COP 21 has just ended; there will be no more long debate, serious situation, disappointed gimmick, and high tense atmosphere. What can we pick from the biggest event, which was participated by 195 countries in Paris? A legal agreement in which all of participated countries should keep the global emission below 2 degrees. It became a long debate among civil organizations around the world. Some of them stated that it was a difficult action to be achieved due to escalated earth temperature with 0,85 Celsius since 1880, according to the meeting on climate change in 2014. Therefore, significant reduced emission is needed, especially from the biggest emission producing countries, such as the USA and China.
The aim of COP 21 was very clear, all of the countries should adopt the legal agreement to reduce the global carbon emission and keep the heating under the limit of 2 Celsius. However, according to environmental activists in Paris, the climate change in recent year is very unpredictable. By the average 7-8 Celsius, some people from sub-tropic countries considered that the weather is still too cold. Hence, the agreement on the heating within below 2 Celsius was highlighted from the participants of COP 21.
Realizing that the climate change possesses a threat and a bad potency towards society and earth, international cooperation is very needed to respond to and to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Countries also need to promote an awareness related to climate has become a threat to sustainability of local community, migrant workers, children, and disabled people as well as the development rights for gender equality, women empowerment, justice for every generation.
This writing will not merely discuss about what have contained in the Adaption of the Group Agreement, but also on how the countries see the society in the scheme of climate change. There are several points, which I want to highlight. Firstly, the use of big banners for sponsors of COP 21. Some of big companies clearly did unfair free trade, harmed human dignity, devastated the living source of local society and did not take side on women and children. The gratitude greeting from France government also had wounded the COP 21 journey. As a result, it weakened all of my trusts given to private sectors, including international NGO that had gave supports towards the climate grant.
Moreover, the inclusion of loss and damage caused by climate change in this event. The final draft on the Paris Agreement included the mechanism to tackle the finance loss experienced by some susceptible countries to the impact of climate change. Indeed, the big countries (such as, USA) requested the elimination of compensation on the impact of climate change because it can open an opportunity for a lot big companies to be sued.
In several panels, Indonesia merely discussed about the success story on the impact and scheme of climate change grants; such as how grants shall be compensated, and some of the big companies have been responsible to save the village area by their grant. The Climate Fund is considered to fulfill important requirements in the means of saving environment however its failure is due to the encumbering influence of big plantations and extractive industries. In a panel on integrated benefit sharing mechanism at village level in Indonesian pavilion, I also said that the mistakes of big plantations and extractive industry in Indonesia was not only destroying natural resources, but also abolishing the community's living space, culture, and local community's ability.
Through the new scheme, namely Green Projects, is there any benefits received by susceptible groups to climate change impacts?
Green Projects make a new protection and have the potential to threaten the sovereignty of local community on forest, water, farm, etc., which are belonged to them since decades ago. They have an advanced traditional ability to handle the natural change. According to Budiman Sujatmiko, Village Law has become core to interpreting the village budget also can empower the local community's solidarity. Also, it can collaborate the anticipation and participation to empower local community to adapt with the climate change. On the other hand, the concept of Climate Fund is not included in living space rebuilding as the response to the mismanagement. It has confirmed by Sarekat Hijau Indonesia (Indonesia Green Union) in its main program, Green Village Development.
The false view of the State in comprehending those responsible for the local economic sovereignty has shown that the State takes aside on private sector. There are no countries which have solemnly shown the worst situation on forest, land, and other conflicts between big companies with local community. There was no voice about criminalization towards palm plantation companies, which have impacted the worst quality of society. Also, how the Europe countries and USA have declined their consumption on energy and tissue.
The commitment of COP21 countries' participants should always be tested. The Paris Agreement is not a perfect product in accommodating all interests. However, this agreement has accommodated the needs of employment in the border regions of the countries provided with every consequence on climate change. It includes the interest of women, children, local community, and refugees. There were a lot of panel discussion, which were organized by the civil society organization highlighted on the impact of climate change towards women and other susceptible groups. In addition, State's support is also needed to be one of the prominent things without giving the tolerance to private sector.
As a civil society, the State needs to be reminded whether they have violated humanity values towards susceptible groups. This event was ended with the collaborated action between civil society and several political parties involved in COP21.
See you all in COP 22 in Marocco 2016.


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n i'll fill her up with joy.
then drops him on japan.
she gives no ravage rest.
that teaches points to moist.
just needs more death-knell zinfandel?
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swaddling u wer the elder sway.
skies in the hard of yr land.
that happen to be on hers.
o wut a beautiful mad.
her coil'd swoon the follow we'd.
o freeing glean of heavy tasks.
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ee be da bee bee da gobba da ba.
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of alone in the snow.
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evry day from who noes.
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i taste a different time in evry sapid dimpl of the honeycomb.
n i gotta chase my eyes thru all the hyalescence in the drizzlebow.
down the bak of shaloom.
from the churn of the moon.
got him slosht in the swoon.
than the ruff to the hewn.
cuz i hear how i began wen i wander wayward thru the overgrew.
of bad off n too bad.
for thr tongues to be had.
they went down with the jam.
we jumpin off the sprawl into the be-for-all of the better never known.
n we slug our werwithal from the waterfall in the riches unbestowed.
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i'm in yr room agen, hey hey.
i'm gonna move my men yr way.
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to the god of no shared vertebrae?
worth its weight in lost desire.
so i can throw myself on yr femoral pyre.
the sea's lockt its legs around my face.
this balmy peopled soup is all my base.
til my eternally postponed pregnancy escapes.
i'm in luv, n luv's away.
n she lookt his way.
if u want me off yr plate, just eat me.
of yr trap-impersonating mousy act.
but y rethink a relapse to synapse?
u got more frets than a cheap trick guitar.
yr teeth smell like yr nuklz on memoir.
es el momento de mi bobo.
i just wanna brew yr nutripative lagunity.
so kiss me on the precipice, n let's out that inzy.
how have we not left the accounting cathedral already?
n turn that sway back on my rekless slobber gun.
for the good of all peaches n cream.
my lickable longshanks du llama.
no more idling at the last chance turn off.
cuz u had it, u gave it to me, n now u can't take it?
don't wanna do it too but check himself into the petting zoo?
so drop the hotty plato, n beat razlin to my montague.
is u at yr worst the best u got?
don't mean I gotta belch her ghost.
wut yr shibboleth squandered to no jocose.
i can't get ur head outta my song.
y u still lookin for wut yr lookin from?
since wen were u born tomoro in a morgue?
defaulting on the free fall leaves a lot to be explored.
that y u non-stop shopping for self-refrigeration pyramids?
but yr all i want, bb, so be it, or we thru.
What's For It In Me?
in a home as bad as she was good to see.
n now and then we'd kiss n i was free.
all i thot was wut's in it for me?
but her mouth wuz such a pretty, fierce trapeze.
wrong rompin as a mattress on the sea.
all i thot wuz wut's in it for me?
n she did, n we wur wed like kennedys.
we'd often lie in bed n feel at peace.
n all i thot wuz wut's in it for me?
n then, i dunno wut happened.
maybe i had a syntagmatic hormone intervention.
maybe i pulled a muscle n found the pass/fail gene.
maybe i met someone bigger than me.
maybe the damage i'd done became the patch i grazed.
maybe i drank enuf to save a mockingbird.
maybe i wuz rite all along n it wuz time to change.
n all i ask is wut's for it in me?
if u land on wut u were trying to get off.
as feeling like someone else who's feelin verdurous.
the pleasure around is the pleasure within.
it's all good, it's just not all that good at it.
"do not do that again!
come on back to yr luvr, now.
reach yr arms to yr luvr, now.
give yr luv to yr luvr, now.
there's no returning in a name.


