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The following is a synopsis of what occurred during the July 18 District of Sparwood council meeting.
SPARWOOD PUBLIC BOAT LAUNCH
Matt Huryn and Dennis Reghenas from the Sparwood & District Fish and Wildlife Association addressed council regarding concerns the association has with a public boat launch.
Norma McDougall from the Sparwood & District Chamber of Commerce addressed Council regarding the Chamber's support for a public boat launch.
Council deferred consideration of a public boat launch until they have had an opportunity to meet with the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.
ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT
Following the Public Hearing to receive input from the public, Zoning Bylaw No. 264, 1981, Amendment Bylaw 1189, 2016 was given third reading and referred to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure for approval. The District of Sparwood has initiated this bylaw amendment to make changes to the R3-High Density Residential zone. The proposed changes will allow for the construction of one-family dwelling units and two-family dwelling units in addition to the multi-family dwelling units already permitted.
ELK RIVER ALLIANCE
Lee-Anne Walker, Executive Director of the Elk River Alliance (ERA) presented the Elk River Flood Strategy to Council. Over the past three years the ERA has coordinated and managed a team of experts who reviewed academic literature and examined the Elk River hydrology to model scenarios of climate change and land use impacts in the future. Data and analysis was integrated to produce a "made-in-the-Elk Valley" approach to flood management.
DEVELOPMENT VARIANCE PERMITS
Elk Valley Mobile Home Park (DVP 2016-003)
Council authorized notices to be sent out to owners and occupants residing within 60 m of the Elk Valley Mobile Home Park to advise them that they will be considering varying sections of the Mobile Home Park Bylaw at the August 15 regular meeting. The variances, if approved, will legalize the mobile home park in its current state and allow residents to apply for building permits to replace existing homes, construct new additions, decks, or accessory buildings on the pad/lot.
448 White Birch Crescent (DVP 2016-004)
Council authorized notices to be sent out to owners and occupants residing within 60 m of 448 White Birch Crescent to advise them that they will be considering varying sections of the Zoning Bylaw at the August 15 regular meeting. The variance, if approved, will reduce the minimum accessory building side yard requirement and increase the site coverage for accessory buildings for the purposes of constructing an addition on the back of the existing garage.
102 2nd Avenue & 101 4th Avenue (DVP 2016-005)
Council authorized notices to be sent out to owners and occupants residing within 60 m of 102 Second Avenue and 101 Fourth Avenue to advise them that they will be considering varying sections of the Zoning Bylaw at the August 15 regular meeting. The variance, if approved, will reduce the minimum accessory building side yard requirements on the western side of 102 Second Avenue (Lilac Terrace) and the eastern side of 101 Fourth Avenue (Seniors' Drop-In Centre) for the purposes of constructing a breezeway to connect the two facilities.
If you believe you will be affected by any of these variances and wish to share comments with council prior to their consideration, you will be provided an opportunity to be heard at the August 15 council meeting or you may submit your comments in writing to the District of Sparwood on or before Monday, August 15.
UNSIGHTLY PREMISES
Council authorized the district to enter onto two properties located at 1203 Valley View Drive and 482 Engelmann Spruce Drive, after giving reasonable notice to the owners, to clean up discarded debris, construction waste, long grasses and weeds at the expense of the owners of the subject properties.
ROUNDTABLE ON THE CROWN OF THE CONTINENT CONFERENCE
Council authorized the Mayor, or alternate, to attend the Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent Annual Conference being held in Fernie on October 13 and 14. Council also approved a collaborator sponsorship in the amount of $100 to the conference.
UTILITY & SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT BYLAW 1014, AMENDMENT BYLAW 1190, 2016
Utility and Solid Waste Management Bylaw 1014, 2009, Amendment Bylaw 1190, 2016 was given three readings. This amendment proposes to institute a requirement for garbage cans with tight fitting lids in all residential zones and eliminate use of plastic bags. Also included in the amendment is the requirement for animal resistant enclosures in campgrounds, C-2 Highway Commercial Zone and
C-3 Neighbourhood Commercial Zone and permit the alternative option for certified bear proof commercial containers. The public will be given an opportunity to comment on the bylaw at the August 15 regular meeting before council considers adoption. A copy of the notice, bylaw amendment and staff report can be viewed at the District Office during regular work hours or online at www.sparwood.ca.
Due to the statutory holiday, BC Day on Monday, August 1, garbage pickup scheduled for that day will be picked up on Tuesday, August 2 instead.
SPRINKLING REGULATIONS
The District of Sparwood sprinkling regulations are in effect from June 1 through September 30 each year, to promote water conservation. Even numbered addresses can water on even calendar days, and odd numbered addresses can water on odd calendar days. Homes with automatic irrigation systems can water daily, provided it is between 12 and 6 am. Exceptions to sprinkling restrictions include nurseries, golf courses, farms, turf and tree farms, municipal parks, playing fields, and other municipal properties. Special permission is given for those residents who have installed a new lawn (either seed or sod) for a period of 21 days after installation of the lawn.
Help us keep our streets attractive
In order to keep our streets attractive and safe, the district would like to remind all residents to please store your garbage in animal proof containers and place your garbage out between 5 and 8 a.m. on the morning of pick up. Residential waste collection is limited to two waste containers (not exceeding 140L in total) per household. Additional tags can be purchased at the District Office for $1.50 per tag, or you can drop it off at the Transfer Station (1001 Highway 3) at no charge Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (closed Sundays & Statutory Holidays).
Commercial waste containers are required to be kept closed at all times and secured to prevent wildlife from accessing contents in the container. Your help and compliance is appreciated! Keeping your property free of attractants (garbage and bird feeders) will cause bears and other wildlife to move on, resulting in a safer community and avoiding the unnecessary destruction of bears. For more information on Sparwood's waste regulations please visit www.sparwood.ca or contact the Bylaw Enforcement Officer at 250.425.6820 or [email protected]
BADGER, BADGER, BADGERS EVERYWHERE
There have been four badgers seen near the Animal Pound on Engelmann Spruce Drive in addition to the previously reported one in the disc golf park in the Heights. You can report badger sightings to badgers.bc.ca
UPCOMING DISTRICT MEETINGS
Regular council meeting in council chambers on Monday, August 15 at 7 p.m.
Lead image: District of Sparwood council. Image courtesy District of Sparwood
District of Sparwood
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Crown of the ContinentDennis ReghenasDistrict of SparwoodElk River AllianceERAFernieLee-Anne WalkerLilac TerraceMatt HurynMinistry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource OperationsNorma McDougallSparwood & District Chamber of CommerceSparwood & District Fish and Wildlife AssociationSparwood Council


