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The 1998 Newham London Borough election for the Newham London Borough Council was held on 7 May 1998. The whole council was up for election. Turnout was 28.4%. Labour won every seat for the second time since the councils formation.

Election result

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Background
A total of 138 candidates stood in the election for the 60 seats being contested across 24 wards. Candidates included a full slate from the Labour Party, whilst the Conservative Party ran 31 candidates and the Liberal Democrats ran 11 candidates. In both cases this was a lot less than 4 years before. Other candidates running were 8 Socialist Labour, 2 National Democrats, 11 BNP, 1 Monster Raving Looney and 14 Independents.

Results by ward

Beckton

Bemersyde

Canning Town & Grange

Castle

Central

Custom House & Silvertown

Forest Gate

Greatfield

Hudsons

Kensington

Little Ilford

Manor Park

Monega

New Town

Ordnance

Park

Plaistow

Plashet

St Stephens

South

Stratford

Upton

Wall End

West Ham

By-elections between 1998 and 2002

Custom House and Silvertown

The by-election was called following the death of Cllr. William A. Chapman.

Plashet

The by-election was called following the death of Cllr. Harbans S. Jabbal.

Stratford

The by-election was called following the death of Cllr. James G. Newstead.

Custom House and Silvertown

The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Christopher T. Rackley.

Beckton

The by-election was called following the death of Cllr. Maureen Knight.

References

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1998 London Borough council elections

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Blackman joins Derby
Forward completes move to iPro Stadium
Reading Football Club can confirm that forward Nick Blackman has this morning completed a move to second-placed Derby County for a substantial fee which will remain undisclosed.
The 26-year-old former Macclesfield Town and Blackburn Rovers player signed for the Royals from League One Sheffield United in January 2013, making the step up to the top flight at Reading with previous experience of just one Premier League substitute appearance and two Championship starts to his name at the time.
Blackman went on to make 113 appearances for the club in total, scoring 18 league goals during the three years he spent at Reading - more than half of which came his way during a two-month-long spell last year.
His contract at Madejski Stadium was due to expire at the end of the current 2015-16 campaign, so after completing a medical with the Rams last night, the paperwork has now been finalised allowing him to sign for Paul Clement's side on a three-and-a-half year deal.
Chief Executive Nigel Howe said, "The club made extensive efforts to negotiate a new contract with Nick over the course of the last four or five months but no conclusion was forthcoming, so with his current deal due to expire this summer we believe this move is the right thing for all parties concerned.
"This deal will also allow us the chance to potentially re-invest in the first team this month, helping the manager to bolster his squad should the right opportunities arise during the transfer window."

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Who may apply: Preferably PhD students from Canada, USA, Russia or Norway. but Master students from the same countries could also be considered.
The main goal is to prepare young scientists for particular challenges related to conducting science in the High North. Other goals are to create an arena where these young scientists may interact with senior scientists who are experienced in High North issues, in addition to building networks with other international students that have similar challenges. Throughout the week, senior scientists will be available to supervise on specific requests the students might have.
The main topics of the course will be human health related to environmental impacts, lifestyle choices, food security, climate change and practical statistical methods.
The summer school itself is free of charge, except there might be a personal contribution linked to travel. Please contact your country's representative for booking and details. And hurry, participation is restricted and registration closes May 1st.