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Ancient Khotan : vol.1
古代コータン : vol.1
Illustration of legend of sacred rats.
264 THE RUINS OF DANDAN-UILIQ [Chap. IX
SECTION V.—DISCOVERY OF DATED DOCUMENTS
The scattered group of ruined structures situated about half a mile east-north-east of my camp was the next to which I turned attention. The first to be explored were the closely adjoining ruins, marked D. iv and D. y in the plan, in which I could without difficulty recognize the remains of an oblong temple-cella and of a large dwelling-place. These ruins had suffered badly from erosion which, in the unprotected soil immediately to the north and east of them, had produced broad depressions to the depth of about 20 feet below the original ground-level. The ruins, owing to this lowering of the adjoining ground, as marked in the detail plan (Plate XXVI), seemed now to occupy a raised tongue of land quite clear of dunes, and nowhere retained more than two or three feet of covering sand. Above this there rose the splintered short stumps of posts which once had held the framework of wattle and plaster walls, as seen in the photograph of D. y (Fig. 35). In places the rows of these posts still clearly marked the position of dividing walls, though the walls themselves had practically disappeared down to the ground-level. Elsewhere there remained under the thin layer of sand only the massive beams, usually 6 to 8 inches in thickness, which had formed the foundation of the walls, while near the edges of the ground actually undergoing wind-erosion even these remains had disappeared, or were strewing the slopes in shapeless fragments of bleached brittle timber. The plaster work had survived only in a few portions of walls, which in the detail plan can readily be distinguished by being marked in black. Nowhere did these remnants of walls exceed a height of 2 feet.
The exposed condition of these ruins had, of course, attracted the visits of ` treasure-seeking' parties, including some that Turdi had personally conducted in former years ; and their burrowings had left visible marks in the débris of plaster, timber, potsherds, &c., which lay scattered about on the surface of the sand, as seen in the photographs. Notwithstanding the damage thus caused, my careful clearing of the ruins was rewarded by some interesting relics. Within the cella D. iv (Fig. 34), which measured 13 ft. 8 in. inside from east to west with a width of II ft., only some much decayed fragments in friable stucco were found, which seemed to belong to the drapery of a colossal figure. This had no doubt occupied the base, 3 feet square, which faced the entrance on the east and still rose to a height of 8 inches. At the foot of the west wall, behind the base, there remained traces of a painted frieze, probably resembling that illustrated from D. xi'. Of the walls enclosing a passage around the cella, 5 feet wide, very little remained but the foundation beams and stumps of posts. Yet even this scanty shelter had sufficed to preserve on the west side the two painted panels, D. Iv. 4 and 5, but their colours have suffered much.
The obverse of the panel D. iv. 5, measuring 17â in. in length with a width of 44 in. and shown in Plate LX III, is of special interest : for in the half-length human figure with the head of a rat and wearing a diadem, which occupies the central semi-ellipse, we have manifestly a representation of the chief of those sacred rats which were worshipped as having saved Khotan from an attack of the Hsiung-nu, and whose legend, as heard by Hsüan-tsang at the site corresponding to the present ` Kaptar-Mazar' at the western edge of the oasis, we have already discussed in detail 1. Though the characteristic features of the rat's head are unmistakably indicated, the painter has cleverly imparted to it a human expression. The colour visible on the face and on the part of the neck left bare by the robe is distinctly yellow, thus agreeing
D. iv, D. v.
Remains of temple-cella D. iv.
' See above, pp. 119 sq.
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Guest blog by David Hickey, Managing Director, HICKEY
When a corporate real estate professional undertakes a major location decision, there are several critical factors to identify and evaluate. Among those leading components are credits and incentives, tools and resources from economic development entities, government agencies, and utilities enacted to support and recruit business investment and job creation.
Over the past year, credits and incentives have been on the forefront of a number of high-visibility real estate and business relocation / expansion projects in the United States. It was hard for anyone to miss Amazon's infamous "HQ2" project, which brought about vast debate over the utilization of these tools and their respective impact on the site selection process. Meanwhile, there were hundreds of other corporate real estate projects across the country which were directly supported and moved forward, in part, because of successful partnerships between economic development agencies, government entities, and businesses.
Along with major projects, key trends and policy changes around credits and incentives during 2019 were further expansion of transparency rules and initiatives at state and local levels, legislating a return on investment for taxpayers, targeting of investments on a geographic and industry sector basis, and enhancement of federal economic development programs by state and local agencies. On the latter, several states and communities have established incentive programs designed to leverage federal Opportunity Zones, which were created in the major tax overhaul law passed in 2017.
Looking ahead to the next decade, the utilization of these tools and resources will continue, while the trends of expanded transparency, taxpayer return on investment, and targeted public investments will increasingly be deployed.
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ClearLight Partners Invests in Handel's Ice Cream
November 25, 2019 01:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Private equity firm ClearLight Partners announced today that it has made an investment in Handel's Homemade Ice Cream, a franchisor of premium ice cream scoop shops, in partnership with Handel's owner Leonard Fisher. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Headquartered in Youngstown, Ohio, the Handel's story started in 1945 when Alice Handel began serving ice cream out of her husband's gas station. Alice's first batches were made using old fashioned recipes with fresh fruit she picked from her own backyard. Since then, Handel's has grown to include nearly fifty corporate and franchised locations in California, Indiana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Utah, Texas and Oregon. The menu has also expanded and now includes over 100 flavors of homemade ice cream. All ice cream is made in the store, with batches made fresh daily at each location. "We knew Handel's was special from the moment we were introduced to the business," commented Andrew Brennan, a Partner at ClearLight. "The welcoming culture of the Company, the incredible focus of the team on simply making great ice cream, the fanaticism of its customer base, and the taste and quality of its ice cream itself were all inspiring to us. This partnership represents a chance to introduce the fabulous Handel's ice cream experience to more people across the country and to continue to delight children, adults and families with a product that Alice Handel would be proud of."
"It has been a pleasure working with ClearLight given their strong background in helping franchised concepts and other consumer brands to grow," said Leonard Fisher, CEO of Handel's. "I knew early on that we had a shared vision for how to support Handel's growth while preserving the brand's core values and continuing to invest in the quality ingredients and process that make Handel's ice cream the best there is. Together, we are looking to become to many more people what we already are to our customers – America's favorite scoop shop!"
"We are thrilled to partner with Leonard and bring Handel's to new communities, we are very excited about our future together," said Michael Kaye, Managing Partner at ClearLight.
About ClearLight Partners
ClearLight Partners is a private equity firm in Southern California that invests in established, profitable middle-market companies with significant growth potential. Since inception, ClearLight has raised $900 million in capital across three funds from a single limited partner. The team at ClearLight has extensive operating and financial experience and has a history of successfully partnering with owners and management teams to drive growth and create value.
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Leaked Documents Indicate Binance May Have Evaded US Regulations
Mike Dalton
Binance CEO says that U.S. exchange was not created with ulterior motives.
Forbes says that Binance distracted regulators by setting up its U.S. subsidiary, according to a leaked document.
CEO Changpeng Zhao denies that the document originated from a current or former Binance employee.
Binance may have used its American subsidiary to evade regulations, according to leaked documents obtained by Forbes. Binance, however, contests the allegations.
Did Binance "Bait and Switch" Regulators?
Forbes alleges that Binance established BAM Trading (now Binance.US) in 2018 with an ulterior motive: to distract regulators by feigning attempts at compliance.
The report describes Binance's strategy as a "bait and switch" tactic. The company supposedly made minor efforts to comply with U.S. regulations while also instructing potential customers on how to evade geographic restrictions through VPNs and other means.
Forbes also suggests that Binance aimed to undermine anti-money laundering (AML) regulations, outlined strategies to distract numerous regulators, and joined the Department of Homeland Security's Cornerstone Program to find regulatory loopholes.
The document has been dubbed the "Tai Chi" document as an allusion to the martial arts principle of using an opponent's own weight against him.
In other words, the strategy leverages the complexities of U.S. regulation to their own detriment.
Forbes has not disclosed the source of the leak. However, it claims that the document was authored by Harry Zhou—a former Binance employee who is now co-founder of Koi Trading, a San Francisco-based OTC trading desk.
Changpeng Zhao Rejects Claims
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has denied Forbes' claims. He says that the article "hinges on a 3rd party document" that was not produced by a current or former employee.
"Anyone can produce a strategy document, but it does not mean Binance follows them," Zhao stated on Twitter. "We do not acknowledge the alleged document."
Zhao adds that Binance complies with various regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies, adding that it works with AML companies such as Ciphertrace and Elliptic. He affirmed that Binance.US is a legitimate subsidiary with "very strong restrictions and operating procedures in place."
Given that Forbes has not released the leaked document, it is impossible to conclude which account is correct. Though Forbes has contacted regulators, their comments have not fully confirmed its allegations.
Meanwhile, investigators such as the FBI have declined to comment, according to Forbes.
The document is reportedly circulating among law and accounting firms, introducing the possibility that the document may be leaked to the general public in the future.
Update: Binance.US has denied the allegations. "The article references an alleged document presented in 2018 to Binance Holdings Limited regarding potential plans to create a United States subsidiary as a way to allegedly flout United States regulation. We have no record of anyone at Binance.US ever receiving that alleged presentation." It also denies that it is a Binance subsidiary, but rather an "independent and separate company."
Note: This article originally ran with the headline Leaked Documents Indicate Binance Deliberately Evaded US Regulations. The headline has been changed to reflect uncertainty about the leaked documents.
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'Chocolate City' Book Discussion and Signing
February 16, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am EST
The Racial Justice Working Group of the Justice Roundtable is hosting a book talk and signing for one of the authors of the newly released book, Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital.
About the book – "Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tension between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war and gentrification. But DC is more than just a seat of government, and the authors also highlight the city's rich history of local activism as Washingtonians of all races have struggled to make their voices heard in an undemocratic city where residents lack full political rights. Tracing D.C.'s massive transformations – from a sparsely inhabited plantation society into a diverse metropolis, from a center of the slave trade to the nation's first majority Black city, from "Chocolate City" to "Latte City" – the authors offer an engaging narrative peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation."
Authors, Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove will be present.
Date: Friday, February 16
Time: 3pm-4:30pm
Location: Open Society Policy Center, 1730 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006
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Bringing Peace after Destruction: Civil War Era Monuments and the Memory of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862
By John R. Legg | September 4, 2018 | Comments 0 Comment
As the fall semester loomed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, protesters ignited a movement to remove "Silent Sam," an infamous memorial dedicated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1913. The monument honored students who served in the Confederate armed forces during the Civil War. After the anguish of Charleston in 2015 and Charlottesville in 2017, some community members urged the university to remove "Sam," which had become a rallying point for local activists. By 2018, the perception of the bronze shrine transformed into an eyesore, sparking local debates around the campus that fit into a much larger movement around the United States to remove Lost Cause memorials.[1] On August 20, 2018, protestors toppled the monument, which altered the way students interacted with Civil War memory on their campus.
While Confederate shrines have kindled public debates in the last few years, monuments are not new points of contention. As many argued against Jim Crow segregation and for civil rights in the South in the 1950s and 1960s, Native peoples began addressing monuments glorifying white gallantry and Native suffering in a war that coincided with the Civil War. Hundreds of miles away from the combat at Second Bull Run or Antietam, Minnesotans rallied to fend off displaced and starved Mdewankaton Dakota. After the U.S. government broke treaties and failed to issue annuity payments to the Dakota on time, havoc and death flooded the Minnesota River Valley. Hundreds of whites and Dakotans perished in both battles and imprisonment, and by the end of September 1862, the federal army quelled remaining Dakota attacks.[2]
An 1883 lithograph depicting the execution of 38 Dakota men in Mankato. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
By the time of their surrender, the Dakota people faced further displacement and even execution. After the mass hanging of thirty-eight Dakota men in Mankato on December 26, 1862, this region experienced political and cultural unrest, leading to a series of expeditions to hunt down and kill all those who did not abide by federal policy and fled imprisonment. By 1863, the Dakota had lost all possession of their traditional homeland; no longer could they honor their ancestors or commemorate those executed in 1862.
At the fiftieth anniversary of the mass hanging, Mankato welcomed a new addition to their historical landscape. Community members gathered around a new granite monument which read "Here Were Hanged 38 Sioux Indians," a public display continuing the notion of Native defeat in the region.[3] The monument held historical value to the white population, as many believed that it offered the public a clear understanding of a valued event in American history: thirty-eight Dakota men were hanged for their brutal actions against peaceful Minnesotans, which for the longest time was the master narrative in remembering the conflict.[4] In fact, the monument displayed the chronicle of brutality, suffering, and death on the spot where the Dakota men hanged, which they wanted contemporary Natives to remember.
A photo of the Mankato Hanging Monument in 1918. Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society.
