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Review: "The Lost Woman (Louise Rick, #6)" by Sara Blaedel
February 13, 2017 / mhmcneill
"The Lost Woman (Louise Rick, #6)" by Sara Blaedel
304 pages, Hatchette
Published Feb. 7, 2017 (first published Nov. 7, 2014, in Denmark)
Inspector Louise Rick, head of the elite Special Search Agency in Denmark's National Police Department, finds herself entangled in a case that becomes rather personal in "The Lost Woman." Her colleague and boyfriend, Eik, goes AWOL and turns up in jail in England after butting into the investigation of a shooting death. The victim is Sofie Parker, an old girlfriend who went missing years ago.
The dead woman has a mysterious bank account with large sums of money deposited, and it holds the key to why more people are dying.
The case inspires Louise's journalist friend, Camilla, to launch into an investigative project about Sofie's strange disappearance, but it morphs into a piece on what Sofie was up to all those years after she'd gone missing.
From there, the novel turns into a morality tale about the pros and cons of assisted suicide – a practice that, while still taboo, is far more acceptable in Europe than in my home country (the U.S.).
Perhaps I needed to read some of the earlier Louise Rick novels first, but I don't know if that would have helped me enjoy this book more. I initially gave this book 3.5 stars but, after pondering it for a few days, I'm giving it 2. I just felt like something was missing that I couldn't quite put my finger on, but at the same time, there was just way too much happening. A lot of it explains Eik's erratic behavior, and why Sofie disappeared for years, only to be shot in the head while standing at her kitchen sink. And yes, the answers to these questions weren't quite what I'd expected. But at some point, I just finished the book because I was almost done with it.
It just seems to me that Blaedel was trying to accomplish too many purposes in writing this book. I've decided it is entirely possible to incorporate enough dirty laundry and intrigue into a story to bury the most important messages. And "The Lost Woman" is a good example.
I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Sara Blaedel is the author of the #1 international bestselling series featuring Detective Louise Rick. Her books are published in thirty-three countries. She lives in Copenhagen, and was voted Denmark's most popular novelist for the fourth time in 2014. She is also a recipient of the Golden Laurel, Denmark's most prestigious literary award.
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i think that may be just because you have not read the other novels you feel like its a little too much of incorporation in this book. I started reading Sara Blaedel's novels since the forgotten girls. I dont know what other novels (the early ones) mention much about Louise's past but i liked this novel. I hope you like her other books 🙂

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The World Video Game Hall of Fame, in Rochester, N.Y., has narrowed its Class of 2019 nominees to these 12 games. The chosen finalists will be inducted on May 2, 2019. Above, "Mortal Kombat," released Oct. 8, 1992, for arcades.
"Super Mario Kart," released Aug. 27, 1992, for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
"Centipede," released June 1981 for arcades.
"Microsoft Windows Solitaire," released in 1990 for Windows.
"Half-Life," released Nov. 19, 1998, for Windows.
"Myst," released Sept. 24, 1993 for Mac OS.
"Sid Meier's Civilization," released September 1991 for multiple platforms.
"Colossal Cave Adventure," released in 1976 for the PDP-10 mainframe.
"Dance Dance Revolution," released Sept. 26, 1998, for arcades.
"Candy Crush Saga," released April 12, 2012, for browsers.
"NBA 2K," released Nov. 10, 1999, for Dreamcast.
"Super Smash Bros. Melee," released Nov. 21, 2001, for GameCube.
The World Video Game Hall of Fame, in Rochester, N.Y., has narrowed its Class of 2019 nominees to these 12 games. The chosen finalists will be inducted on May 2, 2019.


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LOS ANGELES, California — Loscon 48 "Beyond the Future"
The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS) is the world's oldest continuously active science fiction and fantasy club, and has gaveled to order a meeting of the membership every single Thursday night, without fail, since the club's founding on Oct. 27, 1934. And this year once again, LASFS will present the 48th Loscon — Los Angeles' longest running fan convention — over Thanksgiving weekend (November 25 – 27, 2022). This family-friendly gathering includes a variety of panels, discussions, activities, a film festival, an art show, music and shopping. Diverse participants include area authors, such as Steven Barnes, Larry Niven and David Gerrold.
Canadian Fantasy author Tanya Huff is the Writer Guest of Honor. Her most recent release, Into the Broken Lands, was released in August 2022. She is best known for her Blood Book series, which is the basis for the TV series Blood Ties.
Artist Guest of Honor is Dave Kellett, creator of the webcomic series Sheldon and Drive, he has just released a whimsical new book called Anatomy of Dinosaurs, the dinosaur book you wish you'd had as a child.
Faerie Tale Minstrel and Storyteller, Alexander James Adams, is the Musical Guest of Honor.
Fan Guests of Honor are Susan Fox and Gene Turnbow, founders of SciFi Radio, the world's leading SciFi, Geek and Pop Culture radio station.
First held in 1975 at the International Hotel (now the Hyatt Regency), Loscon is hosted down the street at the recently redesigned Los Angeles Airport Marriott, located on Century Boulevard near Los Angeles International Airport. Weekend memberships and room reservations are currently available at discounted rates. Covid-19 safety precautions will be in effect.
For updates, follow Loscon on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and search for #Loscon.
Loscon 48: Nov 25-27, 2022 Los Angeles area's longest running Science Fiction Fan Convention. Marriott Los Angeles Airport Hotel 5855 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045. https://loscon.org
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Guilty of murder - man who beat Marie Gibson to death with baseball bat and stabbed her with glass
Shane Murphy has been convicted of he murder of Marie Gibson by a jury at Lincoln Crown Court and will be sentenced later this week
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Marie Gibson, 35, of Louth, was killed by partner Shane Murphy. He denies her murder, but admits killing her (Image: Facebook)
A man who beat his partner to death with a baseball bat and stabbed her in the neck with a shard of glass has been found guilty of murder.
The jury of eight men and four women at Lincoln Crown Court deliberated for just an hour before convicting Shane Murphy of the murder of 35-year-old Marie Gibson, 35.
Murphy was not in court to hear the verdict. He is remanded in custody and will be sentenced later this week.
He brutally beat Marie with a baseball bat, kicked her and stabbed her with a shard of broken glass following an argument at her home in Lacey Gardens, Louth. It happened in front of a child.
She suffered severe brain and facial injuries during the attack.
Michael Auty QC, prosecuting, said her injuries were such that she was unrecognisable.
The prosecutor said that Murphy left her to die.
Afterwards he went to his sister's home nearby but she was out and then he made his way to his mother's house.
In the mean time police had been alerted by a 999 call made from Marie's mobile phone.
Although no one spoke to the operator Marie's screams were heard and as a result police went to her house.
They broke in and found her dead on the floor.
Murphy was arrested soon afterwards as he was leaving his mother's address.
A psychiatrist told the jury that Murphy was suffering from a personality disorder at the time he carried out the killing.
Dr Pablo Vandenabeele said that his opinion was that Shane Murphy's responsibility for killing his partner Marie Gibson was diminished because of his mental condition.
The scene at Lacey Gardens, Louth, following the death of Marie Gibson (Image: Grimsby Live)
He told the jury: "I concluded that he was suffering from an emotionally unstable personality disorder.
"It was my view that he was suffering from an abnormality of mental function at the time of the offence. It is my view that abnormality was caused by a recognised mental condition namely an emotionally unstable personality disorder."
A second psychiatrist Dr Philip Joseph, giving evidence on behalf of the prosecution, told the jury that he disagreed with the opinion of Dr Vandenabeele.
Dr Joseph said: "My opinion is that he wasn't suffering from an abnormality of mental functioning.
"He did a series of acts after the killing which were more to do with self preservation. I am saying it was not diminished responsibility. There was no substantial impairment.
"On the basis of my interview with the defendant and the material I have read I would not make a diagnosis of a personality disorder particularly an emotionally unstable personality disorder."