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Our Voltron friends, Dana, Rye and Todd join Marc and Greg to review the first episode of Season 8 of Voltron Legendary Defender, Launch Date.
Dana's best friend, Rye, who lives in South Carolina, knew that Dana had lost a lot of personal items with sentimental value, including a lot of art, signed posters and other special items she had bought at various conventions that Rye and Dana attended together over the years. One item, in particular, was a Voltron poster that Dana had signed by many of the voice actors and crew from Voltron Legendary Defender that she had collected at several conventions. Rye, without Dana knowing, had reached out to us on Twitter DM and asked if there was any way to connect with DreamWorks Animation to see if there was a way to get something signed and sent to Dana.
We contacted Seth Fowler at DreamWorks PR, letting him know about the fire that destroyed Dana's signed poster, and asked if they could help Rye get something signed for her friend, Dana. It just so happened that THAT very night, the DreamWorks Animation group had planned a cast and crew party to celebrate the final season of Voltron Legendary Defender.
Within a week, a signed poster of the combined lithographs of all the Voltron Legendary Defender characters, which was signed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Lauren Montgomery, Josh Keaton, Kimberly Brooks, Neil Kaplan, AJ LoCascio, and more of the cast and crew that were at the party that night, was on its way to Dana's boyfriend's house, where Dana was staying. Rye had given the address to Seth so it would be a surprise to Dana.
A huge THANK YOU to DreamWorks, the cast and crew of Voltron Legendary Defender, and everyone involved in getting this signed poster to Dana. And of course, this would have never been possible without Rye, who not only initiated the communication to get her best friend something that meant a lot to her, but introduced Dana to Voltron Legendary Defender in the first place.
You'll hear all of these stories and more, as Dana and Rye joined us to help review Launch Date, the first episode of Season 8 of Voltron Legendary Defender on Netflix.
Todd Matthy also joined us for this episode review podcast. Todd has been on the podcast previously, as well. Todd had been involved in the MediaBlasters DVD set for Voltron: Defender of the Universe, back in 2006.
Todd is also the creator of Robots vs. Princesses, a full-color comic book series. "Princess Zara wants to find a baby dragon. Instead she finds a giant robot. Together, they must stop a robot army."
THE LAST BATTLE IS COMING.
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'Hoss' the Ohio hair ball is 125 pounds and counting
By SHERIDAN HENDRIX The Columbus Dispatch
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Steve Warden cuts the hair of Aiden Deibler, 10, of Pittsburgh at the Ohio Expo Center to add to his creation, Hoss, the giant ball of human hair, which is 4 feet tall, and about 125 pounds.
Steve Warden cuts a lock of hair from Chastity Mellott of Jerusalem, Ohio at the Ohio Expo Center to add to his creation, Hoss, the giant ball of human hair, which is 4 feet tall, and about 125 pounds.
Warden hands a lock of hair cut from Tyra May, of Springfield, to an assistant to adhere to the giant hair ball at the Ohio Expo Center to add to his creation, Hoss, the giant ball of human hair, which is 4 feet tall, and about 125 pounds.
CAMBRIDGE, Ohio >> What's 4 feet tall, 125 pounds and is covered in hair?
No, it's not Cousin Itt of the Addams Family. It's Hoss, the giant ball of human hair.
Hoss, named after Dan Blocker's character from "Bonanza," is an oblong shape and is, well, hairy. Hundreds of people have donated their hair to its creation, so its exterior is an ever-changing mess of different colors and textures.
The hair ball was created by Steve Warden, a hairstylist from Cambridge, who began crafting it after years of conversations with his four children.
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"When my kids were younger, they would always say, 'Dad, you should make a hair ball and get it in the Ripley's Believe It Or Not book,'" Warden said.
So in 2013, with his children all grown and moved out of the house, Warden decided it was time to give it a shot.
Warden started collecting his clients' hair at his salon, Blockers. When he'd finish a cut, Warden would sweep their hair into a chute he installed in the floor that was connected to a trashcan in the salon's basement. Above the chute was a little sign that read "Future Hair Ball Hair."
Warden said none of his clients seemed to be concerned with the collection; most people were just curious.
After a few months of haircuts, it was time to start construction.
It started small. Warden would take some hair and wad it into a ball using glue to make it stick. (Gorilla Wood Glue is the only thing that works, Warden said.)
He would let the ball dry for a week and then add more on top. Warden continued this process for months until the ball was as big as a basketball. From there, Warden used a combination of liquid glue and spray adhesive to attach the hair. Hairspray is used for touch ups.
Finally, the ball at an enormous weight of 97 pounds, Warden reached out to Ripley's Believe It Or Not to donate his masterpiece last year.
Kurtis Moellmann, exhibit and interactive coordinator for Ripley's, said Warden's hair ball has quickly become one of the company's most popular items.
It's so popular that Moellmann began taking it with him to different oddities expos across the country. In each city, Moellmann brings along a pair of scissors and a can of glue so people can donate their hair to the cause.
"The first day I did it, I cut about 200 people's hair," Moellman said. "It was a huge hit."
Warden has not, in fact, created the world's largest ball of human hair. That honor goes to Henry Coffer, a barber from Charleston, Missouri, who claimed the title in 2008 with a 167 pound ball of hair, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Coffer, who was 77 years old at the time, had collected his clients' hair for more than 50 years.
But at its current weight of 125 pounds, Hoss is still impressive.
Warden and his creation were reunited this weekend at the Oddities & Curiosities Expo at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, where Warden cut people's hair for eight hours Saturday to add to the ball.
Hundreds of people passed by the Ripley's booth, which featured a number of other collected oddities. Emotions from onlookers ranged from awe to disgust. But it's safe to say Hoss piqued the interest of many.
Helen Drosak was cautiously eyeing the hair ball when Warden walked up to her and asked, "Would you like to donate to the giant hair ball?"
"Why not?" the 69-year-old Clintonville resident replied. "I have enough to spare."
Warden snipped a lock of her graying brown curls and his friend, Ryan Girdwood, glued it to the ball.
Aiden Deibler had planned on growing out his hair this summer, but after seeing Hoss at the expo, the 10-year-old changed his mind.
Aiden and his mom, Aubrey, were in town from Pittsburgh to help a friend who was performing at the expo. Aubrey also donated a snippet of her ombre orange hair to the ball. Girdwood glued the mother and son's hair next to each other.
"I donated to a big ball of hair," Aiden said. "It's pretty cool and pretty weird at the same time."
Warden knows it's all a little weird, but that's OK. He doesn't mind. To him, the hair ball is a legacy of sorts.
Warden, who currently has two grandkids, bought 12 copies of the Ripley's Believe It Or Not book he's featured in for any other grandchildren he might have. Inside is a note to each of them.
"When I die, my grandkids can see this and know I did something," Warden said. "They can say, 'That was our crazy grandpa.'"
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Russell Simmons Launching Black Movie Awards Ceremony Ahead of White Oscars
Kipp Jones
11 Feb 2016 Los Angeles, CA
In lieu of this year's so-called "White Oscars," Def Jam co-founder and media mogul Russell Simmons has announced he will host his own movie awards ceremony, which is set to debut just days before the 88th Academy Awards.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Simmons' "All Def Movie Awards" will be held at the TCL Chinese Theater on Feb. 24, just four days before the Oscars.
Simmons told THR Thursday in a statement that the events are "not the Black Oscars, but they could be."
"This will be a fun, entertaining and hopefully thought provoking celebration of the uncelebrated," he said. Simmons continued:
I don't expect a 90-year-old Academy member to see Straight Outta Compton or vote for it. I'm more concerned that in 2016 there continues to be a stunning lack of diversity in the studios, in the green light process, in the decisions of what films and television series get made and what actors get chosen. This needs to be addressed institutionally.
Simmons' All Def Movie Awards will reportedly feature a black carpet and a live music act, and will stream via video content on social media.
Additionally, Beasts of No Nation, Chi-raq, Concussion, Creed, Dope and Straight Outta Compton will compete for the ceremony's best picture.
Tony Rock, the brother of comedian and this year's Oscars host Chris Rock, will headline the show.
Tony Rock told TheWrap of the Oscars trolling, "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself."
"We'll honor the entire movie making process," Rock said. "Great acting, mediocre acting as well as horrible acting. Soundtracks. Wardrobes. Maybe even craft services (the best part of the set). This is the award show Hollywood has been waiting for."
The industry outlet reports the ceremony is being programmed as part of the live weekly comedy showcase All Def Comedy Live, and additional categories up for accolades include "Most Quoted", "Best Bad Muh F—ka", "Best Helpful White Person", and "Best Black Survivor in a Movie."
This year's Oscars created controversy, after only white actors were nominated in the acting categories for a second straight year. Within a week, the Academy Board of Governors approved a dramatic overhaul of its voting rules and organizational structure in an effort to increase diversity.
The changes will ultimately remove voting privileges from many older, white Academy members.
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Marco Polo was a merchant from Venice. He is one of the most famous merchants in history due to the writings he left about his travels at the Silk Roads.
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The following map from Wikipedia shows the trade routes followed by Marco Polo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Travels_of_Marco_Polo#/media/File:Travels_of_Marco_Polo.svg
For centuries Venice was the dominant naval and commercial power at the Mediterranean Sea. Most of the spice trade was carried out by the Merchants of Venice in the Mediterranean Sea. The Muslims would bring the merchandises to Egypt, and from there the merchants of Venice would transfer them to Europe.
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The riches of Venice to a large extent were generated by the Silk Roads and the Spice Trade. The Venetians would buy the spices from Alexandria (Egypt), and if they managed to safely return home they would sell them at a price at least five times higher.
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I was saying in my previous post that following the death of Muhammad the Prophet, the Iron Curtain of Islam was erected in the 7th and 8th centuries in front of the Europeans, and the Europeans were no longer allowed to reach the Indian Ocean. They would have to buy the merchandises of Asia from the Muslim traders in Egypt. See "The Islamic Iron Curtain of the 7th Century".
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Things changed when the Mongols, who were non-Muslim populations, beat the Muslims and established their own empire.
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For some reasons the Mongols allowed the Europeans to use the Silk Roads. Maybe because the Islamic Caliphate, which was standing between the Europeans and the Mongols, was perceived by them as a common enemy. I don't really know. However it was during the Mongol period that Marco Polo traveled at the Silk Roads. Therefore the Mongols, even though very barbaric, allowed the Westerners to reach Asia once more.
However after the death of Genghis Han, who was the leader of the Mongols, the Mongols were gradually converted to Islam, and their empire was replaced by the Ottoman Empire. When in 1453 the Ottomans took over Constantinople i.e. Istanbul, they obtained full control of the Silk Roads, and they started using monopolistic methods again, and that created tensions with the Europeans. There were even wars between the Venetians and the Ottomans i.e. see "Ottoman-Venetian Wars".
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Due to the great naval power of the Venetians, and the Muslim blockade at Egypt, the other Europeans were looking for ways to achieve more favorable terms of trade, in order to avoid the taxes and commissions of the Muslims and the Venetians. In an effort to find an alternative route for the Spanish, the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. In 1497 the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama managed to sail around Africa and reach India.
"Spice Trade"
From there, overland routes led to the Mediterranean coasts. From the 8th until the 15th century, the Republic of Venice and neighboring maritime republics held the monopoly of European trade with the Middle East. The silk and spice trade, involving spices, incense, herbs, drugs and opium, made these Mediterranean city-states phenomenally rich. Spices were among the most expensive and in-demand products of the Middle Ages, used in medicine. They were all imported from Asia and Africa. Venetian merchants distributed then the goods through Europe until the rise of the Ottoman Empire, that eventually led to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, barring Europeans from important combined land-sea routes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_trade
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The Mongol expansion throughout the Asian continent from around 1207 to 1360 helped bring political stability and re-established the Silk Road (via Karakorum). It also brought an end to the dominance of the Islamic Caliphate over world trade. Because the Mongols came to control the trade routes, trade circulated throughout the region, though they never abandoned their nomadic lifestyle.
The Mongol diplomat Rabban Bar Sauma visited the courts of Europe in 1287–88 and provided a detailed written report to the Mongols. Around the same time, the Venetian explorer Marco Polo became one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk Road to China. His tales, documented in The Travels of Marco Polo, opened Western eyes to some of the customs of the Far East. He was not the first to bring back stories, but he was one of the most widely read. He had been preceded by numerous Christian missionaries to the East, such as William of Rubruck, Benedykt Polak, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, and Andrew of Longjumeau. Later envoys included Odoric of Pordenone, Giovanni de' Marignolli, John of Montecorvino,Niccolò de' Conti, and Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan Muslim traveller who passed through the present-day Middle East and across the Silk Road from Tabriz between 1325–54.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road
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Phuket | Yellow boxes to help police
Yellow boxes to help police
PHUKET TOWN: Ten yellow boxes will be placed in public areas around Phuket Town to allow people to provide written feedback to the police, including tip-offs, suggestions and criticism. The idea for the yellow boxes came from a focus group of 10 people from various walks of life, which was set up by police to evaluate police actions. In a brief ceremony, the committee yesterday presented the 10 boxes to the police. Plastic surgeon Dr Sanguan Kunaporn, a member of the committee, said the yellow boxes would give the public a chance to be involved in monitoring and assisting police. "This will also give people an opportunity to help police if they have information about crimes," he added. "We think people will feel more comfortable about providing information than if they have to go to the police station." On Monday the boxes will be placed in various public areas such as hospitals, department stores, bus stations and jetties. The committee will be responsible for the collection of opinions and will then bring all the information to a meeting with the police. The project will run until February next year. The committee is also organizing a radio program called "Tonight on 95", which will air from 8:30 pm to 9 pm on 95FM every day except Sunday. The program will be hosted by Benchamart Limsakul, a member of the committee. Listeners may call 076-233361-2 to offer complaints, suggestions or tip-offs.
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Metso acquires Kiln Flames Systems Ltd., KFS, to extend pyro processing capabilities
Press release December 4, 2018 09:02 AM EET
Metso Corporation's press release on December 4, 2018 at 09:00 a.m. EET
Metso has closed the acquisition of the UK-based combustion solutions and technology provider Kiln Flame Systems Ltd., KFS, to extend its pyro processing portfolio and capabilities.
KFS specializes in rotary kiln and calcining processes, combustion optimization and burner technologies with patented designs. It provides solutions to a wide range of industries including minerals processing. KFS has 14 employees based in High Wycombe, United Kingdom.
KFS will become part of Metso's Minerals Services business area, which offers a comprehensive line of pyro processing equipment.
"The acquisition supports Metso's growth strategy by strengthening our capabilities to provide pyro solutions to our customers. KFS technologies will complement our offering and we are pleased to welcome the KFS team to Metso", says Mikko Keto, president of Minerals Services business area at Metso.
"Joining forces with Metso gives us the opportunity to offer our technology to a wider customer base. KFS has worked hard to establish our position and reputation as a market leader in custom-designed combustion solutions, and we are delighted to build our future and continue serving existing and new customers with Metso", says Cliff Rennie, Director and CEO of KFS.
About KFS
KFS is a world-leader in rotary kiln and calciner combustion and process optimization. It was founded in 1999. KFS' distinctiveness is based on its mastery of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for burner design and system analysis backed up by an extensive history of physical modelling.
Metso is a world-leading industrial company offering equipment and services for the sustainable processing and flow of natural resources in the mining, aggregates, recycling and process industries. With our unique knowledge and innovative solutions, we help our customers improve their operational efficiency, reduce risks and increase profitability. Metso is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki in Finland and had sales of about EUR 2.7 billion in 2017. Metso employs over 12,000 people in more than 50 countries.
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Mikko Keto, President, Minerals Services business area, Metso Corporation +358 20 484 100, Email: mikko.keto@metso.com
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Feature New Facades, New Functions by the Pool Fieldnotes from the Scientist Unlocking the Mysteries of Earthquakes and Deep Ocean GO! Second Hand, First Choice—The perks of reusing office furniture The World A Watery Future for Our Cities The Activist Wu Ka-ming—Waste and Life News
New Facades, New Functions by the Pool
On CUHK's Central Campus, teachers and students alike can get coffee, shop for groceries, go for a swim, get a haircut, go to the bank, or buy souvenirs at the multi-purpose complex of Benjamin Franklin Centre and John Fulton Centre. In late 2014, the Benjamin Franklin Centre student canteen, the Pool Side Café, and the John Fulton Centre Canteen were closed one after another. Left vacant for almost two years, the poolside came back to life in the new academic year 2016, ushering in a new vegetarian restaurant, Vegether, and the student co-op CU Happy Corner.
Veggie Just As Yummy
Apart from the usual traditional Chinese fare like veggie char siu or Lohan vegetarian stew, Vegether offers even more exotic and mouth-watering dishes including Thai iced-tofu curry, braised potatoes with fenugreek, and secret-recipe veggie hamburger steak. With this, head chef Ms. Siromani Ling is looking to change public preconceptions about vegetarian cuisine. 'Vegetarian dishes are often regarded as lacking in taste or nutrition. So I tried to come up with an extensive menu that is both delicious and healthy. Take mixed vegetables with nutritious sauces for example. One of the ingredients, nutritional yeast, is rich in vitamin B12. As for the veggie hamburger steak, you will find grains, beans, nuts, vegetables inside, with beetroot for colouring. Absolutely nutrition-packed!' she remarked.
Mr. Chiu Wai-ka, director of the restaurant and a registered Chinese medicine practitioner, emphasized the importance of balanced nutritional intake to a vegetarian diet. 'In Chinese medicine, the colours green, red, yellow, white, and black correspond to the liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. Black beans, black fungus and black sesame, for example, are good for the kidneys. The one thing that many people have against a vegetarian diet is the lack of protein. But in fact, beans are a great source of protein which is even healthier than animal protein. An understanding of the properties of different plants can help you get the same level of nutritional value as you do from a meat-eating diet,' explained Mr. Chiu.
Vegether's menu is strictly vegan, which means plants are the only ingredients used, while eggs, milk or honey are off limits. According to Ms. Stella Shuen, a partner of the restaurant, apart from promoting vegetarian cuisine, at the top of their agenda is environment protection. 'Going vegetarian is much more than a healthy diet. It's about being responsible to other people and treating other creatures with respect. You do it not just for your own spiritual well-being, but also for the love and protection of Mother Nature,' she said.
A Shop Where No Money Changes Hands
Taking up half the space of the previous John Fulton Centre Canteen, CU Happy Corner is a student co-op dedicated to promoting community economy. Featuring an orange colour theme, the small shop is full of items for exchange, including toy figurines, bric-a-brac, household and stationery items, clothing, etc. The price tag is '50' for a coffee cup and '160' for an alarm clock. Actually the numbers represent the unit of exchange–Time Credits rather than dollars.
The Time Credit is the only currency acceptable at CU Happy Corner. Co-op members can use their spare items to accumulate Time Credits, which can then be exchanged for other items. For instance, an electric rice cooker can be exchanged for 80 Time Credits, which can be used for a suit jacket.
Exchange of services is another new initiative at CU Happy Corner. Members with special skills can get 60 Time Credits per hour teaching interest classes while others can spend their Time Credits to join. Latvia Ng, a founding member of the student co-op, said, 'The university community is packed with skilful and knowledgeable people. If Computer Engineering majors are willing to offer computer maintenance services or Nutritional Science majors give advice on the nutritional values of different foods, specialized knowledge can be spread more freely on campus, and can help everybody live a better life.'
Up till now, various student-taught interest classes, ranging from street dance, yoga, to comics, have been organized. Tsang Tsz-ho, an Environmental Science major and chief coordinator for the interest classes, recalled, 'The motivation of the participants as well as the tutors gave me a pleasant surprise. All in all, these classes have generated an even more positive response than the usual paid classes.'
Ms. Vivian Ho, Director of Campus Planning and Sustainability, is glad to see the revitalization of campus life brought about by the two new facilities. 'The university campus is not only a lab for students to experience life, but also an ideal testing ground for sustainable development projects. I believe the launch of the vegetarian restaurant and the student co-op will encourage more innovations and practices in line with humanistic values and a low-carbon lifestyle,' she said.
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How does one become a writer? For German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck, it was less epiphany than the gradual accretion of circumstance and intention. Here is what she told Haaretz in 2011: "I turned into a writer when I played among the ruins left by the war in the heart of Berlin; when the streets where I grew up became a giant construction site; when my mother allowed me to skip school to go ice-skating; when my father took me to excavations of walled fortresses; when I went dancing; when I fell in love; when I had my hair cut; when my neighbors had too much to drink; when one of my grandmothers told me about the camps in Siberia and the other one about migrating; when I mixed bookbinders' glue; when I read whenever I had time. After I finished my studies, I became an opera director and a baker's assistant. That's when I decided to write my first long text."
The ruins of postwar Berlin that Erpenbeck played among included not only the devastations of World War II but those of Cold War–era East Berlin in the German Democratic Republic of the 1970s and '80s (see "After the Wall Fell," WLT, Nov. 2014). In an essay for the Paris Review, beautifully translated by Susan Bernofsky, Erpenbeck describes the infamous Berlin Wall not so much as a barrier to physical freedom as a blank slate for the imagination: "For our Sunday walks, my parents would bring me to the end of Leipziger Strasse, to the area right in front of the Wall, where it was as quiet as a village. There was smooth prewar asphalt perfect for roller-skating, and the final stop on the bus line, no through traffic beyond. This was where the world came to an end. For a child, what could be better than growing up at the end of the world?"
Erpenbeck's spirited inhabitation of that seeming dead end on Leipziger Strasse morphed into a fascination with theater and music in college, eventually leading to those key apprenticeships: bookbinder, baker's assistant, opera director. Whether it was mixing glue, kneading dough, or staging arias that precipitated the shift, one day the writer's imagination clicked in her mind. Inheriting her parents' and grandparents' own love of the written word as embodied in their lifework as publishers, scientists, philosophers, poets, and translators, Erpenbeck began writing a novella and the stories that helped her burst onto the German literary scene in the early 2000s, followed by the major novels and countless literary prizes that eventually led the Guardian to describe her in 2017 as "Europe's outstanding literary seer."
Amidst all the fame surrounding her work, Erpenbeck remains interested in "the silence of things and spaces" and—shuttling between the personal and the historical, the visible and the invisible, chance and destiny—often thinks about "how time is tied up in objects and places" (Aēsop). In that same Paris Review essay, she writes: "For me, an empty space did not bear witness to a lack. It was a place that had been either abandoned or declared off-limits by the grown-ups, and therefore, in my imagination, it was a place that belonged entirely to me. . . . An empty space is a place for questions, not answers. What we don't know is infinite."
Even as the world came to an end at the foot of the Berlin Wall, a young girl walking with her parents imagined time and space untethered from the dead ends of history and the mere coordinates of geography. As readers, how fortunate we are to accompany writers into such imagined worlds.
Special thanks to Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, OU's Vice President for Research, for sponsoring a grant from the Norman Campus Research Council Faculty Investment Program in support of the 2018 Puterbaugh Festival.