As Minnesotans defended this monument, Native people sought change to the landscape to offer not only reconciliation between the Native and non-Native communities, but also a space to honor their fallen ancestors.[5] By the 1950s, Native people insisted on a revision of the public displays that dotted the map around Mankato. While other monuments glorified the white victor, opponents of the "Hanging Monument" headed the movement to alter the historical consciousness. Activists led protests, yet Mankato officials did not budge—besides moving the monument to a more publicly visible location near the interstate in 1965. Not only did this monument provide a biased history of the Dakota War, but visitors to Mankato now saw the shrine as they entered town. Fed up with the bureaucracy, activists painted and poured red paint on the Hanging Monument, symbolizing the brutality the Dakota endured during the nineteenth century.
Official opinions did not change as red paint flowed down the sides of the monument; however, national movements ushered change into the region. The American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) and Vietnam War protests of the 1970s sparked a new interpretation on remembering the past.[6] For example, as civil rights and identity debates flourished around the United States, Minnesota State University students began to debate the school's mascot, the Indians, as a way to offer ideas of inclusion and diversity. Coinciding with these protest movements, university drama guild students staged a play that provided a discourse on "white man's mistreatment of the Indians." After the dramatic rendition of Indian suffering, a display which "plagued audience members' consciousness," the actors brought out a replica Hanging Monument to prove how Mankato played a role in America's colonization and forced assimilation of Native people. An observer of the play mentioned, "We are all sick and tired and sad… and I felt along with the rest of the audience that we also should fight no more forever."[7] Mankato residents felt the need to not only move forward, but also display their past accurately and impartially. After these events the city relocated the monument, not from community pressure, but because of impending construction work. Since removal, no one knows what happened to the monument—it was buried, destroyed, or hidden out of shame—and many Dakota are okay with that. Verna Wabasha, a retired State Indian Affairs Commission Worker, added that it's a "derogatory rock, and it should stay buried."[8]
"Forgive Everything Anyone" is written on a bench at Reconciliation Park, with ceremonial objects attached to the Scroll Monument. Photo courtesy of the author.
On the ground that once provided space for the Hanging Monument, a new park sits to bring reconciliation and peace to all those living in Mankato. Reconciliation Park hosts three monuments: a large bison stands tall, representing an accurate rendition of Dakota culture and the prime animal they hunted; the Winter Warrior monument stands in remembrance of the 125th anniversary of the mass hanging; and a large scroll lists the names of the thirty-eight men executed.[9] Every year during the "38 plus 2 Memorial Ride" the monuments transform from physical reminders to objects of honor, remembrance, and commemoration. Men and women from the Lower Brule Indian Reservation in South Dakota journey hundreds of miles to commemorate their fallen ancestors. The trek ends at Reconciliation Park, where the participants tie, lay, and secure mementos on the monuments which stay safely fastened until the next year's remembrance ride. In the town that brought death and displacement to the Dakota people, the visual interpretations and anti-Indian displays bring peace to the community and honor those who survived and endured white colonization.[10]
Removing Confederate monuments is a fraught process; one side wants to honor their historical past, while the other side argues against the violence and racism associated with that memory. While there is a difference between Lost Cause shrines and monuments that embodied a notion of white victory over Native peoples, the way in which they extol hatred troubles our movement towards a comprehensive understanding of history. Monuments always shape public memory of the past, but instead of relying on public displays of commemoration, we should work to find healing by telling inclusive stories. Communities like Mankato have reconciled and pushed for peace to understand America's troubled past—a process that communities with Lost Cause monuments should not ignore.
[1] "Confederate Monument," UNC Graduate School, accessed August 20, 2018, http://gradschool.unc.edu/funding/gradschool/weiss/interesting_place/landmarks/sam.html.
[2] Aaron Sheehan-Dean, ed., A Companion to the U.S. Civil War: Volume 1 (West Sussex: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2014), 380-381.
[3] "A Gruesome Monument," Willmar Tribune, Willmar, Minnesota, November 13, 1912, 2; Melodie Andrews, "The U.S.-Dakota War in Public Memory and Public Space: Mankato's Journey Towards Reconciliation," in The State We're In: Reflections on Minnesota History, eds. Annette Atkins and Deborah L. Miller (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2010), 52.
[4] Gary Clayton Anderson and Alan R. Woolworth, Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1988), 1.
[5] Atkins and Miller, 57.
[7] Marion Struzyk, "Indians brings guilt home," MSC Daily Reporter, Mankato, Minnesota, June 2, 1971.
[8] Dan Linehan, "Students search for missing monument as part of history class," The Free Press, Mankato, Minnesota, May 14, 2006.
[9] Atkins and Miller, 56-57.
[10] Ibid.; Tim Krohn, "38 plus 2 memorial ride begins," The Free Press, Mankato, Minnesota, December 22, 2011; Waziyatawin Angela Wilson, "Introduction: Manipi Hena OWas'in Wicunkiksuyapi (We Remember All Those Who Walked)," American Indian Quarterly 28, no. 1/2 Special Issues: Empowerment Through Literature (Winter-Spring 2004): 158; Atkins and Miller, 57.
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John R. Legg is a graduate student at Virginia Tech studying Native Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Alongside his studies, John also works as a graduate assistant with Paul Quigley in the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. His current research focuses on the public memory and commemoration of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 and its connection to Civil War history.
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Based on the award-winning novel by Rusty Whitener, Season of Miracles follows the Robins, an underdog Little League team through their 1974 season with newcomer and autistic baseball savant, Rafer. Team leader Zack takes Rafer under his wing despite taunting from their rivals, the Hawks.
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SANT'ALESSIO IN ASPROMONTE:
At the foot of the Aspromonte mountains in southern Italy, the silence of a once dying village is broken by the laughter of a small group of refugees.
Tiny Sant'Alessio has been welcoming families and vulnerable migrants there for three years as part of a project that not only provides humanitarian aid but brings with it invaluable economic and social benefits. Over the years, the village has shrunk to just 330 inhabitants, many of them elderly. The steep cobblestone streets are deserted and most of the windows are closed, as locals have left over the years for better job opportunities in Turin, Milan or as far away as Australia.
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In an attempt to reverse the trend, however, since 2014 the council has rented eight of these empty apartments to accommodate up to 35 migrants at a time as part of the national SPRAR network. [Protection System for Asylum Seekers and Refugees]. Everything is done to help newcomers get back on their feet, from Italian lessons to legal, medical and psychological assistance, vocational training and social activities such as gardening, cooking and dancing lessons. .
Stefano Caliber mayor of Sant 'Alessio in Aspromonte, a small village of 330 inhabitants in Calabria, southern Italy, speaks during a meeting between architecture students from the University of Reggio Calabria and migrants, as part of a project to redevelop houses and spaces, April 6, 2017. PHOTO: AFP
The village is currently home to an Iraqi Kurdish family, a Gambian couple with a baby and young people from Ghana, Nigeria, Mali and Senegal. There is a special project for the most vulnerable, including HIV-positive people, diabetics, victims of prostitution networks, a deaf-mute couple and a young woman whose infant son was shot dead in Libya and whose husband fears drowning.
"Our mission is both human and humanitarian, that's the most important thing," said Stefano Calabro, a 43-year-old policeman who has been mayor of Sant'Alessio since 2009. "But there is also an economic advantage important."
A woman stands at the window of her apartment overlooking a bar where migrants and residents gather in Sant 'Alessio in Aspromonte, a small village of 330 inhabitants in Calabria, southern Italy, April 6, 2017. PHOTO : AFP
The state allocates up to US $ 47 per day for each migrant, most of which goes to the organizers to cover the costs. The project created full or part-time jobs in Sant'Alessio for 16 people, including seven residents – from social workers to Italian teachers and cultural mediators.
And this prevented the closure of basic services in the village – a bar, a mini-market, a doctor's office and a pharmacy.
With funds to spend on services, the council was able to open a small gym open to all residents and maintain a lush sports field overlooking the valley, where migrants regularly challenge the team at a drug rehabilitation center to neighbor drug addicts. After six months to a year here, some refugees have managed to find work in the area, others have moved elsewhere.
Mohammed (left) a migrant from Gambia plays football against a local team in Sant 'Alessio in Aspromonte, a small village of 330 inhabitants in Calabria, southern Italy, April 6, 2017. PHOTO: AFP
Ghanaian Salifu, 23, decided to stay and lives on odd jobs like helping with manual labor in the fields. Sant'Alessio might not offer bright light or career opportunities, but a cheerful Salifu says "we're not going anywhere".
After months in Sicily's infamous and overcrowded Mineo camp, little things like quick doctor's appointments seem like a luxury here.
Sitting in the sun and watching the world go by from his garden, Antonio Sacca, 89, who worked 54 years in a Turin factory before returning home, says he loves his new neighbors. "They behave well. They lead independent lives but often lend a helping hand," he said.
Migrant women (2nd from left) Eunice from Nigeria, Najiba from Iraq and Hawa from Gambia, attend a cooking class at Sant 'Alessio in Aspromonte, a small village of 330 inhabitants in Calabria, in the south of the Italy, April 6, 2017. PHOTO: AFP
Bar owner and widow Celestina Borrello, 73, whose son left years ago to find work in Belgium, says "the village was emptying, so if there is a bit of movement now , this is a good thing". "We know what it means to leave our land," she adds.
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The project was so successful that Coopisa, the association behind it, is opening others in four neighboring villages. And there is another advantage: those who join the SPRAR network and host a small number of refugees are guaranteed not to have to host an emergency reception center, like the one in the neighboring ski resort of Gambarie, where 120 migrants are massed a hotel.
With only 26,000 places available, the network is only a small part of the Italian reception system, which accommodates over 176,000 people. While most are housed in large groups, often angering or frustrating local communities, this dusty village is considered a quiet triumph.
"Sant'Alessio was our prototype," said Luigi De Filippis, director of Coopisa, who underlines that it is possible for the project to cross Italy and beyond. "There are large areas affected by the same depopulation in northern Italy and elsewhere in Europe."
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FYI: The Republican Primary HEATS up for the GOP Primary for US Senate in Delaware: Frankly I think Gene Truono is more Republican. He is a pure constitutionalst !
"As I have said many times publicly, I support the President and his administration. Like the President, I am an outsider and a businessman, not a politician." Gene Truono, Candidate for U.S. Senate
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· Jun 25, 2018 Updated Jun 25, 2018
A challenge of conservatism has ramped up the rhetoric between two candidates in Delaware's race for U.S. Senate when Rob Arlett called Gene Truono a "party crasher" after it was learned he changed his party affiliation from Independent a few months prior to launching his campaign for the Republican nomination.
Truono appeared on the Dan Gaffney Show Monday morning where he claimed he supported more Republican policies than Arlett who told our Susan Monday in an earlier interview that "there's a lot of things in the party that I don't agree to, but the reality is it's not about party politics, it's about putting the focus back on the people."
"I really support almost all of the platform of the Republican party. I reviewed it in detail in detail before I decided to run for office, which is why I decided to run as a Republican. And I reviewed it again most recently and I think of all the positions, both domestic and foreign, I fully support" he said. "The only one actually in the platform that I don't is the gay marriage issue, otherwise I think I am very aligned with the National Republican Committee. I haven't heard back from Rob on what positions he doesn't support."
Arlett was quick to fire back, at which time he called Truono a "party crasher" and pointed out that he changed his party affiliation from Independent to Republican to launch a bid for U.S. Senate.
"I don't know where my opponent is coming from because he has no record because he's only come into the Republican party seven or eight months ago, specifically to run for the U.S. Senate," he said. "I would call my opponent a 'party crasher' because he's crashed the Republican party specifically to run for the U.S. Senate. So, the question would be why would he not just run as an independent. If he was always an Independent, then why would he crash the Republican party? It makes no sense to any Republican, truth be told."
Truono said he changed his party affiliation in August, 2017. He cited how President Trump was a registered Democrat before he was an Independent and before he was Republican. He claimed party affiliation doesn't transcend to someone's values and principles, and that he's been a conservative all his life.
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New footage shows devastating 1953 nuclear bomb test
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The following books all have something in common: babies and deliveries.
"Detour" – James Siegel: A couple travels to Colombia to adopt a baby, trouble ensues. The book is a good thriller with many twists and unexpected outcomes; an easy suspenseful read.
"Midwives" – Chris Bohjalian: A medical thriller turns legal thriller in this story. Did she kill the mother to save the baby? What do you think? Some say it's Bohjalian's best book.
"Small Great Things" – Jodi Picoult: The story is about a labor and delivery nurse, and is a must-read for book discussion groups. It will make you think.
"The Last Midwife" – Sandra Dallas: Set in a mining town in Colorado in 1880 where doctors and justice are both hard to come by, it's an interesting story of small town life.
"The Midwife's Confession" – Diane Chamberlain: Three friends since college think they know each other well, but events prove otherwise. Well written and full of secrets; makes for a great read.
"The Blue Cotton Gown" – Patricia Harman: A midwife's memoir reads like a short story collection. It really has some insight into our current national medical situation. It's my personal favorite of the books I read this month.
"The Address" by Fiona Davis; "Exposed" by Lisa Scottoline; "The Good Daughter" by Karin Slaughter; "The Blood Card" by Elly Griffiths; "The Weight of Ink" by Rachel Kadish; "The Western Star" by Craig Johnson; "The Duchess" by Danielle Steel; "The Hunting Hour" by Margaret Mizushima; "The Weight of Lies" by Emily Carpenter; "Seeing Red" by Sandra Brown; "The Lying Game" by Ruth Ware; "The Late Show" by Michael Connelly; "Blame" by Jeff Abbott; "Paradise Valley" by C.J. Box; "Sulfur Springs" by William Kent Krueger; "Glass House" by Louise Penny; and "Tower of Dawn" by Sarah J. Maas.
The Montana Repertory Theatre will perform "Raised in the Saddle: The Phantasmagorical Journey of a Future Rodeo Queen" on Sunday, Oct. 8 at 3 p.m. Written by Jay Kettering, the comedy is sure to delight and entertain. This public event is free and sponsored by The Friends of the Library.
Need books? The Friends of the Library Book Sale will be Saturday, Oct. 7 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Book Station located at 621 W. Main St.
Have books to donate? The Friends of the Library accept clean and gently used books for resale at the Book Station. Items can be donated inside the library foyer during business hours only.
Join Ms. Dani for story time at 10:30 a.m. on Friday mornings. Babies, toddlers and preschool kiddos are welcome for song and stories. Saturday story time resumes this Saturday, Sept. 30 at 10:30 a.m. Mark your calendar: Saturday story time, the last Saturday of each month.