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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's JESSE LEACH Opens Up About His Battle With Depression And Anxiety
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE frontman Jesse Leach, who has been open about his battles with anxiety and depression, spoke to HeartSupport about why mental health awareness is important to the music community.
"On paper, if you were to look at my life, you'd say — and I've gotten this from people — where, 'You have such a good life. You're living your dreams. You're doing everything you wanna do. Why are you sad? How dare you say that, oh, you're not feeling well?' or this and that," Jesse said (see video below). "And I think for me, as I've gotten older, it's gotten a bit worse, but because I've reached out, because I've gotten help, because I speak about it, I meet people who are the same as me, or even worse off than me, it's helped me to develop tools to push through and to not feel alone. And I think that's huge. If I were to say anything, that's probably the biggest thing. Knowing that I'm not alone, knowing that I can reach out to somebody… There's people on my own [tour] bus right here that know what I'm talking about. And once you start to recognize behavioral patterns, once you start to recognize even body language, the way it looks on somebody… 'Cause some people are obviously depressed; other people you'd never know. They can carry on and put on this façade, like, 'Oh, I'm cool. I'm good. I'm good,' and when they're in their bed at home at night, they're crying and they're thinking suicidal thoughts. So it's just a matter, for me, of keeping the conversation on the table, constantly talking about it, and the more we talk about it, the more it evolves. Honestly, that can save lives, and I think that's why, for me, it's so important."
This past January, Leach took to his social media to say that he needed time "to get help" after splitting with his wife of over 16 years.
2018 was a tough year for Leach, who underwent surgery on his vocal cords to remove nodules in April, and dealt with depression, anxiety, and "full-on mental breakdowns" throughout the rest of the year. Although these setbacks had an impact on the recording schedule for the new KILLSWITCH ENGAGE album, Jesse eventually finished laying down his tracks for the effort with the help of guitarist and producer Adam Dutkiewicz, whom he has described as his "musical soulmate."
In May 2018, Leach gave a shout-out to his "badass" wife for supporting him through his vocal surgery and for being his "biggest fan, biggest critic, best friend, partner in crime and the love of my damn life."
Jesse previously revealed that the reason he originally left KILLSWITCH ENGAGE in 2002, after recording two albums, was because "there was definitely something wrong with my head. I was dealing with a depression," he said. "At that time, it was a pretty lowdown feeling of being alienated, just sort of not being prepared mentally for a life on the road."
In August, Leach wrote lengthy social media post in which he once again admitted that he had "a mental illness," adding: " I too have anxiety, suicidal thoughts, depression and addictions. I do and say things 'out of character' when I am mentally 'high or low' — it's just part of the distinction of the illness."
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's next album will be released in the fall via Metal Blade Records in the U.S. and Sony Music Entertainment in the rest of the world. The follow-up to 2016's "Incarnate" will mark the Massachusetts metallers' third full-length effort since the return of Leach, who rejoined the group in 2012.
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MIAMI (AP) — Florida hospital officials say patients who have been hospitalized recently are 15 percent less likely to be readmitted as hospitals around the country try to improve quality and save money under the Affordable Care Act. Tuesday's report from the Florida Hospital Association comes five years after the state ranked among the worst in the nation for poor health outcomes and high costs.
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INX Media case: CBI gets ex-Niti CEO to confront Chidambaram
Khullar was Additional Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs when Chidambaram was Finance Minister. According to the CBI, it was during this period that there were alleged irregularities in the grant of FIPB clearance to INX Media.
Updated: August 27, 2019 6:44:51 am
P Chidambaram outside a CBI court on Monday. (Express Photo by Tashi Tobgyal)
The CBI Monday called former Niti Aayog CEO Sindhushree Khullar to confront her with Congress leader and former Union Minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media case even as a Delhi special court extended his remand in the agency's custody till August 30 for further investigation. Khullar has been called again Tuesday.
A retired IAS officer, Khullar was Additional Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs when Chidambaram was Finance Minister. According to the CBI, it was during this period that there were alleged irregularities in the grant of FIPB clearance to INX Media.
Flouting the conditional FIPB approval, INX Media, the CBI claimed, brought in over Rs 305 crore FDI against the approved inflow of Rs 4.62 crore. Chidambaram's son Karti is also an accused in the case.
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The CBI sought his custody for another five days — he had been arrested on August 21 — but judge Kuhar granted four days, saying "further police custody remand of the accused P Chidambram is justified and accordingly he is remanded to further police custody till August 30, 2019".
Opinion | Chidambaram's arrest at home all played out in front of TV cameras
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court refused to entertain Chidambaram's plea challenging the Delhi High Court order which had dismissed his anticipatory bail plea in the corruption case lodged by the CBI.
Observing that his plea had become infructuous, the bench of Justices R Banumathi and A S Bopanna said he could apply for regular bail in the court concerned which would decide the matter without being influenced in any manner by the observations of any other court.
Chidambaram's plea against the order remanding him to CBI custody was not listed for hearing Monday with the Supreme Court saying the Registry was yet to get instructions from the Chief Justice of India.
Congress leader P Chidambaram was arrested on August 21
The bench also extended till Tuesday the interim protection from arrest granted to him in the money laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate. It said it will continue to hear arguments on his petition seeking pre-arrest bail in the matter.
In the special court, senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Dayan Krishnan and advocate P K Dubey, appearing for Chidambaram, opposed the remand extension request, saying the CBI at the last hearing had mentioned about payments, but in over 26 hours of interrogation it had "not put to me (Chidambaram) any question related to the allegation of payment to the tune of five million US dollar and 4,50,000 US dollar".
Editorial | Case against Chidambaram must proceed strictly according to the law, and must be seen to do so too
Sibal said the amount was mentioned only to sensationalise the case and the CBI "only asked me (Chidambaram), did co-accused Peter Mukerjea give you this money, to which the answer is 'no'." He said the CBI had no evidence and its investigation was "clouded".
Opposing this, Mehta said "there is prima facie evidence to confront the accused and on the allegations of payment made to accused, Letters of Rogatory have been sent to five countries".
In the Supreme Court, Sibal, speaking for Chidambaram, said "my reputation is being destroyed on a daily basis... you destroy a man. Many people don't distinguish between arrest pre-conviction and post-conviction". He also raised "strong objection" to the ED asking the bench to look at certain documents it had submitted to the court in a sealed cover. He said it was intended "only to prejudice you (court)".
Initially, the bench said it would look at the papers during the lunch break. But Sibal objected and questioned the procedure under which the agency could submit documents to the court in sealed cover. "I don't know what's in them. It has not been put to me during examination. This is a violation of Article 21 rights".
On the agency's contention that it was submitting its case diary to the court, Sibal said the ED does not maintain a case diary. Solicitor General Mehta said what he meant was the case file which contain investigation records.
The ED, while arguing its case before the Supreme Court on August 23 and in an affidavit filed Monday, accused Chidambaram and "his co-conspirators" of floating a "web of shell companies" in India and abroad to launder money.a
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What is the PTA?The PTA (Parent Teacher Association) is a national grass roots organization that brings parents and teachers together so they can work towards improving the lives and education of children. Simply, a PTA is a group of adults affiliated with a school that have organized to work to help children thrive and learn - whether that means fundraising for enrichment opportunities, educating parents, helping teachers, or fighting for legislation to ensure every child gets a high quality education.
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Ка́ари Ма́рьятта У́трио-Ли́нниля (; 28 июля 1942, Хельсинки) — финская писательница, автор множества исторических романов и документальных произведений об истории женщин, написанных с мягкой, но последовательно проводимой феминистской точки зрения.

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Отец Каари, Урхо Утрио, был директором издательство «Тамми», мать, Меэри Марьятта Утрио, работала журналисткой и переводчиком. В семье была большая домашняя библиотека, насчитывавшая около четырёх тысяч томов, литературное творчество в целом считалось в семье важным занятием. Утрио познакомилась с литературой в раннем детстве, когда мать читала ей по вечерам классиков мировой литературы, например произведения Киплинга и Шекспира. Сама она прочитала первую книгу, большое документальное произведение по мировой истории, когда ей было всего семь лет. Это определило её профессиональный интерес к истории, наметившийся ещё в школе.

В 1967 она получила степень бакалавра философских наук в Хельсинкском университете. В 1968 году в издательстве «Тамми» была опубликована её первая книга — «Помещик и прекрасная Кирстин» (), в которой было дано художественное описание жизни Каарины Мултиала из Выборга (XVI век). Она, согласно известным документам, была первой в Финляндии женщиной-купцом и предпринимателем. Правда, название произведения, которое было придумано издателем, писательнице не понравилось.

Утрио замужем (муж — Кай Линниля), у неё три сына. Она с семьей живёт в Сомеро в Южной Финляндии. В 1982 году они с мужем основали издательскую фирму «Аманита», которая c 2011 года выпускает все новые книги писательницы.

Утрио принимает активное участие в деятельности многих общественных организаций: с 1992 она является президентом «Общества Минны Кант» (Minna Canthin seura), в течение многих лет она входила в правление Союза писателей Финляндии. Кроме того, с 1980 по 1988 год она была членом городского совета Сомеро.

Творчество
Обычно действие романов Утрио разворачивается в разные периоды истории Финляндии, среди вымышленных персонажей нередко действуют реальные исторические лица. Свои профессиональные исторические знания Каари Утрио использует для детального воссоздания жизни в разные исторические эпохи, которая последовательно описывается с женской точки зрения с особым акцентом на уязвимом, незащищённом положении женщин. Часто героини Утрио добиваются признания и высокого положения в обществе благодаря своим способностям и любви.

В фокусе научного интереса Каари Утрио находится антропология детства и женская линия в истории человечества. Самое знаменитое произведение Утрио «Дочери Евы» (Eevan tyttäret) посвящено истории женщин с древности до наших дней. Оно переведено на семь языков, в том числе и на русский.

Кроме книг, Утрио подготовила множество статьей для журналов и сценариев для телесериалов, она регулярно выступает с лекциями на разных культурных событиях.

