislation. In that capacity, Libby is active in legislative matters in efforts to preserve the distinct identity of the profession of Structural Integration.
Kevin Frank is a Certified Advanced Rolfer™, Rolf Movement® Practitioner and Rolf Movement® Instructor at RISI. He has worked with the Godard-derived Tonic Function Model since 1991 and has written on this topic from 1995 to the present. Kevin views structural integration as a form of somatic education, and advocates for an "information system" view for doing and teaching this work so as to bring the field of SI into congruence with modern understanding of motor control and perceptive/coordinative processes. Kevin is the co-author (with Caryn McHose) of the book, How Life Moves, Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness (North Atlantic 2006).
Sally Klemm is an internationally recognized Rolf Institute instructor who teaches worldwide while maintaining a private practice in Honolulu, Hawaii. Native of Berkeley, California, Sally is a graduate of UC Berkeley's College of Letters and Science.
After a 4-year sailing voyage around the world, Sally was introduced to Rolfing Structural Integration by Stacey Mills, who convinced her to stop trimming sails and start aligning bodies. Having followed Stacey's good counsel, Sally has called Honolulu home since 1983, where her private practice includes the Hawaiian Healing Arts and Visionary Craniosacral Work©, as well as Rolfing Structural and Movement Integration.
Sally's extraordinary ability to blend an organized cognitive style with deeply intuitive understanding reflects her fascination with the unity of the psyche and the soma. Sally joined the Rolf Institute Faculty in 1995.
Larry Koliha started his career in bodywork in the mid-90s, training in various types of energetic bodywork and attending college classes in anatomy and physiology. Rolfing SI created such a meaningful shift in his own life, that he left his first career as a mechanical manufacturing engineer and immersed himself in the world of structural integration.
Larry completed his basic training in 1999 with instructors Ray McCall and Liz Gaggini, and six years later, became an Advanced Rolfer under the tutelage of Jan Sultan, Tessy Brungardt, and Sally Klemm. He certified in Rolf Movement Integration with Lael Katherine Keen in Brazil. Other mentors who have strongly influenced his work include Rolfers Til Luchau and Jane Harrington.
Larry's teaching style comes from his corporate engineering background. Students appreciate his clear, knowledgeable, good-natured teaching style. Larry presents a simple, structured and fun approach to learning the classic basic ten-session recipe. Emphasis is placed on developing sustainable body use, appropriate touch and pacing, and the ability to incorporate movement work in each session.
Larry was an avid trail runner and volleyball player in Colorado where he had his first Rolfing practice but now practices in the Raleigh/Durham area in North Carolina.
Jonathan Martine was certified as a Rolfer™ in 1992 and completed his advanced Rolfing® certification in 1997. He is a Registered Movement Therapist, Rolf Movement® Teacher, Pilates Instructor and Rolf Institute® Faculty member since 1993. In addition, he has studied therapies that treat the fascial systems of the viscera (organs), neural (nerve) system, vascular structures and the cranium as well as movement rehabilitation from various sources. He has been in private practice since 1992. During this time he has practiced in Chiropractic offices, Physical Therapy clinics, a Pilates studio, a medical based pain management clinic, and various integrative health practices. This experience has offered a useful perspective on the vast potential of complementary approaches to health and personal transformation. He finds it valuable to see how Rolfing® and Structural Integration fit into the larger health field and identify the unique offering Rolfing® holds. Jonathan continues his study of Rolfing® and allied health fields to serve his clients and students and to share the "stories" that science holds. He is fascinated with these "stories" as they may clarify aspects of the mystery of transformation; while holding strong to the magic that occurs when the practitioner and client are present and aware of the environment in which we live.
Ray McCall has 38 years experience as a Rolfer. As a DIRI Advanced faculty member he teaches basic, Advanced and Continuing Education classes both in the States and Abroad. His particular interest is the energetic taxonomy and how change occurs: how we more fully become and express who we are. Ray trained to instructor level in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy.
Kevin is a faculty member of the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute. He trained under all six of Dr. Rolf's originally appointed faculty. He has enjoyed being a practitioner of the art and science known as Rolfing for over 30 years. Kevin is a licensed Physical Therapist and was employed by the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation where he provided Rolfing to individuals in a chronic pain program. He served on the Dr. Ida Rolf - Board of Directors serving as the Board Chair for five years. Kevin is passionate about Rolfing as a traditional and evolving healing art form.
Patrice Naparstek trained as a Rolfer® in 1993, finishing her Advanced Training and her Movement Certification in 1998. Her interest in embodied and expressive movement has been the foundation for her study from the very beginning, including certification in Laban Movement Analysis, an MFA in performance and Choreography and a BA in Dance Movement Therapy.
She has taught movement practices for 30 years in academic and community environments with the intention of uniting didactic information with an embodied sense of what it means to move.
She currently works in Madison, WI where she is discovering that not everyone wants to fly over the mid-states.
After almost 20 years of study, Michael Polon still has the same beginner's excitement when it comes to exploring the art, science, theory, and practice of his work. Michael began studying at The Rolf Institute in 1998 and has been in the classroom ever since. He started teaching in 2001 and completed his first Advanced Training in 2003.
Through consistent teaching and continuing education, Michael learns more about what's possible with this work each year. His enthusiastic curiosity of how things work fuels his passion for understanding how anatomy/physiology, movement/posture, pain, therapeutic alliance and healing potential come together with Rolfing.
Michael Salveson was trained as a Rolfer™ by Dr. Ida P. Rolf in 1970. In 1972 he was asked by Dr. Rolf to assist her in training classes and was certified as a Rolfing® Instructor by Dr. Rolf in 1973. He has been in active practice in the San Francisco Bay Area for 38 years and an Instructor for the Rolf Institute's Advanced Training for 22 years. Michael Salveson was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Rolf Institute from 1976-1979 and President of the Rolf Institute from 1979 to 1982.
Michael has been instrumental in developing theory and techniques useful in releasing restrictions in the body's ligamentous-articular system. He has studied extensively in the traditions deriving from osteopathy and works closely with inherent motion in the body. He is a 20 year student of Taoist Chi Gung and an avid fly fisherman.
John Schewe has been a Certified Rolfer since 1987, completing his Advanced Rolfing Training in 1991. He taught anatomy and physiology, structural kinesiology, and deep tissue technique classes for the Blue Cliff School of Massage in Kenner, Louisiana from 1990-1996. John has been part of the Rolf Institute Anatomy Faculty since 1995 and is currently Chair of the Life Sciences Group at the Rolf Institute. Though his academic background is in geology (MS, Louisiana State Univ., 1979), John has had a keen interest in the biological sciences as they pertain to bodywork in general and Rolfing Structural Integration in particular. He brings a fresh perspective to this material and his desire is to make the study of anatomy and physiology interesting, informative, and enjoyable.
Russell Stolzoff has always been attuned to the beauty of integrated movement. He was first introduced to Rolfing® Structural Integration in 1983 as a classroom client while completing his BA at University of Colorado. The deep physical and psychological impact of that experience led him to pursue training as a Rolfer. He became a Certified Rolfer™ in 1989, and an Certified Advanced Rolfer™ in 1998. He completed his Rolf Movement® Certification in 2000, and became a Rolf Institute instructor in 2002. Russell has also completed extended studies in Somatic Experiencing and Biodynamic Analysis, a Danish method of body psychotherapy. Since 2010 Russell has worked extensively with professional athletes. He lives and practices in Bellingham, Washington.
Jan Sultan's initial encounter with Ida Rolf was in 1967 as her client. In 1969 he trained under her, and after having assisted several classes, was invited by Dr. Rolf to become an instructor in 1975. After further apprenticeship, Dr. Rolf invited him to take on the Advanced teaching. He currently teaches Basic Trainings, Continuing Education, and Advanced Trainings for the Rolf Institute. He feels strongly that his responsibility as an instructor goes beyond simply passing on what he was taught, to include the refinement and coherent development of the ideas and methodology taught by Ida Rolf. Jan lives in Northern New Mexico, and practices in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Juan David Vélez has been practicing as a Rolfer and Rolf Movement Practitioner since 1995, first in his native Colombia, and for the last ten years in Portland, Oregon. Juan David is guided by the belief that mastery is the place where logic, knowledge and intuition converge. As a practitioner he combines a rigorous scientific understanding of the discipline with an open-minded, intuitive approach. As a teacher, he builds a strong framework of the science, theory and philosophy of Rolfing Structural Integration, and encourages students to investigate and master these concepts through play and personal exploration. Juan David has a particular interest in neuroplasticity, the seemingly limitless ability of the brain to change the body, and to respond to the body by changing itself. In his spare time, Juan David enjoys painting and ecstatic dance, a good cup of tea and a serious game of chess.
Thomas completed the Basic Rolfing training in 1987, the Advanced Rolfing Training in 1993 and has been on the faculty since 2004. He has extensive training in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and integrates its subtle evoking with the direct contact of Rolfing SI. His main goal in class is to have every student be successful. Thomas creates a safe learning environment, helps students identify and enhance their learning and perceptual styles, teaches how inner process affects perception and how shifting inner awareness affects tissue response.
He enjoys teaching students how to integrate the body's innate self ordering as expressed through inherent motion into the touch skills necessary to accomplish the goals of the Rolfing process. He lives, practices, skis, bikes, and plays in Steamboat Springs, CO.
Bethany Ward completed basic training with Jim Asher, advanced work with Jan Sultan and Tessy Brungardt, and movement certification with Lael Katherine Keen. Bethany loves learning – both as a lifetime student and as an instructor. She is deeply indebted to her mentors Duffy Allen, Til Luchau, and Ray McCall.
As an instructor, Bethany is adept at making complex ideas understandable and speaking to a variety of learning styles – skills gained from a background in academia and business. After graduating from the NC School of Science and Mathematics, Bethany received a BA in psychology and an MBA. She discovered her passion for teaching when Kaplan Inc. hired her to raise students' scores on graduate entrance exams. Bethany traded life in corporate America for "a chance to work one-on-one with people, helping them find solutions for themselves" and never looked back. Bethany's private practice is ActionPotential, Inc., (www.rolfusa.com) in Durham, NC.
Bethany is Past-President of the Ida P. Rolf Research Foundation and enjoys writing for various bodywork publications.


