Volunteering is simple. It's about giving your time to do something useful without getting paid (apart from expenses). In return, you get the satisfaction of time and effort well spent.
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Beales Hotels is a unique business which has passed through nine generations of the Beale family. The firm was founded in 1769, and today boasts two highly rated four star hotels in Hertfordshire that also cater for North London.
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VTT has participated as a research partner in a project in which Finnish companies have developed increasingly better road weather and winter maintenance services, and combined them into product and service packages. Consequently, information is available on wintry road conditions and changing weather that is more accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive than ever before. The new services are applicable in any country struggling with winter, including Northern Europe, North America and Russia.
Slipperiness is estimated to play a partial role in 20–25% of all road traffic accidents in Finland. The damage from such accidents is substantial, making investment in their prevention highly worthwhile. Investments in winter maintenance and road weather systems will pay for themselves many times over, once the systems are in place and the services distributed effectively. Advanced services make it possible to both cut the number of accidents and optimise winter maintenance.
Finland's northern location with its challenging weather conditions has provided a needs-based foundation for robust knowhow regarding road weather and winter maintenance. The FIRWE project has developed new services for road weather, measurement technology, and winter maintenance that can be combined into a compatible, modular set of products and services. This includes road condition measurement solutions, integration of the data collection systems of road maintenance units with weather and road condition services, and new functionality of the decision-making system with regard to the winter maintenance of roads.
Concrete results to date include a method for longer-term road weather forecasts developed during the project, an optimisation algorithm modelling the effects of different road conditions and maintenance activities, a reporting service for the utilisation of data automatically collected from road maintenance vehicles, and advanced user interfaces for presenting the road condition and friction data collected using mobile measurement devices. The technology and service components developed by the FIRWE project have been tested and utilised not only in Finland, but also in Russia, the UK and the USA as part of company-specific pilot projects.
More extensive piloting will be carried out in co-operation with Destia, another Finnish maintenance contractor. In the pilot, VTT is responsible for the impact and outcomes assessment of the new technologies, and tests the slipperiness detection method based on data automatically collected from vehicles, which it has developed.
Although the system as a whole focuses on supporting decision-making as regards winter maintenance, the new services will also enable the provision of more accurate road condition and forecast information directly to consumers.
VTT has also acted as a research partner in the Tekes (Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation) funded consortium of Finnish companies, including Arctic Machine, Foreca, Teconer, and Vaisala. Other partners include the Finnish Transport Agency, Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centres), the Finnish Transport Safety Agency Trafi, and Destia, NCC Roads, and the University of Oulu.


Filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and won two. As editor, her films have been nominated twice for the Academy Award, winning once, and have also won four Peabody Awards. Most recently, she co-directed the feature doc "Armed With Faith" that premiered at the 2017 Sheffield Doc fest, and she co-directed the feature documentary "I Am Evidence" for HBO and a short film, "Love the Sinner" which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. Her feature documentary, "Prison Dogs," which she co-directed with Perri Peltz, premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, and a feature documentary she directed with Academy Award winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, "A Journey of A Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers," premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and will be broadcast on PBS in 2018. She is also currently co-directing and co-producing a "Conversation on Race" series with The New York Times Op-Docs, which won an Online Journalism Award for Online Commentary, an AFI Documentary Film Festival Audience Award for Best Short, and garnered a MacArthur Grant. She also co-directed and edited the film, "Remembering the Artist, Robert De Niro, Sr.," with Perri Peltz for HBO which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014.
To me, a storyteller is an interactive artist who engages the imagination of others, opening their minds to new worlds and experiences.
Incarcerated for murder and armed robbery, New York criminals learn to love again by raising puppies behind bars. In this inspirational tale, three selected prisoners battle self-doubt, anger and regret in their attempt to transform dependent pups into service dogs for injured US veterans.
A New York Times series of short films about identity in America.


