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Timothy Findley: The Wars (1977) Literature and War Readalong April 2013
Posted in Books, Literature, Novel, Readalong by Caroline
Is it possible to write about WWI – including the trenches, the incapable high command, shell shock, gas attacks, rats, mud, facial wounds, the immense body count – and still be original and have something profound and thought-provoking to say? Before reading Timothy Findley's The Wars I might have said "possibly" but after finishing it, I have to say "definitely". This novel proves that in the hands of a powerful writer anything can become extraordinary.
The Wars has an episodic structure but still tells a coherent story, exploring what happened one day, during WWI, when young Officer Robert Ross, broke the ranks, committing an act of total insubordination, shot another officer and freed dozens of horses. How did it come to this? The story is told in a circular way, starting with the end, withholding all the vital information, and then moving back to the beginning, unfolding every step which led to that fatal day.
I said in my intro post that I was worried the book would contain a lot of animal suffering and it did but in an unusual way. The strength of Findley's work is that he manages to show, just like Coetzee – another defender of animals – that, at the end of the day, animals and humans are equal. Both feel pain; their lives are precious and must be protected. Being alive is nothing short of a miracle.
This first quote is central in the book and illustrates perfectly what kind of person Robert Ross is
In another hole there was a rat that was alive but trapped because of the waterlogged condition of the earth that kept collapsing every time it tried to ascend the walls. Robert struck a match and caught the rat by the tail. It squealed as he lifted it over the edge and set it free. Robert wondered afterwards if setting the rat free had been a favour – but in the moment that he did it he was thinking: here is someone still alive. And the word alive was amazing.
The instances in which animals die at the hand of men who have gone crazy or are saved by compassionate men are numerous. Madness is an important topic in this novel. Not just in the sense of war is madness but because people lose their minds during battle or under attack. And often they take it out on weaker ones. Wounded Germans, prisoners or animals.
Many of the soldiers in the book question the decisions of their superiors
This – to Bates – was the greatest terror of the war: what you didn't know of the men who told you what to do – where to go and when. What if they were mad – or stupid? What if their fear was greater than yours? Or what of they were brave and crazy – wanting and demanding bravery from you?
Life in the trenches is constant terror, trying to stay sane and attempting to survive.
Robert had only taken eight hours sleep in the last three days. He was living on chocolate bars and tea and generous portions of rum which he took from the supply wagons. His body was completely numb and his mind had shrunken to a small, protective shell in which he hoarded the barest essentials of reason.
The novel is divided in many short chapters which could be read separately but definitely work as a whole. This isn't a collection of snapshots, it is a novel but this approach of unfolding the story in short chapters, which change point of view, narrative technique, tone and mood, make every part very powerful. Findley is probably one of the most assured writers I've read. This could have been difficult to read but most chapters contain strong and expressive scenes. There is far more show than tell in this book, which makes it accessible but also painful. Death, pain, loss and grief are described in a civilian setting and during war, and finally illustrate that love is all that counts. War is mad, inflicting pain is mad and treating people without respect is mad as well.
What came as a surprise were the many funny moments in this book. Rodwell is an officer who saved some injured animals after an attack
"Where did you find the hedgehog?" Robert asked.
"Under a hedge," said Rodwell.
Everybody laughed.
"I suppose that means you found the bird in the sky," said Devlin.
"Would that I had, Mister Devlin," said Rodwell. "No sir – I found him with the hedgehog. They were crouched there side by side when I got them by putting out my hand to secure the toad. We were all there together, you see. It was a popular hedge just at that moment."
There are many other funny moments. I was glad for those, otherwise the book would have been really dark.
The Wars is populated by likable characters which makes it a painful read. There are not many men or animals who survive in this book. It's not too gruesome as wounds and pain are not dwelt on but it has many explicit moments which make it an equally beautiful, powerful and painful read.
Anna (Diary of an Eccentric)
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Danielle (A Work in Progress)
The review is also a contribution to The Canadian Book Challenge.
The Wars was the fourth book in the Literature and War Readalong 2013. The next is the WWII novel All That I Am by Australian writer Anna Funder . Discussion starts on Friday 31 May, 2013. Further information on the Literature and War Readalong, including the book blurbs can be found here.
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34 thoughts on "Timothy Findley: The Wars (1977) Literature and War Readalong April 2013"
I agree with the view about animals and people being equal. Of course that is a controversial viewpoint and it will be lost on some.
I like the fact that you have highlighted the originality of the work, that is something that I really look for in a novel.
It spoke to me because it echoes my own thoughts and feelings. I loved how he wrote "someone was alive" meaning the rat. The only other writer who writes like this is Coetzee and maybe Giono whose book we read last year.
I could imagien you'd like this. It's an unusual non-linear approach.
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I think while reading this book, I didn't like it very much. The narrative felt choppy and the characters (aside from Robert) were flat. But Findley drew me in from the very beginning by starting the story at the end. I wanted to know what happened to the horses and how Robert went mad. And after I finished the book, the more I thought about it, the more I liked it. His descriptions of the trenches and the battles were fantastic. It isn't the best WWI novel I've ever read, but it certainly was interesting and unique.
Here's my review:
http://diaryofaneccentric.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/review-the-wars-by-timothy-findley/
Oh, and I'm looking forward to next month's book. It's been sitting on my shelf for ages, and I'm glad to have an excuse to finally read it.
Me too. I'm so curious to find out whether I will like it. I've only heard quite good things so far.
Thanks for the link, Anna, I have just read your review.
I liked it a lot but also because I liked the non-linear apparoach. I thought it was unusual and his scenes are very strong. But there are other WWI novels dealing more with the specifics of this war.
Overall, I'm glad I read it.
I would imagine that after living through something as devastating as WWI (or any war for that matter), that you don't emerge the same, and an appreciation of life would have to be one of the changes.
I just finished Kate Atkinson's Life after Life and there's a scene in which the father, who fought in WWI, tells his daughter that he's prefer his children to keep their heads down and survive. His daughter questions that and says that he can't mean it. He reiterates his belief and later she questions it again.
I read somewhere about a Japanese pilot who after WWII became a vegetarian and disavowed all violence. And of course, there is a link between eating meat and violence–even if we don't have to commit it ourselves.
I'm sure it chnages you but I don't think it will always lead to an appreciation of life.
The way it is shown in the book, the shock and horror can lead to more and more cruelty.
It's like abuse, some survive and would never inflict it on others, others survive barely and pass it on.
Violence is similar, I feel.
In the novel, Robert, has a great love for animals and violence is horrible for him.
I always feel the way a country r people treat their animals says a lot about them.
It's violent, to eat meat, I agree but I would feel hypocrite if I pretended I never do. I'm working on it though.
I'm very keen on reading that Atkinson.
I think you would love the Atkinson novel.
Yes, I know plenty of people who've been negatively impacted by war and are more violent themselves.
A sad thing really.
I wanted to return to her anyway… Maybe with this one.
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I loved this book. Not the subject matter, of course, but the concise prose that made powerful image after powerful image come to life. (and all without profanity!)
If a mule or a horse fell down or stumbled in the traces, the wagon it was pulling was rolled aside(. . .) The fallen animals were dragged, still living, to the ditches where unavoidably they burned or were drowned. There were no acts of mercy. There was no ammunition to be spared.
It's brilliant and will stay with me a long time.
I'm glad you liked it as much as I did. You're right about the profanity, it didn't really occur to me while reading.
It took me a while to be able to say why I found this so great, unusual but still accessible and it's the way he creates images ans scenes. So powerful.
What a great review, Caroline. I can totally believe being in constant peril like that could make you lose your mind. I met a guy who survived the Vietnam War and said he and his bunkmates would throw knives at each other for fun because they felt they had nothing to lose. They were terrified all the time.
Thanks, Carole. It's an amazing book. I need to find out what else he has written.
I suppose getting hatrder is a means to survive. Mentally. Some things just go to deep to be left behind.
This sounds excellent, I'm glad you had a good pick this month.
I'm going to shock everybody out there but I don't think animals and humans are equal. I think we need to respect animals, and I'm against cruelty to animals and I agree with you, the way a country treats their animals says a lot about its civilization. However, put in a position where an animal and a human are in danger and I can only save one, I choose the human. Without hesitation.
It is and I'm sure you would like it if yiu were ever in the mood to read a WWI novel.
