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Attorney For Astroworld Victim's Family Says Travis Scott's Interview 'Didn't Heal Them'
By:Aisling O'Connor
Dec. 10 2021, Published 7:57 a.m. ET
After Travis Scott sat down for his first interview since the Astroworld tragedy in November, an attorney for the family of one of the victims said the sit-down was not comforting.
Rudy Peña, 23, lost his life at the fatal November 5th festival. In light of the Peña family's loss, they filed a lawsuit against Scott and others affiliated with the festival. They also declined the rapper's offer to foot the funeral bill, it was reported.
The family's attorney, Valerie Cortinas Fisher, spoke to TMZ following the 30-year-old's interview on Thursday, December 9. "I can't speak to whether or not it helped him heal, it seemed to be an exercise in him expressing his feelings to the public so if that was his endeavor, I hope he was successful at it," she said of Kylie Jenner's baby daddy.
"As far as the family, Rudy's family, goes, it didn't heal them," she reportedly added.
TRAVIS SCOTT SPOTTED PACING OUTSIDE HIS $14 MILLION HOUSTON MANSION AS RAPPER REPORTEDLY STANDS TO LOSE BILLIONS IN ASTROWORLD LAWSUITS
"There have been some offers to speak at some point in the future to gauge Rudy's family's interest in doing so," the attorney revealed, before noting the family has not met with Scott, and it is not something they have considered at this point.
According to the attorney, Rudy's sister felt, "this person [Scott] ultimately, regardless of what he's saying in a 51-minute sit-down chat, has a history of encouraging, promoting, seeking, inciting behaviors at his events that are dangerous, could potentially be life-threatening and then were in fact, life-threathening."
ANGRY PROTESTOR HARASSES TRAVIS SCOTT OUTSIDE HOUSTON MANSION FOLLOWING DEADLY ASTROWORLD FESTIVAL: 'YOU DESTROYED LIVES'
"They keep going back to that belief and that feeling that you can portray yourself as sorry, you can portray yourself as very effected by these events and they hope that he is because they certainly are and will forever be," the attorney added, per the outlet.
The "Sicko Mode" singer spoke to Charlamagne tha God about the ordeal, maintaining that he didn't hear people in the audience screaming for help because he had in-ears. He also said the crowd's "high energy" was not what caused the incident, and alleged artists are typically told when to stop a show if there is something serious happening — but he was never told to do so.
DRAKE SPOTTED FOR FIRST TIME SINCE BEING SUED FOLLOWING APPEARANCE AT TRAVIS SCOTT'S DEADLY ASTROWORLD FESTIVAL
Though he wouldn't take full responsibility for the death of several concertgoers, Scott acknowledged he has a duty to prevent future incidents like this from happening.
"Fans come to the show to have a good experience, and I have a responsibility to figure out what happened here, I have a responsibility to figure out the solution," he admitted. "And hopefully this takes the first step into us as artists you know having that more insight of what's going on."
Scott has been hit with hundreds of lawsuits after ten people lost their lives and hundreds of attendees were injured.


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Old rugged crosses
Highway markers memorialize Appalachia's concrete evangelist
April 4, 2010 at 1:00 a.m. | Updated April 4, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.
by Randall Higgins
CLEVELAND, Tenn. -- Generations of Appalachian Southerners are familiar with the work of the Rev. Henry Harrison Mayes, even if they don't know his name.
Mr. Mayes, who was born in 1898 and died in 1986, spent a lifetime creating giant, rugged concrete crosses that stood by roadsides before there were interstates. They proclaimed messages such as "Get Right With God'' to passing motorists.
Two of the crosses recently have been standing in the way of area highway expansions.
One was on Dalton Pike in front of Dalton Pike Baptist Church, where utility lines are being moved and grading done in preparation for a widening.
"It was on the right of way and would have been destroyed had not the members of the church moved it," local teacher and historian Debbie Moore said. "It took about three hours."
State Rep. Kevin Brooks, R-Cleveland, asked the Tennessee Department of Transportation to give the church time to move the cross. With a backhoe loaned from Caldwell Paving, men from the church moved the cross out of the right of way.
A second Mayes cross did not fare as well. It stood on U.S. Highway 411 in Polk County and was broken during highway widening.
According to the Museum of Appalachian Culture in Clinton, Tenn., Mr. Mayes was a young coal miner in Middlesboro, Ky., when he was crushed in a mine accident. He promised to serve God if he survived, and he kept his word.
"At first he tried being a preacher, but he just didn't have the voice for it," said John Rice Irwin, who collected antiques for the Museum of Appalachia. "He tried singing, too, and that didn't work."
Mr. Irwin was a young man when he met Mr. Mayes, who was old and frail. Mr. Irwin's antiques collection includes some crosses that were at Mr. Mayes' house when he died.
Mr. Mayes tried other media, including a message painted on the sides of a sow that roamed the mining camp in Middlesboro, Mr. Irwin said. He also painted his messages on coal-train cars that would go across the country.
"Yeah, the railroad got on to him about that," Mr. Irwin said.
So Mr. Mayes turned to the highway crosses. He used metal at first before he found his true medium, concrete. He mixed his own concrete and built his own molds from castoff coal-mine materials.
Mr. Mayes never learned to drive, but a couple of times a year he and friends with a truck would roam the highways looking for places to put up crosses.
"No, they didn't have a particular place in mind when they started," Mr. Irwin said. "He would just see a good place and get out and put one up."
Like the ones in Bradley and Polk counties, just about all Mr. Mayes' crosses went up in road rights of way, Mr. Irwin said.
"He was always getting in trouble with highway departments," he said.
Around Middlesboro, Mr. Mayes was known as a lovable character. Web sites devoted to him describe him as wearing unusual hats and riding around on the bicycle he called his Jeep.
When Mr. Mayes died, he was thinking ahead. Among the crosses he left behind at home, some carry detailed instructions on how to erect them on Saturn or the Moon.

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Columbia and Richland County now have under consideration three commercial projects asking to pay only 50 percent of their taxes for 15 years in return for some public parking. This is being done without any prior strategic parameters for tax break qualifications or quantification of the need for these amenities in the proposed locations. And, in 15 years when the tax abatement goes away, so does the so-called public benefit. The parking garages now belong to the developers with no public parking.
This current dealmaking reactive approach used by our city is giving us a bad name. Regional and national developers know that if they come to Columbia and plead high taxes, they can get a deal that will fatten their wallets and enhance their competitive advantage. Columbia is gaining a reputation for "getting played," and more developers are out there watching how all of these current requests for deals will play out. They are lining up ready to make a pitch and play the game. This action will continue to hurt the tax- paying public.
We all know that taxes are high in Richland County in large part due to copious nontaxable properties. But the way to change this is not to give tax breaks to new market entrants that hurt existing businesses. All the taxing entities — school boards, county and city — should work together to hold the line on taxes and develop a shared, pro-active economic development plan. We should agree on how and where we want to grow, continue to invest in making Columbia a great place to live and work, and use incentives to accomplish the public's goals — not the developers'. Necessary infrastructure, bonus densities, an efficient regulatory process and local government coordination would go a long way towards spurring responsible development.
So let's change channels from "Let's Make a Deal" to formulating and implementing a plan for prosperity.
Joel A. Smith III is dean emeritus of the University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business;,former president of Bank of America East; and founding chairman of the Central SC Alliance.


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"Was I wrong ?" in Hindi ?
In this daily lesson , we will learn to make sentences on these two words in Hindi.
मैं गलत था /थी | (main galat thaa) = I was wrong.
क्या मैं गलत था / थी ? (kyaa main galat thaa ?) = Was I wrong ?
क्या मैं गलत बोला /बोली ? (kyaa main galat bolaa/bolee) = Did I speak wrong ?
पीटर सही था | (peter sahee thaa) = Peter was Right.
पीटर सही नहीं था | (peter sahee nahi thaa) = Peter was not right.
या तुम गलत हो या मैं | (ya tum galat ho ya main) = Either you or I am wrong.
आप गलत बस में हो | (aap galat bas me ho) = You are on the wrong bus.
यह गलत नंबर है | (ya galat number hai)= This is wrong number.


During prolonged periods of high temperatures and minimal rainfall, open heathland or wooded areas can be at risk of fire as grass and foliage becomes like a tinder box.
Often ignition can be caused by the magnifying effect of glass bottles or tin cans left in the countryside. Other actions such as having fires or barbecues in the countryside can lead to equally large fires which can spread quickly depending on the strength of the wind.


Highland Gold Mining Limited ("Highland"), the AIM quoted Russian gold producer, announces, with effect from 10 September 2013, the appointment of Mr Colin Belshaw to the Board of Directors as an additional independent non-executive director.
Mr Belshaw (59) gained a Dip.CSM (1st Class) in 1979 fr om the Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall, UK and is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), and registered as an Incorporated Engineer (I.Eng) with the Engineering Council of the United Kingdom. He has held numerous operating and corporate positions, including being responsible for Kinross Gold's Kubaka and Birkachan mining operations in Russia. His most recent executive role was as DRC based COO of Banro Corporation of Toronto, fr om which he resigned in March 2013.
The Directors are pleased to welcome Colin to the board wh ere his extensive operational experience at leading international mining companies will provide a valuable contribution to Highland's technical and operational development.
Other than the information provided in the Notes below, there is no other information required to be disclosed pursuant to Schedule 2 paragraph (g) (i) to (viii) of the AIM Rules.
Mr Belshaw resigned in April 2002 as a Director of Nevan Mining plc which was placed in receivership in December 2002.
He or persons connected with him have no current interest in Highland.