Романы
 Помещик и Красивая Кирстин (Kartanonherra ja kaunis Kirstin. Uusi painos nimellä Kirstin, 1999. Helsinki: Tammi, 1968.)
 Суннева — дочь графа (Sunneva Jaarlintytär. Helsinki: Tammi, 1969.)
 Суннева в городе императора (Sunneva keisarin kaupungissa. Helsinki: Tammi, 1970.)
 Девушки из Вехкалахти (Vehkalahden neidot. Helsinki: Tammi, 1971.)
 Пирита, дочь Карелии (Pirita, Karjalan tytär. Helsinki: Tammi, 1972. ISBN 951-30-2366-4.)
 Красавица Выборга (Viipurin kaunotar. Helsinki: Tammi, 1973. ISBN 951-30-2706-6.)
 Дворянка и буржуазная девушка (Aatelisneito, porvaristyttö. Helsinki: Tammi, 1974.)
 Власть, любовь и ненависть женщины. Исторические описания (Kun nainen hallitsi, rakasti ja vihasi. Historiallisia kuvauksia. Helsinki: Tammi, 1975. ISBN 951-30-3538-7.)
 Святые рябины Пирккалы (Pirkkalan pyhät pihlajat. Helsinki: Tammi, 1976. ISBN 951-30-3876-9.)
 Девушки из дома священника (Pappilan neidot. Helsinki: Tammi, 1977. ISBN 951-30-4024-0.)
 Дорогая Хенриэтта (Rakas Henrietta. Helsinki: Tammi, 1978. ISBN 951-30-4154-9.)
 Корона Карелии (Karjalan kruunu. Helsinki: Tammi, 1978. ISBN 951-30-4418-1.)
 Железная лилия. Роман о любви и богатстве (Rautalilja. Romaani lemmestä ja mammonasta. Helsinki: Tammi, 1979. ISBN 951-30-4878-0.)
 Танец девушки (Neidontanssi. Helsinki: Tammi, 1980. ISBN 951-30-5231-1.)
 Невеста буржуа (Porvarin morsian. Oulu: Kolmiokirja, 1981.)
 Предание Катарины (Katarinan taru. Helsinki: Tammi, 1981. ISBN 951-30-5456-X.)
 Дочь бургомистра (Pormestarin tytär. Helsinki: Tammi, 1982. ISBN 951-30-5656-2.)
 Долина с розами (Ruusulaakso. Helsinki: Tammi, 1982. ISBN 951-30-5661-9.)
 Исабелла (Isabella. Helsinki: Tammi, 1988. ISBN 951-30-7027-1.)
 Кто вы, Элисса? (Kuka olet, Elissa?. Helsinki: Tammi, 1989. ISBN 951-30-9006-X.)
 Вендела (Vendela. Helsinki: Tammi, 1989. ISBN 951-30-9200-3.)
 Ястреб, мой дорогой (Haukka, minun rakkaani. Helsinki: Tammi, 1990. ISBN 951-30-9473-1.)
 Йоанна Ванайя (Vanajan Joanna. Helsinki: Tammi, 1991. ISBN 951-30-9798-6.)
 Птица из меди (Vaskilintu. Helsinki: Tammi, 1992. ISBN 951-31-0051-0.)
 Жертвенные огни (Uhritulet. Helsinki: Tammi, 1993. ISBN 951-31-0258-0.)
 Весна из лунного камня (Kuukiven kevät. Kuvat: Marja Vehkala. Helsinki: Otava, 1995. ISBN 951-1-13743-3.)
 Обыкновенная пустельга (Tuulihaukka. Helsinki: Tammi, 1995. ISBN 951-31-0628-4.)
 Кузина из Ийсалми и другие рассказы (Iisalmen serkku ja muita kertomuksia. Helsinki: Tammi, 1996. ISBN 951-31-0818-X.)
 Единорог (Yksisarvinen. Helsinki: Tammi, 2000. ISBN 951-31-1959-9.)
 Некрасивая графиня (Ruma kreivitär. Helsinki: Tammi, 2002. ISBN 951-31-2537-8.)
 Мыльная принцесса (Saippuaprinsessa. Helsinki: Tammi, 2004. ISBN 951-31-3088-6.)
 Злые сестры (Ilkeät sisarpuolet. Helsinki: Tammi, 2007. ISBN 978-951-31-3862-2.)
 Молчаливый наследник (Vaitelias perillinen. Helsinki: Tammi, 2009. ISBN 978-951-31-4800-3.)
 Ученая мисс (Oppinut neiti. Somerniemi: Amanita, 2011. ISBN 978-952-5330-41-0.)

 Компаньонка (Seuraneiti. Somerniemi: Amanita, 2013)
 Бумажный принц (Paperiprinssi. Somerniemi: Amanita, 2015)
 Глупая любовь (Hupsu rakkaus. Somerniemi: Amanita, 2017)

Научные произведения и другое творчество
 Сомеро, страна хлеба (Somero, viljan maa. Linnilä, Kai & Utrio, Kaari: Somero: Amanita, 1982.)
 Дочери Евы: история европейских женщины, детей и семьи (Eevan tyttäret: Eurooppalaisen naisen, lapsen ja perheen historia. Helsinki: Tammi, 1984 (7. painos 1994). ISBN 951-30-6090-X.)
 Венера: история женской красоты (Venus: Naiskauneuden tarina. Helsinki: Tammi, 1985. ISBN 951-30-6270-8.)
 Дочери Калева: история финской женщины (Kalevan tyttäret: Suomen naisen tarina. Helsinki: Tammi, 1986. ISBN 951-30-6630-4.
 Дитя Финляндии (Laps' Suomen.Utrio, Kaari & Helakisa, Kaarina & Harjanne, Maikki: Laps' Suomen. Helsinki: Otava, 1987. ISBN 951-1-09760-1.)
 Вошел в сад своих чудес (Tulin onneni yrttitarhaan. Saure, Salme & Utrio, Kaari (toim.): Helsinki: Otava, 1988. ISBN 951-1-10127-7.)
 Вековой Выборг (Vuosisatainen Viipuri. Katsaus Viipurin historiaan. Helsinki: Tammi, 1991. ISBN 951-30-9794-3.)
 Большая книга принцесс (Suuri prinsessakirja. Helakisa, Kaarina & Utrio, Kaari & Kota, Matti: Suuri prinsessakirja. Helsinki: Otava, 1991. ISBN 951-1-11784-X.)
 История косметики (Rusoposkia, huulten purppuraa, kosmetiikan historia.Utrio, Kaari & Nuotio, Una & Heikkilä, Taina Helsinki: Tekniikan museo, 1995. ISBN 951-95233-6-7.)
 Фамилия, история европейской семьи I—VI (Familia, eurooppalaisen perheen historia I—VI, Tammi, 1995—1997)
 I Семья в море народов. Первый век (I Perhe kansojen meressä. Ensimmäinen vuosisata. Helsinki: Tammi, 1995. ISBN 951-31-0503-2.)
 II Розарий, огород. Средневековье XI—XVI в. (II Ruusutarha, ryytinen. Keskiaika 1000—1500. Helsinki: Tammi, 1996. ISBN 951-31-0504-0.)
 III Вера и традиции. Раннее новое время XVI—XVII в. (III Usko ja perinteet. Varhainen uusi aika, 1500-1600-luvut. Helsinki: Tammi, 1996.ISBN 951-31-0505-9.)
 IV К новому дню. Эпоха просвещения, XVIII в. (IV Päin uutta päivää. Valistusaika, 1700-luku. Helsinki: Tammi, 1996. ISBN 951-31-0506-7.)
 V Век ребёнка. XIX в. (V Lapsen vuosisata. 1800-luku. Helsinki: Tammi, 1997. ISBN 951-31-0507-5.)
 VI Время нуклеарной семьи. XX в. (VI Ydinperheen aika. 1900-luku. Helsinki: Tammi, 1997. ISBN 951-31-0508-3.)
 Семейная книга: история европейской семьи (Perhekirja: Eurooppalaisen perheen historia. Helsinki: Somero: Tammi, 1998. ISBN 951-31-1151-2.)
 Белла донна: красивая женщина через век (Bella donna: Kaunis nainen kautta aikojen. Teksti: Kaari Utrio ja Sari Savikko. Helsinki: Somero: Tammi: Amanita, 2001 (2. painos 2005). ISBN 951-31-2174-7.)
 Лампа с розами (Ruusulamppu. Helsinki: Kaisaniemen Dynamo, 2002.)
 Эпоха финской женщины. Ред. (Suomen naisen vuosisadat 1-4, päätoimittaja; Tammi, 2005)
 Путь финской женщины: из дома до парламента (Suomen naisen tie: Pirtistä parlamenttiin. Helsinki: Tammi, 2006. ISBN 951-31-3490-3.)
 Нужные советы для женщин (Tarpeellisia neuvoja naisille. Helsinki: Tammi, 2006. ISBN 951-31-3599-3.)
 Сердитая феминистка, или Почему я больше не езжу на поезде (Kiilusilmä feministi, eli, Miksi en enää matkusta junassa. Kirjoitukset ilmestyneet 1984—2005 eri aikakaus-, sanoma- ja iltapäivälehdissä. Helsinki: Tammi, 2008. ISBN 978-951-31-4237-7.)