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Watching the Horned Frogs defeat Richmond in a suspense-less 86-68 game in the NIT quarterfinals at Schollmaier Arena should be the launching point for this program to become Baylor. Now that TCU has reached New York City for the NIT semifinals, there is something to build and sell.
"We are not done and we are not where we need to be but it's a good year," Dixon said.
The 2017 NIT semifinals is the deepest TCU has ever advanced in a postseason tournament.
A trip to New York City for the NIT should not be considered the equivalent of the TCU football team winning the Rose Bowl but this is the first tangible proof of sustainable success for this program in decades.
If you are TCU, you want to be Baylor basketball ... minus, you know, the three-year NCAA probation. And the murder. And if you can keep sexual assault denial fest out of it, that would be pretty great, too.
What coach Scott Drew and Baylor have built should be both an inspiration and a model of sorts for TCU. Drew has used the NIT to launch what is now a regular NCAA team.
Baylor is the highest remaining seed in the NCAA East region, where the Bears will play this weekend where TCU is now headed — Madison Square Garden.
The Horned Frogs senior reflects on how far basketball at TCU has come in reaching the NIT semifinals.
"The program has come so far," TCU said senior guard Brandon Parrish, who was the first oral commitment to TCU and previous head coach Trent Johnson. "I was here my freshman year in a winless (0-18 Big 12) season, and now I'm about to go to New York for the NIT.
"There were some definite down times in my career. There were times I didn't see the light."
11-14-10 Points-rebounds-assists by TCU junior forward Kenrich Williams in TCU's win against Richmond for the first triple double in team history
Who can blame him? For a long time he and fellow seniors Chris Washburn Jr., Karviar Shepherd and Michael Williams played in a home court that was a high school gym.
"It does mean a lot to me because of the personal part of it," Dixon said. "I felt I could be the guy who could be a part of this thing. I'm not Mr. Sentimental, but I wanted people to be proud of their basketball program."
The TCU Horned Frogs earned a trip to New York by beating Richmond 85-69 in NIT game three. Coach Jamie Dixon got seniors on the arena P.A. to thank Frog fans.
No school in Texas is a "basketball school" but as Baylor, Houston, UTEP, SMU and at times Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech have shown the team can be a source of pride, success, revenue and marketability for a university.
In the last few years, Baylor basketball has become a national brand complete with NBA prospects, NCAA bids and Top 25 rankings.
It was a year ago today we came here. Maybe (we are) a little ahead of schedule. (TCU AD Chris Del Conte) told me to slow down. But I'm not real good with slowing down and patience.
TCU head coach Jamie Dixon
Other than the sporadic blip in the '80s or '90s, TCU never had that from its basketball team.
Tuesday night's win marks the furthest a TCU team has ever advanced in a postseason tournament. And in the win junior forward Kenrich Williams became the first player in school history to record a triple-double (11 points, 14 rebounds, 10 assists).
"I didn't even know I was close to a triple-double until my teammates told me," said Williams, who came out of high school with no scholarship offers to Division I schools.
It's worth mentioning TCU previously recorded its first ever win over the top-ranked team in the country when it defeated Kansas in the Big 12 tournament.
TCU has sponsored a men's basketball team since 1913, and it took this long for these milestones to occur.
But it did and with Dixon, the new arena and returning players like Williams, Desmond Bane, JD Miller, Vlad Brodziansky, the program is marketable to fans and players.
The firsts are out of the way for TCU, and now it is on to New York and the NIT.
After that, it's the NCAAs.
The TCU coach reacts to getting his alma mater to the NIT semifinals in his first year in Fort Worth.
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Featured, florida, Retro Florida
Fashion Square Mall Sears Ads
Fashion Square Mall Sears is closing. This is Sears on East Colonial Drive. Today was the last day. Soon, it'll be demolished to make way for something new.
I'll always have a soft spot for Sears and Roebuck. My mom took me there often when I was a kid. My Sears was at the Cutler Ridge Mall, back in the 1980s. This Orlando Sears very much reminds me of that one from my youth. Same basic floor plan, although this one was built earlier, back in the early 1960s. Since moving to Orlando in the early 2000s, THIS store has been my Sears. It makes me nostalgic for a variety of reasons.
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Delta Dreamflight Press Kit – Disney Themepark Park Ride
The cover of the Delta Dreamflight press kit, 1989.
Delta Dreamflight was a ride at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Opened in 1989, it replaced one of my favorite rides as a kid, If You Had Wings, which was sponsored by Eastern Airlines. When Eastern dropped their sponsorship, Delta stepped in and became the official airline of Walt Disney World. This media package was released during the opening festivities and contains promotional materials, Delta collateral and a photo. I've scanned some of the more interesting material. Click to enlarge.
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Six Gun Territory Promotional Photos
When I was child in the 1980s, I used to visit my Grandmother in Ocala, Florida. An hour or so north of Orlando and it's multitude of tourist attractions and themeparks, Ocala was fairly sleepy. Beautiful rolling horse land was the main attraction for a visitor. But that doesn't mean there weren't some vestiges of the old Florida tourist trade. Silver Springs and its natural wonder was of course the main draw for visitors, but I will never forget my visits to Six Gun Territory. I just recently stumbled across this collection of promotional photos at an estate sale and I wanted to share. It took me right back. Read on, and click the images for higher resolution.
Jason Snyder http://jetpackjason.com/wp-content/uploads/jetpack_jason_logo_2019_2.png Jason Snyder2015-11-01 20:36:432015-11-01 20:36:43Six Gun Territory Promotional Photos
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Burger King in the 1980s
Repost from November 2010. I found a trade journal put out by Prosperity International in 1984 called, "FLORIDA: In Shape for The Future". It's filled with all kinds of promotional materials for Florida companies. (Ironic note… it was printed in Japan. I guess there were no Florida printing companies that would pay for advertising?) In it I found some fun Burger King photos. I loved Burger King in the 1980s. Hell, I can't help it, I still love it! Click photos to make larger.
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Weeki Wachee 1960s Florida Attraction Brochure
I still have never been to Weeki Wachee, but it's one of those old Florida attractions that I feel I have to see. It's a shame, because I wasn't far from there yesterday when my wife and I did a day trip for our eleventh anniversary.
Being in close proximity reminded me of the huge amount of Florida ephemera that I've collected. As I was going through it, I found this Weeki Wachee pamphlet. What I particularly love about it are the celebrity endorsements.
Click the image below to see the front and back of the pamphlet.
Arthur Godrey says, "Weeki Wachee is one of the Seven Modern Wonders of the World".
Bob Hope says, "The live Mermaids are the greatest at Weeki Wachee… and it's fun!"
Ted Mack says, "This is the finest underwater talent in the world."
Don McNeil says, "What a thrill. What a joy. You'll love the mermaids at Weeki Wachee!"
Weeki Wachee is still around today. If you're visiting Tampa or nearby cities, it's a great place to take in a little of that classic Florida tourist attraction nostalgia. Here's their homepage.
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Toyshop Theater – Universal Studios Florida 1989 Press Kit
We didn't really go to Universal Studios when I was a kid. We were most definitely a Disney World family, and frankly I'm okay with that. That said, I love themeparks, and now that I'm an adult, I'm just as intrigued by the design and history of Universal as any other park.
About 6 months to a year ago, I stumbled across this interesting little find at an estate sale. What appeared to be a media kit for the opening of Universal Studios in Orlando. I bought it for 8 bucks (a steal, I think) and promptly forgot about it. Today, after finding it in a closet, I thought I'd share my first reaction of opening it up. Here's the film.
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Melbourne Independent Filmmaker's Festival
Ginny and I attended the Comedy show tonight at the Melbourne Independent Filmmaker's Festival. (This of course is Melbourne, Florida, not Australia.) The show was headlined by Dana Snyder, voice actor of such characters as Master Shake in "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" and Granny in "Squidbillies" to name but a few. It was a great show, with a plethora of bizarre and often hilarious clips from some truly obscure films. We met a lot of great people at the show and had a fantastic time.
The Festival continues through the weekend. If you still have time, please check out the website (linked above) and try to get into one of the events.
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Summer Fun 1961 – Orlando Travel Brochure
Ads for Gary's Duck Inn and Cherry Plaza Hotel.
I found this brochure at an estate sale recently. It features marketing and promotions for Orlando, Winter Park, Maitland and Central Florida, circa 1961. Lots of good stuff. It's also a good reference guide to Orlando in the 1960s. Click below for more. As always, click the image for a larger version.
August 5, 2012 /by Jason Snyder
Jason Snyder http://jetpackjason.com/wp-content/uploads/jetpack_jason_logo_2019_2.png Jason Snyder2012-08-05 17:16:342012-08-05 17:16:34Summer Fun 1961 - Orlando Travel Brochure
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Food Truck Round-up at Fashion Square
The food truck craze has hit Orlando and is delivering a lot of delectable eats to the locals. In a town dominated by chains, it's refreshing to see so many local independent food mongers plying their trade in this way. This isn't carnival food either. These trucks are delivering some really high quality food. Everything from Luther Burgers to Korean BBQ Tacos. On a daily basis, these trucks are parked at strategic spots around town, but several evenings a week, they gather at specific spots to take a unified stand. These events bring in a lot of local traffic. My wife and I have hit the Lake Lily Round-Up (Tuesday nights) twice, and today we were at the big round-up in the back of the Fashion Square Mall parking lot.
Personally, I prefer Lake Lily Tuesday nights to the Fashion Square Round-up. It's true that while there were even more food trucks at Fashion Square than what I'm used to, the Lake Lily location is just a much smoother jive, and includes a good deal more comfortable dining space (if you walk around to the other side of the lake.) What follows after the cut are some photos of the trucks. I only got photos of about half of them, unfortunately. Missing are the Korean Taco Box trucks, The Brisket Bus, The Crooked Spoon, and others.
June 19, 2011 /by Jason Snyder
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Orlando Food in the 1970s, Pt. 2
This is another bunch of ads from the Orlando Sentinel food sectionals from 1972. Check the original article here. Above is an advert for Sweden House. My love for "All You Can Eat Buffets" knows know boundaries. Of course, back then it was called a "Smorgasbord". I'm not sure which is the classier moniker. These places were all over Florida in the 60s and 70s. I hope they had Swedish meatballs. If Ikea had all you can eat meatballs, they'd have to wheel me out on one of those HÅVET chair beds.
February 4, 2011 /by Jason Snyder
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Murshida Rani McLaughlin
Sufi Message
Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan
Murshid Hidayat Inayat-Khan
The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Perfection of Love, Harmony and Beauty
On July 5th, 1882, in Baroda, India, a child named Inayat Khan was born into one of the most musical families in the country. Inayat's grandfather, Maula Bakhsh, known as the 'Beethoven of India', had become a master of the music of both North and South India. Maula Bakhsh drew about him many people of culture and refinement. Inayat quickly showed great musical talent, and before he was twenty he was singing and playing the vina in the courts of royalty all over the subcontinent. Indeed, from a set of recordings Inayat made at the age of 27, some modern musicologists have said that his vocal skill and musical understanding remains unequalled. However when he met his Murshid, Sayyed Muhammad Abu Hashim Madani, he entered the Sufi path. At the end of Abu Hashim Madani's life, his Murshid gave Inayat a mission saying, "Fare forth into the world, my child, and harmonize the East and West with the harmony of thy music. Spread the wisdom of Sufism abroad, for to this end art thou gifted by Allah, the most Merciful and Compassionate."
On September 13th, 1910, Inayat sailed from Bombay to America, "from the world of lyric and poetry to the world of industry and commerce," (as he said in his autobiography) and then he traveled to Europe. Companions on that journey were his brothers Maheboob Khan and Ali Khan, who left auspicious careers in India to share his hardships and his work. Within a year they were joined by Inayat's youngest brother, Musharaff Khan. These four young men gave many concerts of classical Indian music, hardly known in the West at that time.
During the next sixteen years, Inayat founded the International Sufi Movement and travelled widely, inspiring many and teaching the Sufi Message from California to Moscow. In America, he met the woman destined to become his wife and companion, Ora Ray Baker. Their first child was born in Russia, and three more children were born in England, where they all remained during the First World War.
In the early 1920's, the family settled in Suresnes, a quiet suburb of Paris, and here Summer Schools were held for the growing number of students. Hazrat Inayat Khan, who was called Pir-0-Murshid (an esoteric title signifying that he was the head of the Esoteric Inner School) traveled continually in Europe and the United States, first learning about Western culture, and then conveying the traditional Sufi teachings in a more and more universal form. The lectures given here and elsewhere have subsequently been published under such titles as "The Unity of Religious Ideals," "In an Eastern Rose Garden," "The Mysticism of Sound," "Love, Human and Divine," and "Health, Mental Purification and the Mind World." During only sixteen years in the West, he created a school of spiritual training which integrated traditional Sufi teachings and a profound vision of the unity of religious ideals. He spoke of the coming awakening of the human spirit to its inherent divinity. The prophetic nature of his teachings reflected on the depth of humanity's spiritual challenges in the 20th century and offered guidance accessible to people of all faiths. Known as "the Sufi Message", these teachings have been collected in 14 volumes of prose and prayers and are a continual source of inspiration for students of the Sufi Way.
As a vehicle to ensure the continuity of the Message and to provide opportunity for those wishing deeper realization of its significance, Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan founded an initiatic Inner School. In this esoteric school the student (mureed) is offered a sacred welcome and blessing. The mureed's path, as well as the Inner School itself, are understood to be part of a sacred stream of blessing that runs through history.
In 1926, Inayat returned for a visit to India, leaving his family in the West. After a brief illness, he passed away in Tilak Lodge, New Delhi on February 5th, 1927, at the age of 44. His Dargah or tomb, located near that of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, is now a place of pilgrimage for Sufis from all over the world. The spreading of the Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty and the Unity of Religious Ideals is continued by several organizations that have been inspired by the Message, and by individual Sufi teachers throughout the world.
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Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or nominated filmmaker, Rajko Grlic stressed on the importance of building characters while making a film. "Once you build characters that are strong enough, you can begin to play with them, push them to the edge, see how dark and funny they can be," he said.
PANAJI: Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or nominated filmmaker, Rajko Grlic stressed on the importance of building characters while making a film. "Once you build characters that are strong enough, you can begin to play with them, push them to the edge, see how dark and funny they can be," he said.
A filmmaker need not decide on the plot of the film beforehand, the Croatian director said. "If your characters are clear they will drive the story forward. You need not necessarily select a genre while making a film. This will happen" he told a room full of film enthusiasts during a master class on writing and direction at the 47th edition of the International Film Festival of India (Iffi), on Monday.
Grlic, who made his first feature film at 25, has produced five feature films, and written and directed 16 short films and 14 documentaries.
He has received a number of international awards and is artistic director of Croatia's Motovun Film Festival.
Grlic took the audience behind the scenes of his latest film, 'The Constitution', which has been awarded the Grand Prize of the Americas (Best Film) at the Montreal World Film Festival. It will be screened at Iffi on November 23. He confessed to writing seven versions of the script and began looking for a producer only after the fourth draft. The process is so sacred, he said, that he usually takes up to three years to fine tune the scripts for any of his films.
Prior to this, he said, it is important to pitch your film story to anyone but not with the intention of finding a producer.
"You can narrate the story to your friends and even unknown people and see their reaction. If they begin to lose interest you know you have to return to your script. Telling your story is much better than presenting your story on paper. You can see their immediate reaction," Grlic said.