I think I might shock people even more 8 out 10 times I think the animal is superior and knowing my emotional responses I would probabaly try to save the animal first. Unless it's a child.
But who knows.
As usual, I am posting this before reading your post and the other comments.
Here are some comments on the back cover: "The war novel to end all war novels…" "This is a book that stands comparison with any fiction being produced today in the English language." "A triumph that should be shared by many readers." Is it just that I am totally out of touch with what makes a great war novel? Some will say yes. However, in my defense, I have read a lot of war novels including all but one since Caroline started the Readalongs, and I just do not see what people see in this book. The opening is intriguing and made me wonder what was going to happen, but after a while I stopped caring. I do not fault Findley's decision to be creative with his nonlinear style, but it seems like writers did not exhaust straight forward novelizations of WWI before feeling they had to go artsy. It's almost like they looked at "All Quiet…" and just gave up. You would think that since that book came out there would be some competition for best WWI fiction, but none have come close and certainly "The Wars" is not even in the conversation.
1. If you love animals, this book is not for you! Much of the depiction of animals seemed to be gratuitous and for shock value. I bet you loved that scene with the wounded horse on the ship, didn't you Caroline?
2. The whore house scene was weird and unsatisfying (sorry). The twist ending was disgusting.
3. The crater scene was compelling, but almost comical. Why would they try to emplace mortars on the forward edge? That makes no tactical sense. Why did the Germans set off the mine and then not follow it up with an attack? That would have been the main purpose of the mine. Robert shoots the German sniper with a snap shot with a pistol at what had to be a long range. Ridiculous!
4. The diary of a twelve year old was devoid of reality. I have noticed this before in other novels. Why do novelists include diary entries as part of their plots, but have them written as though the diarist is a professional novelist?! Who writes a diary with that kind of detail?
5. Robert gets gang raped in a dark room. I did not think the book could get worse, but I was wrong. Sometimes pressing the envelope just results in a pile of crap.
6. Why have Robert murder Cassles? Wouldn't it have been better to leave the audience debating whether Robert deserved capital punishment? Also, the murder makes little sense unless Robert just went insane and there was little to justify that.
Caroline, I know I am on a streak of disliking the choices, but I have to be honest. I hated this book, too. It was terrible and depressing. The plot was ridiculous. The characters were unappealing. The writing is average. Thank God it was short.
Another one we disagree on. I think this is one of the very best anti-war novels and I liked the way he wrote abiout animals because I think he says a few very profound things in doing so, about humanity and the loss of it.
I had a hard time though, reading those scenes and, yes, te boat scene was horrible.
The whore house scene worked for me, it showed us what type of perosn Robert is and although a bit shocking, I think Taffler's charcater serves a purpose too.
I didn't get why the German didn't shoot them. I suppose because he was the last one there and just didn't feel like killing.
Anaïs Nin's childhood diary – and that of Anne Frank as well would contradict you. It's a fact that wrieters start often with writing a diary as a child.
The gang rape was a bit mysterious but like many other things, I think he wanted to show that among the mayhem, there was general degeneration and dehumanization at work.
The same goes for the murder. In the end Robert lost it.
I liked the non-linear approach. I find it tiring to read too many linear novels. I'm sorry you disliked it so much but I'm not too surprised.
Don't be sorry. It's not your fault.
I am not arguing that people are not capable of writing diary entries like in this book, I just feel its rare and used by authors as though it is common. It did not have the feel of a diary like Anne Frank's does. It feels like a novelist continuing his narrative in a different person's voice.
Suddenly throwing Taffler into the whore house scene to close it with a shocking twist was cheap.
Why would the German be the last one there? They were not retreating. If anything he would have been part of the assualt that inexplicably does not occur. I don't mean to nitpick, but we have too few novels that realistically portray trench warfare for me to put up with an author who purports to give us the real horrors but shows a lack of knowledge of how war really works. Not surprising for an actor turned novelist.
Bring on the next one, I'm still game.
I didn't mind Taffler in the whore house, it just served to show how very naïve Robert was. Ok, I guess you are right about the trench scene. I liked the book so much, I didn't care whether that was accurate but I suppose, no, it's not. Or at least it's very mysterious. He needed one scene to show that Robert was slowly losing it as well.
Anna Funder's is an entirely different book. I'm sure you will like the writing more.
Nice review, Caroline. I liked very much the structure of the book and the fact that the main characters love animals – not necessarily as pets, but as living things which have as much right to live as humans. The last paragraph is really funny and made me smile. Thanks for this wonderful review. I haven't read a Timothy Findley book yet. Maybe I will start with this one.
Thansk, Vishy. I hope you get to read this, it's a wonderful book but sad too.
I think you will like the non-linear structure and the way he creates scenes. Very powerful.
I'm really curious to read your thoughts on this.
As ever, it's fascinating to read the discussion here and the differences of opinion. I think we don't know the half of what people did during the wars, when life was chaotic and lawless and people were forced back on their instincts to survive. Nothing would surprise me. And so I suppose it's the stories that show incidents of real courage and compassion that affect me most, rather than those full of graphic violence. It's hard for me to tell which side this novel falls on (though quite probably it's somewhere in the middle!). I'm really glad you appreciated it – poor old Elizabeth Bowen was quite heavy going wasn't she? 🙂
She certainly was. 🙂
I'd say this does fall in the middle but I've rarely read a book which can be so beautiful and so sad at the same time. It's not depressing just very true to life in all its forms, the most negative and the most positive, I'd say.
I know you are not going to read it but you'd like the way he tells the story very much.
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I love that you commented on those quietly humourous moments; as I was reading, I was thinking just how essential they were, but then I forgot to note them, because I was so preoccupied by the more overtly complicated parts of the novel (especially the structure and voice of it, which fascinate me…the layers therein, but also the philosophical aspects of the story). Even though I was re-reading, I remembered very little of the novel on this reading (it's been more than 20 years now, I guess), but I remembered enough to let my bookmark sit for a few days before the scene below-deck (in the underworld) in the ship: that was so brutal (but realistic, I suspect, and I feel that every detail was necessary to make the point). Overall, however, the beauty of the crafting sticks with me as much as the horror of the content; I hope that you've encouraged a few new readers to pick up a copy of this one (and I will watch for another book in your theme to pique my interest…I missed the Bowen, but would have enjoyed that as well).
Thanks for joining. I wasn't sure at first if those passage were really humurous but there were quite a few and I thought that's so excellent as nobody really dares being funny without sarcasm in a novel about war. But that's just how life is. Even under the most terrible circumstnaces people will try to see the funny side of things. At least I do.
It has a very complicated structure, I didn't mention the photographs and how some of the story was told, I felt I would have to read it again to fully grasp this.
The ship scene was almost too hard to bear… I didn't see anything as gratuitous.
I hope you will join again. The Bowen was a bit of a mixed bag.
I'm glad, too, to see you liked this as much as I did. I was really impressed by it and think I need to read it again sometime soon. Findley did a good job of balancing the more difficult passages with other scenes–the pain Robert's mother felt, his experiences in England, the bits of story told by Robert's nurse and Lady Juliet–he obviously knew when to pull back, when some of the more difficult imagery was going to really press in on a reader. And I totally liked Lady Juliet's 'voice'–she, as did the other characters, felt to me, really authentic. I think I missed half the symbolism–references to animals and such–and so many references to ashes and fire–and in thinking about it now and Buried in Print's comment above–about the underworld on board the ship–which makes me think of Greek mythology and Hades. Anyway–this was an excellent choice–I don't know anything really about Findley, but I am hoping to read more of his work now. Oh, and I liked the humor as well, though I think I was not consciously thinking about it when reading–see, so much to this book!
It's very rich and interesting how we all liked other aspects.
I was interested in Anna's more critical review and Kevin's comments as well, as I think, the only fault lies in its not being all that historical. What would someone who know nothing of WWI think of that particular war.
I loved it exactly because it only sprinkled the story with a feel of WWI but was in the end about much more philosophical and universal themes.
From what I've read some of his books are not accessible hile others are said to be good.
I loved the charcater Rodwell. It's only now that I fully grasp how tragic it all was.
You gave the book such high praise…I like it.
It's nice how you focus it on animals. I totally understand how sad it is that both animals and humans were badly hurt.
Love the quote, it was quite funny. Reminds me of the book I am currently reading, I am George from Georgia.
Animals play a crucial role in the book. I think Findley wanted to show that every living being suffers in a war.
I liked that there was still humour. I've never heard of the book you are reading.
That's not the title … that's a quote from the book, sort of hedgehog from the hedge 😉
Ah… I see