There are lots of reasons for Americans to use less oil.
If it involves driving less, they'll save lives.
And in the long run, they'll save money.
But a collective reduction in fuel use is not yet enough to put a long-term dent in global oil prices.
Here's a chart from AllianceBernstein's Bob Brackett charting crude prices (red) versus U.S. oil demand (green —as measured by petroleum supplied).
The green line goes down.
Brackett says this shows "a price elasticity imposed on top of a longer trend."
We never see a return to peak demand of the mid-2000s. We have passed "peak oil" demand for the U.S. by more than 2 million barrels per day. The large shift as oil prices spiked was structural, especially for non-transport use (i.e., residual into power). For transports, it was partly structural (driving less) but also secular (efficiency gains).
Rather, oil remains a global commodity whose prices will be determined by demand from all over.
Our forecast for China's oil demand growth remains above consensus estimates, consistent with our long-term view on price (which, as we wrote earlier this week is bullish—ed). Based on our analysis of vehicle growth in China and likely improvement in fuel efficiency, we expect oil demand will increase to 12.9mmbpd by 2018. This remains 0.9mmbpd above estimates from the IEA and is a further reason we remain constructive long term on oil demand and oil price. Overall we expect China's oil elasticity to remain at about 0.7x GDP over the next 5 years.
Our expectations for paying less at the pump should probably be the thing that more closely tracks U.S. demand.


President Isaias Afwerki said that the '21 January 2013 incident' was, and is no cause at all, for apprehension and that the Government opted to remain silent regarding the matter so as to give no ground for the authors of sheer lies.
The President told ERINA that it was natural for the Eritrean people inside the country and abroad to seek information about the situation since the very hours of the incident out of patriotic concern.
He further elucidated that the Government of Eritrea deemed it fit to refrain from issuing statements in haste, as doing so is not only outside of its political culture but also would mean serving the ploys of bankrupt enemy quarters. President Isaias went on to indicate that the Government would provide the necessary information at an appropriate time.
"Entertain no worry at all, as there was – and does not exist – any reason for being apprehensive," the President underlined.
"Seems a deliberate campaign of defamation on Eritrea is unfolding. I just read the story below: ''Eritrea slammed over Al Jazeera ban''.
I was today at the Asmara Central Post Office. Al Jazeera English TV was on for customers to view, while awaiting to be served. So, who is punting such lies??
Mr ambassader why are you new to the game this is note new at all it has been and it is going to continue to find ways to destroy eritrea as the nation.


Therapy and Sports Center is proud to announce the newest addition to our clinic, Spencer Hutchins. Spencer graduated with his doctorate in physical therapy from the University of Saint Augustine in 2010 and began working as a therapist at our St. Petersburg clinic shortly thereafter. Adding an additional therapist will allow Therapy and Sports Center to have even more flexibility and availability for our patients. For more information on Spencer or any of our skilled therapists click here.
Therapy and Sports Center's St. Petersburg, FL location opened in 1987. Since then we have been providing quality physical therapy and rehabilitation for all types of injuries and conditions. Our dedicated team works diligently with each and every patient to offer an individualized plan of treatment. Our facility has private treatment rooms in addition to an open fitness center that functions both for rehabilitation as well as an independent workout facility.
In addition, the St. Petersburg clinic has a therapist who is McKenzie Certified in Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy. The McKenzie method was developed by New Zealand Physical Therapist, Robin McKenzie. He developed a program for evaluating and treating back and neck pain. The McKenzie Method is based on the concept that corrective exercises and postures can be taught to those suffering from back and neck pain to help them control the pain and eventually return to a higher standard of living with little or no pain.


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1979 MK2. Discovered 1979 June 25 by E. F. Helin and S. J. Bus at Siding Spring.
Name proposed by the first discoverer, following a suggestion from Ronald Paludan.
Obituaries published in Icarus, Vol. 67, No. 3, p. 343-344 (1986); Spaceflight, Vol. 28, Nos. 9/10, p. 355 (1986).


In this tutorial, you will learn what is Azure Bot Service and how you accelerate your Bot development using Azure Bot Service.
Microsoft states that Azure Bot Service is the first public bot-service which is built on top of Microsoft Bot Framework and Server less computing Azure Service – Functions.
Bot Service provides us the following out of the box services.
You can build bots for the following channels.
Pretty excited? Yeah, I'm. Let's create our First bot using the Azure Bot Service. As shown in the below screen capture, click on "+" button to open the New Blade and select Intelligence and Analytics service and then click on Bot Service.
You will be taken to the Bot Service blade where you just enter the name of the Bot Service, Resource Group and the location along with the subscription where you would like to provision you Bot Service.
Once you are ready, click on Create button to create your first Bot Service. As shown below, the Bot service has been created successfully.
Note: Unlike other App Services, you cannot choose a App Service Plan for bots. It's by default created based on the location (SoutheastAsiaPlan as highlighted above) you choose with the tier "Consumption" which means, it's charged only based on the utilization of the Azure Compute power and also scaled automatically based on the demand without any configurations.
Click on the Bot Service to start configuring the bot. You will be taken to the following screen after clicking on the Bot Service.
Click on the Create Microsoft App ID and Password button which is highlighted above to create a new app for our bot. The Application Registration Portal will be opened in a new browser tab where you would need to be authenticated with your Microsoft Account.
Once authenticated, you will be taken to the following page to generate a new APP ID along with a Password. Click on Generate an app Password to continue to create a new Password as shown below.
Save the password in a secure place and click on both OK and Finish and go back to Bot Framework button one after the other.
You will be taken back to the Bot Service page as shown below.
Provide the password in the Paste password from the Microsoft App registration portal textbox. As soon as you provide the password, all the details below will get enabled for you to move forward.
The next step is to choose your favorite language. In this case, I selected C# as highlighted in the below screen capture.
And then choose the type of Bot that you would like to create based on your requirements as shown below.
Now, click on Create bot button. The next step is to connect the new Azure Bot Service with the LUIS API. You are required to log into your Cognitive Service account as shown below.
I selected "Sign in using Microsoft Account" as shown above.
Using the above step, you will be authorizing LUIS api to access your account details. Click YES in the above step.
It's has prompted me to create a new Cognitive Services LUIS Account. Accept the Online Services Agreement and click on OK button.
That's it. You have created a new Bot in just few minutes (less than 5 minutes). Below is the screen capture of the Integrated Environment of your Bot Service.
You can perform the following actions right from a single view without navigating to multiple tools.
View the Logs of your Webbooks.
Please note that the new Azure Bot Service just helps us build Bots pretty quickly and avoid all the plumbing stuff and other integration services that a developer needs to do while creating a Bot. However, the process of creating the Intents and Training your LUIS app will remain same.
Happy Bot-ing!! Hope you enjoyed reading the article.