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Peckham Rye Park is an open space within the London Borough of Southwark. A vibrant community space, Peckham Rye have been engaged in an improvement program over the past few years, which has included the construction of a new car park, refurbished café and the new play space which was opened in July 2018. The play facilities have a significant water component and comprise a range of play landscapes which reflect and enhance the natural surroundings of the historic common.
From the outset the designers, Turkington Martin intended to create a flexible play area that offers non-prescriptive play opportunities. Rather than a standard play area, the design set out to create a space with a unique identity, presenting a predominantly natural character in keeping with the setting, reinforced through choice of equipment, materials and planting.
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Alongside the waterplay, which is undoubtedly one of the best forms of play, Turkington Martin also designed a significant sand play area into the site. This combination of sand and water realises great play potential as children experiment with the combination of both substances and see how the different proportions impact on the properties of the materials. The addition of a Building Site within the sand area encourages children to work together, lifting, moving and transporting the sand, promoting great social play and the supporting the development of communication skills.
A Platform House was selected as it presents enduring play value for younger children, ideal for role and social play. The addition of a wide slide and climbing net also means the entry and exit points are in turn challenging and thrilling.
Older children and teenagers are also offered the excitement of a Rotating Disc and Climbing Forest, presenting multiple levels of challenge to push children to develop their physical skills.
Intuitive design from Turkington Martin has embraced the playable potential of the landscape, utilising large mounds and interesting planting. A tree house gives children an excellent vantage point and a tunnel slide and various net components enables children to clamber amongst the tree tops, getting a unique perspective on Peckham Park.
The brief for Peckham Rye had bold intentions to create a real stand out play space and the immense popularity of the site demonstrates just how well these have been realised. As a council owned play space the long term care of the site was also at the forefront of the design and one of the key objectives was to create a robust space easy to maintain over many years. Timberplay are proud to have been involved in such an innovative and exciting play space.