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CANADA - The Executive Director of Winter Cereals Canada is calling for patience as winter cereal growers assess the viability of crops that were planted last fall, writes Bruce Cochrane.
Winter survival of the fall seeded cereal crops has been variable, with crops in eastern Manitoba hit the hardest by two mid-winter thaws, one in January and one in February, that left pools of water in the fields that froze killing plants but levels of damage ease heading west.
Jake Davidson, the Executive Director of Winter Cereals Canada, says growers are now assessing their fields.
From here on in, if you've got a crop that's a good crop, I think we're headed in the right direction.
It's not getting too cold at night, we're getting reasonable days, it's getting a little warmer every day.
The crop of course at this point has no winter hardiness left but I don't expect we're going to get any hard hard freezing on the ground at this point so it's a matter now of giving it a little bit more time.
A lot of people will just be going out and taking s some samples from the field just to see what the general overall situation is.
Where they've got these kills from the moisture and the ice it's not going to take a lot of thought to figure out dead or alive but other people are going to want to just see what the overall healthiness of the field is, what percentage of the crop survived so they'll be doing that from now through till the first week or so of May, taking out plants, taking them in the house.
You dig them up, you lay the crown between some damp paper towel in a relatively warm spot and you just keep it damp and wait a couple of days and see if anything sprouts.
Mr Davidson says, if the crop wasn't wiped out by the freeze, give it a little more time.
He says you're not going to be seeding spring crops for awhile so there's lot's to time to reseed if needed but winter wheat can be resilient and can fill in a lot of spots so, if you sit back and wait you might be pleasantly surprised.