Признание и премии
 Государственная литературная премия (1973)
 Премия SAK (1984)
 Союз женщин-предпринимателей и чиновников: звание «женщина года» (1985)
 Deutsche Sachbuchpreis (1989)
 Премия «Книжная сова» (1992)
 Медаль «Pro Finlandia» (1993)
 Премия имени Ларин Параске (1996)
 Премия имени Марьи-Лийсы Вартио (1998)
 Премия Союза акушерок Финляндии за работу о матерях и детях (1999)
 Государственная премия за лучшую научно-популярную книгу (2002)
 Почетная профессура в области искусств (1995—2000)
 Приз литературного общества WSOY (2011)

Ссылки

 Официальный сайт

Финские писатели
Деятели феминизма Финляндии

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Which ones are the Nazis again? posted by Richard Seymour
A small clarification: who can be compared with Nazis? Or, more appropriately, for whom is it a bragging matter that "we are not as bad as Nazis"? We obviously take it for granted that equating any group or statesman that isn't fascistic with the Nazis is at least problematic, and can be worse than problematic. Furthermore, there are those who think that even making a comparison, for the purposes of drawing out similarities, is outrageous in the event that someone makes that comparison with Israel. There are others who don't understand the difference, but we can forget about them.
However, there is a long tradition of propagandistic use of Hitler/Nazi comparisons and outright equations in circumstances that are certainly ridiculous and offensive, but nevertheless this is generally tolerated even where it is an attempt to legitimise mass murder. Everyone knows that Saddam Hussein was a new Hitler, and didn't cease being so until hanged, but at least he bore a few of the qualifications necessary. The Iranian President is routinely compared to Hitler with considerable stridency. Slobodan Milosevic was a Hitler until he died in ICTY custody. Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, insisted that it was not unfair to compare Hezbollah to the Nazis while Israel was pounding Lebanon in 2006. We know that Nasser was commonly referred to as a fascist in the British press, and compared by Anthony Eden to Hitler. We also know that the Chinese were compared to Nazis during the American war on Vietnam, on the grounds that they were a similarly aggressive power. None of these comparisons, whatever their respective merits, was made in good faith or with much precision: they were all designed to evoke a threat that could justify colossal international violence. The Enemy of the Month is always Hitler. In fact, this is the whole purpose of 'totalitarianism' theory as usually espoused in its Cold War version: every enemy is in some sense like the Nazis. Ask Nick Cohen or Paul Berman. It is perfectly normal conduct. It is mainstream and moderate. It is the way one constructs the friend/enemy distinction.
Here's an interesting example: Yasser Arafat in particular, and the Palestinians in general. Yasser Arafat has been cast as Hitler in so many columns and articles and opinions that Lexis Nexis doesn't know what to do with them all. Menachem Begin compared Arafat to Hitler at precisely the moment that he was sending Israeli tanks into Lebanon to murder people. In 2002, the Czech Prime Minister got into a minor controversy for having made that comparison, and for having said that the Palestinians should be expelled from their land (in a cowardly fashion, he denied saying what reporters heard him say, but didn't deny the bit about expulsions). In the same year, the large pro-Israel rally that occurred in Trafalgar Square saw Binyamin Netanyahu compare Arafat to Hitler. Routinely, Hamas are described as (equated with) Nazis, as are the PLO, Hezbollah, and any other group or state that Israel doesn't find amenable to its purposes. So, the people that Israel oppresses and murders are Nazis, and if anyone reverses the comparison as some are tempted to do given the obvious echoes, then they are also Nazis. Meanwhile, the claim that every Enemy of the Month is Hitler incarnate is moderate and mainstream political discourse, while to reverse the charge and say, for example, that "the American government is fascist", is extremist. The United States government, the world heavyweight champion of white supremacy, as the historian Gerald Horne once dubbed it, can only be understood as an opponent of Nazis in official discourse. Only it's victims are Nazis. Anything else is vulgar, calumnious, in poor taste, typical far left Chomskyite boiler-plate rhetoric etc etc.
Wouldn't it be simpler to officially and formally re-define Nazism to mean any designated foe of the United States and Israel, and that way we can avoid the confusion that leads people to take the comparisons/equations seriously?
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E-sword user for many years can't even remember when I converted from Logos after Quick Verse for windows through version 6. I have a dream for the use of this software. I have searched high and low for a good video using this software to educate the church members in the pew how to use it. I do see videos attempting to display its functions, but that is not the issue. I see that individuals who have downloaded this software do not use it not because they cannot navigate it but because they do not understand how to apply it to a subject they desire to learn more about. I fully believe that this software and understanding the value it has in determining what God's Word says in the hands of the members in the pews would give them the confidence to become teachers of the lost and some of their preachers. Especially, those who were educated by the educators and never began to learn on their own. I do not have the expertise to put a video together like this, is there any one out there who can?
How long might it have been since you looked at these? I had looked at these years ago and decided that they did not serve the concepts that I had in mind. So I looked again at word study which is not what I would do in the method that I use to study, but only 5 pages of 47 have anything on them. Did you notice the time on the last update? 2011 There are a lot of new things under the sun since then. To get back in the evaluation, I saw nothing in these that would interest a Christian of the pews who may only have a high school edu, well even college because in word studies we want to know what is God's message not a scholar. Scholars want to go to their definitions, they don't use word comparisons of the writers use of the word or between translation differences. All this is very easily done in e-sword but unless you learn it yourself you will never get it. The super simple searches and comparison of writers and translators is something almost anyone could be taught and it would have meaning to them. A screencast walking them through a study of a topic is something that would be easily grasp by the individuals that I have reference to, oh by the way I don't believe that many preachers even understand the concept. I know many who have never used a computer for their studies. Could you understand why that would be true? They have never been shown how.


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Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesman Nafees Zakaria on Monday said that Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had disowned the United Nations Security Council resolution by calling Kashmir an integral part of India in her speech at the UN General Assembly."Can Indian EAM explain that if Kashmir is an 'integral part of India, why is it on the Agenda of Security Council'," he said on Twitter."Strange that Indian EAM is disowning the UNSC resolution and that too at the UN," Zakaria said in another Tweet.Sushma Swaraj said that Pakistan "persists in the belief that terror attacks will enable it to obtain the territory it covets. "My firm advice to Pakistan is: Abandon this dream. Let me state unequivocally that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and will always remain so."Her remarks were in response to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's speech at the UNGA last week where he raised the Kashmir issue and alleged human rights violations by India in the state.


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No. 4 Penn State banking on defensive depth
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) A week ago, Shareef Miller hobbled to the far end of a cold, wet bench to sit down, rest a sore leg and watch Penn State's defensive line work without him.
Linebacker Jason Cabinda has an idea what Miller might've been thinking, sitting there alone in the rain, shaken up only a handful of plays into the season opener.
"Guys are playing better, guys are pushing themselves more knowing that there are guys behind them that want to play and can play," Cabinda said. "We've got a lot of guys who aren't starters that could start for us and play well."
Miller returned to his starting spot on Saturday and chipped in two sacks to help No. 4 Penn State's defense hold Pittsburgh to a touchdown and two field goals. But Cabinda's point still applies – coordinator Brent Pry's defense is hungry, sturdy and capable of patching its own wounds.
The Nittany Lions (2-0) are using a revolving cadre of defenders to backstop one of the country's most explosive offenses. Through two games, Pry has deployed 38 players and Penn State has allowed just one touchdown on 27 possessions. The depth's come in handy as Penn State's had to defend for 1:08:50, nearly 39 minutes of it on Saturday.
"We had some drives and we'd obviously like to create a little bit more 3-and-outs," Penn State coach James Franklin said. "That was our issue and getting a little bit more off the field on defense. Overall, I thought we played really well and the early interception was huge."
Grant Haley's first quarter pick and return set up Penn State's first touchdown and was a product of Miller and fellow end Torrence Brown blowing up the pocket. Quarterback Max Browne couldn't step up and floated the pass over his receiver's head.
Haley's play didn't buy him much rest.
Trace McSorley flipped a touchdown pass to Mike Gesicki on the next play and the defense reconvened. The Nittany Lions are used to that with McSorley, Gesicki and big-play machine Saquon Barkley on offense. Considering their stars' quick-strike abilities, Penn State defenders are embracing the many opportunities to sub out.
Miller and Brown, expected to handle primary pass-rushing duties this season, lead a defensive line rotation of more than a dozen players.
"Torrence is a real slippery, elusive kind of guy," Penn State offensive tackle Andrew Nelson said. "Shareef, he plays angry. He plays mean. You know every play, Shareef is coming off the ball, is going to hit you in the chest, hit you with a hard swipe. He has a motor."
Miller wants to see the rest of his teammates succeed, especially if he can draw blocks away from them with his speed rush.
"What would make me happy is seeing (Ryan) Buchholz get a sack or Torrence get a sack or Shane (Simmons) get a sack more than me getting a sack," Miller said.
It's a desire passed down from the team's veterans. Six of Penn State's defensive starters – five of them seniors — started games as freshmen.
Then, when players like Cabinda, Haley, Marcus Allen, Christian Campbell and Troy Apke arrived, Penn State was still reeling from NCAA sanctions that reduced its scholarships after the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
Cabinda remembers looking around the weight room in the offseason, wondering which players could possibly be ready to endure a grueling Big Ten season. Now, he wonders which one will make the next big play.
"When you bring in guys that are better, you don't allow the starters to feel comfortable," Cabinda said. "Everybody's always striving to do better and be better. If you start screwing up and you're production isn't where it needs to be, the guy behind you is itching at your spot and he's going to take it."
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Tectonic 1.6 and later leverages Kubernetes' [new __beta__][doc-taints] support
for tolerations, taints and pod affinity, to guarantee a clear separation
between control plane and user workloads, as well as improve the reliability
of the control plane by spreading the services across multiple nodes.