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Do not anticipate the problems of this life with apprehension, but rather, with perfect hope that God, to whom you belong, will free you from them accordingly. He has defended you up to now. Simply hold on tightly to the hand of his divine providence, and he will help you in all events, and when you are unable to walk, he will lead you.


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Кызыларай — самый высокий красный горный массив в казахской степи.

На севере Прибалхашья на 25 км протянулся Кызыларайский хребет. Эти слоистые породы являются следами древних вулканов. Пик Аксоран расположен на высоте 1565 метров. Это самая высокая точка Сарыарки. Именно поэтому этот горный массив называют «Степной горкой». У подножия Кызыларай находится село Шабанбай би, популярное среди любителей экотуризма. Местные жители организуют для туристов пешие походы к археологическим памятникам, а также знакомят их с национальной культурой казахов.

Местоположение
Кызыларайский хребет расположен в Актогайском районе Карагандинской области. Его ширина 70 км, длина 56 км. В южной части Жаман-Кызыларайских гор находится небольшой посёлок Сона в Шабанбайбийском сельском округе. На западе Кызыларайский хребет заканчивается горами: пик Шокпартас на высоте 980 метров над уровнем моря и гора Каражумак с пиком Актогай на высоте 1031 метр.

Этимология
Название состоит из двух компонентов. Первый тест — цвет горы. Второе происходит от монгольского слова «арай». Употребляется в значении «вершина горы», «пик». Поэтому «Кызыларай» означает «красная вершина горы, высокое место».

Геологический состав
Как и Бектау-Ата, эти горы являются остатками древних вулканов, но в отличие от Бектау здесь был действующий вулкан. Кызыларайские горы в основном состоят из осадочных и магматических пород, в том числе гранита, порфира, кварцита, песчаника и сланца.

Историческое значение
Кызыларай имеет богатое историческое наследие: монументальные гробницы и наскальные рисунки эпохи бронзы, каменные изваяния тюркского периода и мавзолеи казахско-джунгарских войн. Археолог Алькей Маргулан нашёл в этих памятниках древние следы бегазы-дандибайской культуры. В близлежащем некрополе Бегазы были найдены бронзовые наконечники стрел. Экспонаты можно увидеть в областном археолого-этнографическом музее в поселке Актогай.

Климат
Из-за удаленности от Красных океанов и морей свободно циркулируют сибирский антициклон и арктические воздушные массы, поэтому климат здесь сухой и резко континентальный. Зима холодная, средняя температура января −14…-18 °C, минимальная −40 °C. Лето сухое и жаркое, средняя температура июля +20…+24 °C, максимальная +35 °C. Среднегодовое количество осадков 200—300 мм.

Флора
Многослойные гранитные пики Кызыларайского хребта покрыты хвойными лесами и арчовниками. В степи есть небольшие берёзовые островки. Вокруг растут шиповник, боярышник, малина и смородина. Но основу флоры составляют сосны.

Животный мир
Кызыларайские горы — единственное крупное место обитания архаров в Казахстане. Животный мир Кызыларай богат и разнообразен. Кроме этих архаров встречаются олень, сайгак, кабан, волк, лисица, кролик, джейран, корсак, барсук, белохвостый олень и сурок. Из птиц — тетерев, куропатка, гусь, ястреб, чайка и др.