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Mishka Co-Founder Greg Rivera: The JG2Land Interview
Photo via Wad Mag.
Mishka is the clothing line where urban flavor meets the flea market, where stylized renderings of horned cyclopses and disembodied eyeballs pop out of neon frameworks without seeming gaudy. Alongside pal Mikhail Bortnik, Greg Rivera started the line in Brooklyn in the early 2000s; today Mishka is consistently pointed to as one of the most interesting and/or unique street wear brands on any continent (an accurate statement in that Mishka, aside from two stores in California and its flagship New York location, has a retail spot in Toyko).
Greg and I have been friends since high school, and occasionally we'll stop texting each other "Webster" references long enough to speak via phone. What follows is the most recent of those phone conversations in which Greg and I discuss the current state of Mishka and where he and the company might go in the future. There is also some talk about roadside attractions and Greg's legendary collection of Mr. T memorabilia.
GREG RIVERA: Tell me when the interview has started. Tell me when we're on the record.
JAMES GREENE, JR: Right now, the interview has started.
GR: My favorite movie of all time is Bad Ronald.
JG2: Of course it is. I ask people this question all the time because I'm obsessed with turning points—is there a specific moment in time when you realized Mishka was successful? Like one event you can point to?
GR: Well, there was definitely a moment in time when [Mikhail and I] realized we had to quit our day jobs to focus full time on Mishka. Mikhail, I think, was actually fired from some of his other jobs for working on [Mishka] stuff. I was still a [tv production assistant], riding around in a truck, trying to do our business on the phone…but as for one moment? You know, things are so crazy, it's just been a gradual thing…and we haven't reached a level of success where we're [financially] comfortable.
JG2: Is there a benchmark for that, that level of "comfortable?"
GR: I hope so! [laughs] We're trying to attain more sales…there are times when I've been out and a random kid will tell me how much the brand has inspired them, and that's a success. I know there have been times over the years that people have been appreciative of what I've been involved in, there's success that way, but monetarily we're trying to be more successful—not because we want Ferraris or anything, but you know, it would be nice to buy my own apartment in Brooklyn. Just to have money not to struggle.
JG2: So how do you move forward on that?
GR: We're trying to work on greater distribution. Our stores aren't all in great retail areas. Our Brooklyn store is on the south side of Williamsburg, there's nothing else around it, really, and our [California stores] are in up and coming [areas] but maybe aren't on the best streets. Mishka has an extreme and dedicated fan base, but we need that to translate to sales…without violating the integrity of the brand.
JG2: And what's something that might violate integrity of the brand?
GR: The only thing that could effect our brand is…oversaturation? I hear about some stores ordering fifty-thousand units of one hat, and that's a lot hats, you know? That's a lot of people wearing it, but if everyone's wearing it how unique is it?
pictured: Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint in a Mishka eyeball jacket.
JG2: And that's Mishka's signature. Standing out from other brands.
GR: Yeah, but to be honest we're still kinda figuring out who we are.
JG2: You don't have an answer for that by now? Well, I guess it's not easy to define exactly.
GR: We ask people, "What is Mishka?" and what we've come up with basically is that we're the weirdos, the kids who never fit in.
JG2: Your Brooklyn store, the first store, has been open for five years. Does it feel like five years?
GR: We've been in that space seven years, actually. At first it was just our office and warehouse. But…you know, we've been doing brand for eleven years total, and it definitely doesn't feel like yesterday.
JG2: You're not shy about expressing your frustrations with running Mishka on Twitter. I guess since you're a co-founder there isn't much blowback on that? Or has it affected things inside the company from time to time?
GR: It has. I've been told by my partner to cool off, and I've heard through the grapevine that employees aren't cool with it. I've really been conscious lately not to vent about the company because I don't want people to think I'm not appreciative of Mishka's success or think I'm some constant grump. But also, it's not uncommon to see that on Twitter, you know? You see artists and singers and stuff doing it all the time. With Twitter, part of being on there is that you're always looking for a reaction. But yeah, but I've definitely deleted tweets, I've tried to censor myself.
JG2: Do you worry about how you're perceived?
GR: Sometimes. I just don't want people to think I'm not positive and happy. I am.
JG2: To be fair, I'm only presenting half the picture here. You do plenty of Mishka boosting on Twitter as well, obviously. You definitely seem at times like the company's biggest fan.
GR: Yeah, yeah. Still, I was thinking about making a shirt that says "Ask me about my depressing tweets."
JG2: I'd buy that. Switching gears a little, you're renowned for your Mr. T fandom—or rather, your Mr. T collection, the homemade dolls and mass produced trinkets and such. How has your appreciation of T evolved over the years? Is the passion still the same?
GR: I was talking to someone about this last night. The fact that, when I moved [to New York] in 2002 and started with Mishka '03, when someone would ask me what I did, the last thing I would mention was Mishka. [mumbling] "Oh yeah, I help my friend with these t-shirts." It was more about the [Mr. T] collection. Right now…Mr. T is not as important a thing in my life anymore. I'm actually doing another gallery show with the collection in Tokyo soon and I'm gonna sell a bunch of stuff there. Not the dolls, but all the other stuff. I don't need to own the world's largest Mr. T collection anymore. I had the goal when I was younger to have it, and it was fulfilled. I'm okay being that guy, but I'm also ready to not be that guy.
Greg amongst his his Mr. T dolls, all made by different people from the same do-it-yourself pattern.
JG2: When you say you're ready to "not be that guy" do you really mean you're feeling irritated with still being the Mr. T guy, or do you just mean you're at peace with letting it go?
GR: I've just got more dynamic things in my life now. It's not to say I'm embarrassed at all, it's just I've got Mishka, and that's more of an accomplishment.
JG2: Wasn't there going to be a book about your Mr. T collection? You know, with your partner in T collecting, Mike Essl, showing off all your stuff combined?
GR: Yeah, it still might happen, I've actually got to e-mail Mike and see where he's at…he became a tenured professor at Cooper, and he has a wife and kid, and he got really caught up in all the, y'know, the tuition debates about keeping Cooper a free school…so it just never lined up. And Mike never wanted to do a regular collecting book, like you see with people taking their own pictures that turn out shitty, just to pump out a book on collecting. Mike's friends with Chip Kidd, who did that Batman Collected book…that book changed the way [collecting books] could be made, like very artistic and [with] fanciful design. So Mike wanted to take the time to make sure our Mr. T collection book was awesome like that.
JG2: So you don't self-actualize through your collection anymore. On a personal level, is meeting Mr. T still important to you?
GR: Um…yes and no. I think it would be shame if I never did get to meet him…[but] as I've gotten older it would be more to just shake his hand and maybe get an autograph. I would not even go there about my collection. I have no desire to meet him to brag about my collection…and it's important to note that I'm not some obsessed freak focused solely on Mr. T. I was obsessed with the idea of collecting something, and that something happened to be related to Mr. T, who I always enjoyed.
JG2: Do you see yourself being involved with Mishka for the rest of your life? Do you think it's something you could ever walk away from or sell or take a back seat on?
GR: Well, Mishka's afforded me a lot of things I never thought I'd have, it's allowed me to meet people I never thought I'd meet…it's put me in world where I can do things I can't do otherwise. If I can make money and be comfortable, I would stay [in this role] forever. If the opportunity to sell the company for enough money to quote-unquote not have to work again came along, I might take it. But, you know, by now I hope it's clear [Mikhail] and I are in Mishka for long haul. We were there at the beginning and we'll be there at end. There have been times I've wanted to quit, where I thought, "I can't do this anymore," but I think I'm past that. I've figured out a way to have my own time, doing my own art and painting.
JG2: There aren't any interests or endeavors you think about where you could only do them if you were completely divorced from Mishka?
GR: No. I can do Mishka and other things.
JG2: What was the last Bad Ronald-type movie you saw? The last thing that really tripped you out.
GR: The last thing I saw that tripped me out was Tourist Trap. Have you seen that?
JG2: No. What's deal with it?
GR: It's a '70s campy thrasher film, the concept being…tourist traps [laughs], which I think even at this film's release in 1979 were a dying trend. The tourist trap was already becoming thing of past by then. You know, the ads give you all these promises about great stuff and you get there and it's people just peddling junk. The twist in the movie is this guy turns people into human mannequins.
JG2: What's the most disappointed you've been with a real roadside attraction? I feel like you've been to hundreds.
GR: I don't know, I don't feel I've been to enough. I haven't done a whole lot of traveling within the States like that. In fact, the first time I went to South of The Border was that time we went [in 2005]…I think.
JG2: Really? That surprises me. I'd been there before as a kid, and we went it was like…well, like a lot of other things you think are so big and magical when you're a kid.
GR: I went to one of those "risque cafes" once, where they serve you topless. That wasn't great.
JG2: What wasn't great? Like, were the girls too—
GR: The coffee was bad. The coffee could have been better. [laughs]
JG2: What about Mystery Fun House? I know you went there a bunch of times before it closed. Ah, but I guess that wasn't really "roadside," couched in all that I-Drive shit.
GR: Yeah, not really…but the first time I went to Mystery Fun House was in 1985 with my family. I was six. This is when we still lived in Connecticut and we took a trip to Florida for Disney. I remember I saw one of those huge pamphlet stands—you know, the big wooden displays where all the area attractions have their pamphlets. Those are still around, sort of, but before the Internet they were major, that was the only way you knew about that kind of stuff. So I saw the Mystery Fun House pamphlet during that Disney trip and I begged my brother to take me. We went, and I cried the whole time. I was scared.
JG2: Of the wizard. Right?
GR: No, the wizard was the one thing that calmed me. I don't know if you remember, but Mystery Fun House was pretty scary. It had, like, goblins and demons…and it was really dark, there was one room with some kind of Last Supper with all these monsters…it was scary, but at the end they showed a video with the wizard where he said he was there to protect you, he wouldn't let anything harm you.
JG2: Oh, so he was a good wizard. I honestly didn't remember.
GR: Yeah, I trusted that wizard.