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Gonzaga tops AP preseason basketball poll; Illinois ranked No. 8
Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Ohio State, Rutgers and Michigan also made the Top 25.
By Associated Press Nov 9, 2020, 11:55am CST
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Coach Brad Underwood's Illinois team is ranked No. 8 in the Associated Press preseason men's basketball poll.
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Just about the only thing Gonzaga has left to accomplish under Mark Few is win a national championship.
The 'Zags scratched another first off the list Monday: They will open the season at No. 1.
Despite losing West Coast Conference player of the year Filip Petrusev, the Bulldogs received 28 first-place votes and 1,541 points from a 64-member national media panel. That was just enough to edge Baylor (24 first-place vote) by a single point for the top spot in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 heading toward the delayed Nov. 25 start of the season.
"It's a great honor to be selected No. 1," Few said. "We understand that it is more a reflection of what our program has accomplished over the years and hope to play up to that standard as we start our season."
Villanova received 11 first-place votes and was third, followed by Virginia with the remaining first-place vote. Iowa was picked fifth behind national player of the year front-runner Luka Garza, its highest preseason ranking in school history.
Then came a wave of bluebloods with Kansas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Duke and Kentucky completing the top 10.
The Bulldogs spent four weeks at No. 1 last season before finishing second to the Jayhawks in the final poll, which was taken when the NCAA Tournament was canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Petrusev's choice to play professionally in Serbia and then enter the draft was a blow, but the Bulldogs still have the pieces to win it all. Corey Kispert and Joel Ayayi provide scoring punch and the arrival of potential one-and-done guard Jalen Suggs should steady their backcourt.
The 'Zags certainly scheduled like title contenders. They open Oct. 26 against Kansas at the Fort Myers Tip-Off, where they also will play Auburn, and face Baylor in Indianapolis and Iowa in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The Bears, who also have their highest preseason ranking, spent five weeks at No. 1 last season and only lost one starter in big man Freddie Gillespie. But coach Scott Drew could have the nation's best backcourt in Jared Butler, Davion Mitchell and MaCio Teague, the best defender in Mark Vital and depth behind top-100 recruit L.J. Cryer and transfer Adam Flagler.
The Bears also built a brutal schedule, playing Illinois and potentially Villanova in the Empire Classic along with Gonzaga.
"I think it starts with experience," Drew said. "Whenever you return a lot of players that were successful, in a season that got moved back and a short summer, you're definitely benefited from having guys that have college experience."
The Wildcats, who matched their highest preseason ranking at No. 3 in 1995-96, harbored hope that Saddiq Bey would return for another season. But despite losing the versatile forward to the NBA, coach Jay Wright still has standout guard Collin Gillespie, double-double machine Jeremiah Robinson-Earl and solid starter Jermaine Samuels.
After back-to-back 30-win seasons and a national title, Virginia took a slight step back last season, going 23-7 before the season was called off. But coach Tony Bennett's team should again be an ACC favorite behind Marquette transfer Sam Hauser, top-100 prospects Reece Beekman and Jabri Abdur-Rahim, and the Cavs' lockdown defense.
Garza was second to Dayton's Obi Toppin for national player of the year last season, and the Iowa big man flirted with the NBA before returning to the Hawkeyes. But he's hardly a one-man show: Joe Wieskamp averaged 14.0 points, C.J. Fredrick and Connor McCaffery are experienced, and Jordan Bohannon is healthy after missing all but 10 games last season.
"Having seven players with starting experience provides us with incredible versatility," Hawkeyes coach Fran McCaffery said. "In a year where you may have a player out for a couple weeks (due to COVID-19), depth will be important."
THE SECOND FIVE
The Jayhawks lost Devon Dotson and Udoka Azubuike from a team that was the likely No. 1 overall seed had the NCAA Tournament been played, but they return enough firepower to give Baylor a challenge in the Big 12.
Wisconsin and Illinois join the Hawkeyes in giving the Big Ten some fresh flavor atop the poll. Young and rebuilding Duke and Kentucky could take some lumps early in the season but could be championship contenders by March.
THE REST OF THE POLL
Creighton lost Ty-Shon Alexander to the NBA and Davion Mintz to Kentucky but still landed the highest preseason ranking in school history at No. 11, followed by Tennessee, Michigan State, Texas Tech and West Virginia.
North Carolina was next with Houston at No. 17, its highest preseason ranking since the final Phi Slama Jama team of Hakeem Olajuwon began the 1983-84 season at No. 3. Arizona State, Texas and Oregon finish the first 20 with Florida State, UCLA, Ohio State, Rutgers and Michigan rounding out the Top 25.
ON THE DOORSTEP
LSU was the first team outside the rankings, followed by Memphis, Florida, Alabama and Indiana. San Diego State got six votes after finishing No. 6 in the final poll last season but losing Mountain West player of the year Malachi Flynn and two other elite producers. Louisville and Seton Hall also are unranked after finishing in the top 15 last season.
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' preseason 2020-21 college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses.
1. Gonzaga (28)
2. Baylor (24)
3. Villanova (11)
4. Virginia (1)
5. Iowa
7. Wisconsin
8. Illinois
9. Duke
10. Kentucky
11. Creighton
12. Tennessee
13. Michigan St.
14. Texas Tech
15. West Virginia
16. North Carolina
17. Houston
18. Arizona St.
19. Texas
20. Oregon
21. Florida St.
22. UCLA
23. Ohio St.
24. Rutgers
25. Michigan
Others receiving votes: LSU 146, Memphis 69, Florida 69, Alabama 50, Indiana 48, Louisville 41, Richmond 40, Stanford 14, Providence 9, Saint Louis 8, Auburn 8, San Diego St. 6, UConn 6, BYU 4, Loyola of Chicago 3, Seton Hall 2, UNC Greensboro 1, N Iowa 1.
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Norwich 'need to rethink Jerome bid'
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CHRIS LAKEY Norwich City have been told to go back and rethink their offer for Cardiff City striker Cameron Jerome.
Norwich City have been told to go back and rethink their offer for Cardiff City striker Cameron Jerome.
Reports from south Wales say the Canaries have already made their first bid for the Bluebirds' striker, but it has been rejected.
But talks are on-going and Cardiff are willing to let the 19-year-old hot-shot go - as long as the price is right.
Owner Sam Hammam has already put a £3.5m price tag on the teenagers' head, but although the Welsh club claim they are under no pressure to sell, it is unlikely City will need to go that high to get their man.
Cardiff boss Dave Jones appears to be ready to accept Jerome's departure - he's already lining up a move for Derek Riordan, of Hibernian.
Jerome is clearly at the top of manager Nigel Worthington's shopping list, although City have also been linked with Coventry's Gary McSheffrey and Colchester's Greg Halford. But, as per club policy, they have refused to confirm or deny the speculation.
However, chief executive Neil Doncaster yesterday promised that when the transfer window closes at the end of January, the Canaries will reveal details of their attempts to sign players, successful or otherwise.
"We've made a number of inquiries about a number of players," confirmed Doncaster.
"It is not, however, in Norwich City's best interests to announce the details of any bids that have been made.
"We will announce more details if and when any bid is accepted - and in any event, after the transfer window closes."
While Dean Ashton has left for pastures new, City, with money in the bank, have yet to sate supporters' appetites for new blood - and that might not sit comfortably with fans who are still wondering just which direction the season is heading.
But if City can prove they tried and failed through little fault of their own, it may go some way to appeasing disgruntled fans.


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Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a private, co-educational university located in the Westchester community of Westside Los Angeles, California. The university is a member institute of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and one of five Marymount institutions of higher education.
Loyola Marymount University traces has a far long history being founded in 1911 as the successor to St. Vincents College which was founded in 1865, and Marymount College, founded in 1933 with its roots in Marymount School which was founded in 1923.
As of 2010, Loyola Marymount is one of the largest Roman Catholic universities on the West Coast with just over 9,000 undergraduate, graduate and law school students.
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Q: Entity Namespace does not appear in Silverlight project I have a Silverlight web project where I apply the MVVM pattern. In my entire solution I have 4 projects.
Project "A3", which contains all of my Views and ViewModels.
Project "A3.Web", which contains my main html files, images, sound files, etc.
Project "A3Lib", which contains my XAML binding converters and other helpful classes that I created.
Project "A3Lib.Web", which contains the Data Models and Domain Logic.
All of my entity models are inside my DataModels folder and all of my Domain Service server side code is inside the DomainLogic folder. I created a new folder inside the DataModels folder named "Common".
So when I want to add the data model to my VM, I tried "using A3Lib.Web.DataModels.Common;" and that did not find the namespace.
Issue: when I add a new folder and a new entity model to the DataModels folder, I do not see the namespace in my View or ViewModel in the "A3" project.
However, I already have existing code there (was added by someone else) and the models he added show perfectly fine (when doing using ...... in the View or VM).
I checked web.config to make sure the connection string is there and it's correct. I also tried to add a brand new context to the base class of the project (where other contexts are) and that did not help. My project simply cannot resolve or see the data model namespace that I create.
Thanks
Yura

A: The Silverlight app sees the models and namespaces from the server-side project through the generated code - you should see it in the Generated_Code folder of your A3Lib project.  If it is not there, then the proxy classes are not being generated on build.  A couple things to check:

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*class is not private (hey - sometimes it's the simple things)

*if using Domain Services, the service needs to have at least 1 method that returns an IQueryable or IEnumerable (even if method returns null) in order to see the class in the Silverlight-side domaincontext

*if the class is just a utility class that you want to share with the client, save the file as classname.shared.cs, and the proxy will pick it up.

*make sure the project references are to the projects and not (possibly older) .dlls in another location.

That's all I've got based on the info provided.

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This method is quiet convenient, but each deployment of a server, the workload will increase, so there is a new way.
After check the code in the new repository, I found the code does not been modify !!
But git clone this new warehouse, the code is indeed modified, why is this??


On the day before Trump's State of the Union speech, news broke that prosecutors from the Southern District of New York issued a subpoena to the Trump Inaugural Committee to see donor records, looking to see if any contributors to the inauguration were foreign, which would be against the law. Apparently there are ways to hide or disguise donors that investigators want to delve into to see if there was any subterfuge.
In an interview with ABC for the Super Bowl, Trump dismissed his legal troubles and claimed that he can't be impeached because he hadn't committed any "high crimes or misdemeanors." Yet he remains an unindicted co-conspirator in two felony Federal Election Fraud charges. If he weren't president, he would have been arrested and hauled to court along with his longtime attorney Michael Cohen. So regardless of what comes to light in the future, the Senate already has solid cause to impeach Trump from the Cohen charges alone. He's cornered.
It's important to keep in mind that the Mueller probe has already produced 37 indictments! If I were in Nancy Pelosi's shoes, I would give all of my fellow House Democrats a small lapel pin of the numeral "37" to wear tomorrow during the State of the Union speech. It would be sensational.
It also came to light over the weekend, thanks to a leak to Axios disclosing three months of Donald Trump's private schedule, that Trump is laziest do-nothing president in a generation, if not longer. Aside from all his golfing, Trump spends hours a day watching TV and calling his friends to see "how he's doing." And according to reports, he no longer gets briefings from a wide array of agencies that any other president would deem crucial. The security implications of that claim are horrifying.
On so many fronts, Trump is screwed. His latest plan, to declare a national emergency to fund his border wall vanity project, is getting significant push-back from Republicans. The know he will likely be out of office by Jan of 2021 and they don't want a new Democratic president to declare a national emergency for, say, climate change. So they are urging Trump not to set a dangerous precedent. Good luck with that.
We will see what surprises Trump has in store for us tonight in the SOTU. I predict a lot of blather interspersed by immigrant fear-mongering.
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Huvudartikel: Världsmästerskapen i alpin skidsport 2015
Damernas super-G vid världsmästerskapen i alpin skidsport 2015 hölls i Beaver Creek, USA, den 3 februari 2015 klockan 11:30 lokal tid (19:30 svensk tid). På grund av starka vindar försenades starttiden med 30 minuter, från 11:00 till 11:30.