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Vancouver, Canada – June 15, 2015 - Endeavour Silver Corp. (TSX: EDR, NYSE: EXK) announces that the 1,000 tonne per day (tpd) ball mill at the 1,600 tpd Bolañitos mine was repaired earlier than expected and plant operations returned to normal last Friday, June 12. No material impact on production is anticipated from the mill downtime as the mine continued to produce ore to the stockpile.
The outage will have a minor impact on forecast production in the second quarter from the El Cubo mine, located in the same district of Guanajuato as Bolañitos, because El Cubo is currently in the middle of a mine expansion from 1,500 tpd to 2,200 tpd. The additional mine tonnes were planned to be trucked for processing to the Bolañitos plant to take advantage of its available capacity. Instead, these additional El Cubo tonnes during the mill downtime were stockpiled for processing in the third quarter.
The El Cubo mine expansion is well under way and a second mining contractor commenced work last Friday, June 12 to help facilitate the mine expansion to 2,200 tpd. The El Cubo plant was optimized in the first quarter and is now operating well above its original design capacity of 1,500 tpd.


Millions of people in war-torn Yemen are starving, including children who will be "crippled for life", the United Nations food agency has warned, as photographs from the areas hardest hit by the conflict emerged showing emaciated teenagers dying from hunger.
Yemen now has one of the highest malnutrition rates in the worlds, the UN World Food Programme said yesterday. More than 14 million people are going hungry, half of them starving. At least 10 of country's 21 governorates are close to being declared in famine.