Литература
 Ержанов, Н. Т. (2001). Современное состояние биоразнообразия млекопитающих казахстанской микрофлоры и факторы, его определяющие. Вестник КарГУ, (3), 23.
 Бекзаткызы, И. (2019). Полевые исследования по топонимике Сарыарки (на примере Карагандинской области). В полевых исследованиях Верхнего Приобья, Прииртышья и Алтая (археология, этнография, краеведение и музейное дело) (с. 175—182).
 Бейсенов, А. З., Мусаева Р. С., Жамбулатов К. А. (2012). О создании естественно-научной базы (ЕНО) по проекту музея-заповедника «Кызыларай-Бегазы». В АРХЕОЛОГИИ И ИСТОРИИ ЖЕЛТОГО (стр. 259—274).

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Dyke Road Drive
A residents' association for Lover's Walk, Parkmore Terrace and Dyke Road Drive
Anston House plans updated
by William Shaw • May 12, 2014 • 7 Comments
The council have informed us that the planning application for converting Anston House into flats has been updated.
It looks like this update was made in the light of comments made by local residents and Dyke Road Drive Residents Association regarding the overlooking and loss of privacy caused by the windows and balconies at the rear of the building.
The new drawings feature "translucent window finish to prevent overlooking from upper windows" and "balconies with 1800mm privacy screens to inhibit overlooking".
Please take a moment to look at the plans here and, if necessary, add your comments to the council site. You may comment here.
One: Should Dyke Road Drive Residents Association make additional comments? Do these changes satisfy our concerns or not? If you've an opinion on that, please add it at the bottom of this page.
Two: Please remember, that if you do feel strongly about the plans, comments may be made by any individual affected. The planning committee receives a total of the number of individual complaints. Just because one person in household has commented, that doesn't stop others from doing so.
← Minutes, 3 April 2014
Anston House at Planning Committe: 4 June →
7 comments for "Anston House plans updated"
William Shaw
I've had this from Urban Splash. What do people – especially those directly affected by overlooking and light issues – feel about meeting Mark Latham?
Dear Local Resident
Anston House – changes to exterior
I am writing to you regarding the proposed changes to the exterior of Anston House on Preston Road because I am aware that you have written to the Council to express concern about some aspects of the proposals.
We take residents' concerns seriously and we are keen to ensure as far as possible that the appearance of the converted building takes account of the views of the local community. So I am contacting you to extend an invitation to meet with the architects and me in order to explain our thinking and discuss some different options for the treatment of the building which we are putting forward in light of local feedback to our original proposals.
We will be available to meet with any interested residents next Tuesday 20th May at 6.30pm in central Brighton. We will confirm the exact venue shortly but are looking to ensure it is somewhere central and easily accessible.
I would be grateful if you would respond to this email to let me know if you are intending to come along, and if you are able to make it I look forward to meeting you next week.
Mark Latham
i didn't get this. I hope to be there
Excellent. Thanks Elizabeth.
Allan Grainger
I would be interested in going to this meeting on the 20th May
Hi Allan. I realise I can't make it as I've already got a meeting that evening. It would be great to have a representation there though. Not sure if Jane can make it.
Hopefully some residents directly behind AH can go – as much to resolve the issues over loss of privacy – as to ask him a few questions about this current deal. As far as I know, Urban Spash are only currently employed on the redevelopment of the Anston House block and don't have any input into the rest of the site now. I think it would be useful to get a sense of whether this bid is actually going forward with a developer in mind or is this just another ploy to bump up the land value. It would also be useful to know what was really behind the previous joint bid on both plots of land, which Mark Latham would know. That might give us some kind of clue as to what's in store for the larger site.
From my point of view, though I'm not objecting personally to the development, those new screens on the rear balcony are just a bit weird. You would still be able to overlook properties below from behind them. If anything they're slightly creepier for those properties behind on Dyke Road Drive as you wouldn't be aware of anyone looking down at you. But from their point of view, without those balconies those rear flats are very unappealing commercially. Unless I hear anything different from those down the road, I'm going to comment to that effect. They're a bit of a dodgy bodge.
The meeting with Mark Latham and designer was interesting. The black glazed tiles are not happening. Instead Urban Splash offered the Planners and the Council glazed off-white and glazed terracotta, both options were presented in a multitude of tones, which he showed us. Mark Latham repeatedly told the audience that none of the samples were going to be the definitive selection, so the exercise was merely to give us an idea of what the finished cladding might look like. It was suggested by Malcolm Dawes of The Brighton Society that a matt tile would be more satisfactory, as it would not have a reflective surface that was constantly changing in the light. Mark Latham told us that in the end it was down to the Planners and the Council to make the final choice, and at present they favoured the terracotta option. When suggested by Mark Latham that Urban Splash were willing to erect small sample structures on sight in order to see what the tiles would look like the Planners and Council where not interested in doing this. Mark Latham told us that the Planners and Council just wanted a quick solution.
Several people brought up the issue of the balconies and loss of privacy. Mark Latham and the designer showed us a plan drawing with degree angles on it to show how it would be difficult for the occupant of the upper flats to overlook the DRD properties from behind the proposed screens. The general verdict from the floor was that this solution was acceptable.
With regards to car parking they are proposing to have this at the front and the side of the building. When asked if they were going to have parking at the back of the building they said no.
When pressed to give us an idea of what might be happening to the rest of the site Mark Latham said that Urban Splash had not been instructed as yet to consider any planning for the rest of the site.
When ask if the trees at the back/side of AH would stay he gave a resounding yes.
He seemed to be wanting to get the residents of DRD and the Civic groups onto his wavelength, and although Urban Splash have had what seems to be little understanding of this City/Town they are willing to listen to people who live here. That said, I would further a note of caution, whatever they do to AH will set a precedent for the rest of the site and Preston Road. The Council has an agenda to build high and with density that amounts to cramming. For them it's not about what is aesthetically pleasing, as we were all aware from the failed proposal last year, it's about numbers.
The general exterior refurbishment of AH is acceptable if you are in favour of modern block design.
Mark Latham said if they get sign off the completion date would be in 18 months.
Thanks for that Allan.
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It turns out that the guy that hit my car has admitted responsibility, and the car will be ready next week. I miss the Mini.
The bad news is that a nice guy I went on a few dates with seems to have disappeared off the face of the planet. He could call, but my interest wanes with each passing day. I swear the day I start to understand men will be the day Britney Spears doesn't look like she needs to be dipped in a vat of Lysol.
Yesterday was a terrible day. I woke up in the middle of the night, sweating one minute, shivering the next. I woke up to the worst sinus congestion ever. Then I pulled it together only to go to work, fall on the stairs, and right on top of my lunch.
It's been a terrible, horrible, no good very bad week. I'm thinking of moving to Australia.
If you know where that quote is from you are a rock star.
Yo girl! Let me know if you really want to go to Australia b/c I'm sooooo there with you! haha!
awe, fond memories of that book from my first day in fifth grade. although the teacher read it to stress that everyone has bad days and he didn't want to hear any of our whining. jerk.