Marie Gibson murder
Charged with murder
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Murphy chose not to give evidence from the witness box but the jury earlier heard that when interviewed by police following his arrest he claimed
that Marie attacked him with the baseball bat which he wrestled from her and then used it to hit her twice. He also admitted kicking her but denied
stabbing her with the shard of glass.
In his police interviews he said "I didn't mean it to happen like this. I just wanted to be with her. I would have
done anything for her. "Its all a big blur. She was in my face. "I never intended to use force. She made me lose it."
Murphy, 28, of Little Lane, Louth, denied murdering Marie on June 9 this year. He admitted killing her but said his responsibility for doing so
was diminished by a mental health condition he was suffering from at the time.
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La resolución 32 del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas, adoptada el 26 de agosto de 1947, condenó los continuos episodios de violencia en la Revolución Nacional de Indonesia, haciendo un llamamiento a ambos bandos (los Países Bajos y los Republicanos de Indonesia) a dejar las armas y cumplir con los compromisos de la Resolución 30 del Consejo de Seguridad.

La resolución fue adoptada por diez votos a favor y con la abstención del Reino Unido.

Véase también
Resoluciones 1 a 100 del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas
Resolución 27 del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas
Resolución 30 del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas
Revolución Nacional de Indonesia

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A total now of 49 people have been killed – work is under way to confirm their identities as quickly as possible.
41 people died at Deans Avenue Mosque, 7 at the Linwood Avenue Mosque – and 1 person has since died in hospital.
Over 40 people are being treated for injuries at Christchurch hospital – they have all been identified and those names have been shared with members of the community.
Two of those are in critical condition and this includes a 5-year-old child who has been transported today to Starship Hospital in Auckland.
Three people have been arrested in relation to this event.
One Australian citizen will appear in court today charged with murder.
This individual has travelled around the world with sporadic periods of time spent in New Zealand. They were not a resident of Christchurch. In fact they were currently based in Dunedin.
Enquires are ongoing to establish whether the other two were directly involved with this incident.
The fourth person who was arrested yesterday was a member of the public who was in possession of a firearm, but with the intention of assisting police. They have since been released.
None of those apprehended had a criminal history either here, or in Australia. As I said last night, they were not on any watch lists either here, or in Australia.
I want to be very clear that our intelligence community and police are focused on extremism of every kind.
Given global indicators around far right extremism, our intelligence community has been stepping up their investigations in this area.
The individual charged with murder had not come to the attention of the intelligence community nor the police for extremism.
I have asked our agencies this morning to work swiftly on assessing whether there was any activity on social media or otherwise that should have triggered a response. That work is already under way.
I'm advised that there were five guns used by the primary perpetrator. There were two semi-automatic weapons, and two shotguns. The offender was in possession of a gun licence.
I'm advised that this was acquired of November 2017.
A lever action firearm was also found.
While work is being done as to the chain of events that led to both the holding of this gun licence, and the possession of these weapons, I can tell you one thing right now. Our gun laws will change.
There have been attempts to change our laws in 2005, 2012 and after an inquiry in 2017.
Too late for change in this case, and it will take time to work out what sort of changes will be made, but change looks inevitable.
There are obviously questions being asked of how this person was able to enter the country and undertake this act of terror.
I have instructed ODESC to report to Cabinet on Monday on this sequence of events with a view to strengthening our systems on a range of fronts including but not limited to, firearms, border controls, enhanced information sharing with Australia and any practical reinforcement of our watch list processes.
The safety of New Zealanders is our highest priority.
New Zealand Police remain on high alert.
Christchurch residents are strongly urged to stay home if possible and stay safe. Please monitor the Police website and social media for further information.
If you see something suspicious then call 111 immediately.
A number of events are being held across the country today and there will be an increased Police presence.
Police have additional patrols out on the streets of Christchurch to reassure the community.
They have flown in 45 additional police staff to Christchurch with a further 80 staff arriving today.
The additional police staffing includes public safety teams, detectives, tactical specialists and intelligence support.
Staff from other DHBs have offered support as required.
There will be additional support provided in Christchurch for mental health and psychosocial needs.
Police are aware of distressing material relating to this event being online and are reminding people it is an offence to distribute objectionable material.
Police immediately secured the areas involved and ensured that people were kept safe, including schools and offices being locked down.
Police made arrests swiftly and a man will appear in court this morning.
Defence specialists quickly moved to assist police to make the improvised explosive devices safe.
I want to make special mention of those who are involved in parts of the operation involving disarming devices and undertaking the arrests themselves.
Many of you may have seen the footage of the arrest and I can only describe it as an act of bravery on behalf of all New Zealanders and an act that showed very little regard for their own personal safety.
I'm sure everyone in New Zealand wants to acknowledge the police and particularly the officer who made that arrest yesterday.
I also want to acknowledge ambulance staff who many will have seen acting swiftly under horrific conditions and all medical staff who continue to work with those who are injured.
NZ Defence Force at Burnham Camp yesterday were put on standby to assist police in Christchurch.
Mosques around the country were provided with advice from police to help keep them secure and advised to remain closed. This advice continues as does the police presence at mosques around the country.
The national threat level was raised to high, which triggers a number of actions to help keep people safe, such as increased aviation and border security.
A number of specialist family liaison staff were deployed.
Close liaison has been established with the Muslim community and other key people in Christchurch.
MFAT are acting as a liaison point for foreign governments – consular representation for any foreign nations involved has been provided. At this stage I understand those involved include Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia.
MFAT staff are dealing with offers of assistance, and are receiving a significant number of condolence messages.
Deputy Commissioner Maori and Ethnic Services Wally Haumaha has travelled to Christchurch, alongside 15 additional ethnic liaison officers to support the community.
These specialists will work alongside local staff to support the families involved.
They are assisting to repatriate them with their loved ones in a way that is consistent with Muslim beliefs, while taking into account these particular circumstances and obligations to the coroner.
…that while the nation grapples with a form of grief and anger that we have not experienced before, we are seeking answers.
After this media conference I will board a defence force plane and travel to Christchurch. I will have other political leaders with me including the Leader of the Opposition.
As is the entire nation, we are all unified in grieving together.
An 0800 number established to register missing persons – 0800 115019 – and a website, Restoring Family Links (RFL).
Three alarming incidents in the past week in the US – the pipe bombs sent to a number of individuals and companies, two black people shot in a grocery store, and the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting – have raised concerns that hate crime is on the rise.
President Donald Trump has inevitably been included in discussions in reaction to these incidents. It is difficult to judge how much Trump may have encouraged this sort of hate violence, but how he responds may make a difference – and while he has played lip service to outrage and condemnation, his actions continue to be troubling.
This apparent rise in hate crimes, the tip of a large iceberg of online intolerance and hate, is happening on Trump's watch.
What is going on in this country? Can't we be safe in our homes, in our schools, in our most sacred places? Once again, Americans are left to ask each other these sorts of questions, after a gunman burst into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on the Jewish Sabbath and opened fire on families in the contemplation of their faith.
The attack came a day after a man was arrested in Florida for mailing pipe bombs to politicians and journalists across the country. In both cases, the suspects had nourished their animus online, on social media platforms where they could easily connect with people who shared their hatreds.
Alongside anti-Semitism, anti-black hatred appears to be rising. It has been expressed recently not only in incidents in which white Americans have harassed black Americans for gardening, coming home, swimming, working or campaigning for public office, but in deadly attacks like the one by a bigot who shot two black people at a Kentucky grocery last week, after he tried but failed to enter a black church.
At least some of the hate behind attacks like this is fomented online.
The suspect in the Pittsburgh killings, Robert Bowers, had found a home for his hate on Gab, a new social network that bills itself as a guardian of free speech, unlike somewhat less permissive platforms like Twitter. There his online biography read, "Jews are the children of Satan," a statement of personal values that he evidently expected to earn him not opprobrium but followers.
Mr. Bowers's hatred of American Jews was apparently motivated in part by the generosity and empathy many of them have shown for non-Jewish refugees of conflicts worldwide. In their humanity, he found cause to dehumanize them. "It's the filthy EVIL jews Bringing the Filthy EVIL Muslims into the Country!!" he wrote online.