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Das Kugelstoßen der Männer bei den Leichtathletik-Weltmeisterschaften 2001 wurde am 4. August 2001 im Commonwealth Stadium der kanadischen Stadt Edmonton ausgetragen.

In diesem Wettbewerb erzielten die US-amerikanischen Kugelstoßer einen Doppelerfolg. Seinen dritten WM-Titel nach 1995 und 1997 errang der Olympiazweite von 1996 und Olympiadritte von 2000 John Godina. Der Olympiazweite von 2000 Adam Nelson kam auch hier auf den zweiten Platz. Der finnische Olympiasieger von 2000 Arsi Harju errang die Bronzemedaille.

Bestehende Rekorde

Der bestehende WM-Rekord wurde bei diesen Weltmeisterschaften nicht eingestellt und nicht verbessert.

Doping
Im Kugelstoß-Wettbewerb war ein Dopingfall zu verzeichnen.

Der Belarusse Andrej Michnewitsch, zunächst Zehnter, war ein Mehrfachtäter, der unter anderem im Rahmen dieser Weltmeisterschaften positiv auf Doping getestet wurde. was zur Annullierung seines Resultats und einer zweijährigen Sperre führte. Später wurden ihm wegen später nachgewiesener Dopingverstöße weitere Medaillen und Siege aberkannt, schließlich wurde er mit einer lebenslangen Sperre belegt. Seine Verstöße gab er nie zu.

Ein Athlet wurde hier besonders benachteiligt:
Der Italiener Paolo Dal Soglio hätte mit seiner in der Qualifikation gestoßenen Weite von 19,80 m am Finale teilnehmen dürfen.

Legende
Kurze Übersicht zur Bedeutung der Symbolik – so üblicherweise auch in sonstigen Veröffentlichungen verwendet:

Qualifikation
4. August 2001, 8:30 Uhr

Dreißig Teilnehmer traten in zwei Gruppen zur Qualifikationsrunde an. Die Qualifikationsweite für den direkten Finaleinzug betrug 20,45 m. Sechs Athleten übertrafen diese Marke (hellblau unterlegt). Das Finalfeld wurde mit den sechs nächstplatzierten Sportlern auf zwölf Werfer aufgefüllt (hellgrün unterlegt). So mussten schließlich 20,13 m für die Finalteilnahme erbracht werden.

Gruppe A

Gruppe B

Finale
4. August 2001, 16:00 Uhr

Videolinks
 2001 IAAF World Championships Mens shot put Final auf youtube.com, abgerufen am 14. August 2020
 2001 IAAF World Championships Mens shot put Final2 auf youtube.com, abgerufen am 14. August 2020

Weblinks
 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics (englisch), abgerufen am 24. Juli 2020
 Men Shot Put Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) auf todor66.com (englisch), abgerufen am 14. August 2020
 Ergebnisse im Statistics Handbook der IAAF zur WM 2019 in Doha, Men Shot Put, Edmonton 2001, S. 185f (PDF; 10,3 MB, englisch), abgerufen am 14. August 2020

Einzelnachweise und Anmerkungen

Kugelstoßen der Männer
Leichtathletikwettbewerb in Edmonton

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The last part of my Central Coast trip is finally here! I had such an amazing time, it was the perfect ending to 2017. Looking forward to another adventure along California's Central Coast!
From Cayucos to Cambria it was about a twenty minute drive. Once we parked we walked down to the beach to see the famous Moonstones. Moonstones are prized for their adularescence, an optical phenomenon that creates the appearance of billowy clouds of blue to white light with a moonlight sheen.
The moonstones vary in colors and are very smooth to walk on. The beach itself is gorgeous, you definitely want to spend some time to explore and I highly suggest bringing a mason jar or something to take the Moonstones home in.
Where we ate at a delicious, authentic Italian Restaurant called LOMBARDI'S.
We then walked around the adorable town. I had to stop by SWEET OFFERINGS Cambria's Candy shop, who some have said, "what Willy Wonka's house might look like." They have a variety of sweets from; candy to homemade chocolate that I actually got to try and it was beyond amazing. They also sell gourmet honey and dried fruit and nuts. They even sell sugar-free items. I left with a huge bag full of goodies but man was it worth it.
They sell a variety of products from bath salts, to massage oils, salves and even herbs and spices. The best part of their store was their magical garden.
If you're a fan of fantasy, Harry Potter, or Lord of the Rings, you will loooove this place.
The sign is correct…population 18! You can walk around the whole town in 5 minutes. Harmony use to be a dairy settlement, so you will notice a lot of statues and murals of cows.
Harmony is now known for their Glassblowing and Pottery.
Harmony Glass Works is open daily. They even offer classes on glassblowing.
Other than those two shops, the town of Harmony is a perfect venue for a wedding. They have an adorable chapel, an outside & inside reception area and a place for pictures. You would literally have the whole town for your wedding. I did check prices and it's pretty pricey but if you can afford it, you have everything you need in one spot.
After a fun day of sightseeing we decided to head back Cayucos and walk along the beach for our last night.
Walking along the beach at Sunset was breathtaking. All the different colors the sky turned to was stunning. I was so glad to be able to experience this beautiful moment with my new fiance' and his wonderful family that I get to call my mine now.
I'll leave you with the pictures, I hope you enjoyed my California's Central Coast trip as much as I did. I would love for you to leave me some comments on where I should travel next in California. I am itching to go on small weekend trip somewhere, so comment below! Have a wonderful rest of your Tuesday! Thanks for reading!


WASHINGTON—The American Academy of Actuaries announced that the following discipline action became effective on Aug. 20, 2018.
The American Academy of Actuaries ("Academy"), acting in accordance with the Academy's Bylaws, and after consideration by a Disciplinary Committee and an Appeal Panel, has reviewed the findings and a recommendation from the Actuarial Board of Counseling and Discipline ("ABCD") regarding Timothy W. Sharpe. Based on the decision of the Disciplinary Committee, which the Appeal Panel affirmed, the Academy suspends Mr. Sharpe from membership for a period of two years for materially failing to comply with Precepts 1, 3, 4, 10, and 14 of the Code of Professional Conduct in connection with valuations he performed for several municipal police and fire pension plans in Illinois.
Failing to disclose adequately in his valuation reports the mortality tables used and the modifications to them in violation of ASOP No. 41.
Precept 3 requires an actuary to "ensure that Actuarial Services performed . . . satisfy applicable standards of practice." The Disciplinary Committee and Appeal Panel concluded that Mr. Sharpe materially violated Precept 3 by failing to satisfy ASOP No. 35 and ASOP No. 41 on his valuations for several municipal pension funds, as noted above.
Precept 4 provides that an actuary issuing "an Actuarial Communication shall take appropriate steps to ensure that the Actuarial Communication is clear and appropriate to the circumstances and its intended audience, and satisfies applicable standards of practice." The Disciplinary Committee and Appeal Panel concluded that Mr. Sharpe materially violated Precept 4 by issuing valuation reports for several municipal pension funds that do not comply with ASOP No. 41, as noted above.
Precept 10 provides that an actuary "shall perform Actuarial Services with courtesy and professional respect and shall cooperate with others in the Principal's interest." Annotation 10-5 amplifies that obligation by noting in pertinent part that "[w]hen a Principal has given consent for a new or additional actuary to consult with an Actuary with respect to a matter for which the Actuary is providing or has provided Actuarial Services, the Actuary shall cooperate in furnishing relevant information" to the new or additional actuary. The Disciplinary Committee and Appeal Panel concluded that Mr. Sharpe materially violated Precept 10 by failing to furnish relevant information to a successor actuary on a valuation for the Village of Oak Brook, Illinois Firefighters Pension Fund.
Precept 14 requires subject actuaries to respond promptly, truthfully, and fully to communications from the ABCD and its counsel. The Disciplinary Committee and Appeal Panel concluded that Mr. Sharpe materially violated Precept 14 by failing to cooperate in scheduling an interview with the ABCD investigator and by failing to respond to alternative dates and locations that the ABCD proposed for his hearing.
Based upon the foregoing, Mr. Sharpe's membership in the Academy is suspended for two years. At the conclusion of the two-year period, if Mr. Sharpe wishes to resume his Academy membership, he must undergo professionalism counseling from the ABCD resulting in a recommendation from the ABCD for reinstatement.