This book explains the process of life and death by utilizing a tree leaf. Each season is depicted and shows how the leaf grows and eventually dies.
A group of young children find a dead bird. They decide to bury the bird. They take the bird to the woods to give it a proper burial. The children mourned, sang, and planted flowers around the dead bird's grave. The children came back to visit the grave, until they forgot.
Grandpa and his granddaughter do everything together. Then as Grandpa gets older, he cannot do as much with her. Finally he dies.
Benny's grandpa visits after his grandma dies. They tell stories, play games, and talk. One day grandpa cries and Benny learns that it is okay to cry.
A small girl named Faith had a very special friendship with her goose Josefina. Faith is part of a pioneer family moving West. Throughout their journey, Faith makes a patch to represent each event she encounters, including the death of Jusetina. At the end, the quilt tells the story of the friendship between the goose and the little girl.
A young girl, Sara, has an elderly woman as her best friend. They spend much time together. One day the old woman dies and Sara is very sad. She remembers the good things about her best friend and still feels her love.
A grandmother takes a spritual journey of death while her family copes with their loss.
David's grandfather dies. David learns how to deal with the grief by knowing his grandfather went to a better place. This helps David feel better.
Annie's grandmother tells her that as soon as her weaving is finished, she will return to the the earth. Annie tries to find many ways to avoid the completion of the weaving; however, she realizes at the conclusion of the story that fate and life cycles are inevitable.
A little boy tries to understand his feelings about his grandfather's death by asking adults how they feel. At the end, he realizes his feelings are his own and that his gradfather is still alive in him.
Sugar's grandpa, Papa Lucky, has always been a terrific dancer. Papa Lucky teaches Sugar how to dance. She becomes Papa Lucky's dancing shadow after grandma dies.
Jim's dog, Muffins, gets killed and when he goes to school, he won't talk to anyone. His friend, Paul, makes him laugh and realize that life goes on even after someone you love dies.
Jamie has to deal with the death of a King. We see the healing process is long and slow, but healthy.
The life cycle of the sea turtle is described. It explains the turtle's instinct to dig holes in the sand and lay its eggs.
Jon loses his grandad and needs help showing his emotions. He doesn't know if he's reacting in the right way. Jon's family shows him that everyone reacts to the death of a loved one differently, and no reaction is right or wrong.
A little girl grows up and copes with the disease of alcoholism and the alcoholic she loves.
When Black Dog doesn't come home, his family searches the nearby woods and calls their neighbors looking for him. That night, each of the family members dreams about Black Dog. The next morning they realize it was Black Dogs way of saying good-bye to them as he died.
After the death of his father, Thomas is not looking forward to Christmas. Christmas at his grandfather's house in the country changes that when Thomas receives a special gift.