Detta var mästerskapens första tävling och vanns av österrikiskan Anna Fenninger.

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Biological parents who understand the importance their children have with a soon-to-be former spouse may be more open to discussing setting up a visitation schedule. If a decision is made, it can be included in a legally-binding agreement. There are self-help guides available in British Columbia to help couples in these situations and when a stepparent wishes to establish guardianship of a child, there are family law tools to help them in this regard as well.
If a parent is not complying with a child support order, for example, British Columbia has a Family Maintenance Enforcement Program to launch an enforcement order for support. If, in fact, a parent isn't following a court order, he or she may suffer some consequences under the law. However, court should be a last resort and should only be considered when one parent constantly fails to follow an agreement or an order, when not following orders cause both the child and other parent inconvenience and cost or when the two parents can't agree on major issues when it comes to their kids -- even after the help of family law attorneys.
On behalf of Westside Family Law on Wednesday, March 20, 2019.
Many parents struggle to adjust to parenting after divorce. However, some struggle more than others, especially in cases involving parental alienation.
On behalf of Westside Family Law posted in high asset divorce on Tuesday, March 19, 2019.
Business owners often have an added level of stress when it comes to divorce situations. Successful British Columbia entrepreneurs may be embroiled in high asset divorce cases and as such need to be aware of the tax implications, among other issues that could affect their businesses. Taking time to reflect on how a divorce will impact a business is crucial before moving forward formally with a divorce.
Even though it is easier to get out of a common law union than it is a marriage -- having been apart for 90 days -- it is still important to be mindful of the time when it comes to splitting business assets. There are many things with which a lawyer may be able to help such as capital gains exemptions, spousal rollovers, spousal attribution rules and the like. These are important issues following the end of a marriage or common law relationship.
Death and Debt: can I inherit money owed?
By Peter Mennie of Westside Family Law on Monday, March 11, 2019.
An unfortunate reality in today's Canadian society is the prevalence of debt. We want to own houses, cars, and justify credit card expenditures in the name of a quality lifestyle. Debt accumulates slowly but easily and we intend to one day pay it back, but what happens to that debt if we die unexpectedly?
On behalf of Westside Family Law posted in Wills And Estates on Monday, March 4, 2019.
Writing an estate plan doesn't need to be difficult and won't be if some basic tenets are followed. Some British Columbia residents shy away from wills and estates planning because they view the process as being involved and time-consuming. However, there are a few essential guidelines that simplify creating a well-rounded estate plan, the first being having a will and ensuring that it is updated as life changes.
It is always best to plan for the unforeseen and part of that entails naming an individual to act on a power of attorney. One individual can be named or one to make health care decisions and one to take care of financial matters. When it comes to beneficiaries of an estate, they should always be kept current by the party designated to act as executor of the estate.
The changes that accompany divorce can be handled by parents in a way that may actually benefit their children. When parents view their divorce or separation as moving forward in three stages -- before, during and after -- they can help their kids at each stage. It is in the third stage that most children will need help adjusting -- when they're most likely go between two different homes and not being with mom and dad at the same time.
On behalf of Westside Family Law posted in family law on Monday, January 21, 2019.
Children are often caught in the middle of their parents' divorces. Family law in British Columbia always puts the best interests of children first. And sometimes that might mean that children of divorce may need counselling to process the changes that are taking place in their lives. But what happens when one parent doesn't agree to those counselling sessions?
This could be a dicey situation since both parents typically must give their consent for their children to receive counselling. When parents can't work together to come to a decision about what would be best for their children, the consenting parent can try to obtain a court order that dispenses with the need for the dissenting parent's consent. The parent can try to achieve this order as either a protection order or as part of a parenting, custody or access order.
Do You Need to Be Mentally Competent to Get Married?
By Peter Mennie of Westside Family Law on Wednesday, January 16, 2019.
Nowadays, the prevalence of dementia and diseases such as Alzheimer's is high, and this can make people vulnerable to predatory marriages. Everyone should have the right to find happiness in marriage, but it's important to consider that marriage affects not only happiness, but also a person's children, property, finances, and wills.