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Hospitals across the Greater Toronto Area welcomed the first babies of 2020 early Wednesday morning.
A bouncing baby boy was born at exactly the stroke of midnight at Humber River Hospital in Toronto. Weighing a healthy 8.3 pounds, Amiir Deeq Mohammed could be seen Wednesday afternoon in his mother's arms, swaddled in a knit blue blanket.
"I'm very happy," the boy's father said. "I am excited to have this wonderful, special baby boy."
Deeq Mohammed Farah said that his son was due a couple of weeks ago, so the family was not expecting a new year's baby.
"When the baby came, at the right time, the attendants, nurses and doctors, they explained it really well. They said you hit the new year," Farah said. "It was a great surprise,"
"It's a miracle boy."
Trillium Health Partners, a hospital system that serves certain areas of the GTA, said that their first baby of the year was delivered just 50 seconds after midnight on New Year's Day at Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga.
The little boy, named Aryan, weighed in at about eight pounds.
Speaking with CP24 on Wednesday morning, the baby's mother said that, at the time, she had no idea Aryan was the first child born in Mississauga this year.
"When the baby was delivered, everyone was so excited," Anu Walia said. "We couldn't be happier."
"Fifty seconds into the new year and we got this little precious gift," Simran Walia said while holding his newborn son in his arms.
Anu Walia's delivery date was scheduled for Jan. 13 and she said that her family was already preparing for a 2020 baby—but those plans were put on hold when she went into labour early.
"My maternity photoshoot, my baby shower, all the decorations, everything was planned around 2020, so when the labour hit yesterday, I was like, 'oh my gosh all that is going to go to waste now,'" Anu Walia said. "But the baby actually helped us out and came after the new year."
Other hospitals ring in New Year with newborns
Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto welcomed its first bundle of joy at 12:13 a.m. and Lakeridge Health in Oshawa announced their first baby was born at 12:34 a.m.
A new baby for a new decade! #MountSinaiToronto welcomed its first baby of 2020 @ 12:13 a.m. #NewYearsBaby #NewYears2020
@CBCToronto, @CP24, @CTVToronto , @TorontoStar @Toronto_Global @CityNews @TheTorontoSun @680NEWS pic.twitter.com/gsbyBIz6eZ
— Sinai Health (@SinaiHealth) January 1, 2020
Hello 2020! We are excited to announce the first baby born at #LakeridgeHealth. Baby Boy arrived at 12:34 am at Oshawa Hospital weighing 5lbs 5oz. Congratulations! @newsdurham @Oshawa_Express @GlobalDurham @CTVNews @CTVToronto @globalnews @City_tv @CP24 pic.twitter.com/QDxGhRFfJk
— Lakeridge Health (@LakeridgeHealth) January 1, 2020
At North York General Hospital, Kert Lin was born at 5:51 a.m.
"Congrats to the family and happy birthday to all our New Years babies," the hospital said.
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The Peloponnese peninsula is located in western Greece and is one of the most famous regions in Greece due to its rich history and beautiful landscape. The Isthmus and the Gulf of Corinth are separating the peninsula from mainland Greece. The peninsula is surrounded by the Ionian Sea on the west side and by the Aegean Sea on the east side.
It is home to much of Greek mythology and history. This is the place where ancient Greek Gods walked among mortals and meddled into their everyday life. This is the place where Hercules fought the Nemean Lion, where Paris of Troy eloped with Helen and Jason started his search for Golden Fleece with the Argonauts.
Over the years it was influenced by many different cultures that contributed to the unique look of the peninsula. It shouldn't be surprising to find Venetian balconies, Mycenaean palaces, Ottoman and Frankish buildings and fortresses and of course, ancient Greek temples.
The Peloponnese region is so beautiful and magical that you wouldn't know where to start exploring. Thankfully, we have a list of things that you might like to do in Peloponnese. Our first suggestion is to go and explore the astonishing cities of Nafplio and Patras. There are several ways you can explore these incredible cities and we recommend getting to know them through our food and cultural tours as we find it to be the best way to mingle with locals.
The second thing you surely have to scratch off of your 'to do' list is visiting the ancient monuments. Like we mentioned, the Peloponnese is the cradle of ancient Greek history and there are many mesmerising monuments that are here to tell you the story of the past times. One of them is Epidaurus Theatre that is considered to be the "perfect amphitheatre" due to its incredible acoustics. Even today the theatre is used during the famous and the oldest Athens and Epidaurus Festival of performing arts that takes place every summer. Another must-see historical monument, is the ancient town of Olympia, the location of where the Olympic Games originated. Stroll through this original setting, where ancient Greeks competed for olive wreath.
Also, on our list of things to do in the Peloponnese is to enjoy the long and sandy beaches of this peninsula. Your stay in Greece is not complete if you don't spend a day among golden beaches and crystal clear waters. The most popular beaches of the peninsula are: Simos Beach, Megaro Paralia, Panagia and Romanos Beach.
The city of Nafplio is one of the most popular destinations in Peloponnese. This city has a rich history, beautiful architecture and incredible hospitality. This former capital of Greece has something to offer to everyone. You can enjoy different adventurous activities like hiking, horse riding or bicycle riding through the town. Otherwise, you can enjoy slow walks across picturesque squares or have a drink in one of the charming little cafes. With different influences of various cultures, Nafplio is quite a sight to see.
The city of Patras is the third largest city in Greece and the capital of the Peloponnese region. It is built in the foothill of the Pannachaikon Mountain and is overlooking the Patras Gulf. Much like Nafplio, Patras also has a bit of everything to offer in order to satisfy different tastes. You can take a walk along the famous Agiou Nikolaou pedestrian street that leads to the old town. For romantic souls, we recommend going to the city's lighthouse to admire the splendid view of the port. Between the ancient monuments, pedestrian streets and squares to walk, picturesque taverns and cafes, you will not know which place to visit and enjoy first.
As everywhere in Greece, the Peloponnese have some incredibly tasty food to offer. The olives of this region – Nafplio specifically – are considered the best in all of Greece and the olive oil made from them is of the highest quality.
If there is one vegetable that can represent the cuisine of Peloponnese it is the eggplant. This vegetable is so prized to the point that in the town of Leonidio there is a festival that celebrates the harvest of the eggplant. The Greeks can prepare it in many ways such as stuffed with minced meat or as a main ingredient in traditional moussaka.
Another dish to look for is Lalangia, which is a thin fried dough stuffed with cheese and then covered in honey. This combination of sweet and sour will win you over for sure.
Finally, we have to mention the high quality of different ingredients that are being produced in Peloponnese that make every feast amazingly delicious. Those products are wine from the local vineyards, honey, olive oil and fresh fish that is served the same day when it is caught.