Every Tectonic _master_ node registers itself to the cluster tainted.
Taints are an attribute or marker applied to a node that describe a special
property. Before a pod can be scheduled to this node, it must tolerate the
taint. Since most pods will not tolerate this taint, they will be scheduled only
to _worker_ nodes. This behavior also includes pods generated from Deployments,
ReplicaSets, and [DaemonSets][ds-tolerations].

Components of the control plane, however, are specifically marked to tolerate
the taint and therefore are allowed to be scheduled on _master_ nodes.
Furthermore, most of them are constrained to exclusively run on these nodes and
thus won't be collocated with any other workloads (see below).

Finally, in order to limit the impact of host failures, the Kubernetes scheduler
is hinted, using the pod anti-affinity mechanism, to avoid running multiple
instances of the same components on the same nodes. While not strictly related
to workloads separation, disruption control requires the cluster to always have
at least one instance of the component running at any given time, regardless of
update / re-scheduling operations.

### Control plane's components scheduling

The following table provides a reference for the scheduling of the control
plane's components, as of Tectonic 1.6.2.

|            Component           |    Type    | Replicas (default) | Node role | Anti-Affinity | Disruption Control |
|:------------------------------:|:----------:|:------------------:|:---------:|:-------------:|:------------------:|
|         kube-apiserver         |  DaemonSet |          n         |   master  |      N/A      | N/A                |
|     kube-controller-manager    | Deployment |          2         |   master  |      yes      | yes                |
|         kube-scheduler         | Deployment |          2         |   master  |      yes      | yes                |
|            kube-dns            | Deployment |          1         |   master  |      N/A      | no                 |
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The Eric Andre Show Season 5 Trailer Promises Total Madness, Murder, and More: Watch
New season will feature Grimes, Toro y Moi, Anderson .Paak, and more.
TV Review: The Righteous Gemstones Isn't the Miracle We Hoped For
Danny McBride and Jody Hill's magic dwindles in their latest HBO black comedy.
by Clint Worthington
TV Review: Arrested Development Finishes Off Season 5 With a Whimper
The cast remains as sharp as ever, but the luster has worn off Netflix's revival of the comedy series.
Film Review: Insidious: Chapter 3
As a standalone creature feature, the film succeeds.


Mistletoe has never been recorded on a Sussex Wildlife Trust reserve. But today we recorded it FROM one. Not that we'll be counting it on the site list but this shows how tantalisingly close we got to it today at the Warren, part of our Burton Pond reserve. The road delineates the edge of the reserve and across the next field you can see a clump of Mistletoe. However, 'from' just isn't good enough even for a bird (let alone something that can't fly. Or move even). We never recorded the short-toed eagle using Old Lodge for example, although it was seen distantly from the reserve. Now this might have made a nice tweet and the story might have ended there so why am I blogging about this I hear you ask?
Well, this is the winter of 2017/18 and you can't even take a photo of a clump of mistletoe without it being photo-bombed by a couple of these chunky monkeys due to their unprecedented invasion!
Yes, you've guessed it. A couple of hawfinches! This is getting ridiculous. Not only did we see these two and hear them flying over the Warren we also saw five more round at New Piece. This seems to be a new record for our part of the site. This is my eighth encounter this winter which outnumbers ALL my other encounters ever! The last two times I've been out in the field they have outnumbered chaffinches. I don't think I'll ever get bored of them and I've never been more tuned in to their insignificant calls. All encounters (except this one) this year wouldn't have happened without knowing this call, so to maximise your chances of seeing one or more of these awesome finches, keep your ears open. I love how upright they are in silhouette. I guess it's hard to perch diagonally if you're head weighs as much as a hawfinch's does without falling over.
I'll leave you with this. The scientific name (Coccothraustes coccothraustes) always makes me think of these. Hawfinches: they're grrrreat!
P.S. Mistletoe has still not been recorded ON a Trust nature reserve.


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Millionaire's billboard girlfriend plea removed
Pocono Record
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A billboard put up by a San Diego millionaire who's seeking a Latina girlfriend has been removed.
La Jolla Real estate mogul Marc Paskin, who appeared on the ABC reality show "Secret Millionaire," had the sign posted last Thursday over a freeway in the mainly Latino area of Barrio Logan. It bore the message: "All I want for Christmas is a Latina Girlfriend."
KNSD-TV (http://bit.ly/U7xF5x ) reports that a day after it went up, somebody already had vandalized the billboard by peeling off Paskin's email address.
By the weekend, the message was entirely gone. People who work nearby say kids may have vandalized it.
There's no word on whether Paskin will replace it — or whether he's found a girlfriend.


The Ducati Streetfighter is expected to debut this year at EICMA but that hasn't stopped Italian design house Officine GP Design from building ten shockingly delicious, naked streetfighter customs, based on the already stunning Ducati Panigale V4. It's been more than one year since the launch of the V4 and Ducatisti have been left asking for a full-fledged naked. With Ducati promising more models with the MotoGP-derived engine, customs like these might just become regular occurrences!
This design is the brainchild of Luca Pizzato, CEO of Officine GP Design. It involves taking a stock V4S and adding oodles of bronze and a crazy, Ariel Ace-style girder front end from FG Racing (made from solid billet aluminium with an Öhlins shock) which replaces the stock USD forks. Another highlight of the build is the custom spoked wheels from Jonich SX, which not only look wild but provide the kind of performance expected from modern tubeless tyres.
Specially textured, powder-coated copper panelling covers the tank and frame. The lights are from the Ducati XDiavel, while the dash is from the standard model but is connected via a special 3D printed mount.
There's a leather monoposto (single rider) saddle by Foglizzo with V4 Penta logo along with Rizoma parts including fuel cap, levers and footrests. The build was undertaken independently of the Ducati factory but does show the potential of the V4 platform.


Not having planned our afternoon out we drove north, onto the B6342, and I saw the sign to Thockrington. Being a devoted reader of the Diocesan website I knew the Archbishop of York had just visited – http://www.newcastle.anglican.org/news-and-events/news-article.aspx?id=567, so we went too. Well, Julie stayed in the car when we got there – bit too far for her to walk. NY957789.
Somehow they got 60 people in when the Archbishop came – he was there to celebrate the life and work of Lord Beveridge. William Henry Beveridge, born 5 March 1879. Educated at Balliol, joined the Board of Trade in 1908 and drafted the legislation for the creation of the first Labour Exchange network. Ministry of Munitions in WW1, director of the LSE from 1919 to 1937, then became Master of University College, Oxford. In May 1941 he became chairman of a Government committee to survey existing social insurance and allied services and to make recommendations. This was an opportunity to influence post-war social policy and lay the basis for a better society. In the report, completed in November 1942, proposing that all people of working age should pay a weekly NI contribution and in return benefits would be paid to people who were sick, unemployed, retired or widowed. The Beveridge Report recommended that the government should find ways of fighting the five 'Giant Evils' of Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness. He married Janet in 1942 and they made their home in Northumberland, later moving to Co. Durham. They had family in Thockrington, and Janet was taken ill on a visit here in 1959. She was buried in the churchyard. William died in 1963 and was buried beside her.
Also in the churchyard – though I didn't find her grave – is Connie Leathart. She was a pioneer aviator, one of the first women to have a pilot's licence, and the first to fly over the Alps.
The church is Norman, though the East End dates to the C13. Later rebuilding. The whole church was restored and reopened for worship in the 1950s. It is rather lovely and has a fortnightly service.
I see that some of Tom Sharpe's ashes were intended for Cambridge…..do they need your permission for that as well ??!!
Just thought I would alert you (and your readers) to the following item about Contance Ruth Leatheart that was on the BBC website -http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34473589.
A little bit more prior notice of this screening (by me) would have helped…..sorry.