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Опыле́ние — этап полового размножения семенных растений, процесс переноса пыльцы с пыльника на рыльце пестика (у покрытосеменных) или на семяпочку (у голосеменных).

При этом тычинки — мужские органы, а пестик (семяпочка) — женский, и из него при удачном оплодотворении может развиться семя.

Опыление чаще всего происходит при помощи животных или ветра. Около 80 % цветковых растений зависит от биотического опыления.

Типы опыления
Имеется два основных типа опыления: самоопыление, или автогамия (когда растение опыляется собственной пыльцой) и перекрёстное опыление, или аллогамия.

Перекрёстному опылению способствует разделение полов в цветке и распределение обоеполых и однополых цветков между растениями в популяции: однодомные и двудомные.

Перекрёстное опыление требует участия посредника, который бы доставил пыльцевые зёрна от тычинки к рыльцу пестика; в зависимости от этого различают следующие типы опыления:
 Биотическое опыление (при помощи живых организмов)
 Энтомофилия — опыление насекомыми; как правило, это пчёлы, осы, иногда — муравьи (Hymenoptera), жуки (Coleoptera), бабочки (Lepidoptera), а также мухи (Diptera). Пыльца цветков, как правило, крупная и очень клейкая. Некоторые виды растений (например, лютики) имеют чашевидную форму цветка, чтобы залезшее в него насекомое «пачкалось» о пыльцу, улучшая процесс опыления.
 Зоофилия — опыление при помощи позвоночных животных: птицами (орнитофилия, агентами опыления выступают такие птицы как колибри, нектарницы, медососы), летучими мышами (хироптерофилия), грызунами, некоторыми сумчатыми (в Австралии), лемурами (на Мадагаскаре).
 Искусственное опыление — перенесение пыльцы с тычинок на пестики цветков при посредстве человека.

Опыление некоторых растений из семейства Рдестовые иногда осуществляется с помощью улиток.

Животные, которые осуществляют опыление, называются опылителями.

 Абиотическое опыление
 Анемофилия — опыление с помощью ветра, очень распространено у злаков, большинства хвойных и многих лиственных деревьев.
 Гидрофилия — опыление при помощи воды, распространено у водных растений. Небольшой процент растений опыляются с помощью дождя

Около 80,4 % всех видов растений имеют биотический тип опыления, 19,6 % опыляются при помощи ветра.

Гейтоногамия — соседственное опыление, одна из форм самоопыления, опыление рыльца пестика одного цветка пыльцой другого цветка того же растения.

По отношению растений к опылителям
По отношению растений к имеющемуся спектру опылителей выделяют:
 эуфилия — способность к опылению широким спектром специализированных опылителей;
 олигофилия — приспособленность к опылению несколькими родственными таксонами или опылителями одной жизненной формы;
 монофилия — опыление одним видом насекомых;

С другой стороны выделяют следующие уровни приспособленности насекомых к опылению тех или иных растений:
 полилектия — способность посещать широкий спектр растений различных семейств;
 олиголектия — способность посещать ограниченную группу растений, как правило, представителей одного семейства или растений с одним типом цветка;
 монолектия — облигатное посещение для питания одного вида или рода растений;

Некоторые примеры разных типов опыления
Томаты (факультативное самоопыление) — цветки имеют и пестики, и тычинки. Тычинки срослись так, что в большинстве случаев пестик оплодотворяется собственной пыльцой.

Тополь и облепиха — двудомные растения: на мужских деревьях имеются только цветки с пыльцой, а плоды дают женские деревья (у тополя — растения, с которых летит «пух», то есть семена с волосками). Если выращивать из черенков только мужские тополя, то можно избавиться от пуха.

У облепихи нужно обращать внимание на то, что плоды дают только женские кусты, но если поблизости не будет мужского куста облепихи, то и женское растение не сможет дать плодов. Обычно на 10 женских кустов достаточно одного мужского.

Кукуруза — однодомное растение с однополыми цветками. Мужские цветки собраны на верхушке в соцветие метёлку, женские — в соцветие початок в пазухах листьев.

Также однодомными растениями с однополыми цветками являются тыквенные — огурцы, тыква и т. п. У них на одном растении формируются цветки разного типа, хотя внешне и не так сильно отличающиеся. Но мужские цветки после опыления отмирают и опадают. Из женских в случае оплодотворения образуются плоды.

См. также
 Искусственное опыление

Примечания

Литература

 Меликян А. П. Опыление цветковых растений // Итоги науки и техники. Сер. ботаника. Т. 12. М.: ВИНИТИ, 1991. С. 3-50.
 Гринфельд Э. К. Происхождение и развитие антофилии у насекомых. — Л.: Изд-во ЛГУ, 1978. — 203 с.