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Here's the latest on Google's downtown San Jose…
Google village in downtown San Jose would connect local neighborhoods, company vows
Overview of downtown San Jose's Google village, Diridon train station, and SAP Center, in a visualization. Google's proposed transit-oriented village would be a catalyst to connect people and nature with an array of experiences, a grand plan that would integrate the game-changing project with numerous adjacent neighborhoods, as well as the Diridon transit station, according to a presentation by the company Wednesday night whose start was delayed by a noisy protest.
By George Avalos | gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: May 23, 2018 at 9:21 pm | UPDATED: May 24, 2018 at 7:25 pm
SAN JOSE — Google's proposed transit-oriented village would be a catalyst to connect people and nature with an array of experiences, a grand plan that would integrate the game-changing project with numerous adjacent neighborhoods, according to a presentation by the company Wednesday night.
The search giant sketched a vision of an innovation loop, a social and cultural walk, a farmer's market in front of the Diridon Station and numerous open spaces. The village also would include office buildings for Google's employees, as well as homes, retail and restaurants. The presentation was made to the Station Area Advisory Group, after being delayed by a noisy protest.
"It's really about the spaces between the buildings," Michael Flynn, Google's urban design lead, said during the meeting.
Mountain View-based Google's presentation to the Station Area Advisory Group marked the first time the search giant offered a vision for how the project would be integrated with nearby neighborhoods in San Jose. The advisory group includes political, business, labor, civic and community leaders who are providing official input regarding Google's proposed development.
"We want to connect people, places and experiences in an authentic way," Flynn said in a brief interview with this news organization after the Google presentation.
The transit village that Google is planning would spur cultural walking areas, create a commercial loop and integrate with adjacent neighborhoods. Plus, the nearby Los Gatos Creek and Guadalupe River could become key components in the project experiences, especially since they flow between the hills that flank the Santa Clara Valley and the south end of San Francisco Bay.
"Wouldn't it be incredible to use our project to connect the Bay to the redwoods," Flynn said.
The meeting was delayed by a roughly 45-minute protest during which about a dozen demonstrators paraded through the meeting room at San Jose City Hall. They chanted and held a sign that said "Googleville," a reference to the Hoovervilles, or shanty towns, built during the Depression by destitute U.S residents.
Some members of the Station Area Advisory Group expressed concerns that local residents could become displaced if the arrival of 15,000 to 20,000 Google tech employees forces already sky-high home prices to new record levels.
"How are you going to address social displacement?" Jeffrey Buchanan, an advisory group member and director of policy with Working Partnerships USA, an advocacy group, asked the Google representatives.
Google officials assured the meeting that this issue is front and center for the tech titan.
"Affordability and gentrification are very much on our radar screen," Joe Van Belleghem, Google's senior director of development. "We know it's got to be addressed."
The tech titan's offices that would be part of the 240 acres in the development area would likely be clustered together in one section.
"Our people work better when we are close together and can collaborate," Van Belleghem said.
The Google development appears poised to create the connectivity the company promises, Teresa Alvarado, director of the San Jose office of SPUR, a nonprofit civic planning organization, said during an interview following the meeting.
"The most amazing part of this plan is that we are talking about integrating all these pieces of the puzzle," Alvarado said. "That is what we have been missing in San Jose. We might have a good idea here or there, but they are isolated and we don't recognize the benefits from those ideas. Now, we are talking about this in a holistic way, and that's how we will see positive transformation."
The company's village could activate social and commercial loops along Santa Clara and San Carlos streets stretching miles east and west, as well as a cultural and innovation walk on a north-south axis along Montgomery and Autumn streets, and Bird Avenue south of Interstate 280.
Acting directly and through a joint venture with Trammell Crow, Google has spent $221.6 million purchasing industrial, commercial, office and vacant parcels since December 2016.
Google's interest in downtown San Jose is spurred, in part, by Diridon Station, which has links to Caltrain, Amtrak, the ACE Train, the Capitol Corridor train, light rail and buses. BART is slated to connect to the station in the next several years.
"We can think of Diridon Station as an intermodal arrival starting point," Flynn said.
Diridon Station, with all of its transit links, could serve as a gateway to downtown San Jose, in the same way Grand Central Terminal is a key access point to Manhattan.
"We want that part in front of the station to really be the heart where it mixes lots of residential and good retail," Van Belleghem said.
Google San Jose
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Advocates for mobile home owners scolded the San Jose City Council for keeping them in the dark about redevelopment. "By working together, we can help stem the hysteria," they wrote.
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top lel, that's awful. you could have gone for a really cool desert-inspired romantic flag or osmething, how did that even happen??
Are you serious, is this the flag of Nevada?
Are you actually being legitimate?
What's the origin of the flag? When I see that shape my first thought is the East India Company but I doubt there's any connection here.
The image here is based on a file at www.ainsworthlinks.com/images/flag.jpg. The flag is white, and bears a large map of Brown County in brown, and the location of three communities in it. Three cattle are placed on the lower fly corner of the map. On the white stripe toward the hoist is written the county name vertically, and two small corn stalks. On the fly end are the date 1883 written vertically, a cluster of pine trees and a windmill.
Looks like something a 7yr old made in ms paint.
A guy called Júlio Ribeiro created the flag, but he wanted it to be the flag of Brazil.
He didn't specified the number of the stripes, but somehow the flag got 13 stripes, maybe to remember the American flag.


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Епархия Фару () — епархия Римско-Католической церкви с центром в городе Фару, Португалия. Епархия Фару входит в митрополию Эворы. Кафедральным собором епархии Фару является церковь Пресвятой Девы Марии.

История

В начале IV века в городе Фару была образована епархия Оссонобы, первые свидетельства о которой датируются 306 годом, когда епископ этой епархии участвовал в Эльвирском соборе. В 688 году епархия Оссонобы была упразднена по причине вторжения в Португалию арабов.

В 1188 году, после освобождения страны, епархия была восстановлена. Кафедральный собор епархии Оссонобы находился в это время в городе Силвиш.

В 1218 году епархия Оссонобы вошла в митрополию Браги, а с 1251 года некоторое время находилась в митрополии Севильи. 10 ноября 1394 года епархия Оссонобы вошла в митрополию Лиссабона.

20 октября 1539 года Римский папа Павел III издал буллу Sacrosancta Romana Ecclesia, которой санкционировал переезд кафедры епископа из города Силвиш в город Фару.

24 сентября 1540 года епархия Оссонобы вошла в митрополию Эворы.

30 марта 1577 года епархия Оссонобы была переименована в епархию Фару.

Источник

 Annuario Pontificio, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano, 2003, ISBN 88-209-7422-3
 José Pedro Paiva, Os bispos de Portugal e do Império: 1495—1777, Coimbra 2006, ISBN 97-287-0485-2

Ссылки

 Официальный сайт
  Информация
Католические епархии Португалии


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Want to know my favorite trick for increasing the exposure with my kids to Spanish?
I talk about my day, all day every day!
But talking about my day is how I fill in time with my little ones when I do not have the luxury of sitting down and playing with them.
Here are the facts about talking to your kid when you go about your day.
You will expose your kids to 1,000 to 2,000 words EVERY hour!
Sometimes we are working so hard at figuring out what we should and should not do. What we should invest on and what we should not invest on.
And yet talking with your children as you simply go about your day will expose them to 1,000 to 2,000 words a day.
Even better, is that you are exposing your kids to grammar as well. They will hear you saying the words and putting them together in sentences so it is a win win for everyone.
Don't over think it, start talking with your kiddos as you about your day and see what impact it has.
For most of us, the goal is to have children actively speaking the target language. To do that, we have to build on the benefits of talking to them. We want them to also talk to us!
As you go about your day, see if there are some natural ways to create conversation.
Let's say you are cooking for example. Talk about what you are making but ask your child to join in. Ask them questions about what you are doing and try to create a dialogue back and forth about your every day tasks.
This will just add an additional layer to what your children are hearing and create a need for them to use the language.
Remember that exposure and need go hand in hand. As bilingual parents we need to constantly work on creating that balance. But sometimes creating that balance can be as simple as talking as you go about your day.
Can you identify some times with your kid are with you and you can talk about your day?
I have challenged myself and noticed that I can probably talk a bit more about my day after I pick up my daughter from school.
Usually, I am peppering her with questions about what she did and did not do that day. Sometimes she is up for telling me other times she just tells me that she doesn't remember.
I am going to talk about what I am doing and what I am seeing as I drive to fill in for those times where she is feeling her less talkative and try to solicit more natural conversations on our car ride home.
I'd love to know what you come up with and where you too will introduce more talking about your day with your bilingual kids.


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Broader Impact
Bulungula College
USA-based Donors
ECD in the home
This is non-centre based ECD programme for children aged 0-3 years which includes parent training in topics like "You are your child's first teacher". Our home-based care team received training from the Jujurha staff and outside consultants and visit the 90 households in the area with infants and toddlers. The provide ongoing support and training to parents to ensure that children are playing and stimulated everyday in the home. Our home-based care team also hosts play groups twice a week where our children aged 0-3 can come together and make optimal use of education toy boxes (that were put together with the help of experts in the area).
The Start of the Bulungula Incubator
Our work in the area began with the establishment of the Bulungula Lodge in 2004 (www.bulungula.com) on the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. The Lodge is community owned, Fair Trade accredited, and uses renewable energy, composting toilets and harvests sustainable rain and ground water sources. In 2007, an appeal to previous guests of the Lodge seed funded our NGO, the Bulungula Incubator, which we established in 2007 to address the challenges of rural poverty in our community while promoting and preserving the positive effects of the traditional African lifestyle and culture.
Sustainable Livelihoods (Rural Skills Centre)
Vibrant Villages
Bulungula/Nqileni Village
Eliotdale District
Mqanduli
Email: rejane@bulungulaincubator.org
Copyright © 2020 Bulungula Incubator.


Assure the Project Board that all products in the current stage are produced and approved.
Review and update, if necessary, the usual documents, which are the Project Initiation Documentation, Business Case, Project Plan, and Risk Register.
Record any lessons in the Lessons Log that can help in later stages or in future projects.
Prepare the Stage Plan for the next stage and Request Authorization to start the next stage.
Remember that Managing a Stage Boundary begins near the end of the current stage and before the next stage. If the current stage is forecast to go out of tolerance, then the Project Manager will create an Exception Plan instead of a next Stage Plan, and the Project Manager will request to complete the current stage instead of asking to continue with the next stage.
The Managing a Stage Boundary process provides the information for the Project Board to evaluate the project at strategic points so they can decide to stop or to continue to the next stage, and check how the project is going according to the original plan.
Remember, the Project Board is the one that controls the project and the stage Boundary process, and provides them with the necessary information to do this. So what does the Project Board consider?
They will consider the Continued Business Justification of the project.
They wish to confirm that the stage has delivered all its planned products and benefits.
They will consider the next Stage Plan.
The will consider if the project should be allowed to continue or to shut the project down.
It is important to remember that a decision to shut down the project should not be seen as a failure. It is the correct thing to do if the project becomes too costly, risky, unjustifiable, etc.
Create the next Stage Plan and use Product-Based Planning.
Team Managers, specialists may help with Product Descriptions, estimating, etc.
Confirm what has been done and forecast planning for the next stage.
Business Case must be updated with the latest costs of the last stage, plus up-to-date forecast for the next stage. It will be used by the Project Board.
Report Stage End or do the "Produce an Exception Plan" activity in this process.
Stage Plan: The End Stage Report requires information from the current Stage Plan.
Project Plan: The Next Stage Plan requires information from the Project Plan (part of the Project Initiation Documentation).
Exception Report: The Exception Plan requires information from the Exception Report.
The next Stage Plan or Exception Plan is created.
The End Stage Report gives an overview of how well the stage performed.
Request to Project Board. The last thing the Project Manager will do is to send a request to the Project Board to continue with the next stage or go back and complete the current stage.


