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Die Boeing 314 Clipper war ein viermotoriges Flugboot großer Reichweite, das vom US-amerikanischen Hersteller Boeing von 1938 bis 1941 produziert wurde. Es war eines der größten Flugzeuge seiner Zeit. Zwölf von ihnen wurden für Pan American Airways gebaut (drei davon wurden unter dem Lend-Lease-Act der BOAC übergeben), bei der sie für Flüge über den Atlantik und den Pazifik verwendet wurden.

Geschichte
Im Juni 1938 begann die Flugerprobung, die als Ergebnis einen Umbau des Leitwerks zur Folge hatte. Das Einfachleitwerk wurde zuerst zu einem Doppelleitwerk und schließlich zu einem Dreifachleitwerk geändert. So konnte die California Clipper (Luftfahrzeugkennzeichen NC 18602) als erste Maschine erst Ende Januar 1939 an Pan Am ausgeliefert werden. Am 29. März 1939 flog sie zum ersten Mal die Route nach Manila und Hong Kong. Der erste Atlantikflug startete am 26. März 1939 von Baltimore und führte über Horta (Azoren) und Lissabon nach Marseille. Die Yankee Clipper (NC18603) flog dann weiter nach Southampton über Foynes und über Lissabon, Horta und die Bermudas zurück nach Baltimore. Der Flug dauerte 22 Tage mit einer reinen Flugzeit von 83 h.

Die Clipper-Flotte wurde während des Zweiten Weltkrieges in den Kriegsdienst gestellt, um Personal und Ausrüstung zu den europäischen und pazifischen Fronten zu transportieren. Im Dienst der USAAF erhielten sie die Bezeichnung C-98 und die Seriennummern 42-88622, 42-88630, 42-88631, 42-88632.

Nach dem Krieg wurden mehrere Clipper an Pan Am zurückgegeben; sie waren zu diesem Zeitpunkt jedoch schon von leistungsfähigeren landgestützten Flugzeugen wie der Douglas DC-4 und der Lockheed Constellation verdrängt worden. Die 314 wurde 1946 aus dem Linienverkehr genommen und ihr Betrieb 1950 endgültig eingestellt.

Einsätze

Pan Am
Am 18. Mai 1939 erteilte das US Civil Aeronautics Board Pan American die Erlaubnis über zwei Atlantikrouten den Linienverkehr aufzunehmen.
Diese waren einmal die Nordroute, die von Port Washington (New York), über Shediac, Neufundland (Botwood), Foynes nach Southampton führte. Die Mittelatlantik-Route führte von Port Washington über Horta, Lissabon und Marseille nach Southampton.

Am 20. Mai begannen die regelmäßigen Flüge auf der Mittelatlantik-Route, wobei die ersten fünf Flüge nur Luftpost transportierten. Der erste Passagierflug startete auf dieser Strecke am 28. Juni. Auf der Nordroute eröffnete die Yankee Clipper den Liniendienst am 24. Juni mit einem Luftpostflug; Tankstopps wurden in Horta (Azoren) und Lissabon eingelegt. Am 8. Juli 1939 begannen die Passagierflüge auf der Nordroute.

Mit Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Europa wurde die Nordroute im Oktober 1939 eingestellt und die Mittelatlantik-Route endete danach im neutralen Lissabon. Um die im Winter schwierigen Seebedingungen bei Landungen in Horta zu vermeiden, richtete Pan Am im Februar 1941 eine neue Route über den Südatlantik ein. Diese führte von New York nach Bermuda, San Juan (Puerto Rico), Port of Spain, Belém, Natal nach Bolama in Westafrika und dann über Dakar nach Lissabon. Ab 28. April 1941 wurde wieder die direkte Mittelatlantik-Route geflogen.

Die US-Regierung kaufte am 12. August 1941 die Capetown Clipper von Pan Am. Dieser Clipper führte ab 10. November 1941 einen Streckenerkundungsflug über 20.139 Meilen durch, der nach Südamerika, über den Südatlantik, Belgisch Kongo zurück nach New York ging. Der ab 5. Dezember 1941 eingeführte regelmäßige Post- und Passagiertransport wurde alle zwei Monate durchgeführt und benötigte für den 8.008 Meilen langen Flug von Miami nach Belgisch Kongo fast sechs Tage. Die California Clipper war beim Überfall auf Pearl Harbor in Auckland auf einem der regelmäßigen Flüge nach Australien. Ein Rückweg in die USA über Pearl Harbor wurde ausgeschlossen. In Neuseeland erhielt die Crew von Robert Ford stattdessen die Order, das Flugzeug nach New York zu bringen. Der Flug führte über der Crew unbekannte Gebiete und durch viele Länder, deren Verhalten gegenüber den USA im Kriegszustand nicht bekannt war. Am Schluss des Fluges, am 6. Januar 1942, war sie das erste Passagierflugzeug, das bei einem Flug von den USA in die USA die Erde umrundet hatte.