Gun laws come up again after mass shootings, but little ever seems to change. And guns are just tools of extreme merchants of hate, many of whom build their bravado online.
What can be done? Certainly, common-sense gun safety regulation might make attacks like the one on Tree of Life synagogue less deadly— universal background checks, red-flag laws that take guns away from the mentally unstable, bans on high-capacity weapons like the AR-15 rifle that the alleged killer wielded.
Measures like these would help contend with the hardware of hate. It is far harder to disable the software, the ideas that now spread so readily.
It is difficult to confront online hate. Some of it ferments in protected bubbles.
Leadership that is unequivocal about condemning intolerance and hate would help.
Good speech may not be enough in itself, but that doesn't mean that American society couldn't benefit from much more of it today, particularly from its leaders.
So it was reassuring to hear President Trump condemn the attack in Pittsburgh, as he did the pipe bombs. And it was disappointing to see him immediately head back out on the campaign trail, as he did on Saturday, to disparage his opponents and critics all over again.
Until next week's mid-term elections it seems that hate and division as tools of politics will continue.
It isn't simply a Trump issue, but as the leader and commander-in-chief of the country he must take some responsibility for the escalations and do more than speak out of both sides of his mouth.
Predictably, the establishment is blaming President Trump and his supporters for a climate of rage and hate.
But let's be honest, a lot of Americans have had a lot to be angry about for an awful long time.
This anger we're seeing, it didn't start with Donald Trump. I think it goes back at least a decade.
In 2008 you saw the elite bail themselves out while working people paid the price for their recklessness and incompetence.
And you saw a new tone enter our politics.
Reagan, the Bushes, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton perhaps a bit too much – they weren't haters. You got the sense they loved everybody.
But then we saw something new. A cultural elitism came in. Condescension. Even contempt.
We saw hate and divisiveness — from the top. And remember, from the left, not the right. From the elitists, not the populists.
What he claims is debatable (very much so) but there is one truth that can't be denied – the current levels of division and hate are happening on Trump's watch.
There has been another mass shooting in the US, this time at a national video game tournament that was being live streamed. Two people have been murdered, and the gunman also killed himself.
There was a mass shooting at a video game tournament that was being streamed online from a restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida, on Sunday, and the local sheriff's office said there were multiple fatalities.
The sheriff's office said one suspect was dead at the scene and that it was unknown whether there was a second suspect. "Searches are being conducted," the sheriff's office said.
The business was livestreaming a tournament for a Madden football video game when several shots rang out, according to video of the stream shared on social media.
This will no doubt reignite debate over gun laws in the US, in a now familiar pattern of outrage, subsidence, another shooting, outrage and so on with nothing much changing.
This particular attack is also likely to prompt further debate on the possible effects of gaming – which often involves shooting – on people's attitudes to shooting people for fun, despite this tournament being focussed on football.
There's been a lot of the usual 'thoughts and prayers' offered after the Annapolis shooting, but they are little more than saying 'hello' or 'goodbye', well intentioned but meaningless.
One Capital Gazette staff writer, Selene San Felice, put this into more meaningful words in a CNN interview today.
Sadly, if this shooting is like last week's shooting and last month's shooting and all the other US mass shootings, after a few days of saying something must be done there will probably be nothing else that will change anything.
Capital Gazette staff writer Phil Davis questioned society's response to mass shootings.
"If we're going to have a position in our society where all we offer each other is prayers, then where are we? Where are we as a society, where people die and that's the end of that story".
He said he heard the gunman shoot through a glass door on the first floor. Davis, a crime and courts reporter, said he wondered if they were all going to die when he heard the gunman reload. He said The Capital's employees were just doing their jobs and had no motive to hate the gunman.
"It makes you feel powerless. It makes you feel helpless. It removes all control from every facet of your life within only a few seconds once you understand what's happening".
There were US wide protests and demands after a school shooting a while ago. Until the next shooting.
Someone needs to show some leadership and make real change in the US. But I don't see that happening.
It's easy to say 'thoughts and prayers'. But the US needs something else.
Another shooting in the US with reports of multiple being shot in the Capital Gazette, an Annapolis, Maryland newspaper office .
A suspect was apprehended following reports of shots fired and multiple fatalities in Annapolis, Maryland, Thursday afternoon outside the Capital Gazette newsroom, Anne Arundel Sheriff Ron Bateman told Fox News.
The Baltimore Sun, which owns the Annapolis newspaper, says a reporter told them of the shooting.
This story is just unfolding.
With his career now in decline, he's taken to continuing with his inflammatory comments, including hoping for violence against any news outlet that bothers to call him.
"I can't wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight,".
Another horrific mass shooting in the US, this time at a school in Florida.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was warned last year about an ominous online comment by the 19-year-old man accused of killing 17 people in his former high school but was unable to locate him, an agent said on Thursday.
Authorities said the ex-student, identified as Nikolas Cruz, walked into the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, near Miami, on Wednesday and opened fire with an AR-15-style assault rifle in the second-deadliest shooting at a public school in U.S. history.
Cruz may have left warning signs on social media. A person with his name wrote a comment last year under a YouTube video that read "I'm going to be a professional school shooter." The man who posted the video, Ben Bennight, a Mississippi bail bondsman, was alarmed and contacted the FBI, according to a video he posted online late Wednesday.
Wednesday's shooting was the 18th in a U.S. school this year, according to gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety. It stirred the long-simmering U.S. debate on the right to bear arms, which are protected by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The big question is, given the number of guns and the lax gun laws in the US – how? There is no obvious answer that the NRA lobby and politicians they fund are likely to accept.
The death toll from shooting at a concert in Las Vegas is now 58, with hundreds injured. It is reported that a single gunman using at least 10 weapons fired on the crowd from the 32nd floor of a resort.
Motive for the killing appears to be unknown at this stage.
A gunman turned a Las Vegas concert into a killing field Sunday night from his perch on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, using at least 10 guns to rain down a steady stream of fire, murdering at least 58 people and injuring more than 500 others in the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history.
The gunman, who fired down on the Route 91 Harvest Festival from a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound just as police made entry to the room, according to LVMPD undersheriff Kevin McMahill.
The suspect was identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, a resident of Mesquite, Nevada. Federal law enforcement sources told Fox News that Paddock "was known to local authorities" in Vegas.
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said an "excess of 10 rifles" were found in the room, but did not immediately reveal a motive. Paddock had been in the hotel room since September 28, according to Lombardo.
A horrible act in a country awash with firearms.
The question inevitably asked is whether there are wider terrorist links.
At this time, federal officials do not see any connection to international terrorism and little is known about Paddock's motivation, sources said. The Islamic State terror group took credit for the Las Vegas shooting, saying the gunman converted to Islam months ago, but provided no evidence back up the claim.
Gun violence and crime incidents are collected/validated from 2,500 sources daily – incidents and their source data are found at the gunviolencearchive.org website.
In a new development in the Whangarei shooting, in which two female property inspectors were shot dead and a maintenance man injured, the police have revealed that they visited the property last month.
Quinn Patterson killed property manager Wendy Campbell, 60, and her 37-year-old daughter Natanya on Wednesday morning when they visited his home with a contractor to install smoke alarms. The contractor was also shot, but managed to escape and raise the alarm.
Northland District Commander Superintendent Russell Le Prou said police investigated a structure being built there last month, and were told it was to be used for target practice.
Police decided it was a tenancy matter, rather than one for them.
Police said the visit to the property formed part of the ongoing investigation into Patterson's background.
There have been reports that Patterson, aged in his 50s, had multiple guns and other weapons, including grenades and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
People using firearms in rural areas is common. There can be many legitimate and innocent reasons for using them.
I wouldn't mind if police asked to see my firearms license just as a check.
Perhaps if there are any checks on rural properties it should include a check of whether firearms are present and whether there are firearms licenses.
The killing of two women and injuring of a man in Northland looks like a tragic and sad mix of mental illness and firearms.
It was known that the murderer was a frequent user of firearms.