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OJ Simpson released from prison after serving nine years for armed robbery
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Former football legend O.J. Simpson became a free man Sunday after serving nine years for a botched hotel room heist that brought the conviction and prison time he avoided after his 1995 acquittal in the killings of his ex-wife and her friend.
Simpson was released at 12:08 a.m. PDT from Lovelock Correctional Center in northern Nevada, state prisons spokeswoman Brooke Keast told The Associated Press. She said she did not know the driver who met Simpson upon his release and didn't know where Simpson was immediately headed in his first hours of freedom.
"I don't have any information on where he's going," Keast added.
Neither Simpson's attorney, Malcolm LaVergne in Las Vegas, nor state Parole and Probation Capt. Shawn Arruti, who has been handling Simpson's case, immediately responded to messages.
Keast said the dead-of-night release from the prison about 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Reno, Nevada, was conducted to avoid media attention.
"We needed to do this to ensure public safety and to avoid any possible incident," Keast added, speaking by telephone. She spoke from Lovelock, where she said she witnessed Simpson signing documents to be released.
The 70-year-old Simpson gains his freedom after being granted parole at a hearing in July. Unlike the last time he went free, 22 years ago, he will face restrictions – up to five years of parole supervision – and he's unlikely to escape public scrutiny as the man who morphed from charismatic football hero, movie star and TV personality into suspected killer and convicted armed robber.
Simpson was looking forward to reuniting with his family, eating a steak and some seafood and moving back to Florida, LaVergne said recently.
Simpson also plans to get an iPhone and get reacquainted with technology that was in its infancy when he was sent to prison in 2008, his attorney said.
The Florida Department of Corrections, however, said officials had not received a transfer request or required documents, and the attorney general said the state didn't want him.
"The specter of his residing in comfort in Florida should not be an option," Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement on Friday. "Our state should not become a country club for this convicted criminal."
Close friend Tom Scotto, who lives in Naples, Florida, has offered to have Simpson live at his house. Scotto also didn't immediately respond to messages about Simpson's plans.
Simpson lost his home near Miami to foreclosure in 2012.
Two of Simpson's children, Justin and Sydney, also live in Florida.
He could live at least temporarily in Las Vegas, where a friend let Simpson use his home for five weeks during his robbery trial.
His five years of parole supervision could be reduced with credits for good behavior.
It's a new chapter for the one-time pop culture phenomenon whose fame was once again on display when the major TV networks carried his parole hearing live.
He told officials that leading a group of men into a 2007 armed confrontation was an error in judgment he would not repeat.
He told the parole board that he led a "conflict-free life," an assertion that angered many who believe he got away with killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles in 1994.
'Handsome and charming'
Simpson was once an electrifying running back dubbed "Juice" who won the Heisman Trophy as the nation's best college football player for USC in 1968 and became one of the NFL's all-time greats with the Buffalo Bills.
Handsome and charming, he also provided commentary on "Monday Night Football," became the face of Hertz rental-car commercials and built a movie career with roles in the "Naked Gun" comedies and other films.
Simpson fell from grace when he was arrested in the slayings, after a famous "slow-speed" Ford Bronco chase on California freeways. His subsequent trial became a live-TV sensation that fascinated viewers with its testimony about a bloody glove that didn't fit and unleashed furious debate over race, police and celebrity justice.
A jury swiftly acquitted him, but two years later, Simpson was found liable in civil court for the killings and ordered to pay $33.5 million to survivors, including his children and Goldman's family.
He is still on the hook for the judgment, which now amounts to about $65 million, according to a Goldman family lawyer.
On Sept. 16, 2007, he led five men he barely knew to the Palace Station casino in Las Vegas in an effort to retrieve items that Simpson insisted were stolen after his acquittal in the 1994 slayings. Two of the men with Simpson in Las Vegas carried handguns, although Simpson still insists he never knew anyone was armed. He says he only wanted to retrieve personal items, mementoes and family photos.
He went to prison in 2008, receiving a stiff sentence that his lawyers said was unfair.
If the nation's Simpson obsession waned for a while, it resurged last year with the Emmy-winning FX miniseries, "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story," and the Oscar-winning documentary "O.J.: Made in America."
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Instrumented aircraft are an important scientific tool, allowing researchers to observe the atmosphere and land and ocean surfaces in support of a wide range of applications in the environmental sciences. EUFAR – the European Facility for Airborne Research – promotes collaboration between the operators and scientific users of research aircraft, seeking to broaden access and improve efficiency in the use of these resources.
EUFAR (www.eufar.net ) has been supported by the 7th FrameworkProgramme (FP7) of the European Commission. It combines 24 European institutions and organisations involved in airborne research, operating 19 instrumented aircraft and 5 remote-sensing instruments, providing a broad measurement capability.
There is a long history of airborne observational research contributing incremental developments in the scientific understanding of earth-system processes. These developments have proceeded in parallel with similar developments in the capabilities to observe these processes on a global scale from space and to model them in operational Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), climate and Earth-System models.
The fields of science that are impacted by an airborne research observing capability are very broad and span the atmosphere, ocean, land surface and biological systems. Maintaining access to a broad range of airborne observing facilities is critically important to our future ability to study processes in the environment and to develop and use the models that will, for example, be used to study mitigation strategies in a changing climate.
Support innovation in airborne research, working with industry to transform airborne research instruments, methodologies and software into new products and services.
In addition, INTA (Spain), CNR (Italy), Free University of Berlin (Germany) and Tel Aviv University (Israel) are well-advanced on the formal path to membership, and other organisations in the UK, Romania and Greece have expressed an interest in membership.
The airborne research community is widely spread across national meteorological services, other national public research centres, universities and SMEs. Any interested organisation that is unable to participate in the AISBL as a fee-paying member can do so as a partner. Partners will be able to participate in AISBL activities and attend its meetings but without a role in the formal governance of the association.
EUFAR AISBL actively welcomes wider participation in its activities. Any organisation wishing to join EUFAR AISBL in future, either as a member or partner should contact the Executive Board Chair in the first instance.
CASA-212, Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Spain.
Other aircraft and instruments operated both within the AISBL and by other institutions in Europe can be viewed on the EUFAR website (www.eufar.net).
Calibration and validation of space-borne measurements.
It is very common that airborne measurements are combined with those from ground-based or ship-borne platforms as part of joint observing campaigns at both national and international level. Scientific users of airborne data will be assisted in their efficient exploitation of these facilities when common approaches to data and metadata formatting, storage and access are used by the different observing infrastructures.
ENVRIplus (www.envriplus.eu) is a Horizon 2020 project bringing together Environmental and Earth System Research Infrastructures, projects and networks together with technical specialist partners to create a more coherent, interdisciplinary and interoperable cluster of Environmental Research Infrastructures across Europe.
EUFAR is represented in its governing board and will work closely with related infrastructures in the atmospheric, ecosystem and oceanic domains to maximise the benefits of the large investments that are required to provide and maintain world-class airborne observing facilities in Europe.