Looks like Jennifer Lopez has been drinking some good idea juice lately (remember that FLAWLESS hair and makeup?). In a very savvy songwriting move, Jennifer Lopez teamed up with Lady Gaga and her famed producer Red One on a new track, "Invading My Mind," off of her upcoming album Love?
If I were Jennifer Lopez, I too would be hanging with Lady Gaga right now -- the anticipation for Gaga's new album, Born This Way, seems to be at an all-time high. Additionally if I were Jennifer Lopez, I'd spend all day looking in the mirror and counting my diamonds.
"Invading My Mind" was made for dancing, and the Gaga/Red One influences are undeniable. We can imagine Lady Gaga herself singing over the fast-paced dance track -- it sounds just like a B-side from The Fame. Red One and J. Lo collaborated on the first single from Love?, "On The Floor," and now that we've heard "Invading My Mind," we have to say we're really feeling the J. Lo-era direction that this album is heading.
Lady Gaga and Red One are a power duo, but adding Jennifer Lopez to the mix is like completing the Energizer Bunny trifecta of pop music. It's party time -- line those shot glasses juice boxes up.
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"[A] book that brings much clarity to an area of contemporary art that remains unknown to far too many North Americans. This reviewer gained much from it, and only wishes that a companion volume reversing the ratio of plates to text would now be published. The oversize format even suggests a picture book, and we need to see more black art from Britain."
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Fort St. John RCMP are investigating a report of three male youths tearing down a chain link fence in Charlie Lake.
Police say they received a call about the incident at Charlie Lake Elementary around 10 p.m. Thursday.
When they got to the scene, two of the youths were taken into custody and then taken to their parents. The third youth, who had left the scene earlier, was also identified.
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The Twelve are being asked about Jesus' being—his "I AMness". We all have this about ourself and so it is helpful to know one's own "I AMness" if you are going to speak of another's.
Peter is both assertive and cagey in his response. What is recorded as Χριστός (Christos, Christ/Anointed One) stands for the term of the time—Messiah—which is my choice for a translation.
Listen to Sabin75 speak of Messiah and you'll see how slippery Peter's response is.
Contrary to popular belief, recent scholarship has shown that there was no single, fixed concept of "the Messiah" within Judaism of the first century. The term, which in Hebrew simply means "the anointed one," was used variably, both in the Hebrew Bible and in other Jewish writing that were contemporaneous with Jesus and Mark. Within the Hebrew Bible, it is most often applied to a king, but also to a high priest or a patriarch. Isaiah applied it to the Persian king Cyrus, who allowed the Jews to go home to Jerusalem from captivity in Babylon. In the Jewish writings outside the Bible, the term is variously applied to a teacher, a warrior, and a judge. The Dead Sea Scrolls anticipated the coming of two messiahs, a king and a high priest. In short, one cannot pin the term down to a particular definition but must acknowledge that it was generally used to indicate any figure whom the faith-community saw as God's representative, someone who was doing God's work on its behalf.
Don't lose track of the "warrior" image as there will be continuous testing for Jesus to move in this direction. And don't forget your own "I AMness".