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Medical center saves costs and resources in the operating room
University of Maryland Medical Center has saved $1.2 million after adopting Practice Greenhealth's "Greening the OR" initiative
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The University of Maryland Medical Center is cutting costs in a sizable way through the adoption of data-driven sustainability and energy-efficiency practices regarding its management of operating rooms and the use of medical devices.
Adopting approaches that are supported by the health care member association Practice Greenhealth, the medical center realized savings of $1.2 million through single-use device reprocessing and OR kit reformulation in 2014, says Justin Graves, R.N., the medical center's sustainability manager. Additional savings were derived from more efficient energy usage, reduced medical waste and increased recycling.
The practices that led to the cost savings came from the University of Maryland's involvement in the "Greening the OR" initiative of Practice Greenhealth, a membership association of about 1,400 health care organizations that are committed to environmental stewardship.
"UMMC got involved in this initiative because it's the right thing to do for the environment and the health of the community, and it saves money," Graves says. The university medical center has been participating in Practice Greenhealth programs since 2007.
For more on this story, read the full article from our sister publication Hospital & Health Networks.
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How To Use Mods In 'Fallout 4' On Xbox One
Dave Thier Senior Contributor
I write about video games and technology.
Update: According to Bethesda, mods are live
Update 2: Mods and Bethesda.net are having connectivity issues, Bethesda reports.
Don't look now, but the entire landscape of console gaming is about to change. Today, Bethesda enables mod support for Fallout 4 on Xbox One, giving console players access to the treasure troves of user-created content that have been available to PC players for decades. Better late than never, after all. The company has already let us know how the whole thing works via a Twitch stream, however, so here's how you'll get started on changing things up with Fallout 4 on Xbox One. Mods aren't nearly as complicated to use as they once were, and the process of screwing around with your save files should be very simple.
Mods aren't live yet, to be clear, but Bethesda has promised to tweet when they are later today.
Because the console lacks the sort of exploratory interface available to PC players, mods have to be done entirely in game. So first you've got to update Fallout 4 -- you'll know you've done so if you get a new option on the main menu labelled "mods." Click on it. You'll need a Bethesda.net login to get started, but that's easy enough. That will take you to the rapidly expanding library of player-created mods available on Xbox One, and now it's just a matter of selecting what you want, be they new weapons, settlements, gameplay changes, cheats or characters. When you install some, it will clone your save files with "modded" equivalents. That not only disables achievements, but offers you some backup versions of unaltered files for when things inevitably go wrong. Here's what the menu will look like:
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After that, the most important advice is to be careful: Bethesda has said that it's going to be cracking down on nudity and copyrighted content for console mods, but it's also trying to get out of the way as much as possible. That means it will definitely be possible to totally mess up your game, something that console players are not quite used to yet. Some mods will require other mods to work, some mods might conflict with each other, some might not work at all, and some, inevitably, will slip some of that nudity and copyrighted material in there anyway. That's the fun of mods, after all. Just know that the Xbox One imposes a 2gb limit to the number of mods you can install.
And just like that, console players gain a literally infinite amount of content for one of the best games of 2015. Let's hope other games follow suit: the weird world of mods has long been one of the greatest advantages that PC players have over console players, but those old divisions are weakening every day. Check back later for some info on the best mods to use. If you'd prefer a video guide, Eurogamer has a pretty good one:
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By Billy Becker Sep 17, 2009, 3:28pm CDT
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(This feature will be a regular on Thursdays before game day exploring some relative function of Texas football history and that of our upcoming opponent. This particular one takes a long and broad view at the history of Texas and Texas Tech, focusing on the Southwest Conference era up to the present. Despite the depth of modern stats and the ever-present verbiage everywhere, there is usually something to be gained by an intuitive study of the historical record. whills)
Prediction for the game: Texas 43, Texas Tech 28
Actually, the prediction is the actual average score in the Mack Brown era. Darrell's teams skunked Tech four times, and Freddie garnered two more shut outs. In this era, that is just a dream, although I'm sure Will Muschamp dreams it. Early Mack teams twice held the Red Raiders to seven points, but those dirt-bound pirates have scored in the 40s three times, winning two of those in '98 and '02. In 2007 Tech scoring peaked with 43, but Texas ran up a big lead in the first half behind Jamaal Charles and essentially played tit-for-tat in the second half of a 59-43 victory. The 59 is the most points scored in the series by either team.
Last year's 33 points were the least Texas has scored in the three losses to Tech in the Mack Brown-era. The Horns earned a 29-17 victory in 2000, the least they have scored in that span.
Four times Tech has won back-to-back games against Texas: '67-'68, '88-'89, '93-'94 and '97-'98. The first two in DKR's era had profound historical implications. Following a season opening loss at USC in '67, Texas lost to Tech 19-13, not only ending a 7-game win streak but giving the Red Raiders their first Southwest Conference victory over the Horns. Then Texas closed the season with losses to TCU and to A&M, which ended a 10-year run over the eternally depressed farmers. Texas fans were seriously upset, somewhat like 2007, and the press brought a lot of heat on the hallowed one. Emory Bellard designed the wishbone at Royal's behest and the stale days of the split-T Texas offense were suddenly refreshed. But not before Texas Tech became the first team to defeat the wishbone (good bar bet) on a fumbling, stumbling day mesmerized by the shimmering Llano Estacado. Then Texas went out and beat Oklahoma State and OU back-to-back, proving that whipping a couple of Okie teams will do wonders for your spirit. They liked it so much they did it a couple more times en route to 28 more wins in a row. I highly recommend it.
Tech only has four wins in Austin in the modern era: '67, '89, '93 and '97; none to a Mack Brown-coached team. The last two are credited to John Mackovic, who was 1-2 at home and 2-1 at Tech, just backwards to all the other coaches. But then Mackovic introduced the word cloud long before word clouds were cool (thanks to Tony Brackens).
Two of my most favorite crowds in the modern era were for the 1990 Houston game, when Texas stuffed David Klingler and brought the curtain down on the run-and-shoot, and the '95 game, when Spike Dykes brought Zebbie Lethridge and the boys to town. Tech was ranked #23 while Texas was tabbed at #13. In each game, the east side student section was well lubed, loud and ravenous for victory, giving the opponents holy hell from the gitgo.
Against Tech, Texas played a pressure defense, getting right up on the receivers, and the defensive line, led by Tony Brackens, gave Zebbie little time to throw and stuffed the running game. There were plenty of big hits in that game, many courtesy CB Bryant Westbrook, and Tony Brackens provided the coup de grace on punter Tony Rogers to crown the whole evening. That's the kind of crowd I'd like to see Saturday night...and the kind of defense.
If Colt and his offense can find a rhythm and have some fun, I have no doubt Muschamp's marauders will fulfill their end of the bargain and haul down the Jolly Roger at every opportunity.
In one of the comments this week, it was said Tech was unpredictable. I would say just the opposite. They may look unpredictable to the novice eye, but the offense operates in a very predictable manner. Tech uses a small number of plays with a wide range of variations, formations and patterns. On offense, Leach plays chess, but so does Muschamp, on a multi-dimensional level. Leach is also prone to gamble, not always with the best of judgment of the consequences, more short-term oriented than long term. His gratification quotient is generally diminished because his defense can't back up his play.
This will be football Theater of the Absurd, where nothing is meaningful or as it seems until the ball is snapped. If this Horns squad is alert and fast enough to stop the screens, the DL can plug the middle running game, and the LBs and DBs pound the living snot out the hot receivers (hello Earl, hello Muck), the Tech offense will be continually diminished each quarter. With essentially a rookie QB at the helm, this might be a most disturbing experience. It's time for Sergio to come out and play.
The Longhorn offense's role will be that of chief psychological tormentor. For decades the key element in beating Tech has been to force Red Raiders to give up, to find a reason to lose and to never give them any opportunity to get back in the game. Tech is so used to this that it is even embedded in fan psychology (sorta like the Aggies without the emotional baggage). To do that, the Horns must create a lead and then control the ball to keep Tech's D, their weakest link, on the field. This is one game where you roll up the score any way you can, as soon as you can, as long as you can and not even feel bad about it. And then you score some more - and a real live crowd should be egging the Horns on.
"69 is divine, 69 is divine"
Last year was a reversal of roles from the outset, with Texas forced to play catch-up time and time again. To their credit, the Horns never gave up, period. At the least, they forced Tech to make the big play: they did and they won. Repeats don't come cheap in this league. It is up to Colt and GD to properly set the roles and aggressively go after points early and often. And I have a sneaking suspicion, as an old safety myself, that the defense will want to throw some chips into the pot as well. This is the game to do that. This is not about revenge...it's a lot more serious than that. We are Texas.
Texas vs. Texas Tech
Texas 43, Texas Tech 15
2008 L Texas 33, Texas Tech 39
2007 W Texas 59, Texas Tech 43
2001 W Texas 42, Texas Tech 7
Mack Brown 8-3, all losses at Tech: '98, '02, '08
1994 L Texas 9, Texas Tech 33
John Mackovic 3-3, two losses at home, one at Tech
David McWilliams 3-2, one loss each at Tech and home
Fred Akers 8-2, two losses at Tech, two shut outs
Darrel K. Royal 13-4, three losses at Tech, one at home, four shut outs
Texas was 8-1 versus Tech prior to 1960. Yes, Texas had back-to-back home games in '60 and '61 when Tech entered the Southwest Conference.
Feel free to employ your own extrapolations. Til Saturday...
Hook 'em


Strategic Placement rule is another much followed rules in photography composition for the placement of horizon lines and of major picture elements are related to, and perhaps derived from, the golden mean, but are somewhat less exact and more flexible in application than the latter is.
Strategic placement dictates that you should never divide an image into equal parts either horizontally or vertically. The horizon line, or any other main horizontal subject boundary, should always be placed some significant but unspecified distance above or below the vertical center of the picture, just as any important vertical line or mass should be placed more to one side than the other.
The rules of strategic placement which have the effect of keeping the picture somewhat asymmetrical are meant to avoid static, dull compositions. Now and then, however, you will have very good reason to do just what you supposedly should not. Sometimes a picture just "looks right" when it is so divided by centering the subject. You may do it to amplify the serenity of a scene, or, on the other hand, to introduce or amplify a foreboding and threatening presence, for maximum psychological effect. Moreover, in a photograph of an object or of a building, a formal, centered composition may be the only arrangement that makes sense.
As always in photography, the best thing to do is to follow your visual instincts. You should not, however, compose aimlessly. You should think about it.