San Remo, also known as Sanremo, is a small coastal city in the Italian region of Liguria. Its position on the Italian Riviera makes it a popular destination with the Italian jet-set, while it also has plenty to offer for people who have an interest in motorsport or cycling, being so close to rocky terrain which provides a challenge at every turn. The city has been a hugely popular destination for people seeking sun, sea and sand, although it has plenty of historical significance too, being founded as a settlement back in the days of the Roman Empire. It also has various styles of architecture which make the city a feast for the eyes, with the flagship casino one of the finest examples.
The narrowness of some of the city centre roads plus some of the sharp corners which are prevalent in San Remo makes it imperative to drive something small and nippy.
To get around the city's northern periphery, it's easier to take the A10 motorway, which heads towards the border with France.
Central San Remo is pretty difficult to get around, as a large number of the streets tend to be narrow in nature.
Towards the harbour, traffic can be heavy in the morning as people get from their cars to their boats, whether for fishing or recreational sailing.
San Remo Casino, which has been a permanent fixture in the city since 1905, is the most impressive building in San Remo. It still runs as a casino today, offering roulette, blackjack and various slot games to casual visitors.
The Sanremo Rally was the biggest motorsport event in the city. Formerly part of the IRC motor racing circuit, it was taken off the calendar but some races paying homage to it still take place from time to time.
Ending in the city, the Milan – San Remo cycle race is one of the major fixtures in the cycling calendar. Many world-class cyclists and some keen amateurs take part in the race, which is usually held in March.
Two major music festivals are held in the city. Rock the Casbah is held every August and attracts major pop and rock acts from all over the world. The San Remo Music Festival tends to attract more traditional pop acts every summer.
Nice C?¥te d'Azur Airport (A?©roport Nice C?¥te d'Azur) is the nearest airport, lying around 25 miles west southwest of the city centre. Being over the border in France, it serves cities throughout Europe, Asia and North Africa.
The airport is close to the E74, which begins in Nice before becoming the A10 as it reaches the Italian border. Keep going on that road until a junction with the SP56, which goes directly to the city centre.


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La consegna dei Premi Emmy 1967 (19ª edizione) fu tenuta al Century Plaza Hotel a Los Angeles (California) il 4 giugno 1967. La cerimonia fu presentata da Joey Bishop. Per le candidature, furono presi in considerazione i programmi trasmessi tra il 25 marzo 1966 e il 16 aprile 1967.

La seguente lista è solo parziale. Per l'elenco completo dei candidati e dei vincitori fare riferimento al  sito ufficiale.

Migliore serie televisiva drammatica
Missione Impossibile (Mission: Impossible)
Agente speciale (The Avengers)
I giorni di Bryan (Run for Your Life)
Le spie (I Spy)
Star Trek

Migliore serie televisiva comica o commedia
The Monkees
The Andy Griffith Show
Gli eroi di Hogan (Hogan's Heroes)
Get Smart
Vita da strega (Bewitched)

Migliore attore in una serie drammatica
 Bill Cosby – Le spie
 Robert Culp – Le spie
 Ben Gazzara – I giorni di Bryan
 David Janssen – Il fuggiasco
 Martin Landau – Missione Impossibile

Migliore attore in una serie comica
 Don Adams – Get Smart
 Bob Crane – Gli eroi di Hogan
 Brian Keith – Tre nipoti e un maggiordomo (Family Affair)
 Larry Storch – I forti di Forte Coraggio (F Troop)

Miglior attore protagonista in un singolo episodio di una serie drammatica
 Peter Ustinov – Hallmark Hall of Fame | Episodio: Barefoot in Athens
 Alan Arkin – ABC Stage 67 | Episodio: The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
 Lee J. Cobb – Death of a Salesman
 Ivan Dixon – CBS Playhouse | Episodio: The Final War of Olly Winter
 Hal Holbrook – Mark Twain Tonight

Migliore attrice in una serie drammatica
 Barbara Bain – Missione Impossibile
 Diana Rigg – Agente speciale
 Barbara Stanwyck – La grande vallata (The Big Valley)

Migliore attrice in una serie comica
 Lucille Ball – Lucy Show (The Lucy Show)
 Elizabeth Montgomery – Vita da strega
 Agnes Moorehead – Vita da strega
 Marlo Thomas – That Girl

Miglior attrice protagonista in un singolo episodio di una serie drammatica
 Geraldine Page – ABC Stage 67 | Episodio: Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory
 Shirley Booth – CBS Playhouse | Episodio: The Glass Menagerie
 Mildred Dunnock – Death of a Salesman
 Lynn Fontanne – Hallmark Hall of Fame | Episodio: Anastasia
 Julie Harris – Hallmark Hall of Fame | Episodio: Anastasia

Miglior attore non protagonista in una serie drammatica
 Eli Wallach – The Poppy Is Also a Flower
 Leo G. Carroll – Organizzazione U.N.C.L.E. (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
 Leonard Nimoy – Star Trek

Miglior attore non protagonista in una serie comica o commedia
 Don Knotts – The Andy Griffith Show
 Gale Gordon – Lucy Show
 Werner Klemperer – Gli eroi di Hogan

Miglior attrice non protagonista in una serie drammatica
 Agnes Moorehead – The Wild Wild West | Episodio: Night of the Vicious Valentin
 Tina Chen – CBS Playhouse | Episodio: The Final War of Olly Winter
 Ruth Warrick – Peyton Place

Miglior attrice non protagonista in una serie comica o commedia
 Frances Bavier – The Andy Griffith Show
 Nancy Kulp – Beverly Hillbillies (The Beverly Hillbillies)
 Marion Lorne – Vita da strega

Migliore regia per una serie drammatica
Death of a Salesman – Alex Segal
CBS Playhouse – Paul Bogart per l'episodio The Final War of Olly Winter
Hallmark Hall of Fame – George Schaefer per l'episodio Anastasia
Mark Twain Tonight – Paul Bogart

Migliore regia per una serie comica o commedia
The Monkees – James Frawley per l'episodio Royal Flush
Lucy Show – Maury Thompson
Le spie – Earl Bellamy per l'episodio One of Our Bombs is Missing
Tre nipoti e un maggiordomo – William D. Russell
Vita da strega – William Asher

Migliore sceneggiatura per una serie drammatica
Missione Impossibile – Bruce Geller
CBS Playhouse – Ronald Ribman per l'episodio The Final War of Olly Winter
Le spie – Robert Culp

Migliore sceneggiatura per una serie comica o commedia
Get Smart – Buck Henry e Leonard Stern per l'episodio Ship of Spies, parte 1 e 2
Strega per amore (I Dream of Jeannie) – Sidney Sheldon
Tre nipoti e un maggiordomo – Edmund L. Hartmann per l'episodio Buffy

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Televisione nel 1967
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From the monthly archives:
A Tale of Two Tables
by Marinka on March 2, 2016
Everyone hates my new old table. That sounds like hyperbole but in fact it's the opposite because in truth everyone despises it. And to make it worse, it's not hate at first sight. At first sight, it's a table. But after you sit or what approximates sitting at the table that everyone hates, the table table that's too low to the ground, you start to feel the stirrings of antipathy that will fester and grow and breed and multiply.
Everyone hates its top and its legs and this is where I realize that there's not too much more in terms of tables, descriptively speaking. Oh, its shape. It's shape is unnecessarily rectangle. I live with my two kids. We need a square table. Or maybe a triangle table, which, by the way, are not as common as you'd think. But why is my wretched table a rectangle? I have no idea.
The table resurfaced from storage shortly after my divorce. Apparently they rejected it at Gitmo and so it came to my home to roost. I originally got the table when I first moved back to NYC after college in the late 1980s and didn't know any better. You remember the late 80s, right? Well it's as though Ronald Reagan showed up in your living room, muttering about ketchup being a vegetable. Just say no.
But it's worse. Because my strongest association with the table was when decades ago I came home one day from my mind-numbingly dull job as a tax paralegal and I couldn't find my dog Mavis. Mavis was a Basset Hound (until she died. And then she became Bassett Hound ashes, which is different from Angela's Ashes, but I can't kick the feeling that there's an Angela Bassett's ashes joke in there somewhere.) I looked everywhere for apartment. The apartment had been locked and Mavis didn't have working thumbs so where could she have gone? It was a mystery and as I sat on the sofa to contemplate the probably alien abduction and the anal probing that Mavis was likely undergoing (interesting fact about Mavis: she had external anal glands which made her very, very stinky, especially during car rides and yet she received more invitations to the Hamptons than I did from neighbors who swore she was their dog's best friend and they'd have a great time together. "I can come to keep an eye on her," I turbo-hinted but for some reason not many people took me up on it.) And that's when I looked at the table that now everyone hates, and saw that Mavis was standing on top of it, like some kind of a Basset Hound statue. I have no idea how she got there, why she got there or when she got there, but as soon as I saw her there, I became convinced that she was going to fall off and break all four of her legs and I'd have to either euthanize her or myself and neither of those options sounded inexpensive. So I went to the table, slowly, as though I would suddenly startle her into falling off and lifted her off, again, carefully, in case she was made out of porcelain, and lowered her to the floor. And then I wondered if this was going to be a daily routine that Mavis and I would undergo and whether this is how most 20-somethings spent their evenings in the greatest city in the world.
So when the table re-appeared in my life, I accepted it and moved on. I have bigger things to worry about, like how many Trump fundraisers I can squeeze in before the primary season is over. But then I noticed that my kids were sort of crowded around the table and then Mama said that the table wasn't working, so we should get a new one. And I said, yes, sure, which is code for let's do nothing and never speak of this again and has worked so well for me over the years. Except this time, a few short months later, Mama told me that she found a table to replace the table that everyone hates with one that everyone will love and admire and respect. Can I see a photo, I asked and there were some mutterings and then Papa emailed me a photograph of something that looked like a thimble of a table. Seriously, it appeared to be a table for cats, if they were kittens.
"It's so small," I said and Papa explained that it comes with inserts and when the inserts are in, the table is so big, it won't even fit into my dining room area. Obviously, that's an appealing characteristic for any table and I'm stunned that more furniture manufacturers don't resort to this marketing technique. I'm sure it will catch on.
"I don't think it's for me," I told my parents but they did not take the news well.
"It's really expensive," they explained in some kind of bizarre reverse-psychology sales pitch.
So for now I'm stuck with the table that everyone hates. But at least it fits into my dining room area, is not expensive and doesn't have a Basset Hound on top of it. And some days that's enough.