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TORONTO and CAMBRIDGE, MA, May 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - ProMis Neurosciences, Inc. ("ProMIS" or the "Company"), a company focused on the discovery and development of precision treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced its operational and financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2018.
"We are very pleased with continued progress at ProMIS", said Executive Chairman Eugene Williams. "Successful closing of our recent private placement allows a cash runway into the second half of 2019. During this period we shall focus on three key activities: developing PMN310 toward clinical trial initiation for Alzheimer's disease, continuing to show potential best in class differentiation of PMN310, and using our unique technology platform to identify new targets and selective antibody therapeutics for other neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease and ALS."
On April 30, 2018, the Company completed a private placement of 19,306,668 common share units at a price of $0.375 per unit, for gross proceeds of approximately $7,240,000. Each unit consisted of one common share and one-half of a common share purchase warrant. Each whole warrant is exercisable into one common share at a price of $0.48 per share for a 60-month exercise period, subject to earlier expiry on 30 days' notice if, at any time after four months from closing, the twenty-day volume-weighted average trading price of the Company's common shares is greater than CDN$1.00. Net proceeds from the private placement will be used for working capital and general corporate purposes.
The Company received proceeds of $1,550,204 related to the exercise of common stock warrants and stock options. The warrants were exercisable at $0.17, $0.20 and $0.30.
On January 4, the company announced that its lead product candidate for Alzheimer's disease (AD), PMN310, offers a potentially improved safety profile compared to other amyloid beta-directed antibodies. Unlike the latter, PMN310 showed absence of binding to amyloid beta (Aβ) plaque in and around blood vessels in AD brain samples in a preclinical study. Binding of therapeutic antibodies to Aβ deposits in brain tissue, in particular in blood vessels, is believed to underlie the development of ARIA (amyloid-related imaging abnormalities; brain swelling and micro-hemorrhages) in treated AD patients.
On January 23, ProMIS announced that PMN310 shows potential for improved therapeutic potency versus other amyloid beta-directed antibodies. Compared to aducanumab (Biogen) PMN310 showed significantly greater binding to the neurotoxic oligomer-enriched fraction of amyloid beta (Aβ) in brain extract from confirmed AD brains. These low molecular weight oligomers, consisting of two, four or twelve strands of Aβ, are believed to be key drivers of AD.
On March 6, the Company announced that humanized PMN310 and aducanumab show similar ability to cross the blood brain barrier in aged mice.
On April 3, ProMIS announced the appointment of Ernest D. Bush to the position of Head of Pharmacology/Toxicology and Russell Blacher to the position of Head of Manufacturing. Dr. Bush and Mr. Blacher will support the design and execution of key late preclinical activities required for clinical trial initiation of lead therapeutic candidate, PMN310.
The net loss for the three months ended March 31, 2018 was $1,556,872, compared to a net loss of $1,372,203 for the three months ended March 31, 2017. The increased loss in the current period reflects the costs associated with operating the Company's AD therapeutics program, increased contracted research and consultant salaries and associated costs, supporting its patent portfolio and general corporate expenditures.
For the three months ended March 31, 2018, the Company recognized $0 in royalty revenue related to its preclinical AD diagnostic assay as compared to $658 for the three months ended March 31, 2017.
Research and development expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2018 were $803,992 as compared to $740,670 in the three months ended March 31, 2017. Costs are higher in the current period due to higher contracted research salaries and benefit costs, offset by lower stock-based compensation.
General and administrative expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2018 were $752,885 as compared to $629,792 in the three months ended March 31, 2017. The increased expenditures in the current period reflect increased share-based compensation and investor relations/public relations expenses, offset by lower consultant salaries and associated costs and other professional fees.
The Company's plan is to further advance its AD portfolio, with a focus on development of PMN310 for clinical trial initiation in 2019. Based on the highly selective binding of PMN310 to the toxic Aβ oligomers, and lack of off-target binding to non-toxic forms of Aβ (monomer, plaque) the ProMIS AD program will continue to develop data further supporting potential best in class safety and efficacy versus other antibody therapies for AD that target amyloid beta. Finally, using its unique technology platform, the Company will advance work to identify new targets and selective antibody therapies for the toxic forms of alpha synuclein in Parkinson's disease (PD) and Tar DNA binding protein (TDP-43) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In addition to AD, PD and ALS are priority partnering targets for pharmaceutical companies interested in neurodegenerative diseases.
ProMIS Neurosciences is a development stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing precision medicine therapeutics to treat neurodegenerative diseases, in particular Alzheimer's disease (AD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The Company's proprietary target discovery engine is based on the use of two complementary techniques. The Company applies its thermodynamic, computational discovery platform--ProMIS™ and Collective Coordinates -- to predict novel targets known as Disease Specific Epitopes (DSEs) on the molecular surface of misfolded proteins. Using this unique precision medicine approach, the Company is developing novel antibody therapeutics and specific companion diagnostics for AD and ALS. ProMIS is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ProMIS is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol PMN.TO, and on the OTCQB Venture Market under the symbol ARFXF.