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Q: Dynamic SQL, Empty Variable, Formatting Issue? I am using dynamic SQL to build out some statements. Here is a truncated example of a stored proc UpdateFOO. When I debug this stored procedure, the problem is the @SQL variable I am declaring always stay empty! It is supposed to fill with the query. I suspect it has something to do with how I am formatting this, but I cant spot if its a bad formatting error.
CREATE PROC [dbo].[UpdateFOO]
@TEST1 uniqueidentifier,
@TEST2 nvarchar(40),
@TEST3 nvarchar(50),
@TEST4 char(1),
@TEST5 nvarchar(20),
@TEST6 nvarchar(40),
@LINKED_SERVER_NAME nvarchar(max),
@DATABASE_NAME nvarchar(max)
AS
    SET NOCOUNT ON
    SET XACT_ABORT ON

    BEGIN TRAN
    DECLARE @SQL nvarchar(max)
    SELECT @SQL = 'UPDATE [' + @LINKED_SERVER_NAME + '].[' + @DATABASE_NAME + '].[dbo].[SOME_TABLE]
     SET [TEST1]=' + '''' + convert(nvarchar(36), @TEST1) + '''' +',
     [TEST2]=' + '''' +@TEST2 + '''' +',
     [TEST3]=' + '''' + @TEST3 + '''' +',
     [TEST4]='+ '''' + @TEST4 + '''' +',
     [TEST5]=' + '''' + @TEST5 + '''' +',
     [TEST6]=' + '''' + @TEST6 + '''' +
     ' WHERE [TEST1] =' + '''' + convert(nvarchar(36), TEST1 )+ '''' +
     + 'SELECT [TEST1] FROM
     [' + @LINKED_SERVER_NAME + '].[' + @DATABASE_NAME + '].[Rev].[SOME_TABLE]
     WHERE [TEST1] =' + '''' + convert(nvarchar(36), TEST1 )+ '''' +''
     PRINT LEN(@SQL)
    EXEC (@SQL)
    COMMIT

TIA Experts!

A: Here's how you use ISNULL. If the first value is null, it will return the 2nd value.
SELECT @SQL = 'UPDATE [' + @LINKED_SERVER_NAME + '].[' + @DATABASE_NAME + '].[dbo].[SOME_TABLE]
     SET [TEST1]=' + '''' + convert(nvarchar(36), ISNULL(@TEST1, '')) + '''' +',
     [TEST2]=' + '''' +ISNULL(@TEST2, '') + '''' +',
     [TEST3]=' + '''' + ISNULL(@TEST3, '') + '''' +',

...
etc...

A: You should use parametrized query. Here's an example:
DECLARE @sql nvarchar(max), @paramlist nvarchar(max)

SELECT @sql= 'UPDATE Table
              SET Col1 = @Value1,
                  Col2 = @Value2
              WHERE (1 = 1)'

SELECT @paramlist = '@Value1 nvarchar (256), @Value2 nvarchar (256)'
EXEC sp_executesql @sql, @paramlist, @Value1, @Value2

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Hand-written notes. | Finding delight.
Do you send hand-written notes? My mother and grandmother instilled in me from a young age the power of jotting down a few lines and sending them out in the post. They're always so fun to receive. Such a simple glimpse into someone's daily life but somehow so much more intimate than what we see when we scroll through Instagram or Facebook feeds. And so much more permanent! A few months ago I was looking through some old letters I received as a kid. I couldn't believe my mom wrote me a letter from the public pool (!) while I was at sleep-away camp. Or that my grandma saved all her quarters in a jar so we could use them when we came up for the state fair. What sweet things to remember all these years later! I try my best these days to always send Thank You notes and I love mailing Christmas cards…sometimes birthday cards. But I'd like to do better with the "just because" notes. For inspiration I've been clicking around the stationery on Minted. Here are 6 (personalized) sets that might spark the need to put pen to paper!
They each definitely have their own little personalities, don't you think? I love the sunny cheerfulness of Beaded Swag but there's something so sophisticated and bold about Gilt Agate. I would feel super classy sending that out to someone, haha! Which would YOU choose?


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El bisbat d'Alès (francès: Diocèsed'Alais; llatí: Dioecesis Alesiensis) és una seu suprimida de l'Església Catòlica a França.

Territori
La diòcesi incloïa part del Llenguadoc. Limita al nord amb la diòcesi de Mende, a l'est amb la d'Usès, al sud amb les diòcesis de Montpeller i Nimes, i a l'oest amb les diòcesis de Lodeva, Vabres i Rodez.

Seu episcopal era la ciutat d'Alès, a l'actual departament de Gard, on l'església de Sant Joan Baptista servia de catedral.

El 1744, la diòcesi comprenia 80 parròquies, subdividides en 7 arxiprestats : Alès, Anduze, Meyrueis, Lasalle, Saint-Hippolyte, Sumène i Le Vigan.

Al , a la diòcesi, es van instaurar dues abadies benedictines, Cendras i Saint-Pierre de Sauve, i un priorat cistercenc, Sant-Étienne de Tornac. L'abadia femenina de Santa Chiara existia al poble d'Alès des del .

Història
En el període merovingià, al territori d'Alès, es va erigir la diòcesi d'Arisitum, que va sobreviure fins al  i posteriorment va ser annexada a la diòcesi de Nimes.

Després de l'Edicte de Nantes, els hugonots van refugiar-se a Alès com a plaça de seguretat que se'ls hi va garantir. La Convenció d'Alès el 29 de juny de 1629, va posar fi als privilegis dels hugonots i, després de la pau d'Alais, van haver d'abandonar la ciutat. Per enfortir i consolidar la presència catòlica al territori, el rei Lluís XIV de França i el bisbe EspritFléchier de Nimes van proposar la creació de la diòcesi, que fou constituïda per segona vegada el 17 de maig de 1694 amb la butllaAnimarumzelus del Papa Innocenci XII, obtenint el territori de la diòcesi de Nîmes. Era sufragània de l'arxidiòcesi de Narbona. Els límits foren: al nord el bisbat de Mende, a l'est el bisbat d'Usès, al sud el bisbat de Nimes, i a l'oest els bisbats de Lodeva, Vabres i Rodès.

El primer bisbe va ser François Chevalier de Saulx, ex vicari de la diòcesi de Nimes, qui havia estat enviat des de 1687 per combatre l'heretgia i evangelitzar el territori d'Alès. El 1733, el bisbe Charles de Bannesd'Avejan va fundar un col·legi eclesiàstic a la ciutat episcopal, que també va servir com a seminari.

La diòcesi va ser de curta durada. De fet, va ser suprimida després del concordat amb la butlla Qui Christi Domini del Papa Pius VII del 29 de novembre de 1801 i el seu territori incorporat al de les diòcesis d'Avinyó i Mende. El 6 d'octubre de 1822, el territori de l'antiga seu d'Alès va passar a formar part de la diòcesi restaurada de Nimes.

A partir del 27 d'abril de 1877 els bisbes de Nimes porten el títol de la diòcesi suprimida d'Alès.

Cronologia episcopal
 François Chevalier de Saulx † (17 de maig de 1694 - d'octubre de 1712 mort)
 Louis François-Gabriel de Henin-Liétard † (28 d'abril de 1713 - 27 de maig de 1720 nomenat arquebisbe d'Embrun)
 Charles de Bannes d'Avejan † (16 de juny de 1721 - 23 de maig de 1744 mort)
 Louis-François de Vivet de Montclus † (18 de desembre de 1744 - 21 de juliol de 1755 mort)
 Jean-Louis du Buisson de Beauteville † (16 de febrer de 1756 - 25 de març de 1776 mort)
 Pierre-Marie-Madeleine Cortois de Baloré † (20 de maig de 1776 - 20 de juny de 1784 renuncià)
 Louis-François de Bausset-Roquefort † (25 de juny de 1784 - 1801 renuncià)

Fonts

 Anuari pontifici publicat a www.catholic-hierarchy.org a la pàgina Diocese of Ales
 A. Rastoul, v. 1. Alais, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. I, París 1909, coll. 1319-1321
 Denis de Sainte-Marthe, Gallia christiana, vol. VI, París 1739, coll. 515-524
 Histoire générale de Languedoc, di Claude Devic e Joseph Vaissète, Tomo IV, Ed. Privat, Toulouse, 1872, segona part, pp. 446-447
 Pius Bonifacius Gams, SeriesepiscoporumEcclesiaeCatholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 483
 Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 5, p. 76; vol. 6, p. 74
 Butlla Animarumzelus, a Bullarum diplomatum et privilegiorum sanctorum Romanorum pontificum Taurinens iseditio, Vol. XX, pp. 623-630
 Butlla Qui Christi Domini, a Bullarii romani continuatio, Tomo XI, Romae 1845, pp. 245-249