It seems to have been known that he suffered from mental illness and depression, and he had a record of violence.
He didn't have a firearms license but had somehow acquired a lot of weapons.
Police are refusing to discuss how a convicted criminal who shot two women was able to collect firearms without a licence.
There are reports that Patterson, aged in his 50s, had multiple guns and other weapons, including grenades and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
Police have confirmed he did not have a firearms licence.
He served 18 months in prison for stabbing a police officer multiple times with a 33cm hunting knife in Hamilton in 1983.
Patterson's only sister, Gloria, says her brother's mental and physical health deteriorated rapidly this year and she had urged him to seek help.
Friend Leah Cameron said Quinn's father brought his children up with a "Doomsday" mentality.
"He was fatalistic about the world, that it was not a good place. He could have been classed as being a bit of a fanatic".
He made his children dig graves with him and he and his wife apparently wrote a book about UFOs.
Patterson liked guns despite friends saying he did not have a licence and was not a hunter. Neighbours would often hear him shooting in his backyard.
"He just shot in his back lawn by the sounds of it, you could hear it from here, you could hear it from everywhere," Walters said.
"They were big guns. we're talking automatics, semi-automatics, big calibres. They sounded like cannons, you could hear them going off with, like, 16 rounds.
He became paranoid and started to accumulate several weapons. A friend told Newshub he had grenades, shotguns, rifles and hand guns. He had "barricaded" himself in the property with bars on the windows.
He was becoming more and more depressed and paranoid, friends said.
He had taken several types of medication over the years, including sleeping tablets and had tried natural medication, vitamins and exercise in an attempt to get better.
There are some obvious questions that need to be asked about all this.
Fox news has been pushing quite a bit on 'left bad, right good' following the shooting of Republican House Whip Steve Scalise by a Bernie Sanders supporter.
Levels of rhetoric, division and violence look likely to continue unabated, despite what should have been a wake up call for politicians on both sides of the chasm.


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It's almost like Beto O'Rourke really doesn't want to get elected president, because he's now pushing new gun control policies that will get him dismissed faster than an Alex Jones conspiracy theory:
POLITICO – Beto O'Rourke called Friday for gun licensing and a mandatory buyback program for assault weapons, expanding on a controversial gun control platform he advanced in his return to the presidential campaign the previous day.
Part of a proposal to address gun violence and white nationalism, O'Rourke said that, if enacted, anyone who failed to forfeit a banned assault weapon would be fined.
Got it? Mandatory buyback program. You MUST turn in your AR-15s and whatever else they deem as 'assault weapons' or you will be fined.
But that's not all. Beto also wants to levy heavy taxes on gun manufacturers so that he can buy back your handguns too:
In addition to banning assault weapons and requiring their forfeiture, O'Rourke said he would work to implement a voluntary buyback program for handguns. He proposed increasing the excise tax on gun manufacturers and fines on gun traffickers to fund buybacks.
And he wants to force background checks on private gun sales and implement red flag laws:
O'Rourke on Friday called for a ban on assault weapons, trigger cranks, silencers, bump stocks and high-capacity magazines, and he pledged, if elected president, to work with Congress to enact universal background checks, red-flag laws and other restrictions.
But wait, there's still more…
In the gun-licensing and registry system he proposes, gun owners would have to complete gun safety training and register their guns. O'Rourke would limit licenses to people 21 and older, with an exception for younger gun owners who have hunting licenses.
O'Rourke said he would also seek to limit people to buying one gun per month in an effort to prevent stockpiling. He said he would declare gun violence a public health emergency, make gun trafficking a federal crime and treat right-wing violence as an issue of organized crime.
That's right, Beto will make you register your guns. I think of all his insane gun control proposals, this one might be everyone's favorite.
In light of all this I have an announcement. I am officially endorsing Beto's campaign to win the Democratic nomination.
Because with these anti-gun policies, Trump would destroy him in the general. It would be a cakewalk to election day.
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Analysts Expect Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD) Will Announce Quarterly Sales of $5.27 Billion
Analysts predict that Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) will report $5.27 billion in sales for the current fiscal quarter, Zacks Investment Research reports. Eight analysts have made estimates for Gilead Sciences' earnings, with the highest sales estimate coming in at $5.56 billion and the lowest estimate coming in at $5.03 billion. Gilead Sciences posted sales of $5.09 billion during the same quarter last year, which suggests a positive year-over-year growth rate of 3.5%. The company is scheduled to issue its next earnings results after the market closes on Thursday, May 2nd.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that Gilead Sciences will report full-year sales of $21.95 billion for the current fiscal year, with estimates ranging from $21.38 billion to $22.50 billion. For the next financial year, analysts expect that the company will post sales of $22.51 billion, with estimates ranging from $21.43 billion to $23.45 billion. Zacks' sales calculations are an average based on a survey of sell-side research analysts that cover Gilead Sciences.
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Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) last announced its earnings results on Monday, February 4th. The biopharmaceutical company reported $1.44 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.70 by ($0.26). Gilead Sciences had a net margin of 24.65% and a return on equity of 37.03%. The firm had revenue of $5.80 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $5.52 billion. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.78 earnings per share. Gilead Sciences's revenue for the quarter was down 2.6% compared to the same quarter last year.
A number of equities analysts have recently weighed in on the stock. Wells Fargo & Co dropped their price target on shares of Gilead Sciences from $95.00 to $89.00 and set an "outperform" rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, February 5th. Citigroup reaffirmed a "buy" rating and issued a $100.00 price target on shares of Gilead Sciences in a research note on Tuesday, February 5th. BidaskClub downgraded shares of Gilead Sciences from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research note on Thursday, February 7th. Zacks Investment Research downgraded shares of Gilead Sciences from a "hold" rating to a "sell" rating in a research note on Wednesday, January 23rd. Finally, Maxim Group set a $84.00 price target on shares of Gilead Sciences and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a research note on Tuesday, February 5th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have issued a hold rating, eleven have issued a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the stock. The stock currently has a consensus rating of "Buy" and a consensus target price of $82.12.
In related news, Director John Francis Cogan sold 2,700 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Wednesday, March 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $65.07, for a total value of $175,689.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 57,560 shares in the company, valued at $3,745,429.20. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director Richard James Whitley sold 9,534 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Monday, April 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $65.48, for a total transaction of $624,286.32. Following the completion of the sale, the director now owns 34,669 shares of the company's stock, valued at $2,270,126.12. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 42,102 shares of company stock valued at $2,787,375 over the last quarter. 0.20% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
A number of large investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Lantz Financial LLC bought a new stake in Gilead Sciences in the first quarter worth $1,278,000. First Personal Financial Services boosted its holdings in Gilead Sciences by 3.1% in the first quarter. First Personal Financial Services now owns 8,680 shares of the biopharmaceutical company's stock worth $564,000 after purchasing an additional 264 shares in the last quarter. Horan Capital Advisors LLC. bought a new stake in Gilead Sciences in the first quarter worth $74,000. CWM LLC boosted its holdings in Gilead Sciences by 2.9% during the first quarter. CWM LLC now owns 55,738 shares of the biopharmaceutical company's stock valued at $3,624,000 after acquiring an additional 1,554 shares during the period. Finally, West Coast Financial LLC bought a new stake in Gilead Sciences during the first quarter valued at about $205,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 80.20% of the company's stock.
NASDAQ GILD opened at $61.87 on Tuesday. Gilead Sciences has a 1-year low of $60.32 and a 1-year high of $79.61. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.19, a quick ratio of 3.30 and a current ratio of 3.38. The firm has a market capitalization of $80.09 billion, a PE ratio of 10.06, a P/E/G ratio of 4.19 and a beta of 1.16.
The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, March 28th. Investors of record on Friday, March 15th were issued a $0.63 dividend. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, March 14th. This is a boost from Gilead Sciences's previous quarterly dividend of $0.57. This represents a $2.52 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.07%. Gilead Sciences's dividend payout ratio is currently 40.98%.