More than 75 women have come to the defense of Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Sept. 21, in light of allegations of sexual assault against him by a professor in California.
The group of dozens of women took to the stage at a Washington, D.C. hotel to support Kavanaugh, who is being nominated for the Supreme Court.
"We know the man, we know his heart and we have known him over every aspect of his life," said Sara Fagen, who worked with him in the White House for former President George W. Bush.
Carrie Underwood became emotional while receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The successful country singer choked up while acknowledging her success and the people in her life.
Her powerful singing voice turned thin and high-pitched while she spoke at the ceremony. Underwood was accompanied by her husband, retired pro hockey player Mike Fisher, and their son, Isaiah Michael Fisher.
A daughter of the late Godfather of Soul James Brown has died.
According to a news release from the James Brown Family Foundation, Venisha Brown died on Sept. 19, at AU Health Medical Center in Augusta due to complications from pneumonia. She was 53 years old.
It was the tiniest of Chile's soldiers and police officers that stole the show at Chile's annual military parade on Sept. 19 when a group of nine golden retriever puppies was paraded alongside their fully-grown brethren, both human and dog.
The 45-day-old puppies are the newest members of the national police's canine training unit.
The puppies were carried in the arms of trainers who kept them warm with heaters and special yellow carriers.
The puppies marched along with other dogs from the canine unit and members of Chile's armed forces as well as soldiers from several countries who were invited to march in the annual parade at Santiago's O'Higgins Park.
High in the Carpathian mountains residents gather for a regional festival to celebrate their gift to the world, the lizhunyk.
Lizhnyk are blankets made from sheep wool.
There is a loom in almost every home in Yavoriv village.
"Lizhnyk is everything for me, it is my entire life," says craftswoman Hanna Kopilchuk.
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Consuming a healthy diet throughout the life course helps prevent malnutrition in all its forms as well as a range of non-communicable diseases and conditions. But the increased production of processed food, rapid urbanisation and changing lifestyles has led to a shift in dietary patterns. People are now consuming more foods high in energy, fats, free sugars or salt/sodium, and many do not eat enough fruit, vegetables and dietary fibre such as whole grains1. The importance of diet as a major contributor to chronic disease and premature death in England is recognised in the White Paper 'Healthy Lives, Healthy People'. Poor diet is a public health issue as it increases the risk of some cancers and cardiovascular disease (CVD), both of which are major causes of premature death. These diseases, and type II diabetes (which increases CVD risk) are associated with obesity, which has a very high prevalence in England. The costs of diet related chronic diseases to the NHS and more broadly to society are considerable. Poor diet is estimated to account for about one third of all deaths from cancer and CVD.
Current nutrition advice from the NHS advocates balance is the key to a healthy diet. It states eating a wide variety of foods in the right proportions, and consuming the right amount of food and drink will achieve and maintain a healthy body weight. It promotes a diet based on starchy foods such as potatoes, bread, rice and pasta; plenty of fruit and vegetables; some protein-rich foods such as meat, fish and lentils; some milk and dairy foods; and not too much fat, salt or sugar. Figure 1 shows the 'Eatwell Guide' which highlights the different types of food that make up our diet, and shows the proportions we should eat them in to have a healthy, balanced diet.
In the UK, the poorer people are, the worse their diet, and the more diet-related diseases they suffer from. This is food poverty2. Poor diet is a risk factor for the UK's major killers of cancer, coronary heart disease (CHD) and diabetes. Yet it is only in the past few years that the immense contribution it makes to poor health has been quantified: poor diet is related to 30% of life years lost in early death and disability. Inequalities in people's diets can result in inequalities in people's health. Those on low incomes suffer from poor diets, as evidenced by lower fruit and vegetable intakes, and a higher prevalence of dental caries among children. They are also disproportionately affected by the major killer diseases. It is estimated that as many as 10 million people in the UK live in poverty, including nearly three million children3.
Less than half (44.6%) of all adults are eating the recommended 5 portions of fruit and vegetables per day.
There are many factors which impact on healthy eating and the ability to have a nutritious diet. Key research shows that households/individuals who are in poverty or socially disadvantaged have worse dietary-related outcomes. Food poverty is more likely amongst those who have a low income, are unemployed, have a disability, or are a member of a black or minority ethnic community2. The Health Behaviours in Blackpool survey returned a much lower proportion of the population eating the recommended '5-a-day' than was expected in comparison with other data sources7 but the collated evidence supports the findings that healthy eating is less likely in those who are struggling financially, younger people, those with a disability and the obese.
43% of survey responders reported eating less than 3 portions of different fruit and vegetables the previous day.
Of these, 12% didn't eat any fruit or vegetables the previous day.
The number of portions of fruit and vegetables consumed increases with age and financial security.
Males and those out of work consume fewer portions of fruit and vegetables then the general population.
Income is not the only factor which can influence healthy eating; cooking and storage facilities or the cost of gas/electricity can be problematic for some, as can a lack of knowledge around food preparation. In these situations convenience foods are more likely to be eaten - this includes processed foods and takeaway/fast food.
20% reported eating fast food or takeaway meals at least once a week.
Almost 10% said they never prepared a meal from basic ingredients.
A further 14% said they prepared a meal from basic ingredients less than once a week.
Younger people (age <45) eat takeaway food more often than older people and those working full time eat takeaway food significantly more frequently.
Those not in work are significantly less likely to prepare a meal from scratch.
Soft and fizzy drinks can be high in sugar (which can damage children's teeth) and have few nutrients. Children and adults who have a lot of sugary soft and fizzy drinks are more likely to put on weight and to be overweight or obese.
14% of people reported consuming fizzy drinks 6 or more times a week.
People who are obese are significantly more likely to consume fizzy drinks more often.
The number of fizzy drinks consumed decreases with age and financial security.
Breastfeeding is the healthiest way to feed babies and exclusive breastfeeding (giving your baby breast milk only) is recommended for around the first six months8. After that, giving breast milk alongside other food will help them continue to grow and develop healthily. The latest breastfeeding initiation rate (2014/15) in Blackpool was significantly lower than the national average with more than a third (38%) of mothers recorded as not breastfeeding at the time of delivery. This indicates that approximately 740 new-borns in Blackpool never received any breast milk. The proportion breastfeeding for the recommended six months is therefore likely to be significantly lower still. These figures highlight that across the town there remains a culture of bottle-feeding as the 'norm' and action is needed to address this.
The benefits of maintaining a healthy weight and nutrition are numerous, not only to the quality of life, but also the quantity of life. An unhealthy body weight is a burden and can lead to an individual being overweight or obese. If you are overweight or obese, you have a higher risk of developing serious health problems , as well as having an impact on the wider society and the economy. (need to link to the obesity pages).
Change 4 Life is an NHS initiative which provides information and advice on eating, drinking and leading a more active life.
The Faculty of Public Health have produced a position statement on food marketing to children.
School Food Standards (2015). A new set of standards for food provided in schools is now mandatory in all maintained schools and new academies and free schools, from January 2015. The standards aim to help children develop healthy eating habits and ensure they get the energy and nutrition they need across the whole school day.
NICE Quality standard 94: Obesity prevention and lifestyles weight managements in children and young people; July 2015 - This guidance covers a fanve of approaches at a population level to prevent children and young people aged under 18 from becoming overweight or obese. It includes interventions for lifestyle weight management.
World Cancer Research Fund International Nourishing Framework: Updated July 2015 - an interactive tool to support policy making decisions. The tool helps identify where action is needed to promote healthy diets, reduce obesity and other non-communicable diseases, including cancer. It allows policy makers to tailor options suitable for different populations and assess if the approach is sufficiently comprehensive. The key domains are environment, food and behaviour change.
The promotion of evidence-based healthy eating messages is fundamental. Alongside this, it is necessary to ensure that guidelines concerning a nutritionally adequate diet are implemented to help prevent diet-related deficiencies and malnutrition in vulnerable infants, children and adults.
Continuing to address and reduce levels of overweight and obesity in children and adults.
Increasing knowledge, skills and abilities about healthy eating.
Establishing healthy eating habits in children and families.
Encouraging a healthy food environment.
This means focussing on the populations who have been identified including those who are struggling financially and the obese.