Bisbats de França
Bisbats suprimits
Bisbats erigits al segle XVII
Bisbat d'Alès


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If you've ever wanted to capture a photo or video from your own point-of-view without strapping a Go Pro camera to your head, then the Snapchat Spectacles are your best bet. Coming in three different styles, the sunglasses give the wearer the opportunity to capture short HD movie clips and high-quality images at the tap of a button.
Two camera lenses are fixed at the respective sides of the frames, and the glasses are also water resistant and contain polarized lenses to prevent UV rays from reaching your eyes. The glasses can send the footage or photos straight to your phone, which you can use to upload to your Snapchat account. The Nico and Veronica options cost $199 and the Original model is $149.
Love music and sunglasses but hate having to wear headphones? Bose clearly thinks the same way, as its new sunglasses are designed with miniature speakers that only the wearer can hear. Coming in two classic varieties, you can buy Bose sunglasses for $199 in the Rondo option (circular frames) and Alto, which are more in the traditional square style. The Alto design looks fairly similar to what you might find from Ray-Ban with its Justin model, which is perhaps the most popular in the online range.
The sunglasses are naturally UVA/UVB protected, which means against the highest UV rays, and come with Bluetooth connectivity, robust materials, and have an integrated microphone. Perfect for when you want to hear exterior sounds but still want some nice beats when chilling in your summer outfit at the beach, these sunglasses are bound to be a big hit during the sunny seasons.
These are perhaps the most interesting sunglasses on this list, simply because they seem to do something quite magical! The IRL (in real life) sunglasses can block transmissions coming from TV screens, which is incredibly useful if you ever walk around the city and witness just how many adverts are playing!
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Home » French wheat harvest plentiful; corn suffering from heat wave
French wheat harvest plentiful; corn suffering from heat wave
PARIS, FRANCE — The 2015 French wheat crop is estimated at 39.3 million tonnes, up 4.7% from last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood, and Forestry's August report. The yield is the highest in five years.
Durum wheat production is expected to increase 18% but production will remain 14% lower than the five-year average.
Maize (corn) harvest is expected to reach 13.5 million tonnes, down 28% from last year. The month of July was particularly warm during the first 20 days. The heat waves and lack of rain thwarted the development of crops to be harvested in the fall. The yields of these crops should be sharply down from previous years. The final yield will depend in large part on weather conditions in August and September.
Barely is estimated at 12.2 million tonnes, up 4% from last year.
Rapeseed production is estimated at 5 million tonnes, down 9% from 2014 and 1.4% from the five-year average.
Business Commodity & Stock barley corn wheat
Kansas wheat harvest suffering from lower yields
Global corn, soy crops seen as plentiful
Dry French weather threatens corn and other crops


I lost/misplaced my armour thyroid while I was vacationing in Cabos. I did without my pills for 7 days. I am home and began taking them, today.
I began to feel tired, swollen, very cold, and had drier skin. I had puffy eyes, insominia, and too. My body temp was 96.2. My muscles began to ache. I gained 5 pounds.
I am wondering how long it will take to begin to feel normal again? Should I double my medication dose for a day or so?
Did you begin to have these symptoms while off the medication or when you restarted the medication?
My hands and feet began to swell the first day off the medication. Gradually, the other symptoms occurred. My body temperature was 96.1.
I have taken my pills for two days, now. My eyes are less puffy, and I lost almost 3 pounds. My swollen hands and feet are normal. My temperature is 97 now. I am still cold, and tired, and have slight insomnia.
I haven't doubled the prescribed dosage, however, I took 1/8 pill more than I normally do. I will take the regular dose, tomorrow.


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Attorney General Eric Holder Calls for Redskins to Change
Attorney General Eric Holders Says Change 'Redskins'
ICT Staff
An overwhelming majority of Democrats have said that the Redskins should change their name: Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, 49 US Senators and President Obama included. Now, add to the list U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
During an appearance on ABC's This Week, Holder was asked if the name should change.
"I'm going to speak very personally now," Holder said. "The name ought to be changed. It's an offensive name. The Redskins, that organization is a great one. It's a team with a storied history that has huge amounts of support in Washington, D.C., and in the 21st century they could increase their fan base, increase their level of support, if they did something that from my perspective that is so obviously right."
RELATED: There's a 'Redskins Pride' Caucus in the Virginia Legislature. What?
Despite the growing opposition to the name, one group of 'Redskins' fans recently pushed back on the name change. Some Virginia legislators have created a "Redskins Pride Caucus," and say that the name should not be changed because to them, it's about "community unity," rather than anything offensive.
Cynthia Chavez Lamar named director of the National Museum of the American Indian
Former Governor Bill Richardson and Cherokee Nation leaders to deliver 100 pairs of shoes to Navajo students in Crownpoint, New Mexico
U.S. Department of Transportation announces more than $10 million in Tribal Transit Grant Awards to 36 tribal governments in rural areas
Buy-Back Program sends offers to landowners with fractional interests at the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation
Interior and Agriculture Departments to hold consultations with tribes and Alaska Natives on take of fish and wildlife in Alaska
U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson leads bill to establish Congressional Charter for American Indian Veterans
Sundance puts spotlight on Indigenous films
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Paul-Émile Bécat (né à Paris  le  et mort à Paris  le ) est peintre, graveur et dessinateur français et titulaire d'un premier second grand prix de Rome en 1920. Il est mieux connu aujourd'hui comme illustrateur de livres érotiques.

Biographie
Il est élève des peintres Gabriel Ferrier et François Flameng et expose au Salon des artistes français dès 1913. Il se fait connaître pour des portraits d'écrivains français.

Membre de la Société coloniale des artistes français, il effectue plusieurs voyages en Afrique et remporte les deux principaux prix africains, le prix pour l'Afrique-Occidentale française et le prix pour l'Afrique-Équatoriale française, s'imposant comme un bon représentant de l'africanisme.

De retour de voyages au Congo français, au Gabon, et au Soudan, il se spécialise à partir de 1933 dans la technique de la pointe sèche qu'il met au service de textes érotiques et galants : on lui doit également le jeu de cartes Le Florentin, édité par Les Jarres d'Or à Paris.

Il est l'époux de l'artiste brodeuse Marie Monnier et devint par elle le beau-frère d'Adrienne Monnier, libraire-éditrice et femme de lettres.