Four years ago, I wrote a post on "Fixing the WBC" that revolved around one primary suggestion: move the timing of the event to mid-season. Many of the reservations that teams have about their players participating in the event have to do with the injury risks of getting away from a normal pre-season workout, and moving the event to mid-season — in that piece, I suggested just replacing the All-Star Game with the WBC and making the break a few days longer — would eliminate that primary concern.
However, it's not a particularly realistic suggestion. The All-Star Game is a big money maker for Major League Baseball, and a sport as steeped in tradition as MLB isn't going to simply cast it aside once every four years. While fully represented WBC squads playing meaningful games would almost certainly be more entertaining than any AL/NL All-Star clash, MLB's preference is clearly for both events to be highly successful, rather than choosing one over the other. Just from a financial perspective, canceling the All-Star Game is probably a non-starter, so even if I think the WBC would work better mid-season, it's probably not a feasible idea.
However, I do think that there's one aspect of the mid-season WBC suggestion that could easily be ported over to the current timeframe and would make the event both more enjoyable and increase participation from MLB players: make the entire event a single elimination tournament, March Madness style.
The current setup for the WBC involves three rounds; a set of four round-robin pools with six games in each pool, then two second round double elimination groups with another six games apiece, and then the championship round that culminates with a three game single elimination finale. That's 39 games spread out over 17 days. Most of those 39 games aren't going to carry much weight, and unfortunately, they're going to be ignored by a large population of the audience that MLB is trying to capture.
26 of the 39 games that were played in the 2009 WBC drew less than 20,000 fans in attendance, and many of those were in the 10,000 range. The first round matchups in Japan drew 40,000+ for each of the three games that involved Japan, then 13,000 for each of the three games that didn't. In Toronto, they got over 40,000 for U.S. vs Canada, then topped out at 13,272 over the next five games. Even with powerhouses like Venezeula and the U.S. to watch, along with rooting on Team Canada, there was little interest in five of the six first round games. Even in the second round, the double elimination format saw match-up fatigue set in. The U.S. vs Puerto Rico drew 30,000 in their first game in Miami, then drew just 13,000 for their rematch three days later.
It just doesn't need to take 38 games to eliminate 14 teams and leave us with a single game championship. It's overkill, and it reduces the importance of each individual game. Yes, it increases the chance that the best teams will advance from each round, but I'm not even sure that's actually in the sport's best interests. The best moments in NCAA tournament history are the little guys storming the court after knocking off a top seed, and the fact that each game is a win-or-go-home affair adds a level of tension to each game that is essentially unmatched in any other sport.
Major League Baseball has already been wooed by the excitement of single game eliminations, and expanded the playoffs to ensure that we get two additional winner-take-all playoff games every year. They're not very good indicators of team strength, and there's an inherently unfair characteristic to having all that work decided by one game, but it's absurdly exciting. And, let's be honest, baseball could stand to be viewed as a more exciting sport.
The whole thing takes a week. No team would play more than two days in a row, and if a top seed went the whole way, they'd have a day off between each game. The strain put on valuable arms would be significantly reduced, and each country would only need to bring three starting pitchers with them, as the Game 1 starter would have four or five days rest before the Championship game. From a practical standpoint, you'd probably be looking at no more than 12-14 innings from any one pitcher, well down from the 20 that Hisashi Iwakuma threw to lead all pitchers in the 2009 tournament. In the 2009 WBC, eight teams asked their pitchers to throw at least 45 innings, and Japan, Korea, and Venezuela all topped 70 innings apiece. Under this current system, where no team would play more than four games, you'd be looking at a maximum of 35-40 innings pitched for each country.
Each game would be highly meaningful and worth watching. Yes, a top team like the U.S. or Venezuela might end up going out in the first or second round, but people do not turn off the NCAA tournament simply because Richmond beats Syracuse or because Lehigh beats Duke. These massive upsets are celebrated parts of the tournaments history, and so it would be if Chinese Taipei took out Venezuela in round one.
People love the NCAA tournament, not because it's fair or a good indicator of a team's talent level, but because it's an exciting sporting event that provides drama and memories. I don't remember a single game from the 2009 WBC, to be honest. The stakes are not high enough for any game to be considered all that memorable until you get to the semifinals, the only single elimination part of the entire tournament.
A single city venue would make travel far more equitable for the teams, would allow fans to make a spring vacation and go nuts watching baseball for a week, and would almost certainly increase attendance for every game, creating a more lively atmosphere in the process. From a logistical standpoint, having access to two MLB stadiums would be ideal, so the event could rate between Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, D.C., and the Bay Area when it is in the U.S. Those larger population centers would attract more fans to the parks than the current sites in Phoenix and Miami as well.
The primary weakness of a single elimination tournament is that it requires a big spread in talent between teams to provide a fair result if the desire is determine the best overall team. But, I don't really see that as the point of the WBC. We're already pretty well aware of the fact that MLB has a few powerhouse countries, and then there are others who are just getting involved in the sport. Giving those underdog countries a chance to advance through a single upset or series of surprising wins would do more to promote the growth of the sport in that country than putting them through low interest round robin games from which they're unlikely to advance, and shortening the schedule would increase participation and give the WBC a stronger group of talent to promote.
I'm looking forward to the WBC, and will be attending several Pool D games when I'm in Phoenix next weekend, but I would be far more interested in spending a week immersed in a baseball version of March Madness, where every game was winner-take-all and I could watch the beginning to end in seven days. That's a tournament that would get people's attention. That's a tournament that would show off the excitement of the sport of baseball.
Quick addition: As noted by Zach Levine, teams might not be interested in flying across the world to play one game that they probably won't win. Easiest solution: a consolation bracket, guaranteeing each team multiple games.
We hoped you liked reading The WBC, March Madness Style by Dave Cameron!
Love this idea. It would also get the big stars out easily. This could work and be a big, big thing.


On Saturday 22nd November, we launched our 25th store inside West Hills Mall, Weija, Accra in Ghana.
Thousands of shoppers thronged the venue in anticipation of the grand opening and went home with lots of prizes and goodies and enjoyed a free one-on-one styling session.
The grand opening was also attended by management and staff and featured performances from Ghana's dancehall artiste Stonebwoy and Dance group FlashMobGh with fashion shows from Lakopue Designs and Seyi Jones.
The store is open daily from Monday to Sunday and stocks trendy, funky and fabulous fabrics and ready-to-wear clothes and bags.