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How the Mexican Marines Are Hunting the New El Chapo
To be a Marine in Mexico is to be marked for death as a member of the most incorruptible, resolute and courageous force opposing the cartels.
Michael Daly
Special Correspondent
Published Feb. 13, 2019 4:47AM ET
A searingly simple request came from one of the Mexican Marines who were invited to visit New York after they captured El Chapo.
"Do you mind if we walk around for a while?" one of the Marines asked a senior U.S. federal agent who was hosting them. "I can never do this in my own county."
The host agreed, and the 15 or so Marines ambled through the streets of Manhattan in peace and safety none of them could enjoy back home.
For to be a Marine in Mexico is to be marked for death as a member of the most incorruptible, resolute and courageous force opposing the cartels.
Further proof of that came just two weeks after their New York City stroll, when one of these same Marines became the latest to die in the Mexican drug war.
His comrades had to guard against what happened after the funeral for another Marine just before Christmas in 2009. That fallen comrade's family had just returned from the burial when cartel gunmen burst in and shot them all.
As El Chapo's trial neared in New York, the Marines back in Mexico pressed on against the cartels, with his old partner, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, as a prime target. Two more Marines were killed when they were off-duty and just walking around the resort town of Cozumel in September.
The El Chapo trial commenced in November, with testimony detailing millions in bribes paid at seemingly all levels of government as well as every branch of law enforcement and the military save for the Marines. A firefight claimed the life of yet another Marine in December, as Mexico was concluding a year in which murders had risen by a third, from 25,036 in 2017 to 33,341 in 2018.
At the end of January, an already harrowing existence took what must have been a wrenching turn for the Marines. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador summarily called off the decades-long war on drugs in what appeared to be a desperate move aimed at reducing the body count by reducing turmoil in the cartels.
"There is officially no more war," he declared. "We want peace, and we are going to achieve peace."
He announced that the military would no longer seek to arrest cartel kingpins.
"No capos have been arrested, because that is not our main purpose," he continued. "The main purpose of the government is to guarantee public safety."
He added "What we want is security, to reduce the daily number of homicides."
American law enforcement officials said that an extradition treaty with Mexico remains in effect, and the capture of El Mayo is still a top priority.
"Maybe it's not a focus of theirs," one federal agent said. "It is a focus of ours."
An American official who has worked with the Mexican Marines felt sure they remained determined to capture El Mayo. He said that the spirit and courage of the Marines is on full display in a video that was taken of them advancing into mortal danger to capture El Chapo.
"Hurry! Hurry!" the marines can be heard shouting in Spanish midst gunfire. "Up the stairs!"
The official noted that the Marines fight on, day after day after day at great risk for scant personal gain.
"They get paid peanuts," the official observed.
Meanwhile, the cartels continued to smuggle drugs by the ton into the U.S., almost none of it over unsecured stretches of the border, virtually all of it either by sea or through tunnels or in vehicles across already highly secured entry points. The day after the Mexican president declared the end of his country's war on drugs, the New York state special narcotics prosecutor announced the recovery of 70 pounds of heroin and fentanyl. Those arrested included a man who gave his home as "Sinaloa, Mexico," El Chapo's home province and the base for his cartel.
On Tuesday, a jury found El Chapo guilty of smuggling hundreds of tons of heroin and cocaine into America. He would likely still be at liberty in Mexico were it not for the Marines.
The question now is whether Marines will be allowed to go after El Mayo and other monsters such as caused a gallant soul visiting New York to ask if he could just walk the streets because he could not do that at home.


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A Nemzetközi PEN Club (Poets, Essayists, Novellists) egy írókat, költőket, esszéistákat és prózaírókat tömörítő nemzetközi szervezet, melyet 1921-ben alapítottak Londonban. Székházuk továbbra is ott található, ugyanakkor ma már 145 országban van helyi központjuk is, többségük Európán kívül. Céljuk nemzetközi szinten a nemzetek irodalmának megismertetése és a PEN klubhoz tartozó írók munkakapcsolatának segítése. Magyarországon 1926-ban alakult meg a PEN Club. Konrád György író 1990-1993 között elnöke, majd utána alelnöke volt a Nemzetközi PEN Clubnak.

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Venezuela's ever-theatrical Hugo Chavez returned home on Monday, thrilling fans and vowing to keep his health and power.
Venezuela's political chessboard has shifted as a result of President Hugo Chávez's illness and convalescence in Cuba. His surprise return on Monday has opened questions about how the game will be played in the future.
"I'm here, happy to be home, and I will be with you from my command post in the heart of Caracas and Venezuela. Although, of course, I never left; I never went away. I am always with you," Chávez said on state television as soon as his plane landed.
In a June 30 speech broadcast from Havana after weeks with no official word and widespread rumours and uncertainty over his health, the 56-year-old president acknowledged that he had been convalescing since June11 from surgery for a pelvic abscess in which a cancerous tumour was removed.
"This is the start of my return. I have gone back to the routine of a cadet, with strict timetables, medical check-ups and rehabilitation," he said. Chávez was referring to his army career, in which he attained the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1992, when he led a failed coup d'état.
He announced he might not attend the July 5 military parade and other ceremonies to commemorate Venezuela's 200th anniversary of independence.
During the four weeks he spent in Cuba, in spite of undergoing two operations, Chávez and his advisers insisted that he was kept up-to-date on government affairs, exercising full presidential powers. During this period, Vice President Elías Jaua rejected calls by the opposition for him to temporarily replace the president.
The vice president, who is appointed, not elected, in Venezuela, hinted that Chávez would run again for the presidency in 2012, saying "this return is the start of battles and future victories we will have as a people, with him [Chávez] as leader."
To have delegated executive power to the vice president, even for a few days, would have been "another blow for Chávez's followers, at least one-third of the electorate, who were already crushed by the loneliness caused by their leader's physical breakdown," said Oscar Schémel, an analyst and head of the polling firm Hinterlaces.
"Venezuela's political process since 1999 has been headed by a leader who inspires devotion that is more religious than political, and is perceived as someone who loves the poor and wants what is good for the people," said Schémel.
"To his grassroots followers, their leader is everything, and without him they fear the loss of what they have gained or are about to gain," he added.
From the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela's lowliest activist to leaders like Fidel Castro of Cuba, everyone recognises that Chávez is essential for the evolution of the "Bolivarian revolution", as he calls the process of change ushered in since he took office in 1999, into "21st century socialism".
As an expression of that continuity, Chávez has already launched his candidacy for the elections due in the second half of 2012, when a president will be chosen for the next six-year term, 2013-2019.
Carlos Romero, a professor of doctoral students in political science at the Central University, said: "These days, uncertainty and caution are the watchwords, in view of at least three scenarios for the Venezuelan electoral panorama."
In the third scenario, "emphasising the continuity of Chávez's legacy will be vital in governing party propaganda," Schémel predicted.
Luis León, head of the Datanalysis polling firm, feels the opposition "should not relax in the present circumstances. On the contrary, it should prepare itself for a tough battle, and present a united front and real proposals that are attractive to voters."
Alternatives to Chávez "can no longer present themselves simply as the opposition, but must appeal to national unity and human values, with an emphasis on convincing social policies," Schémel said.
In the competition between candidates, political scientist José Vicente Carrasquero said: "The relative disadvantage faced by a Chávez who is convalescent or threatened by health problems, compared with a political rival who will probably be much younger."
The opposition Democratic Unity Coalition will meet to select their candidate in primaries scheduled for early 2012. The presidential hopefuls with the greatest chances are governor Henrique Capriles of the central state of Miranda, Pablo Pérez, the governor of the western state of Zulia, and Leopoldo López, the former mayor of a Caracas municipality, although he is temporarily disqualified because of corruption. All three politicians are barely 40 years old.
In his favour, Chávez has not only massive recognition by the population, but also the tacit support of the entire state structure.
The unknown variable in the short term is whether his illness, convalescence and recovery will be used to forge a new propaganda tool to rebuild the president's popularity, which according to some polls has been eroded by 12 years in power, or whether they will block his prospects of electoral victory.
If the latter is the case, his party would need to select a new candidate, a move for which the party is unprepared as there is no heir-apparent who could step into Chávez's shoes.