Œuvre graphique
 Pierre Louÿs, Aphrodite : mœurs antiques ; Les Aventures du roi Pausole, éditions Le Vasseur et Cie, 1947, in 4° en ff. sous emboîtage, illustré de 18 gravures à l'eau-forte en couleurs tiré à 540 exemplaires numérotés
 Pierre l'Arétin, Ragionamenti, Paris, éditions G. Raoult, 1959, 2 vol. in 4° (24,5 x 19,5 cm) en feuilles sous chemise et emboîtage d'éditeur
 Brantôme, Vie des dames galantes
 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses , Paris, Athêna, s.d., 2 vol. in 8° (22 x 17 cm)
 Paul Verlaine, Les Amies
 Mathieu-François Pidansat de Mairobert, La Secte des anandrynes. Confessions de mademoiselle Sapho, Paris, Bibliothèque des curieux, 1952, tirage à 750 exemplaires numérotés, 12 pointes sèches en couleurs
 Théophile Gautier, Fortunio ou l'Eldorado, éditions Germaine Raoult, 1956, tirage à 390 exemplaires numérotés
 Antoine Bret (attribué à), La Belle Alsacienne ou Telle mère, Telle fille, Paris, Le Livre du Bibliophile, 1958, 12 illustrations galantes  en couleurs
 Georges Marilly, L'Apprentissage amoureux, Le Livre du Bibliophile, 1959, 12 illustrations galantes en couleurs
 Faits et gestes du vicomte de Nantel - Ma vie de garçon, Le Livre du Bibliophile, Paris, 1960, 12 illustrations galantes en couleurs
 René Boylesve, Le Parfum des îles Borromées, édition d'art H. Piazza, 1933
 Voltaire, Le Taureau blanc, 1 des 5 volumes des contes et romans de Voltaire, Paris, Arc-en ciel, 1951, 5 volumes in 8°, plein chagrin bordeau, dos à 4 nerfs, compartiments décorés, tirage limité à  exemplaires, illustrés de 60 H.T. en couleurs comprenant Candide, Les Lettres d'Amabed, Zadig ou la destinée, Micromégas, Le Blanc et le Noir, L'Homme aux quarante Écus
 John Cleland, Mémoires de Fanny Hill, femme de plaisir, s.l.n.d. 2 vol. in 12° brochés sous chemise et étui, 10 pointes sèches H.T. très libres, tirage limité à 550 exemplaires
 Pierre Louys, Histoire du roi Gonzalve et des 12 princesses, Liège, aux dépens d'un dilettante, 1935. Grand in 8° en ff sous chemise et étui, orné de 6 superbes eaux-fortes originales en couleurs H.T. Tirage limité à 171 exemplaires.
 Huit images avec leur texte, Paris, 1932. Édition originale : Suite de 8 eaux-fortes H.T. très libres. Texte, couverture et justification entièrement gravés ainsi que les 18 vignettes les accompagnant. La plus fameuse suite érotique de Bécat. Très rare.
 Paul Verlaine, Œuvres libres, Bruxelles, 1948, aux dépens d'un groupe de bibliophiles, in 4°, orné de 12 lithographies libres en couleurs, tirage à 522 exemplaires numérotés.
 Spaddy (Renée Dunan), Colette ou les amusements de bon ton, roman, à Saint Cloud, au temple de Cythère, Paris, Duflou, 1936, édition originale in 8° de 15 pages tirée à 350 exemplaires sur pur fil Lafuma et illustré de 12 planches en couleurs
 Spaddy, Dévergondages, souvenirs érotiques, Saint-Raphaël, A la fontaine des nymphes, Maurice Duflou, 1937, roman inédit, édité pour un groupe d'amateurs et non mis dans le commerce, tirage à 260 exemplaires numérotés et orné de 12 illustrations H.T libres, en couleurs
 Varley (Michèle Nicolaï), Une jeune fille à la page. A la villa Brigitte, collection des deux hémisphères, Paris, Duflou, vers 1939, in 8° de 140 p. Rare édition limitée à 400 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin surfin, orné de 12 gravures libres en couleurs.
 L'Œuvre libertine des poètes du , Paris, Georges Briffaut, 1951, illustrations originales galantes
 Ovide, L'Art d'aimer, pointes-sèches in texte et lettrines de Bécat , Paris, Athêna, s.d.
 Ovide, Les Amours, pointes-sèches in texte et lettrines, de Bécat, Paris, Athêna, 1954, 1 des 185 exempl. numérotés avec une suite en noir avec remarques
 Alexis Piron, Œuvres badines, compositions originales en couleurs galantes de Bécat, Paris  Georges, Briffaut, 1949 avec une suite en noir des 18 illustrations
 Paul Verlaine, Chansons pour Elle et Odes en son honneur, pointes-sèches de Bécat, Paris, Les Heures claires, 1954, in 4° (27 x 22 cm) en feuilles sous chemise et emboîtage d'éditeur
 Paul Verlaine, Fêtes galantes, illustré de dessins originaux de Bécat, Paris, Le livre de qualité, s.d. in 8° (24,5 x 12,5 cm)
 Paul Verlaine, Poèmes d'amour, Paris, Georges Guillot, 1946, 1 des 474 exemplaires sur Rives à la Forme, 21 pointes sèches de Bécat, coloriées à la main par Jean et Paulette Monnier et 45 lettrines de Marie Monnier
 Denis Diderot, La Religieuse, Paris, Pierre Larive, 1947, 1 des 250 sur pur chiffon Lafuma, comportant une suite en noir et complet des 15 illustrations galantes en couleurs
 Nerciat, Le Doctorat impromptu, Paris, Édition Eryx, 1946, in 4° (27,5 x 21 cm) avec 8 illustrations H.T., une suite en noir et 2 lithographies libres ajoutées, 1 des 200 sur vélin de Renage
 Crébillon Fils, Tanzaï et Néadarné, Paris, éditions Eryx, 1950, in 4° (23,5 x 29 cm) à en cahiers sous chemise cartonnée et emboîtage. Un des 28 sur Vélin de Rives avec une suite en noir, une suite en sanguine et la planche refusée en noir
 René Boylesve, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, Paris, les Heures claires, 1951 suivi des Nouvelles Leçons d'amour dans un parc, pointes-sèches de Bécat, Paris, les Heures claires, 1952, in 4° (28,5 x 23 cm) en feuilles sous couverture rempliée, chemise et emboîtage d'éditeur. Un des 270 avec une suite en noir avec remarques
 René Boylesve, Le Pied fourchu, Paris, Éditions du Baniyan, 1959, in 4° (28,5 x 23 cm), un des 150 exemplaires numérotés sur Rives avec une suite des gravures avec remarques, 15 pointes-sèches
 René Boylesves, Les Bains de Bade, Paris, Éditions du Banyan, 1958, in 4°, en feuilles sous couverture rempliée, chemise et emboîtage d'éditeur, pointes-sèches originales de Bécat, 1 des 350 sur Rives
 Jean de La Fontaine, Les Amours de Psyché et Cupidon, Paris, les Heures claires, 1955, in 4° (28 x 23 cm), tirage à 500 exemplaires complet de 15 pointes-sèches de Bécat.
 Brededin (Docteur Jacobus), La Vie  des seins, Paris, Les Heures claires, s.d. (1955), tiré à 450 exemplaires, bel exemplaire  relié 1/2 chagrin rouge à coins, tranche dorée sous emboîtage, compler des 15 pointes-sèches dont 1 frontispice et 7 H.T.
 Dorat, Les Baisers, ill. de Bécat, s.l. (Paris), Eryx, 1947, in 4° demi maroquin rouge à coins, dos à 5 nerfs, tr. dorée sous étui, illustré de 21 hors-texte en couleurs. Tirage limité à 695 exemplaires. 1 des 195 sur chiffon Renage auxquels il a été ajouté une suite en noir des aquarelles et une suite coloriée des 7 originaux inédits réservée à l'exemplaire .
 Dr Jacobus Brededin, La Femme, confidences intimes. Édition de l'Ibis, Paris, 1968, 1 vol. in 4°, tiré à 800 exemplaires numérotés et illustrés de 12 pointes sèches en couleurs, reliure d'éditeur en pleine soie rouge ornée.
 Raymond Radiguet, Le Diable au corps, 12 compositions gravées en couleurs de Bécat, Paris, Georges Guillot, 1957, in 4° (28 x 22,5 cm) en feuilles sous chemise et emboîtage d'éditeur.
 Hugues Rebell, Les Nuits chaudes du cap français. Paris, Éditions Germaine Raoult, 1953, in 4°(28 x 23) en feuilles rempliée et emboîtage d'éditeur, 1 des 69 exemplaires numérotés avec une suite en noir avec remarques  et une planche refusée en 2 états.
 Montesquieu, Le Temple de Gnide. Éditions Eryx, 1954, in 8° reliure plein chagrin rouge, 1 des 75 exemplaires numérotés enrichi de 2 suites sur Annam en 2 tons des 11 pl. gravées avec un envoi de Bécat
 Fougeret de Monbron, Le Canapé. 11 pointes-sèches originales de Bécat, Paris, Eryx, sous la direction de H. Neumayer, 1955, in 12 en ff, 1 des 75 exemplaires avec 2 suites avec remarques et une planche refusée
 Casanova, Mes amours à Venise, Paris, George Raoult, 1954, in 4° en ff sous emboîtage d'éditeur , illustré de 20 gravures originales à l'eau-forte en noir et blanc, tirage limité à 410 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin de Rives
 Diderot, Les Bijoux indiscrets, Paris, Levasseur et Cie, in 8° broché illustré de 21 pointes sèches originales en couleurs, tirage limité à 511 exemplaires numérotés, 1 des 410  sur vélin de rives
 Prévot (François-André dit l'abbé de), Histoire du chevalier de Grieux et de Manon Lescaux, Paris, Levasseur et Cie, éditeur Marcel Lubineau, 1941, in 4° en ff sous emboîtage d'éditeur, illustré de 20 gravures originales en couleurs  in et en hors-texte, tiré à 500 exemplaires numérotés, 1 des 450 sur Arches
 Jacques Cazotte, Le Diable amoureux, la Tradition, Paris, 1936, in 8° illustré de 16 pointes-sèches en couleurs, tiré à 500 exemplaires numérotés
 Gabriel Soulage, Le Malheureux Petit Voyage ou la misérable fin de la Marsaille raportée par Marie-Toinon Cerisette sa fidèle et dévouée servante, avec 20 gravures sur cuibvres en couleurs de Bécat, aux éditions du Baniyan, 1950, in 4° de 186 pp, tirage limité à  140 exemplaires numérotés, 1 des 400 sur demi-chiffon, exemplaire n° 429, sous double emboîtage d'éditeur
 Pierre de Ronsard, Les Amours, Paris, Les heures claires, 1950, 21 pointes sèches de l'artiste, tirage à 500 ex.
 Gérard de Nerval, Sylvie, Paris, Les heures claires, 1949, in 4° de 150 p., 1 des 15 sur vélin, contenant 1 dessin original en couleurs, 1 cuivre, 1 suite en noir avec remarques des illustrations gravées sur cuivre et 1 suite des illustrations sur bois

Notes et références

Liens externes

Bibliographie de livres illustrés par Bécat
 illustrés par Becat espagnol

Naissance en février 1885
Naissance dans le 11e arrondissement de Paris
Graveur français du XXe siècle
Graveur à la pointe sèche
Illustrateur français du XXe siècle
Illustrateur érotique
Dessinateur français
Peintre français du XXe siècle
Peintre figuratif français
Peintre de nu
Prix de Rome en peinture
Décès en janvier 1960
Décès dans le 14e arrondissement de Paris
Décès à 74 ans


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