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Born in Israel before I knew it is Palestine: Gilad Atzmon
Posted by: adonis49 on: February 17, 2015
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Born in Israel before I knew it is Palestine: Gilad Atzmo
I Was Born in Israel Many Years before I Realized Israel Was Palestine
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By Whatsupic with 7sabah
I was born in Israel and it was many years before I realized that Israel was Palestine. I was relatively patriotic.
I was looking forward to serving in the army and then I grasped that there was little truth in the Jewish historical narrative.
I then gathered that I was living on someone else's land.
At the same time I discovered the saxophone. By the age of 30, I left Israel and never went back.
Q: There is some kind of rebellion in your music; how do you explain this?
A: My music can be very soft and reflective. Sometimes it is very funny and occasionally it is furious. There are too many reasons to be angry.
I'm far from happy when I see Israel flattening Gaza. I'm furious when I find out 80% of British conservative MPs are 'friends of Israel.'
I'm angry when I find out the Jewish lobby is pushing America into another World War and instead of becoming violent, sometimes I use music as a channel to express my anger.
Q: What type of music is close to your music in the world?
A: It's very simple. I'm a jazz artist, a Bebop player. But I'm inspired by near east music whether it is Arabic, Turkish or Greek. I find my own way to fuse the Arabic Mawwal with John Coltrane…
Q: What do you think of the social and political state of Turkey?
A: Listen, I'm really against any forms of interventionism, so I'm definitely not the right person to judge the situation here. I can only talk about my impression, and it's not an academic observation.
I'm touring all over the world and I see a lot of sadness. I see impoverished countries, people with no work, with no prospect of production.
I see youngsters who are third generation poor and in their deserted main street they don't eat their own food anymore, they instead eat McDonalds, Burger King, Coca Cola, Starbucks.
And I'm here in Turkey and see a lot of people on the streets, and I see fish from your sea, and tomatoes from your fields, and I see a lot of people working in the restaurants that have Turkish names and don't even offer a menu in English, and it makes me happy for you.
You have managed to maintain your authenticity and culture. This is a great victory. You are so lucky that Islamophobic Europeans didn't accept you in the EU. Your country is now a superpower.
Q: You were born in Israel but you are against Israeli occupation and its politics. You are living in the West, how do you cope?
A: Let me tell you something and it is crucial. In my entire career, I have never been subject to abuse by the British government, never been subject to abuse by the American government. Although the infamous Alan Dershowitz, who is now implicated in a huge sex scandal with minors, labelled me 'as the number one enemy of the Jewish people,' I've never been subject to direct abuse by the Israeli government.
Even the NSA doesn't harass me. The only people who stalk me continuously are the Jewish left and the Guardian newspaper.
I can say that it's not a problem but I came to the realization that the biggest enemy of our elementary freedoms are the progressives and I'll explain why.
In the West and maybe in Turkey as well, we have issues with political correctness.
What is political correctness? Political correctness is politics that doesn't allow political opposition. But this is clearly the definition we associate with dictatorship.
But political correctness is far worse than dictatorship. Why? Because in the case of dictatorship you experience an opposition to a regime that is distinct from you, but in the case of political correctness it is you who silence yourself.
Political Correctness is a form of self-censorship. The Jewish left and the progressives made us into a collective of impotents. Our task is to move on and to erect our resistance against this cancerous ideology.
Q: Can we separate Judaism from Zionism?
A: No. Israel isn't called the 'Zionist State,' it defines itself as the 'Jewish State.' The parties in the government are called "Israel Our Home" and the "Jewish Home" not the "Zionist Home"*.
Now the Israeli cabinet has approved the National Bill that defines Israel as the Jewish state not the Zionist state. Zionism from an Israeli perspective died in 1948. Zionism was a promise to erect a Jewish state in Zion (Palestine).
Once Israel was established, Zionism was finished with its role.
The only people who maintain the Zionist nonsense are the Jewish left because they want to differentiate between Jewishness and Zionism. This is why they call Israel colonialism.
But Israel is not colonialism. Colonialism is a clear exchange between a mother state and a settler state. Israel is a settler state, yet there is no Jewish mother state. This is why they call it apartheid.
Israel in not apartheid: Apartheid is a racist system of exploitation. But Israel doesn't want to exploit the Palestinians, it wants them gone.
Israel is a Hitlerian ethnic cleansing model.
The Left uses the terms 'Colonialism', 'Zionism', and 'Apartheid' in an attempt to divert attention from the 'J' word.
For solidarity with Palestine to be meaningful, we have to de-Judify our terminology. Not to kick out the Jews, but to prevent Jewish interests from defining the boundaries of the discussion.
Q: Can we see Israel and Palestine as two states?
A: No.
Q: Will the Palestinians be able to return to their county?
A: This is what they are fighting for. And any person who doesn't accept the right of return is not a genuine supporter.
Q: What do you think about what Ahmadinejad said about the Holocaust?
A: I agree 100% with everything Ahmadinejad said about the Holocaust. Ahmadinejad basically said that Holocaust must be treated as a historical chapter.
At the moment it is treated as a religion. And if it is a religion I want to maintain my right to be an atheist. In contemporary Judified reality it is OK not to believe in God but if you don't believe in Auschwitz you will be penalised and severely. I don't accept it.
Q: What does the US gain from supporting Israel?
A: We cannot think of America as an independent entity anymore. America's political system is a Jewish occupied zone.
America, Britain, France, [and generally] the West woke up one morning to realize that there was a loop hole in their legal system that facilitated the ability of invasive foreign lobbies such as AIPAC, CFI, CRIF to interfere with their foreign affairs.
America has sacrificed its foreign interests on the Jewish alter. It is a disaster. But history teaches us that this Jewish political impunity always comes to an end in a totally tragic circumstance.
Q: Do you agree that a Holocaust is happening in Gaza?
A: I don't know what the Holocaust is anymore. I'm like Ahmadinejad in that regard.
When I was a kid they taught me that the Nazis made soap out of Jews. And then I grew up and realized it was all a fantasy.
They taught me that the Arabs were going to throw us into the sea. And when I was mature enough to learn the history on my own I realized that it was actually the Jews who threw Palestinians into the sea.
Then I realized that Jews (like everyone else) tend to project their cultural symptoms on others. The Jews are fearful of the Palestinians because the Jews witness their army engaged in murderous activity.
They must believe the Palestinians are as murderous as the IDF happens to be.
I don't want to talk in terms of the Holocaust because it is too Jewish. I don't want to compare Israel with Nazism because Israel is bad enough.
From some perspectives Israel is worse than Nazism (Israel is a Jewish democracy it implies a collective responsibility).
When I compare Israel with Nazism I reaffirm the Holocaust religion and sustain the primacy of Jewish suffering.
We have to establish a new discourse where Israelis are the worst enemy of humanity and the Palestinians are the ultimate sufferers. Auschwitz was indeed bad, but not as bad as Gaza.
Q: Iran is not after nuclear arms the whole world knows that. How do you explain the fuss around the Iranian nuclear project?
A: I have no problem with Iranian nuclear arms. I want Iran to have a bomb.
Just One Iranian bomb will bring peace to the region. Because all this mess in the Middle Ease caused by Israel and America is because they know they can kill with impunity and endlessly.
And my problem with the Islam Shia sect is that they are too nice. They really don't want to bomb anyone. An atomic bomb is Haram they say.
Q: What is your opinion about Iran's role in the Middle East?
A: Iran is the most beautiful political power. It supports the Palestinians. It supports the resistance. Iran has developed very strong industry. This country that was a client state of America 34 years ago now produces submarines, airplanes, drones, very strong computers. It is beautiful.
Q: Obama is the first black president of America but statistics show scores of black people are shot dead every year. How do you analyze this contradiction?
A: We like to think in terms of racial division because this is the heritage of the left, but it is wrong. In the west and in the last 50 years there has been a collapse of manufacturing partially because of automation, machinery, and computerization but also because Milton Friedman taught us that is better to be a service economy.
The meaning of it in America, Britain, France, etc. is that we don't need working people. The people who used to be working class are now workless class, and they are doomed to poverty with no hope, they are called under-class.
As things stand, existing jobs demand very high cognitive ability (very high I.Q.) such as engineers, financiers, bankers, PRs. This group of privileged people is what I call the 'cognitive elite,' and they are few in number.
We live in a society where we witness the under-class growing rapidly and a small cognitive elite maintaining its power. Obama is well within the cognitive elite and not because he is black, but because he is clever and he clearly found his way to the top.
When it comes to the under-class we realize that there are a lot of immigrants including many Hispanics and Blacks. They are the primary sufferers of the new cruel, merciless division not between the rich and the poor but between the able and the less able.
It is very devastating. This is why Turkey is so important. You manage your economy and currency in a manner that facilitates manufacturing.
(Reporting by Mehmet Gurhan).
Read the interview in Turkish on 7sabah.
*The Zionist Home party was formed a month after this interview was conducted.
Note: Most revealing, clear and bold position.
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The little deaths of life
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I was recently reading about the differences between the words "grief" and "morning". If I have gotten it well, "grief" is the internal feeling of loss and "mourning" is best defined as acts of expressions of grief. The Portuguese word "luto" could be the translation of both, it is also related to a physical loss. But its equivalent in French, the word "deuil", seems to have a wider utilization, the expression "faire le deuil" is also often used in reference to what must be left behind. It supports the wise idea that one must accept what cannot be changed.
Our lives are punctuated by wonderful moments during which we were (or thought we were) happy, some of which are no longer part of our lives for reasons often beyond our control. We have no choice but to accept that these moments will remain in the past and we should better move forward. However, even if these ruptures are not as dramatic as the irreversible physical loss of a loved one, they can also hurt.
I recently felt this strange feeling when I came across photos of my baby son. It was like I missed him a lot but the weirdest thing is that my big boy was there, live fresh, next to me. Theoretically this big boy is the same little boy from ten years ago. But our relationship, the place I occupy in his life and the vision he has of me are absolutely not the same. I must then grieve for that moment and all that it represented. My role now is to make him autonomous and independent. This is the biggest paradox of motherhood: giving them the best we can, so that they will be able to fly as high as possible and very often far from us.
That's how life is, and these changes characterize our evolution, we are not the same as ten or a year ago. Why so think about my baby son bring me this sweet bitterness? I have asked myself it several times and I believe that I have found a simple and profound answer: it hurts because we have to untie a knot that was so pleasantly tied and leave these enchanted parentheses where we were happy for a few years. The attachment to our infant awakens our wildest instincts against which we have been fighting in our social life. In the motherhood, those animals' feelings are authorized and even legitimized by society (unlike other forms of love). We instantly build an identity dominated by deep love, without the barriers that we have been forced to erect to live in a society of oppressive norms and rules. In this suspended and temporary space, a defenseless and totally vulnerable little being depends on us. We must protect and defend him against the many evils of life. It is very easy to get used to this emotional liberation which awakens unsuspected emotions, without self-censorship, learning to live with constant solicitation and the need that this little being has for our presence. It is a period of our life in which we feel valued and loved as never before, our role is central, essential and even vital. In this short space of time we are, finally, important for someone, our ego is daily nourished in this relationship which implies resignation and self-giving, but whose return is immediate because it comes back to us surrounded by a rare purity.
And all of this suddenly collapses, as it happened. In adolescence, all this devotion so simple to build, with our entrails, must be rationally deconstructed. Our role is now at the extreme opposite of what we had learned to do until then, from now on we have to learn to be unnecessary, to teach them to fend for themselves, tell them that they should no longer depend on us and show them that they can do it. A fierce struggle takes place between a crazy
desire to have them always near us, in an eternal big hug as in these first years submerged in a real affection, and the inevitability of making them independent ... and free! So, we have to face the ultimate resignation: help them leave the nest and watch them enter in a hostile world by walking through the dark street and taking with them a piece of our soul.
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Headlies: Vince And Linda McMahon Go Black Friday Shopping - WrestleCrap - The Very Worst of Pro Wrestling!
White Plains, NY – At 4:45am on Friday morning, a stretch limo with the license plate "V1NNY MAC" pulled up to the White Plains Walmart. WWE Chairman Vince McMahon emerged from the limo into the chilly morning air with his wife, former 2-time Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, Linda.
"Vince, you just can't beat a good deal," said Linda robotically.
Linda grabbed Vince's arm and dragged him to the back of the line where they waited patiently until they finally reached the front of the store at 5:28am.
The Walmart was a scene of utter pandemonium as Linda gently stepped over a fallen shopper while retrieving a shopping cart while Vince kicked and stomped several shoppers who invaded his personal space. Linda calmly took out her list and slowly made her way through the aisles.
"Well, then Shane will have something to watch on his new DVD player when he comes to visit," said Linda matter-of-factly.
The McMahons continued shopping, picking up several pairs of sweatpants, a Rachel Ray 15-piece cookware set, an Alvin & The Chipmunks Blu-Ray, and a collage frame. Linda decided to check out the Home and Garden section while Vince wandered over to the Toys section. To his surprise, he found several rows of Miz action figures untouched.
With their shopping complete, Linda and Vince stood in the check-out line for over an hour. When they finally reached the counter, Linda stopped Vince from unloading the cart.
"Wait! We have to get out of line. I have to go back and get a box of Melba Toast," said Linda.
"That's it! I'm walking out of here!" yelled Vince.
"Calm down, dear. You'll hurt yourself," said Linda flatly as she left the line in search of her dry slices of toast.
Vince took one step before tearing both of his quads, collapsing in a heap of agony. He was then trampled by a herd of frantic shoppers and wrestling fans that were unhappy with the build to Survivor Series.
8 Responses to "Headlies: Vince And Linda McMahon Go Black Friday Shopping"
I work at Wal-Mart and I can say in all honesty that there have been days where I've thought the same thing as Vince. Loved the reference to the unsold Miz action figures. So mean, yet so goddamn hilarious.
After this one Justin, please do a "McMahon Family Christmas." I want to know how Shane's going to react when he opens his dvd player.
Funny…but Vince going Black Friday shopping…where's the Zubaz workout suits and the powder blue sports coat? You know Vinny Mac would be all over that.
Vince would yell at the Walmart staff for not having Zubaz gear and powder blue sports coats in addition to grumbling about the kids not buying Miz action figures.
As a quivering Vince lay helplessly on the floor the crowd began to pelt him with the abundant copies of Knucklehead & The Chaperone which had laid dormant in the 99 cent bin. The CEO managed to whisper, "The horror…the horror" before fading into a unconscious state. Robo-Linda glided over to the scene and began to vomit oil and gears near her husband/creator and said, "Error, error does not compute. Re-activate yourself Master Vince." Her head began to spin and the bot finally collapsed next to her companion.
"Clean up in aisle 6!", boomed over the loud speaker.
Then, there would have been a Lyle Lanley returning to North Haverbrook moment going on.
I bet Vince took note of that Ty Dawkins guy talking back to him. He'll be sure to have Triple H bury him at once. He doesn't know how yet, but Triple H will alway find a way.
LOL "I might poor on me" classic. If Vince decides to go black Friday shopping maybe he can go get some new writers for his so called "creative" team.