The Metro Laundry Service story began with a 1,500-square-foot location, the size of a small, in-house laundry, providing quality linen service. Today, with two plants, the company has become successful by continuing its focus on quality, and it plans to continue that success.
Steven Young, senior account executive/COO, says that because Metro deals exclusively with hospitality laundry, it's a seasonal business with ups and downs. Volume picks up significantly in spring and summer and dips down in the winter months.
"And at Capitol Heights, and even previous plants, as we've got closer to being maxed out from a capacity and volume standpoint, we had to figure out how do we deal with these huge volume days," he says.
Outside of the seasonal challenges, Steven points to Metro's growing pains as another challenge they've overcome.
According to Richard Burney, a consultant for Metro, another challenge is that because the company has gained its reputation on quality, it's difficult to find capable and qualified people who are committed.
"Even though we offer employees the opportunity to obtain TRSA training, which is a big part of our growth strategy moving forward, it has been a challenge to actually get employees to accept the challenge and the opportunity," he says.
Steven agrees and points to the limited talent pool for more significant positions, such as plant managers and mechanics and engineers.
"It's really hard to find good personnel to fit those high-level positions," he says. "Laundry is not a glamorous career or profession or one that anybody really thinks of who goes to college saying I want to be in laundry. It's usually something people fall into like I did myself, but it's definitely a career path that can be lucrative and beneficial.
Burney agrees that Metro makes use of its professional trade association relationships to mitigate the shortfall of talent. These include TRSA, the Hotel Association of Washington, and the Maryland Hotel Lodging Association.
With a reputation based on quality, Metro Laundry Service also has to overcome pricing objections. Steven says they have relationships with executive housekeepers, room directors and general managers who want to provide quality and a high level of service.
"The unfortunate part of it a lot of the time is they aren't getting that from the vendor that they're with for various reasons, and the reason for that is you get what you pay for," he relates.
Steven goes on to say that housekeeping managers often approach Metro to "come on board," but the effort gets put to a halt by corporate offices. The laundry has been working over the past few years to establish and build relationships with hotel management and corporate companies to try and get them to understand the value in the service that it provides.
Last summer, Metro's original hotel client switched ownership, so they tried to go with a lower priced vendor, shares Steven.
Steven says from early on, Metro decided it would stick to quality of service and not go the route of low bids and cutting corners.
Burney adds that every Metro laundry client has the phone number and cell phone number of Steven and Bernard Young, president and CEO of Metro, and Steven's uncle.
That dedication to quality and connection has led to Metro taking on some major clients.
"My most satisfying success, which has been very challenging, was obtaining the contract at MGM National Harbor," shares Burney. "That is a very exacting client with multiple businesses within a business. They know what they want, and each department, even each restaurant in the hotel, has specific requirements. It's been very challenging to work with them, to figure out what was feasible and what was not, and to come up with a solution for each of their operating entities.
Steven adds that it took a long time to gain the MGM National Harbor account. He attended meetings before the property even broke ground, even when company was pitching it to the county and state to get approval.
In its pursuit of quality, Metro doesn't rest on its laurels, challenging itself by working with new hotel brands that have new ideas.
"With these new brands, they brought on new concepts, new fabrics, new textures to address and deal with, new business travelers, especially millennials," Burney says. "At the same time, we've tried to maintain the quality and service level that older business travelers and leisure travelers, including luxury leisure, deal with.
He says the new brands have a different room presentation approach, and Metro plays a role in all of that.
"We've gone to the point where we have offered the brands opportunities to run their new fabrics by us for us to test them," shares Burney. "That is not commonly done.
New hotel brands aren't the only ones trying new things. Steven says Metro is always looking to be innovative and grow the company and grow within the industry. One of the next significant steps for Metro is radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology.
"We, for some time now, have been looking for a hotel to partner with that was willing to make the investment to have this technology and have it functioning on both ends because in order for it to use RFID technology with the linen and laundry service, it's going to require effort and investment on both sides, on the hotel and laundry side," he shares.
Another technology component besides RFID tracking, says Burney, is the company's linen management software, which makes it easier for the rooms department and the accounting department to track billing and inventory.
Burney also says Metro is looking to advance in its sustainability.
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Nintendo Switch No. 1; Miitopia No. 1 in Japan sales
BUSINESS • NINTENDO SWITCH
Nintendo Co., Ltd.'s Nintendo Switch ranked as the No. 1 hardware in Japan in the latest retail data from the region.
Famitsu this month said the Nintendo Switch sold 71,148 units between May 24 and May 30 to rank as the No. 1 hardware for the week.
The hardware sold 99,118 units to rank at No. 1 the week prior.
Miitopia sold 34,451 units to rank at No. 1 for the week.
For the fiscal year ending Mar. 31, Nintendo recorded a $6.4 billion operating profit amid strong sales of the Nintendo Switch.
In Q4, Nintendo sold 4.73 million Nintendo Switch units and 28.83 million units for the fiscal year ending Mar. 31. It has sold 84.6 million Nintendo Switch units to date.
It expects to sell 25.5 million units for the fiscal year ending Mar. 31, 2022.
Nintendo Switch software sales totaled 168.72 million units for the fiscal year, an increase of 37 percent from the year prior. Digital software sales increased to 49.6 percent of all software sales. It has sold 587.12 million Nintendo Switch software units to date.
Xbox Series X|S sells 547 units in May 30 Japan data
PS4 No. 3; Resident Evil Village No. 7 in Japan May 30 sales


For students to understand and speak daily English conversation.
To know the alphabet and it's phonic sound.
To be able to read and write 3 to 4 letter words.
Preafterschool provides the foundation skill in English for preschool/kindergarten to early elementary aged students. The class is designed around actively engaging the students in a fun, dynamic and energetic lesson structure. Focus is given to establishing the foundations in listening and speaking, with careful instruction, guidance and practice in the basics of conversation and communication. Additionally, the groundwork of reading and writing is established, with constant practice and review of fundamental phonics, in preparation for both reading and spelling skills. Roleplay, active and engaging activities, songs, rhymes, conversation and workbooks will be used throughout the class.


LOS ANGELES (JTA) — With a borscht-curdling geshrei, Halloween this year falls on Shabbat. On a Friday night, trick-or-treaters, even Jewish ones, will be knocking.
After reading that on Oct. 31, Urban Adamah, a Jewish-oriented educational farm and community center in Berkeley, Calif., would be holding a "Challahween Kabbalat Shabbat" — chanting and meditation plus a potluck dinner and Halloween dessert candy bar — I wondered: Should I have a Halloween Shabbat dinner as well?
Yes, I know that when it comes to costumes and treats, Purim is our holiday, and that Halloween has murky pagan and Christian origins. But the multibillion-dollar Halloween costume, decoration and candy industry has morphed so far beyond that I wondered what I could pull from that bubbling commercial cauldron and adopt to season my Shabbat.
On a nearby rack, though, when I found a Doctor Who costume — a red fez and bow tie — I knew I was in the right place to make a fanciful connection to Shabbat. How on earth? Since according to Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel "the meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space," who would be better to have at my Halloween Shabbat dinner than a Time Lord?
The "Tequila Poppin Dude" costume came with two shoulder bandoliers with shot glass holding loops. Improvising, I figured on Shabbat I could put on the bandoliers and a kippah and be a poppin' dude, too, only with Manischewitz.
Ahhh, I could have a "minyan" at my Shabbat Halloween dinner — it would even be egalitarian.
In recent years, angel wings have become a Halloween costume staple, and the warehouse had an entire display in every shape and color. To begin every Shabbat, my family always sings "Shalom Aleichem," wishing peace to the "attending angels." Would they be offended, if in their honor, I wore a pair of wings to dinner?
On Halloween, I could set the table with orange plates on a black tablecloth and wear a pharaoh's headdress. But on that Shabbat evening, as we rise before dinner to face the door and sing the last verse of Lecha Dodi, "Come my beloved," even if the doorbell rings, do we really need all that stuff to imagine who might appear at our threshold?