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Gilead Sciences, Inc is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the research, development, and commercialization of medicines in areas of unmet medical need. Its primary areas of focus include human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, liver diseases, hematology, oncology, and inflammation and respiratory diseases.
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Also because I wanted to do two things here--1) offer a space for us to remember Chain and 2) coordinate our own memorial of his life. I know his family is going through the stress and complicated business of dealing with his death, and I expect Juni will be posting about helping them out with the material aspect of that later.
What every you choose to do, and whatever thoughts you have for Chain, for his family, etc, can go here. Pictures, offerings, prayers, etc... For many of us, this is nothing short of heartbreaking. I've known (and argued and agreed with and grumbled at and comisserated with) Chain for about 10 years...for Medusa and a few others, its been even longer. Some of you have known him for a shorter time, and others maybe not at all...and that's okay too.
But it should be known that everything that this forum is and strives to be--a place where all religions are to be treated with respect (not just Pagan ones), where magic lives side by side with reason, where we debate the idea and not the person, and where we don't piss on the carpet is due in large share to this man.
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I am feeling truly bummed right at the moment,gonna need some time to process this fully. I might tend to be a bit quiet on the forum for a while..
All I can think about is how many years of his friendship I wasted at the end - all the day-to-day stresses of life kept me from keeping in touch with all my friends here. I'm at least grateful that I was around for just days before he couldn't chat anymore. I wish I could have said goodbye, but I just took for granted that he would just always be around. He was part of the heart of PF before I got here, and he'll always be part of our hearts for everything he did for us. Yeah, he was a grumpy old man, but the guy cared about all of us who came here and gave everyone a chance. He's helped me in so many ways, and I'm going to miss him.
Although I never had the pleasure of meeting Chain, I know I would have enjoyed his company here. You've all spoken so fondly of him as a dear friend and family, and I wish I could have known him as many of you did. My deepest respects.
I just found out and rushed here, the only place I ever really 'knew' him.
Chain is a legend. I am too useless to do much more than cry and lay in bed, but I'll post something more appropriate when it's sunk in.
He helped without asking in return.
He made the weak remember their strength.
He was bold and sensitive simultaneously.
To Chain. He lives forever in us.
Although it's been about a year since I joined the forum, I've only recently become active. I wish I had been active since the beginning so I could have gotten a chance to know him; from what everyone has said, he's sounds like a great man and friend.
I had to look at my profile to see when I joined up here - it's been 4 years. I thought it was longer, somehow. I feel like I've known you guys forever (in a good way) and I'm glad I got to know Chain over that time.
Grumpy grumpy Chain, he's being grumpier and happier somewhere else now. He will be remembered dearly. If it weren't for the community (he and others) created here, I would probably be in the streets right now. I owe this forum and this man a lot.
I think I'm still in shock, to be honest. We sort of had an inkling what was on the horizon, and for me it's been a bitter-sweet mix. That we'll lose him, but that he'll be free of the limits of physical reality and can go and do and be what as he wishes.
But all that's coming to mind the last day or so is how he was the one who first really reached out to me on this forum, whose humor I really understood, and whose non-BS attitude toward inappropriate behaviors on the forum made me really respect him, the forum, and the safe and community-oriented atmosphere here. Short and sweet his methods when dealing with people that even I would have handled poorly, but he always wished the best and was the first to uphold what was really important here- the individuals, and their right to express themselves freely, be themselves, and explore what was important to them unhindered.
I keep kicking myself that I never made the effort to drive the 30 minutes out to see him back in the fall, and I really wish I had made that happen. Even the hospital he was staying in is only about a 15 minute drive from here. Somehow, I think he'd forgive me for that though.


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Rowena. 2019. Photo credit: Jed Regala/Oxfam
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Rowena, from Salcedo in Philippines, works as a daycare worker at a local school. After she's done with her day's work, she comes home to care for her family. As a housewife, her care work takes a lot of time and literally means heavy lifting: "The heaviest housework is fetching water. It takes us three to four hours to go and get water because our water source is far. We have to go to the river and lift our own water cans."
Rowena and other women in Salcedo are constantly working at home and at their jobs, anxious about earning enough to keep kids in school, having enough money to survive, and being barely prepared for times of trouble such as disasters that regularly happen across Asia, the latest of which is the Taal volcano eruption in Philippines.
Lim Kok Thay, the highest-paid CEO in Malaysia, is one of the wealthiest men in the country. The billionaire, son to founder of Genting Group, builds his wealth on a portfolio of casinos, tourism, and oil investments. He adds to his wealth every year with his salary of US$ 68.6 million from two positions at Genting Bhd and Genting Malaysia Bhd. His earnings per minute are at least US$ 290.
For a domestic care worker who struggles to get through the day, it would take 21,561 years to earn what Lim earns in a year. In turn, Lim would earn what a domestic worker earns in a year in just 10 minutes. Does that sound fair to the Rowenas of the world?
Asia truly is a tale of two fortunes. While Asia's billionaires wallow in wealth, it's also home to the world's largest population of those struggling to make ends meet – 1.2 billion people living in and near poverty. 831 billionaires in Asia and Pacific own 2,700 billion in wealth, which is more than 1.8 billion of us have. In the region, China has the most billionaires – 324, followed by India with 106.
The problem is global, too. 4.6 billion of us have less wealth than the world's 2,513 billionaires. That a few thrive while a majority strive hard for a decent living, is a symptom of a global epidemic. In fact, most of us will struggle to make ends meet if we miss a paycheck due to sickness or family trouble; a clear sign of an economy and system that's failing. Inequality that ails our economies is out of control and keeps growing, leaving billions behind, particularly women and girls. Of the estimated 67 million domestic workers worldwide, 80% are women.
While many governments have committed to reducing inequalities, they are barely walking their talk. We must demand that they prioritize the needs of people who elected them over the profits and fortunes of a few at the top. By making sure businesses and the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes, our leaders can invest in our wellbeing now and for the future. The wealthy have gotten away with paying little either by using legal loopholes or illegally dodging taxes altogether. Asians believe that widespread corruption among leaders of nations and government service providers has stalemated the kind of progress that can benefit many.
We know that when nations spend more of their resources earned through fair taxation on public services like schools, hospitals, social safety and other public services, the lives of millions, if not billions, significantly improve. For instance, taxing an additional 0.5% of the wealth of the richest 1% over 10 years and spending on public goods can create 117 million jobs in education, health and elderly care and other sectors.
We also have some examples from countries in Asia—Thailand, Philippines and elsewhere—where good policies implemented well have transformed the lives of millions, but there just aren't enough. For the billionaires of the world, a high-quality education, great health care and meeting all other needs is a birthright, but for the Rowenas, who are a majority in Asia, these rights are unmet, unfulfilled. And there lies the injustice.
Oxfam's report 'Time to Care,' launched as the World Economic Forum convened in Davos, shows how, despite the tremendous contribution women and girls make to running the global economy, their work is often unrecognized. Women and girls put in 12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work each and every day—a contribution to the global economy of at least $10.8 trillion a year.
Governments can ease the burden of care workers drastically by investing public funds. Universal access to safe water, sanitation, energy, universal childcare, eldercare and care for people with disabilities would go a long way towards improving their lives and creating opportunities for them to achieve a better tomorrow.
Paid care workers are underpaid and undervalued. Domestic workers, nurses, child and elderly caregivers, those who work in hospitality, and others often don't enjoy full labor rights or a decent wage enough to meet their needs. Governments must sign on and implement the International Labor Organizations Convention 189 to protect their rights.
Make no mistake. Care work is work that's essential for our societies to survive, prosper and grow. It is the hidden engine that runs our economies. Nurturing children, caring for the sick and elderly and all the mundane household chores are critical necessities. It's largely the burden of women and girls. Globally, 42% of women of working age are outside the paid labor force, compared with 6% of men, because of unpaid care responsibilities.
All women and girls have the right to a fair living wage. We must put an end to the wage-pay gap between men and women and end discrimination at work completely. Care workers need a voice at decision-making tables not only in governments but in their communities and places of work. Within businesses, women and girls are often relegated to low paying jobs at the lowest end of value chains. For instance, in the seafood industry, women are limited to bottom-rung jobs like cleaning and packing.