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Mountain lion eludes authorities
By The Associated Press | |
California Department of Fish and Game officials wrapped up an unsuccessful hunt for a mountain lion that was reportedly spotted in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock.
Department spokesman Steve Martarano says his agency and Los Angeles police searched the neighborhood of Eagle Rock for about four hours Friday but did not find the animal.
Officials were responding to a reported sighting of a cougar about the size of a large dog perched in a tree.
Martarano says searchers had planned to tranquilize and remove the animal if it was found, since it had done no harm.


What to do about "one and done" players–who go to college for only one year and then jump to the NBA?
How's this idea for NCAA schools whose basketball players jump to the NBA after only one season, or "Tell me these coaches really think that these players go to Kentucky or other big schools intending to stay four years."
Solution: For each player who doesn't complete four years and leave with a diploma, the team loses a scholarship for each year of school that the player cut out on. For example, an Allen Iverson who plays one year at Georgetown and then goes to the NBA–he cut out on three years of college–the school loses three scholarships.
For a team that has two or more starters who leave school prematurely after a season, the school is banned from the next year's NCAA tournament.
How do you think THAT would go down with the boosters?
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'Peripheral' anthropologies of Europe. Their histories and intellectual genealogies [Europeanist network]
Andrés Barrera-González (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Lorena Anton (University of Bucharest)
Susana Viegas (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)
Horsal 9 (D9)
Thursday 16 August, 9:00-10:45, 11:15-13:00 (UTC+0)
'Peripheral' anthropologies of Europe. Their histories and intellectual genealogies [Europeanist network]. Panel P048 at conference EASA2018: Staying, Moving, Settling.
This panel invites looking at ways of doing anthropology not within the mainstream, at 'peripheral' traditions in the discipline which are often overlooked. Like Renaissance endeavors such as the Spanish and Portuguese 'missionary anthropologies' or minor ethnologies from the peripheries of Europe.
Anthropology is the offspring of travel, trade and geographical discovery. An outcome of the manifold encounters with Others, be it in the context of imperial expansion and colonial settlement, or in the framework of nation building in the European metropolises where the discipline was born. Anthropology's acceptance into governmental and academic institutions bears close relation to its perceived usefulness as a tool for government and statecraft; or as a means to reach practical ends like the conversion or nationalization of subjects. Notwithstanding its fertility in explaining and understanding the Other in its diverse customs, beliefs and ways of life. Therefore, in order to make sense of this beleaguered discipline, it is imperative to account for the particular historical, social and political contexts where it has taken root and flourished.
This time we propose to have a look at ways of doing anthropology not within the mainstream, 'peripheral' (meaning non-central) and 'little' traditions in the discipline other than the acknowledged four major ones (Barth et al 2005). We suggest paying attention to overlooked Renaissance anthropologies, such as the Spanish and Portuguese speaking 'missionary anthropologies' from the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as to schools of ethnology, ethnography and folklore studies from the territorial and political peripheries of Europe, namely during the 19th and 20th centuries, which are less known and may have being poorly understood.
Contributions to Anthropos-logos from the Renaissance: accounts about the peoples and cultures of the Indies written by Spanish authors
Fermin del Pino-Diaz (Consejo Superior de Investig-cientif.)
The paper proposes revisiting the large body of chronicles, memorials, grammars, natural and moral histories written by Spanish authors after the 'discovery' of the Indies; with the aim to take account of works and authors indeed relevant to the history of a science of anthropology
The arrival of Colon to the shores of La Hispaniola sent intellectual and political shockwaves back to Europe. Academics and public figures from all walks of life were forced to adjust their worldviews, theological and scientific principles to the realities told and written about by the returning sailors and clerics. Passionate debates unfolded in the academic and clerical circles in the most important cities.
People like the Franciscans Andrés de Olmos, Toribio de Benavente, Bernardino de Sahagún wrote the first grammars of these languages, and the first 'histories' of the Indians. They were true pioneers in what today would be labeled ethno-linguistics, ethno-history or ethnography. As regards the theological and doctrinal debates conducted in the metropolis, we ought to take into account leading figures like Francisco de Vitoria, Bartolomé Las Casas or José de Acosta.
In revisiting such extraordinary people and works, produced in the context of colonial Mexico or Peru, we ought to consider the complex interplay between the diverse forces and factors that converge in this particular socio-political and historical field: The Crown, the Church, the Conquistadores, the Missionaries, the Indians. But our intention is not just to add some notes on the margins of a conventional history of anthropology, built by accumulating biographies of prominent authors, and lists of their contributions. The reappraisal of these authors and works is to be carried out in the broader context of the history and philosophy of science.
The Formation of Ethnographic Knowledge in Spain and its (Post-) Colonies within the 'Cuadros de Costumbres' during the 19th Century
Florian Grafl (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
This paper analyses social sketches ('cuadros de costumbres') in Spain and its former south-American and Caribbean colonies in the 19th century. It argues that these short but essential descriptions of daily life established an early tradition concerning the ethnographic knowledge production.
In the course of the early decades of the 19th century, social sketches became a widespread form of sociographic journalism, mainly in the (central-) European countries but also, with a certain deferment, in other parts of the world as well. Their popularization was favored by the increasing liberalization of censorship as well as new developments in print and diffusion, which enabled the production of periodicals on a large scale and lead to the consolidation of reading groups of a considerable size. As hybrids between social research on the one hand and entertainment on the other, social sketches for a start obtained a very popular position in French and English periodicals. Later, especially in Spain and its (former) colonies the so-called "cuadros de costumbres" turned into a far-reaching tradition of describing social types and cultural routines in order to met the increased needs for analysing urban, economic, and political developments of the modern industrial societies.
The aim of this paper, deriving from research undertaken within a history of science framework, is to investigate how this form of early journalism constituted a significant agent for future scientific knowledge production and in which ways it can be seen as a result of the preoccupations of contemporary ethnologists and sociologists. By focusing not only on the 'cuadros de costumbres' which originated from Spain, but also on samples which were published later in (former) Spanish colonies, the paper moreover highlights the transnational and global dimensions of this early form of ethnographic self-examination.
From the Empire with Love: Andreas David Mordtmann, Traveling Theory, and the Tale of Turkish Ethnology
Hande Birkalan-Gedik (Goethe Universität)
Before anthropology was professionalized in 1925 in Turkey, several travelers shared pre-anthropological accounts. I focus on Andreas Mordtmann (1811-1879), a Protestant-German Orientalist and a cultural broker and his impact on ethnology, ethnography and anthropology in the 19th century-Turkey.
Today, many anthropologists agree that Anthropology is the offspring of travel of some forms—perhaps also what Edward Said calls, of "traveling theory" (1982). My paper considers the life and works of Andreas David Mordtmann (Father) (1811-1879)—an Orientalist "traveling" to Istanbul with his "theory," who left an imprint on the pre-anthropological accounts of the Ottoman-Turkish ethnology, ethnography, and anthropology. As a German Orientalist, he not only traveled through Anatolia and published several of his travel notes, but also taught statistics, ethnology, and ethnography at the Mülkiye Mektebi (School of Political Science) in Istanbul. He was a prolific character in Oriental Studies, as he also took roles as a "cultural broker," to borrow the term for Ulf Hannerz (1992). He was a diplomat, judge, journalist, a Protestant missionary, and a teacher. He lived almost 35 years in Istanbul and died there, even obtaining a citizenship of the Ottoman Empire. He left many writings: legation reports, scientific and journalistic works, and personal letters. He was a contemporary witness to the late nineteenth century Ottoman cultural and political life. By participating in it, what he did was not too far from what anthropologists today describe as "participant observation." As a cultural translator for both sides—he produced knowledge about "the Orient" for his readers in Germany and carried his ethnological and ethnographic understandings to an Ottoman-Turkish audience in the 19th century.
Prince Peter and the Attempt to Establish a National School of Anthropology in Greece
Michael Harkin (University of Wyoming)
Elly-Maria Papamichael
Prince Peter, member of the Greek royal family, and ardent anti-fascist, received the Ph.D. from the LSE. He attempted to establish anthropology in Greece as a means of ensuring a democratic, multi-cultural society. Although unsuccessful, he pointed the way for future Greek anthropologists.
Prince Peter of Greece was among the first generation of Greek anthropologists. Peter studied at the LSE under Malinowski and Firth, receiving the PhD in 1959 after two decades of study. Peter, an ardent anti-fascist, fought the Nazis as a soldier in the Greek army. His anti-fascist beliefs were intertwined with his practice of anthropology. He believed that anthropology provided the basis for a modern, liberal, democratic society. To that end he delivered a series of lectures in Greece in the early 1960s on "the science of anthropology." In these lectures, Peter sets out both an agenda for a Greek school of anthropology and a vision of Greece as a multi-cultural democratic society, only a few years before the junta would show the world a much different face. In fact, among the first actions of the junta would be to ransack the Greek Institute for Social Science, which contained a substantial archive.