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From a spark of hope to utter ruin: Syria's journey since the Arab Spring has seen Assad preside over a decade-long humanitarian catastrophe
By Kit Roberts
IN 1994, the younger son of a rather prominent Middle-Eastern family woke up to some unexpected news.
His older brother had died suddenly, leaving him as the sole heir to the dictator of Syria.
The quiet, introverted younger brother had chosen to pursue a career in medicine, studying in London and specialising in ophthalmology. Throughout his youth, he had always been the outsider sibling, living in the shadow of their father's first born.
The elder brother was Bassel Al-Assad. The rambunctious son of Hafez, president and dictator of the Syrian Arab Republic, Bassel was born to rule. He was the epitome of manhood, loving fast cars and pretty women, raised as heir-apparent to Hafez and to Syria.
But in 1994, Hafez's carefully laid plans for his legacy were thrown into disarray when Bassel died in a car accident in Damascus. Suddenly, the future of the Al-Assad family looked uncertain, with ambitious senior figures suddenly being faced with the prospect of no Assad to follow Hafez.
The torch of inheriting the presidency of Syria was suddenly passed onto Bassel's quiet and withdrawn younger brother. Bashar had left Syria by this time, moving to London to pursue a career in medicine. He was reportedly a hard worker, arriving early and staying late, perhaps to counter the image of being the president's son.
Hafez, however, immediately acted on political expediency and started work on Bashar. The young doctor was summoned home, fast-tracked through to a position in the army, and began to shadow his father. In a series of events bizarrely reminiscent of Francis Ford Coppola's 'The Godfather', the quiet younger brother was instructed, a support base was built for him within the military, and his image was established in Syria's people.
Fast forward six and half years, and after nearly thirty years in power, Hafez Al-Assad died. Bashar was at this point still legally too young to become president, the minimum age being forty. To facilitate his ascension, the constitution was altered to allow someone thirty-four years old to hold the office – coincidentally Bashar's exact age at the time.
The years following Bashar's ascension appeared at first glance to show signs of cautious liberalisation. Bashar and his British-born wife Asma engaged in a major international charm offensive, courting favour on the world stage in Paris and London.
Asma even received a profile in Vogue. The magazine described her as "a rose in the desert", and Syria as "the safest country in the Middle-East". The article has since been removed from Vogue's website.
At home, subtle but noticeable relaxations began. People found they could get away with writing or saying something that they could not under Hafez.
Bashar gave all the signs of optimism. He was young, educated, and had lived in the West, all of which emboldened certain circles, such as the media and academia.
This illusion of liberalisation came crashing down in the late 2000s. As Bashar settled into power, liberalising reforms stopped, and the new rules were established. The limits might have briefly been a little wider, but in reality the boundaries were just as impenetrable as ever. In 2005, Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated by car bomb in Beirut. Many in Lebanon suspected the involvement of the Syrian secret service. In 2007, opposition parties were banned and Bashar was elected to another seven year term.
Unrest began in Syria in 2011. For all his appearance of liberalising, Bashar was still his father's son, the heir of a ruling dynasty. The clamour for democracy that shook the Arab world nonetheless reached Syria.
Protest erupted in Syria in January 2011. By July, Hilary Clinton had declared that Bashar had 'lost legitimacy'. By August, President Obama had given a statement urging Bashar to step down.
In Syria however, protests were being met with increasingly bloody crack downs. The mukhabarat, the Syrian secret service, routinely kidnapped, tortured, and murdered protestors and their families. All of this only further stirred anger. Opposition grew, and organised.
At the UN, Russia repeatedly vetoed any attempt to meaningfully intervene either diplomatically or militarily in the country. Though it is not confirmed, it is not difficult to imagine Bashar's reaction to the fate of Gaddafi in Libya, killed brutally and publicly.
The civil war that followed has been saturated with media coverage. In the midst of the incursions of Daesh, Russian interventions, and the well-documented war crimes with chemical weapons and deliberate bombing of schools and hospitals by Syrian loyalist and Russian military, a strain of conspiracy theorists and Assad supporters has emerged, gaslighting the people who have witnessed chemical attacks and barrel bombings.
Not even some of the most well-respected authorities – the late Robert Fisk, to name one – on the region were immune.
The rise of Daesh, IS, in north-eastern Syria also provided Bashar with the opportunity to improve his public image. Under the pretence of fighting IS, itself ideologically opposed to Syria's ostensibly secular Ba'ath Party, Bashar has been able to cultivate the image of himself as the saviour of Syria, sidelining Kurdish efforts by the PKK.
Activist Syrians in exile now look to world governments to resist the renormalisation of relations with Bashar. By Bashar's own objectives, he has won. Not only is he still alive, but also still in office. Indebted to Russia and Iran, yes. Presiding over a humanitarian and economic catastrophe the scars of which will not heal within the lifetime of our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, yes. But still in power, still unmoved.
If the Arab Spring sprung into life in Tunisia, it could be said to have ended in Syria. The buck stopped, dead, with the Al-Assad family.
Featured Image: Freedom House @ Flickr
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Knees navigable by large vessels or set in upland areas or arid drainage basins were similar to major confluences in that they were particularly suitable for trade and defense, and therefore gave rise to forts, governing army camps or cities.

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 the Rhine knee in Basel, Switzerland is the river's greatest knee – others are in German cities Wiesbaden and Bingen
 the Danube knee in Vác, Hungary (35 km north of Budapest)
 the Volga knee at Volgograd, Russia
 the upper Rhône knee at Martigny, Switzerland
 the Petitcodiac knee at Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, locally known as Le Coude
 The Irawaddy knee at Mandalay

Some riverbends are in some places referred to "knees" but are bends largely unaffecting the course or a small sharp meander:

 the "Vltava knee" in Prague, Czech Republic
 the "Elbe knee" at Königstein Fortress, Germany
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LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - A man who died in after a collision in South Lubbock County is being remembered with a reminder to drivers to not drink and drive.
The Lubbock County District Attorney shared this photo showing a sign being installed Friday in memory of Patrick Haden, who died as a result of a crash on Highway 87.
Haden's truck was hit by another vehicle driven by a drunk driver who ran a stop sign in August of 2015. Haden was taken off life support in October of the same year.
Not only is this a beautiful tribute but a powerful message to drivers regarding the extreme dangers of drinking and driving.
The DA says this sign is not only a beautiful tribute but a powerful message to drivers about the dangers of drinking and driving.
The driver of the other vehicle, Carlos Nevarez, eventually pleaded guilty to intoxication manslaughter and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He had four previous DWI indictments going back to 2007.


Zambia has continued its ascendancy on the FIFA Coca-Cola rankings moving two places up to occupy 72nd position in the world.
The Chipolopolo boys are ranked 15th in Africa according the latest rankings released in Zurich today.
Zambia has sustained its upward trajectory on the continent with positive results across the competition spectrum.
Zambia's opponents in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers Mozambique and Namibia are ranked 108 and 111th respectively while Guinea is 66th.
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Q: Order in which files are read using os.listdir? When performing the following code, is there an order in which Python loops through files in the provided directory? Is it alphabetical? How do I go about establishing an order these files are loops through, either by date created/modified or alphabetically).
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A: As per documentation: "The list is in arbitrary order"
https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/os.html#os.listdir
If you wish to establish an order (alphabetical in this case), you could sort it.
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A: You asked several questions:

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No, Python does not impose any predictable order. The docs say 'The list is in arbitrary order'. If order matters, you must impose it. Practically speaking, the files are returned in the same order used by the underlying operating system, but one mustn't rely on that.