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For many media, there's no moral clarity in the Israel-Hamas war— because they blatantly ignore the facts. Please speak out!
You've no doubt been following coverage of Israel's invasion of Gaza, and like me, you're no doubt frustrated---and sometimes infuriated---by the way many media report this conflict. I hope you'll join me in protesting this travesty of journalism.
Some media talk about the clichéd "cycle of violence" and the need for "mutual restraint." For them, the Israel-Hamas hostilities are like a deadly "he-said-she-said" argument, in which both parties misbehave like headstrong children blinded by rage.
Other media focus on body counts---the number of Gazans (and especially Gazan children) who were killed today. For them, Israel is a super-power bully beating up and murdering helpless, innocent Arab civilians as they work and play.
In other words, there's either no moral center in this conflict . . . or Israel is evil. Of course, if you choose to ignore the facts and history of the matter, these perverse conclusions can seem logical.
Both the New York Times and NPR are famous for their bias in reporting Israel-Arab wars, and they follow suit in this one. Both these media and others, like MSNBC and Jon Stewart, report the conflict as though it has no context and thus they consistently (and conveniently) neglect to include several incontrovertible truths in their coverage.
Specifically, many media and their reporters fail to report these five fundamental facts:
?Hamas is a terror organization that is openly sworn to Israel's destruction.
Hamas has rained more than 14,000 rockets on Israel since 2001, and despite many cease-fire agreements continues to violate them and re-ignite the conflict with renewed rocket attacks.
Hamas aims its rockets purposefully at Israeli civilians, not at military targets. (This is a war crime.)
Israel never aims its attacks at Arab civilians unless the enemy is hiding among them (and it usually warns those civilians first).
Hamas hides its military installations and weapons in heavily populated civilian areas, ensuring that when Israel attacks, Gazans will be hurt or killed. (Using civilians as human shields is also a war crime.)
This week's FLAME Hotline featured article provides much needed moral clarity on the Israel-Hamas war, and I hope you'll put it to good use in the coming days and weeks. Once again commentator Charles Krauthammer fearlessly calls out his colleagues in the media by providing historical and factual background that must be acknowledged in any fair media coverage of this conflict.
Please take a few minutes to review this excellent and concise article below. It gives you all the facts you need to speak to friends and colleagues and write letters to the editor. If you care about Israel and you care about the truth, please speak out now.
Please also pass this issue along to your contacts, and use social media to refer your friends to it. Because many mainstream media don't tell the truth, we must be a conduit of the facts. (With your help, FLAME will also be running an outspoken ad on "The Shame of Gaza" in mass media starting next week.)
When Mahmoud Abbas announced his merger-made-in-hell with Hamas some months ago, FLAME was ready with an ad that calls for the U.S. Congress to immediately block further funding of the Palestinian Authority. We are currently publishing this hasbarah (public relations) message---"Why Should the U.S. Fund the Palestinian Authority?"---in media reaching 10 million readers. We have also sent it to every U.S. Congress member and President Obama. I hope you'll review this powerful piece and pass it on to all your contacts who will benefit from its message. If you agree that FLAME's bold brand of public relations on Israel's behalf is critical, I urge you to support our publication of such outspoken messages. Please consider giving donation now, as you're able---with $500, $250, $100, or even $18. (Remember, your donation to FLAME is tax deductible.) To donate online, just go to http://www.factsandlogic.org/make_a_donation.html. Now more than ever we need your help to ensure that Israel gets the support it needs---from the U.S. Congress, from President Obama, and from the American people.
Moral clarity in Gaza
By Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, July 17, 2014
Israel accepts an Egyptian-proposed Gaza cease-fire; Hamas keeps firing. Hamas deliberately aims rockets at civilians; Israel painstakingly tries to avoid them, actually telephoning civilians in the area and dropping warning charges, so-called roof knocking.
"Here's the difference between us," explains the Israeli prime minister. "We're using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles."
Rarely does international politics present a moment of such moral clarity. Yet we routinely hear this Israel-Gaza fighting described as a morally equivalent "cycle of violence." This is absurd. What possible interest can Israel have in cross-border fighting? Everyone knows Hamas set off this mini-war. And everyone knows the proudly self-declared raison d'etre of Hamas: the eradication of Israel and its Jews.
Apologists for Hamas attribute the blood lust to the Israeli occupation and blockade. Occupation? Does no one remember anything? It was less than 10 years ago that worldwide television showed the Israeli army pulling die-hard settlers off synagogue roofs in Gaza as Israel uprooted its settlements, expelled its citizens, withdrew its military and turned every inch of Gaza over to the Palestinians. There was not a soldier, not a settler, not a single Israeli left in Gaza.
And there was no blockade. On the contrary. Israel wanted this new Palestinian state to succeed. To help the Gaza economy, Israel gave the Palestinians its 3,000 greenhouses that had produced fruit and flowers for export. It opened border crossings and encouraged commerce.
The whole idea was to establish the model for two states living peacefully and productively side by side. No one seems to remember that, simultaneous with the Gaza withdrawal, Israel dismantled four smaller settlements in the northern West Bank as a clear signal of Israel's desire to leave the West Bank as well and thus achieve an amicable two-state solution.
This is not ancient history. This was nine years ago.
And how did the Gaza Palestinians react to being granted by the Israelis what no previous ruler, neither Egyptian, nor British, nor Turkish, had ever given them — an independent territory? First, they demolished the greenhouses. Then they elected Hamas. Then, instead of building a state with its attendant political and economic institutions, they spent the better part of a decade turning Gaza into a massive military base, brimming with terror weapons, to make ceaseless war on Israel.
Where are the roads and rail, the industry and infrastructure of the new Palestinian state? Nowhere. Instead, they built mile upon mile of underground tunnels to hide their weapons and, when the going gets tough, their military commanders. They spent millions importing and producing rockets, launchers, mortars, small arms, even drones. They deliberately placed them in schools, hospitals, mosques and private homes to better expose their own civilians. (Just Thursday, the U.N. announced that it found 20 rockets in a Gaza school.) And from which they fire rockets at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Why? The rockets can't even inflict serious damage, being almost uniformly intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system. Even West Bank leader Mahmoud Abbas has asked: "What are you trying to achieve by sending rockets?"
It makes no sense. Unless you understand, as Tuesday's Post editorial explained, that the whole point is to draw Israeli counterfire.
This produces dead Palestinians for international television. Which is why Hamas perversely urges its own people not to seek safety when Israel drops leaflets warning of an imminent attack.
To deliberately wage war so that your own people can be telegenically killed is indeed moral and tactical insanity. But it rests on a very rational premise: Given the Orwellian state of the world's treatment of Israel (see: the U.N.'s grotesque Human Rights Council), fueled by a mix of classic anti-Semitism, near-total historical ignorance and reflexive sympathy for the ostensible Third World underdog, these eruptions featuring Palestinian casualties ultimately undermine support for Israel's legitimacy and right to self-defense.
In a world of such Kafkaesque ethical inversions, the depravity of Hamas begins to make sense. This is a world in which the Munich massacre is a movie and the murder of Klinghoffer is an opera — both deeply sympathetic to the killers. This is a world in which the U.N. ignores humanity's worst war criminals while incessantly condemning Israel, a state warred upon for 66 years that nonetheless goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid harming the very innocents its enemies use as shields.
It's to the Israelis' credit that amid all this madness they haven't lost their moral scruples. Or their nerve. Those outside the region have the minimum obligation, therefore, to expose the madness and speak the truth. Rarely has it been so blindingly clear.