Although unsuccessful in permanently establishing anthropology in Greece, Peter nonetheless planted the seed for what would develop into a national school of anthropology, strongly influenced by Anglo-Saxon anthropology. It is questionable whether this development itself led to the guarantee of liberal democracy that Peter had envisioned; however, the idea of free inquiry into social and cultural matters was opposed to the fascist concept of the state as an extended authoritarian family. In the end, Peter is a tragic figure, but one who argued strenuously for the centrality of anthropology to liberal society
Scholars in the Armchair, Knowledge on the Move: Agents and Contexts of the Appearance of Global Ethnography/Anthropology in Hungary, 1760-1830
Ildiko Kristof (Institute of Ethnology Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Centre for the Humanities)
The paper examines the appearance of anthropological knowledge in the Kingdom of Hungary between 1760-1830. Focusing on its agents and media, it intends to throw light on the particular cultural/political contexts in which it was embedded in that 'peripheral' region of the Austrian Empire.
The paper examines the period 1760-1830 during which global ethnography and anthropology emerged in Western Europe as well as in East-Central-Europe, including the Kingdom of Hungary. The history of the latter tradition is less known and has not become part of mainstream histories of anthropology.
The author bases the analysis on her exploration carried out in archives and libraries in Budapest: the Library of Loránd Eötvös University, being a successor of the library of a Jesuit academy founded in 1635 in Nagyszombat/Trnava (today's Slovakia); the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, founded in 1826 as a learned society; and the National Széchényi Library, containing an abundant collection of rare books from private and community holdings.
Between 1760 and 1830, three important agents seem to work on global anthropology including ethnography in Hungary: Jesuit missionaries educated in Nagyszombat/Trnava, Lutheran scholars in Pozsony/Bratislava, and preachers serving the Reformed church of Hungary. Apart from the work of the missionaries, and considering that the Austrian Empire did not have any overseas colonies, global anthropology appeared there not only as the result of translation, but also as a product of local appropriation.
Focusing on the media (books of geography and natural history, engraved images in them) and the agents (pastors, missionaries, surgeons) of the distribution of anthropological knowledge in late Enlightenment - early Romanticism Hungary, the author analyses the local cultural and political contexts in which this knowledge was embedded.
The Peripheral Centre: Dispersed Tradition of the German Enlightenment and Non-Colonialist Travelogues
Lazar Jovanović
In this paper I discuss the peripheral status of the short-lived tradition of the German Enlightenment and assert that this intellectual current represents the tradition of its own which echoed in the latter development of the German anthropological tradition.
The fact that the European colonial expansion gave rise to anthropology is an old truism within the research of the disciplinary history. Nonetheless, in my paper I want to draw attention to an ephemeral tradition of non-colonial explorers' accounts which originated within the intellectual current of the German Enlightenment, a short-lived tradition established within what was to become both political and territorial centre of Europe. Following the consensually adopted line of the disciplinary developmental path, German anthropological tradition is recognized as one of the four major ones, often perceived as the provenance of the Romantic movement and as such as a pair of dichotomy based on the oppositional relation to the tradition established within the framework of the French Enlightenment. The main goal of the paper is to underscore a distinctive form of the German Enlightenment and, in those lines, indicate the significant role of the omitted tradition, its distinctiveness and marginalized position both in the accounts of the disciplinary history as well as on the intellectual scene at the time. In the paper, I assert the peripheral status of the German Enlightenment, as the pre-Romantic intellectual current which preceded recognition and thus centralization of the German anthropological tradition. Therefore, I define it as a tradition of its own which profoundly influenced the course of the wider framework recognized as one of the centres of conceivement of anthropological thought.
Anthropology of decadence at the margins of hellenism: Elias Petropoulos and the Greek underground
Christos Panagiotopoulos (Cornell University)
Documenting the marginal, the decadent, the underground, was Elias Petropoulos' anthropological response to an official history that erased, disregarded and delegitimized these realms from modern Greek history and identity. He developed an anthropology of decadence, at the margins of hellenism.
Elias Petropoulos is a modern Greek author, who raised the practice of laography - a modern Greek version of folklore studies - into a politically subversive art. His training took place in prisons, brothels and underground venues, and for his groundbreaking work he spent most of his adult life in exile in Paris. He lived among people of the margins - 'the rebetes, criminals, fags and whores' of 20th century Greece - and brought their linguistic codes, moral compasses and political incorrectness to the spotlight. He documented life among underground musicians, the rebetes of the 1930s and 1940s (Petropoulos, 1968), wrote the dictionary for the now nearly-extinct gay slang dialect of Greece (Petropoulos, 1971), and surveyed the country in search of lost, hidden, and marginal folklore practices, including coffee culture (Petropoulos, 1979) and vestimentary loans from the Balkans (Petropoulos, 1987), while outlining the forced hellenisation of these culturally fluid practices though nationalization, or their silencing and extinction. This inadvertently challenged the crypto-colonialist (Herzfeld, 2002), bourgeois cleansing of modern Greek identity, cultivated through the exclusion of the margins in the academy, and by the formalized national identity Greece cultivated since the 19th century. One Greece was constructed, while another one was discarded. Commemorating his work, this paper showcases how the peripheral underground, of a peripheral academy can be central to our contemporary anthropological practices: an anthropology of the discarded, an anthropology of decadence, an anthropology of hypo-cultures flourishing at the periphery.
Self-educated ethnologist: Jan Witort (1853-1903), 'an ethnographer from Lithuania'
Auksuole Cepaitiene (Lithuanian Institute of History)
The paper will discuss the Jan Witort's case of becoming an ethnologist, and the ways in which ideas travel across political boundaries, and make an impact on intellectual contexts. It will give attention to the specificity of the epoch, the region and personal lived experience.
In the second half of the nineteenth century when anthropology in the West was establishing its paradigmatic route Lithuania was a part of Russian Empire with forbidden Latin alphabet, without university, and with its social elite being of Polish culture and identity. Folkloristic, ethnological and anthropological approaches, discovered during the previous era of Vilnius University, were developed by Imperial Russian Geographical Society, Lithuanian Literary Society in Prussia, and Polish Ethnological Society.
Jan Witort, 'an ethnographer from Lithuania' who was greatly influenced by cultural evolutionism, was a member of Polish Ethnological Society. He got acquainted with ethnography, and social theory during his deportations to the north of Russia, and later to Siberia where he was sentenced for his revolutionary activity. In deportations, he had a chance to read the works of Herbert Spencer, Edward Burnett Tylor, John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant and the others, which stimulated his engagement into social critique, and studies of customary law, family, community and social organization.
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The Study of the People in the People's Democracies
Joseph Grim Feinberg (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)
I look at the tradition of ethnology and folklore studies in the Communist-led countries of Eastern Europe. I argue that instead of rejecting the tradition's Communist legacy, we should seriously investigate the contributions it made to the region's history of cultural-political thought.
In this presentation I look at the tradition of ethnology and folklore studies in the Communist-led countries of Central and Eastern Europe. With an emphasis on Czechoslovakia, but with reference to research elsewhere that influenced and was influenced by Czechoslovak discussions, I draw out the theoretical and political stakes of this extensive body of work. I argue that these stakes have been obscured by two opposing tendencies that have dominated Western and post-Communist approaches to Communist-era ethnology and folklore studies. On the one hand, much research has focused on how ethnology and folklore studies lent support to ruling regimes; this focus has presented the political stakes of the tradition in a limited, negative sense as an instrument of domination. Other research, meanwhile, has come to the defense of Communist-era ethnology and folklore studies by removing them from their political context and pointing to an apolitical, scientific core that can be rescued from Communist politics. I argue that we might instead take seriously the Communist intellectual context and examine the role of ethnology and folklore studies in the region's history of leftist cultural-political thought. From this perspective we can see, in particular, that ethnology and folklore studies were able to address a theoretical question that the socialist movement had raised, but which classical Marxism did not have the tools to answer: how to conceptualize and analyze the conditions of possibility of collective, communal, popular creativity in the context of a modern, industrialized, socialist society.
Writing own culture and "the other's" culture in "the heart of Europe"
Jurij Fikfak (ZRC SAZU)
The paper explores the writing of the own and the other's culture in the "heart of the Middle Europe" (Ljubljana, Zagreb, Trieste, Klagenfurt, Graz) in 19th century. Issues are the institutionalization and professionalization; the reception of Herder, Humboldt, etc; different approaches.
In the paper, I will explore how the view of the other's culture from the anthropological or ethnological view developed in the 19th century in the "heart of the Middle Europe" (Ljubljana, Zagreb, Trieste, Klagenfurt, Graz). In this context, the paper looks at the following questions: the institutionalization of ethnological or anthropological activity / schools, universities, associations of experts as well as the place for publications, like journals, newspapers; the creation of media and public discourses; the relationship between popular, professional and partly scientific production; the first development of professionalism; the reception and discursive use of important authors, for example, Herder, Humboldt, etc; approaches that enabled discourses on their own culture and "the other's" culture, e.g. a phylological or geographical statistical. It is important to investigate (anational) cosmopolitanism and more and more important nationalization processes and to check whether the relationship between them was then an integral part of discourses or whether these dilemmas were the result of later interpretations.