The contribution of care work by women and girls is more than thrice the contribution made by the entire global tech industry. And this figure is probably an underestimation as many forms of care work is invisible. We need to respect care work, recognize the role it plays in making our society function and reward care workers justly. We must, as a society, embrace care work as a duty of all—men, boys, women, and girls.
We need to build a new story for a more humane economy where prosperity is shared, and it must show care work the respect it deserves. Our societies and cultures here in Asia have long placed care as a virtue of the highest order—caring for our people, our families, our kids, elders, neighbors, even those different to us. It's high time we walk our values and put our money where our ideals are.
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Discover genuine antique prints of animals. Our "All Other Animals" category contains animals that are not in our other categories. We have a huge range. From anteaters to zebras including rhinos, giraffes and much more.
Choose from thousands of our antique prints of animals. They are genuine antique prints.
Lion, Dogs And Goat
40 x 24.5 cm (15.5 x 9.75 inches).Prov.Cap.XXX.v.29.30.31. Animalia magnifice incendtia. (Proverbs 30:29-31)Stately creatures that strut with pride Lion, Dogs And Goat This antique copper plate engraving was made in 1731 for Scheuchzer's incredible Physica Sacra.It has hand painted water colouring e..
Various Beast of Different Parts of The World
34.5 x 22.3 cm (13.5 x 8.8 inches).Includes interestingly named animals such as a monkey called The Beard Man, The Aunt's Bear and a Doots-Hoost !Elephant,Monkey,Jackal,Camel,Ox,Anteater,Sumatran RhinocerosThis original antique engraving was made in 1778. It is from a "A New and Complete Collection ..
23 x 15 cm (9 x 6 inches).Bos TaurusThis antique engraving is over 200 years old. It's is from the first edition of one of George Shaw's works on zoology, published between 1801 and 1804. George Shaw (1751-1813) was a notable English botanist and zoologist. Shaw was a initially a medical practitione..
Types Of Unicorns
21 x 16 cm (8.25 x 6.25 inches)This antique copper plate engraving is by Pierre Pomet, a Paris apothecary.Pomet became chief druggist to King Louis XIV and a purveyor of medicinal remedies from distant lands.It was made in 1725 for Pomet's " A Compleat History of Drugges ". This was the most complet..
Quadrupeds
42 x 24.5 cm (16.5 x 9.75 inches)Nylghau, Ocelot, Ounce, Opossum, Chimpanzee, Otter, Pangolin, Pole-cat, Panther, Porcupine, Raccoon, RhinocerosThis large antique copper plate engraving is by George Selby Howard he was a distinguished English scientist and lawyer. It was made in 1788 for "The New Ro..
Virginian Flying Squirrel
23 x 15 cm (9 x 6 inches).AmericaThis antique engraving is over 200 years old. It's is from the first edition of one of George Shaw's works on zoology, published between 1801 and 1804. George Shaw (1751-1813) was a notable English botanist and zoologist. Shaw was a initially a medical practitioner. ..
Breeds of Pigs
27 x 20.5 cm (10.5 x 8 inches).Berkshire Boar, Large White, Tamworth Sow, Large Black BoarThis antique lithograph was made in the 1890s. It's an original antique print, not a reproduction. It was issued in a special edition by Cassell and Company about breeding and looking after top quality farming ..
Nutmeg Tree, Cocoa Palm, Indian Hog
32 x 19.5 cm (12.5 x 7.75 inches).Southern Asia - MalaccasThis original antique lithograph was made in the 1860s by Edmonston and Douglas in England and is from a set of prints, The Instructive Picture Book, created to educate children of wealthy families. They are some of the most attractive antiqu..
Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
33 x 25 cm (13 x 9.5 inches).Rhinoceros unicornisIndiaThis original antique lithograph was made in 1827 by Karl Joseph Brodtmann, the renowned Swiss naturalist and lithographer. Brodtmann's lithographs are detailed, accurately drawn and beautifully composed. This lithograph was made in the 1820s wit..
Indian Rhinoceros
15.8 x 9.8 cm (6.2 x 4.0 inches)IndiaThis finely detailed engraving was made in London in the 1840s. This is a genuine antique, not a reproduction and is in very good condition. The original hand colouring and engraving is excellent. The publishing company William Home Lizars of London and Edinbur..
Water Buffalo, Sacred or Banyan Fig, People
32 x 19.5 cm (12.5 x 7.75 inches).Southern Asia - IndiaThis original antique lithograph was made in the 1860s by Edmonston and Douglas in England and is from a set of prints, The Instructive Picture Book, created to educate children of wealthy families. They are some of the most attractive antique p..
African Rhinoceros
33 x 25 cm (13 x 9.5 inches).Rhinoceros unicornis. Small foxing mark in far left margin. Can easily be covered by matt when framedAfricaThis original antique lithograph was made in 1827 by Karl Joseph Brodtmann, the renowned Swiss naturalist and lithographer. Brodtmann's lithographs are detailed, ac..
Camel, Giraffe, Llama
45 x 34 cm (17.5 x 13.5 inches)Dromedary Camel (Camelus dromedarius), Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus), Llama (Auchenia lama), Giraffe (Camelopardalis giraffa)This large antique lithograph is by Emil Hanselmann of Stuttgart in Germany and was made in about 1870. The original hand coloring and det..
Chickaree Squirrel, Grey Squirrell and Black Squirrel
22 x 14 cm (8.8 x 5.5 inches).North AmericaThis engraving is is over 185 years old and is from work by Dr John Godman, the notable American naturalist and physician. It was made in 1828 and is an antique, not a reproduction. Godman's work illustrated many of the best known mammals of North America. ..
Flying Squirrel, Great-tailed Squirrel and Ground Squirrel
Giraffe And Arabian Handler
33 x 25 cm (13 x 9.5 inches).This is an antique lithograph by Karl Brodtmann, the renowned Swiss lithographer. It is over 175 years old and is not a reproduction. Brodtmann's lithographs are detailed, accurately drawn and beautifully composed.This lithograph was made in the 1820s with high quality, ..
Heraldry 6: Dragon, Unicorn, Horse etc
30.5 x 23.3cm (12 x 9 inches). Eagle, Dragon, Dog Head, Wolf Head, Dragon, Unicorn, Horse, Crown, Bull, Dog, Boar Head and Hare This antique engraving of heraldry was made in the 1840s by Thomas Jack. Heraldry is a system of visual identification - think of it as an early form of branding ! Noble fa..
21 x 12.5 cm (8.5 x 5 inches)This original aquatint engraving by William Daniell is superbly detailed and fascinating. Daniell (1769-1837) was an excellent English print maker and painter. He illustrated his subjects with delightful backgrounds and landscapes, inspiring the style of later naturalist..
The Giraffe and Gemsbok
32 x 19.5 cm (12.5 x 7.75 inches).AfricaThis original antique lithograph was made in the 1860s by Edmonston and Douglas in England and is from a set of prints, The Instructive Picture Book, created to educate children of wealthy families. They are some of the most attractive antique prints of animal..
Three-toed Sloth and Alpine Marmot
Paper Size: 24 x 15 cm (9.5 x 6 inches)Bradypus tridactylus and Arctomys marmotaThis exquisitely detailed copper plate engraving is from a rare set published in London by John Mason Good between 1806 and 1813 titled Pantologia. Many were by Sydenham Edwards, a multi-talented gentleman also well know..
Arabian Camel
23 x 15 cm (9 x 6 inches).This antique engraving is over 200 years old. It's is from the first edition of one of George Shaw's works on zoology, published between 1801 and 1804. George Shaw (1751-1813) was a notable English botanist and zoologist. Shaw was a initially a medical practitioner. He beca..
Bactrian Camel
Gnu Or Wildebeest
23 x 15 cm (9 x 6 inches).Gnu or WildebeestThis antique engraving is over 200 years old. It's is from the first edition of one of George Shaw's works on zoology, published between 1801 and 1804. George Shaw (1751-1813) was a notable English botanist and zoologist. Shaw was a initially a medical prac..