We owe a huge debt of gratitude to our volunteers, some of whom are listed here.
Sarah Abotsi-Masters runs Saturday events, children's activities, gives asronomy talks, sends out emails with links to interesting astronomy articles, maintains the mailing list for the Saturday events, and teaches at Teachers' Workshops.
Stanley Acquaye, was our first planetarium operator, and was with us in 2008 and 2009 before the University spirited him away.
Emmanuel Yeboah, whenever he had time off from university committments at the University of Ghana, Emmanuel made himself available for school visits on weekdays, participated in the Planetarium on Tour, and also helped at Saturday events, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.
Laura Youngson: 4 visits, including the first planetarium meetings and events in 2008 before the official opening, the Planetarium on Tour project 2010, Schools Science Activities in Kumasi 2011, and a 4th visit with fifteen other members of the Lightyear Foundation in 2012.
Frances Ling, first visit in January 2009 when the planetarium was opened officially, The International Year of Astronomy began, and our first school visits started, and another visit with members of the Lightyear Foundation in 2012.
Peter Sitch: 2 visits, one in 2009 when the planetarium was opened officially and the first school visits started, and another in 2011 running science activities in Kumasi.
Douglas Cook: 2 visits, including the Planetarium on Tour project 2010, Schools Science Activities in 2011, running in the Accra International Marathon 2011 to promote Ghana Planetarium, and a 3rd visit with the Lightyear Foundation in 2012.
Colleagues of Laura and Doug, members of the Lightyear Foundation, came to run schools activities in 2011, helped promote us at the Accra International Marathon, 2011, where we took a portable dome, and returned in 2012.
Kyle Doane, came in 2012 to run dome programmes for all our audiences: schools visits on weekdays and mixed audiences at weekends, from early April to early May, and helped us with lots of useful resources.
Our staff, Godfred Amartey, Rustom Amartey, Kelvin Amartey and Adwoa Odame-Darkwa, often work on planetarium activities beyond normal working hours, including many weekends. Godfred also took part in the Planetarium on Tour project, 2010.
Lightyear Foundation Group visit in 2012 also included Aaron, Adam, Benni, Lieven, Manchi, Mark, Myf, Naomi, Nikki (second visit), Stu, Svet, Tim and Uta.
Others who help at planetarium events include Members of a School Science Club, University Students on vacation, and Beneficiaries of our non-governmental charitable organisation Girls School Africa.
Sophie Morley ran in the 2012 Accra International Marathon to promote Ghana Planetarium, and her family made a generous donation.
Finally, Thomas Zahler has been helping us from afar.


AMEC has successfully completed the nationwide AIS network project in Taiwan.
This project consists of 33 AIS shore stations, a sophisticated AIS service management system and networking infrastructure monitoring the nation's territorial waters and adjacent sea areas, referring to the diagram.
With the smooth commissioning of this project, the maritime and port authority in Taiwan now can better manage maritime homeland security, navigational safety and search and rescue missions and provide higher capability and better quality in monitoring vessels within AIS transmission range.


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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:introduction}
The Charter of Trust~\cite{SiemensCT} is a global initiative which is being undertaken by several leading companies to address the growing concerns related to IT Security of its products and services.
In order to tackle IT Security issues at its root and early stages in product development, one of the points of this initiative addresses the topic of cybersecurity education and awareness~\cite{2014_Benenson_Defining_Security_Awareness}.

This aspect is also mandated by several industry standards, to which companies are subject to compliance, such as 62.443~\cite{2018_62443_4_1}, 27k~\cite{ISO_IEC_27002:2013}, NIST~SP~800-39~\cite{NIST_SP_800_39}, etc.
As such, software developers need to be trained and familiar with how to develop, avoid security pit-falls and write secure code in the programming language being used for product development.
The basis for this is a well defined and clear set of secure coding guidelines. These come in two flavors: abstract guidelines, such as OWASP~\cite{owaspT10}, or programming language-specific such as MISRA-C~\cite{MISRA_C:2012}, CERT SEI-C~\cite{WWW_SEI_C_2018}, CERT SEI-Java~\cite{WWW_SEI_JAVA_2018}.

In order to tackle the issue of raising IT Security awareness of software developers in the industry, our vision is to use a serious game approach where the individual challenges are based on secure coding guidelines (SCG).

This work, based on our industry experience and observations, lays out some research questions that address both the topic of selecting secure coding guidelines but also the topic on how to raise awareness about secure coding based on these guidelines.

Section~\ref{sec:state_of_the_art} outlines the current state of the art. In Section~\ref{sec:research_topics} we propose a method to derive secure coding guidelines and also present our research questions. Finally Section~\ref{sec:current_future_research} presents preliminary results and future work.
\section{State of the Art}
\label{sec:state_of_the_art}
\subsection{Secure Coding Guidelines}

Table~\ref{tab:std_reqs} shows excerpts from three prominent industry standards, which mandate secure coding practices or even explicitly the usage of secure coding guidelines. The requirement gives no clear indication about which secure coding guidelines should be adopted - this can be understood in light of the fact that there is a lacking a general consensus and standardization of SCG.

\input{tables/std_reqs.tex}

Our experience has shown that the quest for secure coding guidelines can result in (1) lack of SCG, (2) too many SCG or (3) conflicting SCG/recommendations.
This diversity and lack of standardization leads to companies needing to define their own set of internal accepted secure coding guidelines.
This results is a non-uniform and incoherent selection of SCG across the industry.

To the best of our knowledge, there is no previous work on how to systematically derive and define SCG (e.g. for a given programming language) and on raising awareness about SCG using serious games.
In Section~\ref{sec:research_topics} we present a proposal for a possible methodology to derive SCG.

\subsection{IT Security Awareness Training}
Software development in the industry is normally bound to a set of well established and existing programming languages~\cite{tiobe_2019}.
It has been shown that there isn't really one programming language that is significantly more secure than any another~\cite{WhiteSource2019} - vulnerabilities appear across all programming languages.

Therefore, it makes sense to focus efforts on raising awareness of software developers on how to write secure code. According to Benenson~\cite{2014_Benenson_Defining_Security_Awareness}, awareness can help to improve the understanding of the issues, to better identify the issues and to act accordingly to the issues.
Furthermore Graziotin~\cite{2018_Graziotin_Happy_Developers} has shown a correlation between developer happiness and source code quality.

One training methodology therefore that seems to be well suited is by using serious games~\cite{2016_Doerner_Serious_Games}, in particular if based on Capture-the-Flag (CTF).

\section{Research Topics}
\label{sec:research_topics}
In the previous sections, we have briefly presented the importance of secure coding guidelines both to fulfill industry standards and policies and also as a basis for IT security awareness for software developers.
Unfortunately not all programming languages have widely agreed secure coding guidelines, which leads to companies having to define their own.
In the following, we propose a method to systematically derive secure coding guidelines.
Furthermore, with the goal of raising secure coding awareness we present possible research questions to achieve this goal.

\subsection{Systematic Derivation of Secure Coding Guidelines}
Given a vulnerability database, such as~\cite{WWW_CVE}, we propose a systematic method to derive secure coding guidelines comprising the following steps:

\begin{enumerate}
    \item define a business impact metric (BIM) for vulnerabilities
    \item compute the BIM for all vulnerabilities in the database
    \item map vulnerabilities and BIM to language-specific rules
    \item compile the set of rules into secure coding guidelines
\end{enumerate}

The BIM is a company-specific metric which shall represent the perceived negative impact of the exploitation of the given vulnerability. This metric shall be aligned with business objectives and risk appetite~\cite{ISACA2016} and can include parameters such as: impact score (e.g. based on estimated money loss), probability of occurrence, perceived ease of exploitation, etc.

The mapping of vulnerabilities to language-specific rules and constructs shall be done between IT security experts and software developers.
At this stage, several language-specific recommendations could result from a single vulnerability.
The last step is a codification step, which consolidates and abstracts all the derived recommendations into a catalog of secure coding guidelines.

The main advantage of this method is that, due to the usage of a metric, the resulting secure coding guidelines can be prioritized in terms of business importance.
This leads to a natural categorization of the most important guidelines to focus on awareness training programs.

\subsection{Secure Coding Awareness for Software Developers}
Recently, there has been an increased interest on using serious games~\cite{2016_Doerner_Serious_Games} to raise IT security awareness e.g.~\cite{Awojana2019,2017_rieb_gamified_approach,2018_rieb_IT_sicherheit}.

While the published work until now shows good indicators of the suitability of this approach, it has been (1) focused on a different target group than the one we wish to address, e.g. pentesters or security experts and (2) focused on general IT security awareness, e.g. email and password handling.

However, our target group are software developers for the industry and the content of the training is specific to secure coding.
Nevertheless, we also hypothesize that an adapted serious games of the type CTF can also be effectively used to raise secure coding awareness of software developers.
Our assumption is based on the positive indicators from similar work, but also on the following facts: (1) participants typically enjoy playing CTF games (Kees et al.~\cite{2017_kees}) and (2) happy developers write better code (Graziotin et al.~\cite{2018_Graziotin_Happy_Developers}).

\subsection{Research Questions}
\label{sub:sec:rq}
This short paper has briefly shown how important secure coding guidelines are for the industry and also for raising software developer awareness on the topic of secure coding. However, it does also raise some further important questions that need additional research. These questions include:

\begin{enumerate}
  \item[Q1]{What is the current state of usage of SCG across the industry?}
  \item[Q2]{How to can SCG be systematically derived?}
  \item[Q3]{How to raise awareness about SCG for software developers in the industry by means of CTF serious games?}
\end{enumerate}

The first research question {\it Q1}, should allow us to validate the assumption that our reported experience is also shared among the industry.
Question {\it Q2} would help in {\it Q3} when secure coding guidelines are missing as input to create a serious game. Due to the derivation of a business metric, it also allows to rank guidelines by importance to business.
Motivated by the industry problem exemplified in this work, {\it Q3} tries to address it by means of designing a serious game.