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Francis Omode is a graduate of University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics.
Francis is Proactive, Responsible, Self-Motivated, God-fearing, Trustworthy and Energetic.
He is a purpose-driven young man who earned himself the position of General Manager at Gerrit Fleuren Ventures Ltd.
He is strongly committed to ensuring efficient development of manpower while upholding the principle of integrity, teamwork, interpersonal relationship, irrespective of people's background, and striving for continued excellence in the aquaculture sub-sector. However, when off-work, he enjoys engaging in voluntary activities within the community, one of which is serving as the secretary to a welfare foundation in his home state.
Quadri is the farm manager at Hexahedron Fish farm SARL, Kinshasa-Congo DR. And also a Fisheries & Aquaculture Consultant at Gerrit Fleuren Ventures Ltd.
He is an exceptional Team player who is very efficient by creatively solving problems with the best possible option, the most economical way and in the shortest possible time.
He has worked with Aviation Fish Farm, Abuja (a project of SCC Nigeria Ltd), Hexahedron Fish farm SARL, Kinshasa-Congo DR, JAMBO FISH FARM, Kisumu, KENYA Republic and presently consulting with ELTEES FARMS NIGERIA LIMITED, Sagamu, Ogun State. He is currently the Fisheries and Aquaculture Consultant at Gerrit Fleuren Ventures Ltd.
Adama Enyojo is a graduate of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria where He obtained a Bachelor of Science (Building) with Second Class Honours (Upper Division) and professionally certified by the Project Management Professional Institute in Project Management & Health, Safety and Environment.
He is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB).
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Adam Dunne: The Next Big Popstar
Dublin, Ireland, United Kingdom — Adam Dunne is back and better than ever with his new single Cold Love! This marks Adam Dunne's official single, you may remember Adam Dunne from his iconic 2017 hit "Way Above The Skyline" which serves as Adam's single landing him an instant number one hit in Ireland for two months straight.
Adam Dunne has been working in the studio for the past three years and rightfully so after the insane hit 'Way Above The Skyline' had become across seas. This time Adam has left his electropop ways and now has converted into a more "chill-pop" vibe with Cold Love. Cold Love serves as Adam's first single off his debut album Infernal.
Cold Love is centered around a complex feeling of wanting to belong but also be free of one's self. Now if there's one thing Adam knows how to do it! It's a write a catchy pop tune. Cold Love is a masterpiece all around, from Adam's vocals to the slick piano to the catchy drop and groovy bass this song will surely go down as an Adam Dunne favorite for us! Soak it up while you can cause we can exclusively tell you ALL new music will be dark pop! Will Adam be having his Lady Gaga (Born This Way) era?
Infernal is executively produced by Pual Saint but features production from Jake Engel, MANTRA, Elijah Punk & RyLee Mixes.
Cold Love essentially is a song about a one-sided relationship. It's kind of talking about how people nowadays want the benefit of a relationship, but they also want the benefit of being single.
How they love to go to the clubs, how they love to go to the bar how they love the experience of being single but also still being depeneded on someone else. – Adam Dunne – Cold Love (Pandora Commentary)
Adam Dunne's debut album is slated to be released this year. Collaborations, features, and more are still under tight wrap! But you can find all info regarding Infernal HERE!
Adam Dunne's Pandora commentary will be out soon for Pandora premium subscribers but in the meantime come out from the heat and into the cold and stream Adam Dunne's new single Cold Love today on all platforms.
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Adam Dunne is an Irish singer songwriter Born in Dublin, Ireland. Adam has been crafting in the music industry since the age of thirteen and working professionally in recording studios since age sixteen writing with artists. His musical background comes from being active in school talent show's and local small venue performances throughout Dublin city when he was younger. Adam started working professionally on pop music in 2016 working on various singles, music videos, EP's and writing for artists around the globe. Adam rose to the social media spotlight when his hit single 'Way Above The Skyline' peaked at a high of 1 Million streams on sound cloud within the first 48hrs of release launching Adam into viral fame throughout the internet. This lead to Adam featuring in an advert for AIB bank where 'Way Above The Skyline' was featured. He is now working on his debut album titled 'Infernal' with executive producer Pual Saint and in the process of filming a theatrical movie in relation to his debut album. Keep up to date with Adam through his website AdamDunneOfficial.com
Adam Dunne
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