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Bitcoin surges to record $28,500, quadrupling in value during 2020
Bitcoin has continued its end-of-year Santa Claus rally, surging to a new high of more than $28,500.
The cryptocurrency gained more than 5% to hit $28,572 on Wednesday. It is up 47% since the start of December and is on track for its biggest monthly gain since May 2019.
Bitcoin has almost quadrupled in value this year as interest from institutional investors has grown.
As the US dollar has declined, bitcoin has become a more attractive investment amid concerns that huge government stimulus packages prompted by the coronavirus pandemic will fuel inflation. In the US, a bigger package could be passed once Joe Biden has replaced Donald Trump as president.
On Wednesday the dollar dropped to its lowest level since April 2018, when measured against a basket of currencies. The US currency is under pressure as investors move into riskier assets, betting on a strong economic recovery next year as coronavirus vaccines are rolled out. The vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca was approved in the UK on Wednesday.
Bitcoin has also been boosted by expectations that it will become a more mainstream payment method. PayPal has launched a crypto trading service on its platform and has reportedly bought nearly 70% of all new bitcoin in circulation. A number of hedge fund managers have revealed this year that they have invested in the cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin is even being touted as an alternative to gold. Gold, the traditional safe-haven investment, has declined since hitting a record high of more than $2,000 an ounce in August, and is now flat at $1,879 an ounce. Some analysts expect gold and bitcoin to battle it out for dominance next year.
Paolo Ardoino, the chief technology officer of the crypto exchange Bitfinex, said bitcoin could draw more interest from a broader audience, not just fund managers. "While a growing institutional presence has been part of the narrative of the current bull run, we may see increased retail interest in bitcoin as a form of digital gold," he said.
Other cryptocurrencies such as Ether have also rallied. However, concerns remain about the speculative nature of cryptocurrencies, and there are regulatory issues. Last week the US Securities and Exchange Commission accused Ripple Labs and its senior executives of misleading investors in XRP, the third largest cryptocurrency, by selling $1bn of the virtual tokens without registering with the agency.
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Q: Expression for hyperbola on complex plane The hyperbola
$$x^2 - y^2 = 1$$
has a simple expression in the complex plane as $\{z^2 + \bar{z}^2 = 2\}$.
Is there a similarly simple expression for a hyperbola $\frac{x^2}{a^2}-\frac{y^2}{b^2}=1$? Or an ellipse?
I know we can express hyperbolae and ellipses as images of vertical and horizontal lines under the sine function.

A: Well, there's one way to find out.  Solving the system
$$z = x + iy$$
$$\overline{z} = x - i y$$
for $x$ and $y$, we get
$$x = \frac{z+\overline{z}}{2}$$
and
$$y = \frac{z-\overline{z}}{2i}.$$
Plugging these into the equation
$$\frac{x^2}{a^2} - \frac{y^2}{b^2} = 1,$$
we get
$$\frac{(z+\overline{z})^2}{4a^2} + \frac{(z-\overline{z})^2}{4b^2}=1.$$
If there's no relation between $a$ and $b$ then the $z \overline{z}$ term won't cancel like it did in the $a = b$ case you gave above.
However, if instead of starting with an equation like $x^2/a^2 - y^2/b^2 = 1$ you think more geometrically there's a better way of doing things.  If we let $p$ and $q$ be the foci of a hyperbola, we can write an equation like
$$||z - p| - |z - q|| = 2a$$
which simply encodes the geometric definition of the hyperbola.

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La Virgen del Mar es una advocación mariana del catolicismo de la Virgen María, patrona de Almería (provincia de Almería, Andalucía), España, habiendo otra advocación a la Virgen del Mar en  la ciudad de Santander. Su imagen se conserva en la Iglesia de Santo Domingo y santuario de la Virgen el Mar. Su festividad se celebra el sábado anterior al último domingo del mes de agosto. El segundo domingo de enero se celebra una romería a la Ermita de Torregarcía, lugar donde fuera encontrada la imagen en 1502.

Se trata de una talla en una pieza de dura madera de nogal de estilo gótico y de autor anónimo. La imagen se presenta con brazos, el Niño en el brazo derecho, y corona formando un solo bloque.

Historia

Aparición
La imagen fue encontrada en la playa de Torregarcía por el vigía Andrés de Jaén en la mañana del 21 de diciembre del año 1502, procedente probablemente de un navío naufragado o asaltado por piratas berberiscos. Según el Padre Tapia, debió ser entallada en las mismas atarazanas, valencianas o catalanas, donde fuera construido el navío que la portaba. Por tanto no debe ser muy anterior al año de su aparición. Al llegar a la costa le faltaba la parte posterior de la cabeza y de la espalda. Tenía señales de haber tenido unas argollas de hierro con las que habría estado sujeta a un zuncho de hierro en una cámara de la nave, tal y como era común en la época.

Desde el 1 de enero de 1503, en que se lleva por los frailes al camarín en la capilla mayor de la Iglesia de Santo Domingo, hasta mediado el siglo XVII, la imagen muestra ese aspecto. De esta época es su ropaje, para lo que se le añadieron dos brazos postizos, y una imagen del Niño, y se le recortó la corona de madera para añadirle una de metal. Del siglo XVIII son ciertas alhajas. Sin embargo estas fueron robadas la noche del 23 de agosto de 1891, segundo robo, sin que se tengan referencias del primero. En 1936 desaparecen las joyas y la corona. Actualmente dispone de dos coronas, adquiridas por suscripción popular.

La imagen deja su santuario en contadas ocasiones, movida por violentos sucesos históricos. En 1810 las tropas francesas ocupan el convento y expulsan a los frailes dominicos, dedicándolo a cuartel. La imagen se guarda entonces en la catedral, hasta su vuelta el 8 de abril de 1813.

El 31 de diciembre de 1841, el Cabildo recibe un oficio del Ayuntamiento constituido por la Junta Revolucionaria establecida en 1840, por el que se comunica el cierre la iglesia del suprimido convento de Santo Domingo (tras la Desamortización de Mendizábal, en 1836). La imagen es trasladada en procesión solemne hasta la catedral el 1 de enero siguiente y colocada en su altar mayor. Allí permanece hasta el 17 de marzo de 1844 en que vuelve a su santuario, gobernado entonces el Ayuntamiento por el liberal Joaquín Vilches.

Nuevamente debe trasladarse, esta vez en secreto, la tarde del 17 de julio de 1936, siendo sustituida la imagen por una réplica, obra de don Francisco Álvarez y su hijo, decorada por fray Juan de Aguilar, preparada unos meses antes del inicio de la Guerra Civil Española, en previsión de los hechos que, efectivamente, sucedieron más tarde. Durante la Guerra estuvo escondida en el hueco de una escalera de la vivienda de don José Pérez Gallardo, en la misma plaza de la Virgen del Mar.

Tras la Contienda civil la imagen fue trasladada de nuevo al convento, permaneciendo allí durante dos meses, tras lo cual se bajó a la portería y después en un salón de la sacristía. Después de la reconstrucción del Templo, bendecido por fray Aquilino Marina el 30 de agosto de 1947, la imagen se puso en el altar en el centro de la capilla mayor. Tres años después se volvió a colocar en su camarín.

Las celebraciones en su honor se realizan el 1 de enero, con diversos festejos, disparos de arcabuces y mosquetes, procesiones "para sacar a nuestra Señora del Mar a la mar", o corridas de toros desde el siglo XVII. A partir de 1808, ya concedido el patronato, y hasta ahora, las fiestas se celebran la última decena de agosto.

Con motivo de diversas calamidades se han celebrado rogativas o procesiones, misas o novenas, solicitando su protección. Así por el riesgo de epidemias de peste desde 1676 a 1681; la epidemia de tabardillos en 1768 o la de 1781 (no identificada); la peste de 1834; el cólera de 1855. Rogativas por la lluvia desde 1630, como en 1666, con una sequía prolongada durante 7 años seguidos. Los libros de actas de la catedral recogen hasta 60 acuerdos para hacer estas rogativas desde mediado el siglo XVII. Se hacen rogativas por las plagas de langosta, desde 1634. Y por último contra los terremotos, por cuya intercesión se atribuye que la ciudad no se viera afectada por el de 1804.

El Patronato

Reunido en cabildo el Consejo y Regimiento de la Ciudad el 16 de febrero de 1805, deciden elegirla su patrona. Los vecinos se reúnen en las parroquias del Sagrario y San Pedro el día 24 y la aclaman en "pública y alta voz por su Patrona". De forma parecida ocurre en otras parroquias en días sucesivos. El 13 de marzo se levanta acta, el expediente es aprobado por el obispo y enviado a la Sagrada Congregación de Ritos, a pesar de existir ya el patronazgo de San Indalecio.

En cabildo celebrado el 23 de julio de 1806 se lee oficio por el que se comunica la aprobación, por la que "Su Santidad (Pío VII) ha confirmado Patrona Especial de esta Ciudad a Nuestra Señora del Mar." El Patronazgo incluye los arrabales de Huércal de Almería y Viator. El 22 de agosto el Ayuntamiento y el Cabildo acuerdan las celebraciones del esta proclamación. Las primeras fiestas patronales se celebran en agosto de 1807.