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Probably not. But even if it were you mustn't rely upon that. (See above).

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*How could I establish an order?

for file in sorted(os.listdir(path)):


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Anna Karina (Actress), age 78, was born on September 22, 1940 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Anna Karina's horoscope sun sign is Virgo and Chinese zodiac sign is Dragon. Anna Karina was famous for One of the leading actresses during the French New Wave movement of the 1960s.
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The name Anna was originated from Hebrew. It is used as both mail and female names. The name Anna is of the meaning of Grace; favour. The name Anna is used in Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Slovak and Armenian speaking countries. In a greater part of the world seen as a Latinate form of Hannah and used on females.
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Thanks for the suggestion.You'd still need something horizontal that will hold the bikes, and if you're like me you own bikes of all different sizes. Two stands at say 12 inches apart may work for one kind of bike on the rack but may not work on a smaller bike on the same rack. This design gives you "customizable" sizes to hold all bikes on the same rack, big or small. Also the Ikea Stolmen Post is by far the most expensive part in this design at $30. That's three times the amount of a 1/2 inch square pipe.
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Nigeria not owing UN, pays $5.08m dues
Nigeria is not indebted to the United Nations as the country has paid $5,080,178 dollars up till April 5, 2018.
The country is the 74th out of the 193 Member States of the global international organisation to fulfill its financial obligations.
Spokesperson to the UN Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric said in New York that Nigeria paid its annual dues in full.
Dujarric said: "Nigeria has paid its regular budget dues in full, bringing the Honour Roll to 74".
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that one hundred and nineteen members were yet to pay their regular budgets.
Records show that Nigeria became the 10th country in Africa to pay its UN regular budgets in full.
In 2016, Nigeria had asked the UN to review its assessed contributions to the organisation in view of the economic recession in the country at the time.
The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, made the call at the UN Headquarters in New York when she visited the Chairman of the UN Fifth Committee, Mr Kingston Rhodes.
The Fifth Committee is the committee of the General Assembly with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary matters.
Nigeria was expected to pay outstanding contributions of $10. 2 million dollars as at December 2016.
Oyo-Ita said: "Due to recession, we want something done to review our dues and we want the UN to reconsider our assessment due to the realities of the time.
"What Nigeria is being asked to pay now is on the high side. Nigeria is committed to paying its contributions but we want some considerations.
"We want something to be done to re-adjust our scale."
NAN reports that Nigeria's scale of assessment for 2013 to 2015 was 0.119 before the re-basing of the country's economy in 2014.
However, with the re-basing of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 500 million dollars, the scale of assessment of Nigeria increased to 0.209 for the period 2016 to 2018.
Nigeria has been pursuing the re-adjustment of the scale due to the economic reality of the country.
However, Rhodes had told Oyo-Ita that the UN was aware of the economic situation in the country but that the effort was hindered by the General Assembly Resolution that cancelled annual review of scale of assessment.
The Fifth Committee Chairman explained that the Resolution now established three years minimum period of scale of assessment.
According to him, therefore, Nigeria's scale would be due for review in 2018, being the next scale year. (NAN)
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Personal archives usually contain letters, biographical documents as well as manuscripts and work material reflecting the archive compiler's various activities. Most of the material can be ordered and read in the University library's Special Collections Reading Room.
Among the major authors' archives is that of poet, scholar, bishop and politician Esaias Tegnér, with manuscripts and a comprehensive collection of letters. The archive contains no fewer than 2772 letters from the period between 1801 and 1846. Tegnér's correspondents include professor of Botany Carl Adolph Agardh, chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius, authors Fredrika Bremer and Erik Gustaf Geijer and inspirer Martina von Schwerin.
The archive of author Victoria Benedictsson (Ernst Ahlgren) is still one of the most requested among the library's collections, containing besides her manuscripts and letters also her diaries which were only to be opened 50 years after her death. In them she writes extensively about her relationship with Danish author and literary critic Georg Brandes.
The author Victoria Benedictsson on a photography from 1887, signed with her pseudonym Ernst Ahlgren. From the Benedictsson, V. collection.
Hjalmar Gullberg's archive features letters from friends and fellow authors such as Selma Lagerlöf, Sara Lidman, Dag Hammarskjöld and Gabriela Mistral. It also contains largely all the surviving poetry manuscripts, usually annotated with the date, sometimes even the hour of the day when it was written. The archive also includes translations and material which reflects his time as the head of the Swedish Radio Theatre.
Recently acquired archives include that of AB Svenska Ord, or the archive of comedians Hasse Alfredson and Tage Danielsson. It contains manuscripts of fantastic shows such as "Gröna Hund", Gula Hund" and "88-öresrevyn" and films such as "Att angöra en brygga", "Äppelkriget", "Mannen som slutade röka" and much more besides.
Of great value for music researchers is the Otto Taussig Schubert collection which contains several original compositions by Franz Schubert, including Heidenröslein with lyrics by Goethe.
In addition to Taussig's Schubert collection, you can also find the large deposit of musical scores from the 1600s and 1700s of the Lund University Academy Orchestra, Akademiska kapellet. The Academic Orchestra was founded in 1745, and the University Library has three major collections of sheet music from conductors Kraus, Engelhart and Wenster, containing works by Mozart, Bach, Hasse, Hofmeister and many others.
The De la Gardie collection from Löberöd is one of the library's largest and most important archives. It consists mainly of family archives, but you can also find historical and financial documents and papers from the most diverse subjects and of many different types, such as letters, commercial documents, poems, recipe books and more. The collection contains not only original letters from King Eric XIV and Queen Kristina but also documents from the Anjala conspiracy and secret love letters from the 1600s written in code. In terms of time, the collection spans 300 years, from 1550 to 1850, and occupies approximately 150 metres of shelf space.
Indian cress (Tropaelum Majus), also called firebush. From the aquarelle books of the countess Beata Sparre (born Ramel), "Blomstermålade efter naturen 1778", in the De la Gardie collection.
The University Library also possesses completely unique source material from the survivors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp and from other concentration camps in Nazi-occupied Europe. The core of the archive consists of just over 500 witness accounts from Polish concentration camp prisoners who arrived in Sweden after the end of the war. The interviews were conducted during 1945 and 1946. The archive also contains a lot of material from and about the camps, such as notebooks and journals, poems, drawings, photographs, etc.
The pencil drawing "Liza", made by the paintress Jadwiga Simon-Pietkiewicz, Ravensbrück April 26, 1944. From the Ravensbrück collection.
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