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Anschluss: 1938
On the morning of March 11 Germany closes the border with Austria. There follows a day of frantic last-minute diplomacy, conducted by telephone and telegram. Hitler is determined that the German army shall be invited into Austria. To this end a succession of ultimatums are made to the Austrians, with the threat of immediate invasion if each is not accepted.
The first is that the proposed plebiscite be postponed. The second is that Schuschnigg resign. He does so just before the deadline of 7.30 pm, declaring in a broadcast to the nation that he is yielding to force. The third, which the Austrian president (Wilhelm Miklas) resists until around midnight, is that Austria's leading Nazi sympathiser be appointed chancellor.
The man in question is Arthur Seyss-Inquart, whom Schuschnigg has taken into his government in 1937 under pressure from Hitler. Anticipating his new powers by an hour or two, Seyss-Inquart sends a message to Berlin during the evening of March 11, requesting the use of German troops to restore order in Austria.
So there is no opposition when German troops cross the border at dawn on March 12. Hitler decides to follow them, encouraged by reports of German Austrians lining the streets to cheer. That evening in Linz, a town where he went to school and where his parents are buried, he is greeted by an ecstatic gathering of Austrian Nazis.
He speaks to them in terms of a mission fulfilled: 'If Providence once called me forth from this town to be the leader of the Reich, it must, in so doing, have charged me with a mission - to restore my dear homeland to the German Reich. I have believed in this mission, I have lived and fought for it, and I believe I have now fulfilled it.'
In his enthusiasm he makes an abrupt change of plan. His intention has been to place Seyss-Inquart in control of the country. Now he decides, before moving on to spend a day in Vienna, that Austria is to be absorbed within a greater Germany. It is to be known simply as Ostmark, the eastern frontier. The Anschluss ('union' or 'annexation') is complete.
And there will be a plebiscite after all. On April 10 every citizen within the new borders will be asked to approve Hitler's action in creating Grossdeutschland, the greater Germany. Of those who vote, 99.08% in Germany say yes. In Austria the figure is even higher, at 99.75%.
Those non-citizens who have no vote, including Vienna's large population of Jews (one sixth of the city), have already had drastic evidence of what life in this greater Germany will mean. Himmler is in Vienna two days before Hitler's arrival, organizing the future activities of the SS and Gestapo. On the day of the Anschluss the first arrests are made.
The victims will include politicians, trade unionists, more than two thirds of the officers in the Austrian army and some 30,000 Jews. Most of them are despatched to concentration camps in Germany.
The Nuremberg Laws, depriving Jews of their rights, now automatically apply in this eastern province of the Reich. Austria's Jewish community experiences, as if overnight, the full force of the persecution which in Germany has taken the five years of the Nazi regime to build up. In the very first days after the Anschluss Jewish shops and businesses are looted throughout Austria, and individual Jews are attacked and humiliated. By the time of Kristallnacht, later in this same year, Austria is merely one small part of the greater anti-Semitic Germany.
The Sudetenland: 1938
Two days before marching into Austria, Hitler assures the Czech ambassador in Berlin that he has no designs on his nation. But within a month he is developing a plan to annexe the western part of Czechoslovakia, the Sudetenland.
He is considerably helped in this ambition by the principles of the treaty of Versailles, for the region has a predominantly German population. Many of these Germans are already Nazi sympathisers. It is easy to argue that the notion of self-determination, so important at Versailles, gives them the right to merge with Germany. During the summer of 1938 Hitler threatens the Czech government at the diplomatic level, while massing troops on the border. But unlike his fait accompli in Austria, this challenge to Czechoslovakia prompts international concern.
Chamberlain flies from London to confer with Hitler, on September 15 and 22, but by September 27 it seems certain that Hitler's forces will cross the Czech border. France has a defensive treaty with Czechoslavakia. Britain would have to support France. The result would be war.
On September 27 Chamberlain broadcasts to the British people, expressing his appalled dismay at being dragged into the affairs of such a 'Faraway country'. The next day he sends a telegram to Hitler, offering to fly again to Germany to discuss the peaceful transfer of the Sudetenland. Hitler postpones the invasion, planned for September 28, and invites Chamberlain, Daladier (the French premier since April) and Mussolini to an immediate meeting in Munich.
Munich and after: 1938-1939
The discussion in Munich between Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier and Mussolini lasts a little over twelve hours, beginning in the middle of the day on September 29 and ending with the signing of an agreed document at 1.30 a.m. on September 30. Though the dismantling of their country is under discussion, Hitler refuses to allow any Czech representative to take part. Two Czech diplomats sit in a nearby hotel, effectively waiting to be told what has been decided.
The conclusion is all that Hitler would wish. The Sudeten areas are to be ceded to Germany during the next ten days. Thereafter plebiscites, organized by the four Munich powers and Czechoslovakia, will reveal exactly where the new border should run.
Before boarding his plane, later on September 30, Chamberlain has another meeting with Hitler in which he asks him to sign a joint declaration. This is the document which Chamberlain waves in the air for the cameras on his return to Britain, stating that he has brought back from Germany 'peace for our time... peace with honour'.
The text above Hitler's signature, on which Chamberlain bases his optimism, declares a determination to remove possible sources of difference between countries 'and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe'. Chamberlain's hope is that the sacrifice of the Sudetenland has preserved not only peace but the rest of Czechoslovakia.
The occupation of Sudetenland brings some 3.5 million people within Nazi Germany, 75% of them German and 25% Czech. But in the event these Czechs are no more unfortunate than their compatriots elsewhere. Three weeks after signing Chamberlain's document, Hitler orders the German army to prepare for a move into the rest of Czechoslovakia. The invasion comes in March 1939. Hitler, in Prague, declares that Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia are now under the protection of the German Reich.
But such a brutal betrayal of the Munich agreement transforms the appeasers. When it becomes evident that Poland is the next likely victim, Britain and France are suddenly resolute.
Danzig and the Polish corridor: 1938-1939
At the very moment of the Munich agreement the Polish government presents its own demand for a slice of Czechoslovakia. There is logic to the claim. If the Sudetenland with its largely German population is to be annexed by Germany, then there is a clear case for the rich industrial area of Teschen Silesia, inhabited mainly by Poles, to be transferred to Poland. On the day the Munich agreement is announced, 30 September 1938, Poland asserts this claim - not for the first time, but now it is instantly acceded to by Czechoslavakia.
Unfortunately the ethnic-majority argument has dangerous implications for Poland herself, confronted by a Hitler increasing day by day in confidence.
The great port of Gdansk (in Polish) or Danzig (in German) has long been a bone of contention between Polish and German interests. Though first brought to prominence by the Hanseatic merchants, the city and its hinterland (eastern Pomerania, or in its Polish name Pomorze) have historically been part of Poland. But from time to time they have been seized by Germans - first by the Teutonic knights in 1308 - and in recent times they have again been German, from the late 18th-century partitions of Poland until the end of World War I.
In 1919 the treaty of Versailles restores Pomorze to Poland and gives Danzig, with its almost entirely German population, the status of a free city within the borders of Poland.
This arrangement is probably unworkable at the best of times, and more so from the mid-1930s when Danzig has an elected Nazi city council. Moreover in this area the provisions of Versailles provide a further cause for German grievance. In returning Pomorze to Poland, and restoring her historical access to the sea at Danzig, the treaty has the effect of severing the province of East Prussia from the rest of Germany.
Pomorze becomes known in the terminology of the 1920s as the Polish corridor, linking Poland and the sea. Hitler now demands a more literal German corridor - a narrow strip of German territory through Poland to East Prussia. Together with this goes his claim to bring Danzig within the Reich.
Both claims are pressed by Hitler with new vigour in October 1938, within days of his winning the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. The Polish government firmly rejects the German demands. Unlike unfortunate Czechoslovakia, this stance wins a positive response from the western powers.
In March 1939 Neville Chamberlain, speaking with the approval of both France and the USSR, gaurantees help to Poland if her independence is threatened. In April Hitler abrogates his own ten-year nonaggression treaty with Poland, signed in 1934, and secretly orders his army to prepare for a Polish invasion. In May France commits herself to military action against Germany if a conflict begins. But then, in August, Hitler produces a diplomatic bombshell.
Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact: 1939
In August 1939 a Franco-British military mission is in Moscow trying to persuade Stalin to commit to a treaty for the defence of Poland. Little progress is made, ostensibly because the Poles are refusing to allow Soviet troops to cross their territory to attack Germany. But there is another hidden reason which soon becomes apparent.
The Soviet Union and Communism have always been twin forces of demonic evil in Hitler's oratory, but he now proves himself happy to sup with the devil for a very real strategic advantage. It is important to his plans that he shall not be distracted by a major war on his eastern front. In August he opens negotiations with Stalin. Poland is his bait.
Stalin, invited by the western powers to join an alliance which will almost certainly involve him in a costly war against Germany for no very evident benefit, now finds himself offered a more attractive option - inactivity and a sizable increase in his territory.
It takes the Russian dictator little time to choose. The world is astonished on August 21 by the announcement from Berlin that Ribbentrop is flying to Moscow to sign a nonaggression pact with his opposite number, the Russian foreign minister Molotov. This sudden friendship of two implacable enemies would seem less inexplicable if people knew of the secret protocol which accompanies the pact.
The protocol agrees a new set of international boundaries. As modified slightly in a second visit by Ribbentrop to Moscow, in September, it acknowledges Germany's approval of the Russian annexation of the independent nations Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (should any such opportunity occur). And it establishes an agreed division of Poland between Germany and Russia.
With this much achieved, Hitler is ready to take his next step - launched, for propaganda purposes, with a grisly little charade.
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