Se celebran desde entonces ferias en honor de la Patrona, tras solicitar autorización al rey Carlos IV. Durante el siglo XIX la feria se celebra en la Plaza Vieja y aledaños. En agosto de 1892 se ilumina el Bulevard con energía eléctrica y la feria se traslada a él.

La Coronación
El que fuera entonces alcalde de Almería, don Emilio Pérez Manzuco impulsa la idea de la coronación canónica de la Virgen. Así lo transmite al obispo don Alfonso Ródenas García que da su visto bueno tras la reconstrucción del camarín en el Santuario. El pleno municipal toma el acuerdo de solicitar la Coronación, que rápidamente es aprobada por la Santa Sede.

A los efectos, y tras concurso público, el poeta almeriense Manuel del Águila y el compositor Maesto Padilla también almeriense, ponen letra y música al Himno de la Coronación. El Ayuntamiento acuerda la construcción de una ermita donde se apareciera la imagen, cerca de Torre García.

Finalmente se produce la Coronación, tras solemnes celebraciones desde el día 2, el 8 de abril de 1951. La corona es obra de los hermanos Granda, de Madrid, de oro de ley, rematada la base por la figura del espíritu Santo; corona imperial y cruz sobre la misma. La circunda orla del mismo metal, encajes y filigranas; bajo la misma un friso de esmalte, concluyendo con 12 estrellas, con piedras preciosas en su centro.

El templo
El santuario de la Virgen del Mar es la iglesia de Santo Domingo. Tras ser dañada gravemente durante la Guerra Civil Española, una nueva reconstrucción se realiza desde 1939, tras finalizar la Guerra, pues fue incendiado y destruido en 1936.

Se inicia la reconstrucción con el acto penitencial de ir retirando los escombros con espuertas, pasando por la calle General Tamayo hasta el lugar donde se depositaban. Se inician las labores el 1 de septiembre de 1939. Los fondos proceden de aportaciones particulares y de la Falange. Promueve las obras de reconstrucción y la recaudación de fondos el fray Ramón Ballarín. Dirige las obras el arquitecto Guillermo Langle Rubio. Jesús de Perceval decora la capilla mayor y el camarín, y traza el altar, el tabernáculo, el trono de la Virgen y el púlpito; después otros altares y los retablos de las capillas. La restauración se acabó en 1975, por el arquitecto Javier Peña y Peña y el aparejador Adolfo Martínez Gázquez. Las vidrieras son obra de Luis Cañadas Fernández.

Patronazgos y Hermandades
La Virgen del Mar es patrona de las ciudades de Almería, Cabo de Gata, Las Marinas de Roquetas de Mar y Adra, en la provincia de Almería, así como de Santander y la villa zaragozana de Encinacorba, donde se venera una imagen de talla gótica, en alabastro policromado, procedente de la escuela borgoñona.

En Almería tiene su sede la Hermandad de la Virgen del Mar, constituida el 28 de enero de 1520 con el título de Hermandad Militar, existiendo entidades similares en las ciudades de Madrid, constituida el 15 de mayo de 1958, y de Sevilla, constituida el 6 de diciembre de 1956, (España). En su momento iniciaron trámites en las ciudades de Barcelona (España) y de Mar del Plata en Argentina, sin que se hayan llevado a cabo finalmente.

Durante las últimas décadas del siglo XX forman parte de la Hermandad destacados almerienses como el arquitecto Guillermo Langle, Antonio Frías Jiménez, luego director de la Caja de Ahorros de Almería, Jesús Durbán Remón, fundador de Cajamar, presidente de la Diputación Provincial, senador en las Cortes constituyentes, Francisco Gómez Angulo, alcalde de Almería.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Hermandad de la Virgen del Mar de Almería Página oficial
 Hermandad de la Virgen del Mar en Madrid Página oficial

Bibliografía
 José Ángel Tapia Garrido. "Virgen del Mar", Ed. Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros de Almería, Almería, 1987, Dep. Legal AL-34-1987, ISBN 84-7580-413-6
 J.Á. Tapia Garrido. "La Virgen María en nuestra tierra", Ed. Caja de Ahorros de Almería, Almería, 1988, Dep. Legal AL-132-1988, ISBN 84-7580-552-3