Great Squirrel
33 x 25 cm (13 x 9.5 inches).Sciurus capistratus, vulgaris, cinereus and oestuans This first edition original antique lithograph was made in 1824 by Karl Joseph Brodtmann, the renowned Swiss naturalist and lithographer. Brodtmann's lithographs are detailed, accurately drawn and beautifully com..
The Tasmanian Tiger (Extinct)
29 x 21.5 (11.5 x 8.5)Thylacinus cynocephalus. After Goulds "Mammals of Australia".AustraliaThis vintage lithograph is from Wild Nature, made in the early 1930s in London and Australia. It is what's known as an instructive picture, a genre of antique prints created to educate people about the natura..
38.5 x 23 cm (15.2 x 9 inches)This large antique copper plate engraving is by John Jonston. He was a scholar, renowned physician and distinguished naturalist. It was made in 1657 for "Historiae naturalis" and engraved by Matthaus Merian, the great German engraver. The engraving is printed on chain-l..
33 x 25 cm (13 x 9.5 inches).Dasypus Sexcinctus and Dasypus Novemcinctus This first edition original antique lithograph was made in 1824 by Karl Joseph Brodtmann, the renowned Swiss naturalist and lithographer. Brodtmann's lithographs are detailed, accurately drawn and beautifully composed. ..
Anteaters
33 x 25 cm (13 x 9.5 inches).Manis macroura and Myrmecophaga jubata This first edition original antique lithograph was made in 1824 by Karl Joseph Brodtmann, the renowned Swiss naturalist and lithographer. Brodtmann's lithographs are detailed, accurately drawn and beautifully composed. This lith..
33 x 25 cm (13 x 9.5 inches).Tapirus americanus This first edition original antique lithograph was made in 1824 by Karl Joseph Brodtmann, the renowned Swiss naturalist and lithographer. Brodtmann's lithographs are detailed, accurately drawn and beautifully composed. This lithograph was made in..


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Lufthansa Pilots September Strike is Prolonged
German civil aviation pilots union Vereinigung Cockpit announced the expansion of the strike action before the start scheduled on September 8.
Pedro Aragão
Thus, after the strike on long-haul flights operated by Deutsche Lufthansa AG on Tuesday, September 9, the pilots are planning to discontinue service flights on the near and medium distances, reports Deutsche Welle.
As reported, on Monday, Cockpit called on the pilots to stop work on long-haul routes and serves cargo division Lufthansa Cargo with tickets from Germany from 8:00 am to midnight on local time on September 8. As a result, 84 flights at Frankfurt, Munich, Dusseldorf and other cities were canceled. At the same time, 90 intercontinental flights and seven flights Lufthansa Cargo will take place on schedule.
The strike on September 9 will have far more serious consequences for passengers. 1520 flights were scheduled on Wednesday, including the 1350 internal German and European and 175 intercontinental. They were supposed to fly 180 thousand passengers.
At the same time, Lufthansa has already warned that it is necessary, apparently, to cancel hundreds of flights. The airline criticized the pilots union for the fact that they went on strike at the end of the school holidays in the federal state of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, which is why this may affect families, returning home to the beginning of the school year.
Late last week, Cockpit announced the failure of negotiations with the company that is not willing to make concessions on the collective agreement with the pilots.
The first Cockpit and the employer's conflict is related to payments to pilots retired, yet not reached retirement age. The latest plan, proposed by the trade union, provides saving 500 million euros to Lufthansa, with all subsidiary discounter Eurowings' pilots transferred to the same collective bargaining agreement as other pilots.
Since April 2014, the pilots were on strike for 12 times. Last year, multiple pilots' strike reduced Lufthansa's operating profit by 232 million euros, and the total damage caused by the strike, according to the airlines, exceeded 300 million euros.
Lufthansa Group, besides the brand of the same name, owns Austrian Airlines, Swiss Airlines, Germanwings and shares in Brussels Airlines and American JetBlue. In 2014, they carried almost 106 million passengers.
source: dw.de


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Valuing Safety, Ensuring Protection – Tishan Subasinghe, Chairman of Sanasa General Insurance Company Ltd
Tishan Subasinghe; the Chairman of Sanasa General Insurance Company Ltd, proudly hails from a delicate village called Narammala. In his early years of education, he gained avid knowledge at St. Anthony's College in the rich kingdom of Kandy, he later relocated to Kurunegala and continued his studies at Maliyadeva College. His father, a lucrative entrepreneur, passed away when he was 19 years old, leaving the reins to Tishan, who took the daring step of handing over the business to his mother and relocated to the vibrant metropolis of Colombo to complete his higher education.
Tishan began reading for the Chartered Accountants examinations after relocating to Colombo. He initially accomplished the required training for Chartered Accountants at BDO Burah Hathy and continued as a manager at BDO for another year and a half following the completion of his internship – earning him the Associate Membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Tishan had a desire to gain international exposure during this period, so he joined PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in the Southern African Region, where he was assigned to Botswana. After completing his contract there, his outstanding performance catapulted him to the PWC International Head Office in New York, Manhattan. He stayed there for about a year before taking up assignments in Chicago and Philadelphia.
Despite the potential to continue thriving at his job in the United States, he opted to return to his motherland in 2007 after extensive deliberation with his family. Talking to Tishan, it was clear that he is still quite content with the decision he made. He makes an effort to contribute sustainably in any way he can as a citizen of the country, as he firmly believes it is necessary to give back to your motherland. Upon his return to Sri Lanka, he was once again offered to join BDO Partners as an equity partner. BDO partners is where Tishan had completed his articleship and received his basic training. Tishan earned his MBA in Finance at the University of Colombo and obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Law from Buckinghamshire New University in England during his ten years as a partner. He is also certified in CISA, a US-based examination he began studying for during his time in the United States. Tishan completed his CISA certification when he returned to Sri Lanka.
Tishan specialized in financial service audits and advising at BDO Partners as a Chartered Accountant. He distinctly recalls the day he was asked to give a presentation to the Board of Directors of Sanasa Development Bank (SDB) when Dr. Kiriwandeniya was the Chairman. The presentation focused on corporate governance for the Board of Directors, guided by Central Bank laws. This was Tishan's first interaction with Dr. Kiriwandeniya, and he was exposed to the entire SDB network, "I was amazed by the cooperative concept", he stated. In his view, since the free-market economy began in 1977, one segment of the market has been left out of the concept of capitalism. "The richer became richer, and the poor became poorer", he believes that a cooperative movement may do a lot to help this underserved part of society, as long as proper governance is in place.
When Tishan was asked to join the Bank's Board of Directors he was entangled with BDO bank audits as the head of audit and assurance of the firm and felt it wasn't acceptable for him to join the board as there would be a conflict of interest. Alternatively, Tishan was offered a position on the Board of Sanasa Insurance Company Ltd. It was not demerged at the time as both life and general insurance were anchored in the same organization. Tishan may be one of the youngest chairpersons of a regulated corporation, and joining a board at such an early age, he shared with us that he gained a lot of exposure that has contributed to his growth as a professional and as an individual. He went on to say, "I was molded to become a good director as I was mentored and given guidance by Dr.Kiriwandeniya and the Senior Board Members." Tishan progressed as a capable Director, eventually becoming the Chairman of the Risk Management Committee and heading the audit committee.
Dr. Kiriwandeniya sought to plant professionals as board members in the companies offering them leadership roles to prepare them for when he resigns from the Company. He also believed it was necessary to commit the company's management to specialists who represented society. This vision he had established proved to be successful given that Tishan's performance as a director was outstanding. This led to Tishan receiving the honor of taking over as Chairman. He values the trust that Dr. Kiriwandeniya has placed in him. Tishan is the managing director of Moore Consulting (Pvt) Ltd and the Joint Managing Partner at Moore Aiyar, a firm of Chartered Accountants. He is also a director and the audit committee chairman of Amana Bank PLC. Tishan is an elected council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, as well as a council member of the University of Moratuwa. In addition to his illustrious work at Sanasa General Insurance, he also occupies numerous responsibilities; His excellency the President recently appointed him to the Presidential Commission on the Simplification of Rules and Regulations.