\section{Preliminary Results and Future Research}
\label{sec:current_future_research}
Currently ongoing investigations, based on a requirements engineering approach, intend to address the questions presented in Section~\ref{sub:sec:rq}.
The result aims at contributing on how to improve IT security awareness, in particular on secure coding topics, of software developers in the industry and, as a consequence, lead to improved quality of products and services.

Preliminary results~\cite{gasiba_re19} on the requirements for Capture-the-Flag challenge design give a positive indication that defensive-style game are appropriate for raising awareness about secure coding.
Furthermore it confirms the happiness and satisfaction of the participants playing the game.
Further preliminary research suggests that the presented methodology to derive secure coding guidelines can indeed be used as input to design defensive challenges and also to plan and prioritize a teaching curriculum.

Investigations which shall address the research questions above and also the architecture of the Capture-the-Flag serious game and player engagement are currently underway.

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The new Bishop of Knossos and
his student days in in Ireland
With the new Bishop of Knossos, Father Prodromos Xenakis, when he visited the Church of Ireland Theological Institute with Dr Katerina Pekridou, now the Dialogue Secretary of the Conference of European Churches
It is always interesting to hear news about someone I have known but have lost touch with. I got to know Father Prodromos Xenakis from Crete when he was a post-graduate student in Maynooth in 2010-2012.
He was following a programme in Biblical studies leading to the MTh degree, and was attached to the Greek Orthodox Church in Dublin.
During that time we took part in Greek community events in Dublin, a broadcast service on RTÉ, and he came to the Church of Ireland Theological Institute when I was presiding at the Community Eucharist on the day the calendar of the Church remembers Saint Polycarp, a second century martyr and Bishop of Smyrna.
It was good to hear today that Archimandrite Prodromos, who is now the Chancellor or Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Church of Crete, has been elected the next Bishop of Knossos in Crete.
As Bishop of Knossos, Archimandrite Prodromos will also serve as assistant bishop to the Archbishop of Crete, Archbishop Ireneos. Father Prodromos Xenakis has been a long-time associate of Archbishop Ireneos and has held several positions in the Archdiocese of Crete.
Knossos is a titular see in the Church of Crete. The separate diocese was abolished in 1823 and was attached to Metroplis, based in Iraklion.
The new bishop was elected late on Wednesday [16 October 2019]. His predecessor as Bishop of Knossos is the present Bishop of Rethymnon, Metropolitan Evgenios of Rethymnon and Avlopotamos.
The Bishop-elect of Knossos told the Greek media last night: 'The election is a special honour to me. I feel joy and gratitude to everyone.' His episcopal ordination will take place in Saint Minas Cathedral Iraklion on Saturday 26 October.
Father Prodromos Xenakis at a Greek community dinner in Dublin in 2012 (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)
Bishop Prodromos was born Zacharias Xenakis in Stavrakia, Iraklion, in 1979. He studied at the Theological Seminary of the University of Athens, and was ordained a monk and deacon in the Monastery of Saint Irene Chrysovalantou near Athens in 2005.
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos then sent him to Saint Patrick's College, Maynooth, where he followed a postgraduate programme in Biblical Theology in 2010-2012. On his return to Crete, he was ordained a priest in January 2013 and became an archimandrite.
He is the head of the press office and has served on a number of boards and committees in the Church of Crete, with special interests in communications, culture and church charities.
He has been a director of youth programmes and a programme producer with Light, the radio station of the Archdiocese Crete. He was a member of recent delegation of the Church of Crete to the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Greek Government. Bishop Prodromos will remain secretary of the Council of the Church of Crete.
Archbishop Prodromos Xenakis … elected Bishop of Knossos in Crete last night
Labels: CITI, Crete, Crete 2019, Greece, Greece 2019, Iraklion, Knossos, Maynooth, Orthodoxy, Rethymnon
The Synagogues of Dublin:
18, Rathmore Villas, Terenure
The small Machzikei Hadass synagogue is discreetly located in heart of Terenure village (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2019)
The small Machzikei Hadass synagogue at 18 Rathmore Villas, behind 77 Terenure Road North, is within a short walking distance of Terenure Synagogue on Rathfarnham Road – and from the house where I was born. Yet, its discreet location in the heart of Terenure village makes this one of Dublin's least-known synagogues.
Although this synagogue was founded in 1968, its beginnings go back to the foundation of a synagogue in 1883 at Saint Kevin's Parade, off Clanbrassil Street, in Dublin's 'Little Jerusalem.'
The Jewish community in Dublin numbered about 400 or 500 people in the 1880s. But the city had only one synagogue, at Saint Mary's Abbey, off Capel Street. In the eyes of the new Jewish refugees and migrants from East Europe arriving in Dublin in the 1880s, this one synagogue was quite Anglicised, too modern and assimilated and with something of a German-Jewish character.
Following the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, a large number of pogroms broke out throughout the Russian empire, leading to a large exodus of Jewish people from Russia, Poland and present-day Lithuania and Latvia.
The new arrivals in Dublin first settled mainly in the area clustered around Portobello, the South Circular Road and Clanbrassil Street that became known as 'Little Jerusalem.'
They never felt fully at home in the synagogue at Saint Mary's Abbey and formed ad hoc minyanim or quorums of ten adult males in private houses. These small congregations led in turn to the eventual foundation of half a dozen or more small synagogues in Little Jerusalem.
One of these small synagogues was founded in Saint Kevin's Parade, off Clanbrassil Street, in 1883. It is was one the last of the small synagogues founded in the area at that time. The founder and first President (Parnes) of the synagogue, Reuven Bradlaw, was also involved in the foundation of the Bais Olam or Jewish burial ground in Dolphin's Barn, where he is buried. He was one of the men who carried a Sefer Torah at the opening ceremony for the synagogue on Adelaide Road in 1892.
While most of these earlier, small synagogues in the 'Little Jerusalem' area came together in 1920s in the synagogue at Greenville Hall on the South Circular Road, this synagogue maintained its separate identity in the decades that followed.
By the time the congregation moved to Terenure in 1968, it was known as Machzikei Hadass (מחזיקי הדת, 'those who reinforce the Law'). The name comes from a 19th century organisation of synagogues and yeshivas in East Europe that aimed to improve Jewish education and observance, and may have been added at the time of the move to the present site in Terenure in 1968.
Machzikei Hadass moved from Saint Kevin's Parade to Terenure over 50 years ago (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2019)
The Steinberg family arrived from Munkatch in Czechoslovakia in 1928. Aharon Steinberg was responsible for a regeneration of the synagogue in Saint Kevin's Parade, and he may have given it its current name when it moved to its present site at Rathmore Villas, behind 77 Terenure Road North.
Aharon Steinberg presided over the move over half a century ago, in April 1968, not long before he died. A marble plaque commemorating the move can be seen at the entrance, beside the original foundation plaque. The Aron Kodesh or holy ark holding the Torah Scrolls is the original one from Saint Kevin's Parade.
The name of Reuven Bradlaw's wife, as donor, is inscribed on the silver yad or Torah pointer used to this day in the Machzikei Hadass. His name and the date 1883 are on the marble foundation plaque at the entrance to the synagogue.
The synagogue celebrated its centenary on Shabbos VaYigash, 10 December 1983, with the Chief Rabbi, Dr David Rosen, and the late Judge Wine in the box, and with over 100 people in the synagogue and at a Kiddush that lasted rather longer than usual.
When the synagogue at Greenville Hall on the South Circular Road closed in 1984, many of its members joined the observant community of Machzikei Hadass in Terenure, which offered a warm welcome to newcomers who were less observant religiously than its traditional membership.
Two of Aharon Steinberg's sons were Presidents of the synagogue: Louis Steinberg, who died in 1980 and Jack (Yankele) Steinberg, who was President from 1983 to 1997 and who died in Manchester in 2009.
Almost all of the current regular attenders came to this synagogue in recent decades. Even though the congregation may struggle to reach a minyan of ten adult males on a Saturday, the synagogue has benefited from the trickle of immigration in recent years, and it celebrated its first Bar Mitzvahs in 18 years in 2011.
The synagogue at Saint Kevin's Parade, off Clanbrassil Street, Dublin, was founded in 1883 (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2019)
Yesterday: 17, Terenure Synagogue, Rathfarnham Road
Tomorrow: 19, Some other buildings in Dublin.
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Wishing you a warm and Merry Christmas season! A wassail cup of mulled wine!
Speaking of photos, the Christmas photos of the royal families of Spain, UK, and Sweden are making their rounds on the web. If you've seen them, they're lovely.
Awww! Thanks so much Agness! Aren't they great ideas?
Happy Holidays to you and the family. Hope it's filled with love and peace. I love the idea of no money gifts, totally an advocate as l hate the commercialism of it all, especially in the U.S so l am loving the low key one in Spain. I did gift myself a kindle to replace my old reader since l stopped taking the ipad with me when we travel. I've donated to Kiva before, thanks for reminding me to do it again :-). Hope 2018 turns out to be a marvelous one!


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