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Origins: M2C and COVID
Many Latter-day Saints (LDS) are surprised to learn about the origins of the Mesoamerican/Two Cumorahs theory (M2C.)
M2C originated in the "lab" of RLDS scholar L.E. Hills. Hills developed the theory about 100 years ago and published it in a book that included a map which our current M2C scholars have followed ever since.
M2C is a leak from that lab. But unless you're paying attention, you'd never know that because most modern LDS have been led to believe that M2C was developed by the credentialed class at BYU, the self-appointed "experts" on the Book of Mormon who knew more about the Book of Mormon than the rest of us.
Actually, they claim they know more about the Book of Mormon than Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery did, to the point where our modern scholars reject what Joseph and Oliver said.
Such an origin story is not without parallels.
This week, the Wall St. Journal published an article about COVID origins that parallels the M2C origins.
A Scientist Who Said No to Covid Groupthink
Many experts aggressively denied a lab leak was possible and only now admit it. It took courage to make the case a year ago.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-scientist-who-said-no-to-covid-groupthink-11623430659?mod=trending_now_opn_1
The article profiles Filippa Lentzos, who was one of a group of scientists who "asked these questions "not because we are conspiracy theorists. This is our profession," Ms. Lentzos, 44, says in a video interview from her home in Switzerland. As the coronavirus and alarm about it spread, nonexperts started asking similar questions—only to be mocked or silenced by journalists, social-media companies and prominent scientists."
That "COVID cartel" has a parallel in the LDS community: the M2C citation cartel, consisting of Book of Mormon Central, the Interpreter, BYU Studies, etc.
The M2C citation cartel does the same thing with alternatives to M2C. Lately, they've been deploying their followers on social media to promote M2C as well.
An excerpt from the article:
The most significant problem came from the scientific community. "Some of the scientists in this area very quickly closed ranks," she says, and partisanship wasn't their only motive: "Like most things in life, there are power plays. There are agendas that are part of the scientific community. Just like any other community, there are strong vested interests. There were people that did not talk about this, because they feared for their careers. They feared for their grants."
Ms. Lentzos counsels against idealizing scientists and in favor of "seeing science and scientific activity, and how the community works, not as this inner sacred sanctum that's devoid of any conflicts of interests, or agendas, or any of that stuff, but seeing it as also a social activity, where there are good players and bad players."
Latter-day Saints who recognize what's going on with the M2C citation cartel also see how the community works.
Ms. Lentzos and her colleagues published an article that pointed out the circumstantial evidence about the lab-leak origins of COVID, but it got no traction because the COVID cartel controlled the narrative.
As the article points out:
That began to change early this year. Media outlets published articles considering the possibility of a lab leak. At least five of the Lancet signers have distanced themselves from the letter. Anthony Fauci and the World Health Organization's Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said the theory merits further study. President Biden ordered the intelligence community to investigate the question. Even Facebook reversed its ban.
Maybe in the LDS community we will reach a point where the narrative changes.
Maybe, just maybe, someday we will honor, respect, and even believe what Joseph and Oliver said about the Book of Mormon, the translation, the Hill Cumorah, etc.
Barbara G in NC June 15, 2021 at 2:32 PM
A perfect parallel, Brother Jonathan Martin Luther Neville! Another home run!
As a matter of fact, the exact same thought came to me this week! As the evidence FINALLY started coming forth over the last week or so concerning this COVID planned-demic cover-up, I started fantasizing about the possibility of the truth being revealed in our Church History concerning what Joseph and Oliver---THE two most credible witnesses of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the whole history of this Church---declared about location of the Hill Cumorah and now even the translation of the Book of Mormon!
A girl can dream, can't she?
We are studying Doctrine & Covenants this year in our Come Follow Me Curriculum. Wouldn't it be prudent if every member of the Church would read Joseph and Oliver's version of the Restoration up to 1834 by simply by reading the Eight Letters by December 31st?
Furthermore, if THE Prophet of the Restoration thought it prudent to have the Eight Letters copied into his personal journal and printed numerous times in all Church magazines and papers up to his death so the saints who were following him across the Heartland could read what he knew about the history of the Restoration, doesn't that alone make it prudent for our members to read them today? And, yet, our Ensign has never printed the Eight Letters in the history of its existence! Shame on someone!
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Opinion: Emperor Xi Jinping Must Offer Hope, Rather Than Personality Cult
The proverb tongchuang yimeng — same bed, different dreams — is increasingly being used by young Chinese to describe our opposition to the draconian political direction the new leadership is taking the country, developments many Chinese are describing as a Second Cultural Revolution.
Communist Party leader Xi Jinping came to power on a promise to fulfil "The China Dream" — rejuvenation of the nation. To his generation, born and raised with the revolution, this means a communal vision of self-sacrifice for the greater glory of the party and state. But my millennial generation has a different dream, one that more resembles the traditional American one: less political interference in our lives, more openness to the outside world, dismantling the detested Great Firewall that blocks indispensable websites such as Google, Facebook and YouTube, and more freedom and democracy like that enjoyed by our peers in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
I grew up in Shanghai and am now a first-year undergraduate student at Columbia University. When I arrived in New York, my Ivy League classmates were surprised that I didn't fit their preconception of a typical Chinese bookworm. Instead they saw a young woman from a communist country who was as interested in style, had travelled as widely, been as well educated and had as much money as they did. "We didn't know the People's Republic had aristocracy," my roommates half-joked.
I'm a typical taizidang, or princeling. My grandfather was a founder of the People's Liberation Army, and one of Chairman Mao Zedong's favourite generals. I've been groomed from birth to take my place among China's ruling elite. I've had English tutors since I started to talk, because all Chinese know that fluency in English is a requirement for career success. Then I was admitted to the prestigious school attached to Shanghai's top university, Fudan. And now I'm living the culmination of the real "China Dream" — an Ivy League education. Attesting to this unwritten rite of passage is the fact that Xi sent his only child to study at Harvard. She quietly graduated, and now works in her father's office (under a pseudonym to prevent undue scrutiny).
This privileged life might seem like a dream, but my Chinese peers and I can't escape our sense of dread at the alarming political developments back home.
Xi is taking China in a frightening, reactionary, ideologically driven direction. He is creating a personality cult the likes of which hasn't been seen since Mao and Deng Xiaoping (both of whom earned their credentials leading the revolutionary war, while Xi has never seen a battlefield). His anti-corruption campaign has terrified everyone. With even routine approval of new projects and investments arousing suspicion, the bureaucracy is paralysed.
In China, it's not just about what you did, but who's in your network of relationships that matters. If your political patron gets in trouble, it doesn't matter how clean you are, your neck is on the chopping block. In addition to bureaucrats, academics, human-rights lawyers, bloggers, labour activists and business leaders are also being terrorised. In universities, the government has recruited informers to denounce professors advocating liberal values. Several outspoken progressive academics have lost their jobs. Hundreds of human rights lawyers have disappeared or been arrested. Many business leaders and labour activists have gone missing, presumably detained by anti-corruption investigators.
Among the highest-profile cases was that of tycoon Guo Guangchang, popularly known as "China's Warren Buffet" and the PRC's 11th-wealthiest person with a net worth of more than $US7 billion ($14.7bn). Guo was detained last December to "assist a judicial investigation" and then simply appeared at his company's annual meeting a few days later with no explanation.
This is all giving me and my Chinese classmates at Columbia a profound sense of angst. We're getting a liberal arts education that emphasises the values of critical thought, civic engagement, independent initiative, tolerance, diversity, inclusiveness. We're on campus during a high tide of social activism over civil rights and social justice issues in the US, and during a contentious presidential campaign where issues vital to the nation's future are being aired and debated in public.
Yet when we go back to China we're expected to suppress all we've learned and fit back into the patriarchal, hierarchical, traditional autocratic culture where the emperor — the leader of the Communist Party — rules all, and average people, women in particular, must be seen and not heard.
One of my classes at Columbia this semester is "Social Problems in Contemporary China" taught by Leta Hong Fincher, the author of the groundbreaking book Leftover Women, about the pressure on well-educated, urban Chinese women to marry, have families and uphold traditional values. For this class, and on my own, I've been reading up on the events of the 20th century, specifically China's May 4 (1919) New Culture Movement. That event gave rise to a wave of cultural and political liberalism that was overtaken by the Communist Revolution, displaced by Mao's dictatorship, and led to the tragedies of his totalitarian excess (The Anti-Rightist Campaign, Great Leap Forward Famine and Cultural Revolution).
I've come to the conclusion that what we need now is a new New Culture Movement, a new China Dream, not a Second Cultural Revolution. A dream that isn't fuelled by fear, but instead inspired by hope and idealism. I may be a naive teenager, but even Mao said: "You young people, full of vigour and vitality, in the bloom of life, are like the morning sun. Our hope is placed on you."
Please, Chairman Xi, don't just focus on your privileged daughter's future, or that of all the princelings of our generation, let's create a more hopeful future for all young Chinese.
A century ago Chinese Communist Party co-founder Chen Duxiu called on China's youth to "save the nation" in the May Fourth Movement. In his piece "Call to Youth," published in New Youth, the pioneering magazine he founded, he urged Chinese young people to: "Be independent, not servile. Be progressive, not conservative. Be aggressive, not retiring. Be cosmopolitan, not isolationist." These are worthy values for a 21st Century New, New Culture Movement. Please Chairman Xi, be true to the original mission of the Communist Party and the New Culture Movement that gave rise to it.
Lu Xun, a May Fourth Movement activist and China's most renowned 20th-century writer, summed up our challenge best. He wrote these words 100 years ago, but they remain more relevant than ever: "Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many people pass one way, a road is made."
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Ammi: Letter to a Democratic Mother is a debut novel by Indian Director and script writer Saeed Akhtar Mirza. It takes the form of a letter written by Mirza to his late mother.

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First win for Armour
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Sadness and joy have punctuated the past five weeks for Shannon Armour, who gained her first win as a trainer when Ivana Legacy won at Forbury Park on Thursday Night.
Five weeks ago, Shannon gave birth to her and husband Andrew's (Archie) second child, Beauden. Two weeks later she lost her father.
"The win was dedicated to my Dad, Ron Lilley," Shannon said.
A native of Auckland, the 27-year-old Shannon said she'd been riding horses since she was five and advanced to representing New Zealand at dressage, showjumping and eventing.
"My horses grazed at the Kumeu track," Shannon said, "Ray Green trained there, I helped him and the odd other trainer."
After moving south, she worked for both Kirk Larsen and Tom Kilkelly and was also employed as a swabbing steward at both the gallops and the trots for two to three years.
"I've got a trials licence and had enough drives to qualify for a junior's licence but I'm a rider, not a driver, so I didn't bother going further."
A couple of years back, Andrew and Shannon spent about seven months in Australia and while Andrew continued his career as a driver, Shannon rode for an endurance and showing stable in Marbrug, Queensland.
Back in Invercargill, Shannon is currently on maternity leave from her job in the Travelex foreign currency booth, part of Lakers House Of Travel.
As well as a new son, Shannon and Andrew have a daughter Brooklynn, aged two-and-a-half.
Not surprisingly, neither made it to Forbury Park and Ivana Legacy was left in the care of Grant Milne.
The son of Edendale trainer Alex Milne, Grant was the only one of the large number of owners who made the trip north.
Shannon said the ownership group is made up of members of the Squash club where Andrew plays, and other friends.
They purchased Ivana Legacy privately from her breeder Megan McLellan for $1000. The four-year-old traces back to Derek and Jim Dynes' broodmare gem Tactics.
The branch developed by the late Jim and Rene Holland includes the likes of Just Ella, the group one winners It's Ella and Some Legacy, along with Lucy Legacy and Luciano.
Ivana Legacy was driven in the win by Craig Ferguson.
Eight years earlier, Ferguson had scored his first ever race win on Lucy Legacy, a half-sister to Ivana Legacy's dam Badland's Legacy. Ferguson's then boss Brendon McLellan, trained Lucy Legacy.


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