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Companies vying to take over private shuttle program
— Sep 6th, 1995
SEATTLE (AP) — NASA is laying the groundwork for a private-industry takeover of the space-shuttle business, offering $1 billion in support to the winner of a three-way contest to build the X-33 spacecraft.
The goal is make shuttle operation more affordable. The three teams — Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed Martin, and Rockwell and Orbital Sciences Corp. — are vying to come up with a prototype that can fly, land and then take off again the next day.
"We want to operate this machine like an airliner," said Paul Klevatt, McDonnell Douglas's X-33 program manager.
At present, it takes months to refurbish a space shuttle after a flight.
Engines must be rebuilt. Hand-cut heat-shielding tiles must be carefully replaced. Fuel tanks and booster rockets must be reinstalled.
"Can you imagine a commercial airplane that had to drop pieces of itself in order to make it to its destination?" said Livingston Holder, Boeing's X-33 project manager. "If you don't have to remanufacture your hardware, the cost of each flight should go down significantly."
No single-stage vehicle has ever made it into orbit, however.
Each shuttle mission costs $380 million, and freight rates run between $6,000 and $7,000 a pound.
The project goal is freight rates of $500 to $1,000 per pound, which would place space travel within reach of the well-to-do.
NASA is helping the three contenders with seed money and research capacity, offering its labs to test concepts.
The agency will decide next year which venture to support with a $1 billion stake. Unmanned versions of the commercial spacecraft could fly as soon as 1999.
The teams themselves are kicking in a third of the money, well aware that the winner of this technological race will have a considerable edge going into the 21st century.
"In the long range, this looks like a very attractive business," said Charles A. Scottoline, X-33 program director for Rockwell.
Participants say the process could rejuvenate the space program, regardless of who gets the plum assignment.
"I see a spirit in government and industry that I haven't seen for a long time," said Gene Austin, NASA X-33 program manager in Huntsville, Ala.
The United States is paying for the high cost of its shuttle flights. Twenty years ago, the nation launched 90 percent of the world's satellites. The figure now is about 30 percent, as U.S. rates are "underpriced by the Chinese, the Russians and systems that are built in western Europe," said spokesman Jim Ragsdale at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works in California.
"We want to get the cost of operating this bird to such a point where a commercial entity can make a profit on flying it and where the government becomes one of several customers," said Gary Payton, director of NASA's Advanced Space Transportation Division.
"To get the costs down where you and I can plan a tour in space or spend a weekend at a hotel in space, the costs are going to have to come down dramatically," said Bill Gaubatz, McDonnell Douglas's business development manager for the X-33.
Shuttle loss raises questions about program's future
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