When asked how the organization stayed on track with operations during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, he said they were able to alter their strategy as the year progressed through 2021. As an insurance company that also concentrates on motor insurance, he believes that if limits on importing automobiles remain in place, they may have to exit the market at some point, as many businesses have been harmed. To survive and grow in the market, they adapted their strategy to focus more on agricultural products. Agricultural insurance protects crops and livestock from loss or damage – It has a lot of potentials to benefit low-income farmers and their communities, both in terms of insulating them against shocks and motivating them to spend more on crops. Agriculture requires methods to mitigate losses caused by uncontrollable risks. Widespread crop failures not only have an immediate impact on farmers' incomes but also reduce demand for items produced in other industries. As a result, crop insurance plays an essential role in not just reducing the risk that farmers confront, but also in stabilizing the economy.
As with any firm, Tishan believes that Sanasa General Insurance's prominent strength right now is its sociable network and intangible assets. Fixating on their objective, they want to yield outstanding service to their clients to better their lives and society as a whole by developing a risk management platform. Sanasa General Insurance aims to become the most powerful General Insurance Company in Sri Lanka, with a distinguished client base, while continuing to regard its clients as partners in success. Finally, Tishan emphasizes the importance of resilience and focus in gaining a competitive advantage during this difficult time.
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Atlas Axillia, a subsidiary of Hemas Holdings PLC with a heritage of over 60 years,
THE YOUNG TEAM OF LEADERS AT ATLAS AXILLIA TRANSFORMING THE LEARNING LANDSCAPE OF SRI LANKA – HEAD OF CORPORATE RELATIONS, IROSHINI NADEEKA
You are leading the building of relationships with educators and influencers of the education system.
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You have been with Atlas Axillia for over a decade. What's the transformation that you
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De-Lovely Album
About De-Lovely
This De-Lovely album was released in 2004 and featured titles like It's De-Lovely, Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) and Begin the Beguine from Robbie Williams, Alanis Morissette and Sheryl Crow.
It's De-Lovely
Robbie Williams 4:40
Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
Alanis Morissette 3:23
Begin the Beguine
Sheryl Crow 4:28
Let's Misbehave
Elvis Costello 2:34
Be a Clown
Peter Polycarpou, Kevin Kline, Chorus 2:55
John Barrowman, Kevin Kline 2:46
Lemar 2:37
Mick Hucknall 2:07
Just One of Those Things
Diana Krall 3:17
Caroline O'Connor, Chorus 2:02
Kevin Kline 2:34
Vivian Green 5:36
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
Natalie Cole 3:45
Blow, Gabriel, Blow
Sally Ann Triplett, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin Kline, Chorus, Cast 2:50
In the Still of the Night
Ashley Judd, Kevin Kline 2:32
Cole Porter 3:25
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What is a Polar Vortex?
BY Erin McCarthy
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If you've turned on the news or stepped outside lately, you're familiar with the record-breaking cold that is blanketing a lot of North America. According to The Washington Post, a mass of bone-chilling air over Canada—a polar vortex—split into three parts at the beginning of 2019, and one is making its way to the eastern U.S. Polar vortexes can push frigid air straight from the arctic tundra into more temperate regions. But just what is this weather phenomenon?
How does a polar vortex form?
Polar vortexes are basically arctic hurricanes or cyclones. NASA defines them as "a whirling and persistent large area of low pressure, found typically over both North and South poles." A winter phenomenon, vortexes develop as the sun sets over the pole and temperatures cool, and occur in the middle and upper troposphere and the stratosphere (roughly, between six and 31 miles above the Earth's surface).
Where will a polar vortex hit?
In the Northern Hemisphere, the vortexes move in a counterclockwise direction. Typically, they dip down over Canada, but according to NBC News, polar vortexes can move into the contiguous U.S. due to warm weather over Greenland or Alaska—which forces denser cold air south—or other weather patterns.
Polar vortexes aren't rare—in fact, arctic winds do sometimes dip down into the eastern U.S.—but sometimes the sheer size of the area affected is much greater than normal.
How cold is a polar vortex?
So cold that frozen sharks have been known to wash up on Cape Cod beaches. So cold that animal keepers at the Calgary Zoo in Alberta, Canada once decided to bring its group of king penguins indoors for warmth (the species lives on islands north of Antarctica and the birds aren't used to extreme cold.) Even parts of Alabama and other regions in the Deep South have seen single-digit temperatures and wind chills below zero.
But thankfully, this type of arctic freeze doesn't stick around forever: Temperatures will gradually warm up.
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The One-Day Record Snowfalls In Each State
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Long after you've grown out of believing in magic, every thick, whirling snowstorm still seems to have been cast upon your town by a winter warlock (or Frozen's resident ice queen, Elsa).
It's also pretty magical when those inches of stacked snowflakes add up to a message from your manager telling you not to come into the office. In southern states like Georgia or Florida, sometimes all it takes is a light dusting.
But even those characteristically balmy places have hosted some serious snowstorms over the years, and David Cusick for House Method crunched the numbers to find out which ones made the record books. Using data from the National Centers for Environmental Information, Cusick created a map showing the one-day record snowfall for each state.
Florida finished in last place with a scant total of 4 inches, which occurred in Santa Rosa County on March 6, 1954. About two years before that, on January 14, 1952, Colorado had a staggering 76 inches—that's more than 3 inches per hour—a national record that's remained unchallenged for nearly 70 years.
But other states have come close. The snowstorm that hit Colorado in 1952 wreaked almost as much havoc in California, whose record from the same day was 75 inches. And Washington saw 70 inches of snow in November 1955, beating its 52-inch record from 1935 by a full 18 inches.
Though Midwestern states have gained a reputation for harsh, snowy winters, their one-day record snowfalls are surprisingly moderate. The Illinois and Indiana records are 24 and 26 inches, respectively, both slightly lower than Ohio's 30-inch snow day from 1901. In 1993, North Carolina bested Ohio's record by 6 inches.
Wondering how your individual county's record compares to the overall state one? Cusick created a map for that, too, which you can explore below.
[h/t House Method]
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Gorgeous Timelapse Shows What a Year in Vermont Looks Like in Two Minutes
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If you live in a state with a middling climate where seasonal changes are mostly just the difference between warm and cool breezes, you might not fully understand the impulse to take a photo of your front yard every single week for an entire year.
If you live in New England, on the other hand, you can probably identify with Jennifer Hannux, a Vermont resident who did just that. Then, she edited the 52 photos into one glorious, two-minute-long timelapse and posted it on Twitter.
In 2019 I took a photo every week from my front porch. (Second year!) Enjoy the seasons, weather, and changes over the year with this slideshow (and mood music!)😁🙌🏻 @crankywxguy @ericfisher @JimCantore @MichaelPageWx @Eweather13 @wcax @MyNBC5 @WVNYWFFF @StormHour #Vermont #VT pic.twitter.com/wYMUJhxFjV
— Jennifer Hannux (@VermontJen) December 30, 2019
Hannux, whose Twitter handle is @VermontJen, took the photos from her front porch, which overlooks a sometimes-grassy, sometimes-snowy clearing that leads into an expansive forest with Mount Ascutney visible beyond it.
The video features lush summer greenery, ethereal snowscapes, vibrant fall foliage, and just about every sunrise color you can imagine. Overall, it's a breathtaking homage to Vermont's natural beauty, and a pretty compelling reason to consider relocating to New England's least-populated state. It's good timing for that, too, since Vermont's government just launched a program that could pay you up to $7500 for becoming a full-time resident and employee in the Green Mountain State.
This is far from Hannux's first foray into landscape photography—according to NECN, she posted a similar (albeit snowier) timelapse of images taken from her front porch in 2018. She also runs a photography business called Northeast Kingdom Photography, which you can check out here.
[h/t NECN]
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