Nach der Capetown Clipper kaufte die amerikanische Regierung am 13. Dezember 1941 auch die restlichen acht Boeing 314 an. Damit sollte der Südatlantik-Flüge bis nach Karatschi und den Fernen Osten ausgeweitet werden. Am 17. Dezember 1941 trafen die USAAF und die US Navy eine Vereinbarung, wonach die US Navy mit fünf Flugbooten die regelmäßigen Flüge über den Nordatlantik und ab San Francisco den Pazifik bediente, während die USAAF auf den erweiterten Südatlantik-Routen und bis in den Fernen Osten fliegen sollte.

In den Jahren 1942/43 führten die neun US-amerikanischen Clipper regelmäßige Hin- und Rückflüge auf den nachstehenden Strecken durch:
 New York – Bermuda – Azoren – Portugal – Irland – Anschluss zu UK (AzUK)
 New York – Neufundland – Irland – AzUK
 New York – Brasilien – West Afrika
 New York – Brasilien – West Afrika – Mittlerer Osten – Indien
 San Francisco – Honolulu (nur Honolulu Clipper)

Special Missions
Zwischen Juli 1941 und Juni 1943 führte Pan Am 97 Spezialaufträge (Special Missions, SM) für die US-amerikanische Regierung durch. Diese Flüge waren vergleichbar mit Charterflügen. So erfolgten die weltweiten Transporteinsätze für wichtiges Personal und Güter mit jeweils kurzfristigem Vorlauf.
Am 4. Juli 1941 begannen die Special Missions mit einem Flug (SM 1) zur Unterstützung von in Gura (Eritrea) neu eingerichteten RAF-Einrichtungen zur Flugzeugwartung, wobei Pan-Am-Besatzungen eingesetzt wurden. Der mit der Atlantic Clipper durchgeführte Flug startete am North Beach Airport (New York), dem späteren La Guardia Airport, mit dem Ziel Bolama (Guinea-Bissau) über Natal und Bathurst. Im Dezember 1941 transportierten drei Clipper bei den SM 6, SM 7 und SM 8 insgesamt 4½ Tonnen Material nach Karatschi, wonach die China National Aviation Corporation den Transport fortführte. Mit den gelieferten Ersatzteilen konnten die Jagdflugzeuge des Typs Curtiss P-40 der Flying Tigers wieder einsatzbereit gemacht werden. 57 der 97 SM-Flüge führten von North Beach (New York) nach Fisherman's Lake (Liberia) und/oder nach Lagos (Nigeria).

Im Jahre 1943 brachte Dixie Clipper US-Präsident Franklin D. Roosevelt von Miami nach Bathurst, wonach Douglas C-54 Skymaster den Weiterflug zur Casablanca-Konferenz übernahmen. Auch Winston Churchill nutzte das Flugboot mehrere Male, was dem Flugzeug während des Krieges eine größere Bekanntheit einbrachte.

BOAC
Am 1. April 1940 nahm die neugegründete BOAC den Betrieb auf. Die 20 Empire-Class-Flugboote der Gesellschaft wurden in Pembroke Dock, Falmouth und Poole stationiert. Hauptaufgabe war die Bereitstellung von Transportkapazitäten für die RAF, ab Mai wurden auch RAF-Flugzeuge repariert und Triebwerke sowie Propeller überholt. Mit der Gründung der Atlantic Ferry Organisation und dem nachfolgenden Betrieb der Air Transport Auxiliary erhielt die BOAC einen eigenen operativen Arm.

Der BOAC-Vorgänger Imperial Airways hatte im August 1939 bereits einen regelmäßigen Passagierdienst über den Atlantik eröffnet. BOAC wurde angewiesen diesen Dienst wieder aufzunehmen. Die Flugboote Clare und Clyde wurden für die Inauguralflüge nach Montreal und New York mit Langstreckentanks ausgerüstet. Den ersten Flug führte Clare am 3. August 1940 von Poole nach Foynes zum Nachtanken und dann nach Botwood durch. Weiter führte der Flug nach Montreal und nach New York. Die Nutzlast setzte sich aus wenigen Passagieren, Post und Zeitungen zusammen. Nachdem im Februar 1940 zwei BOAC-Flugboote in Narvik bei der deutschen Invasion von Norwegen verloren gegangen waren, brachte der BOAC-Generaldirektor das Air Ministry dazu die Beschaffung US-amerikanischer Flugzeuge zu veranlassen. Dies führte zum Kauf von drei Boeing 314 von Pan American Airways zum Stückpreis von 259.250 Pfund Sterling. Die erste wurde am 22. Mai 1941 geliefert. Im Juli 1941 waren alle drei Maschinen (Bristol, G-AGBZ; Berwick, G-AGCA; Bangor, G-AGCB) im Einsatz.

Nach dem Fall von Frankreich, musste BOAC die Route nach Australien ändern. Die Hufeisen-Route genannte Strecke führte nun von England nach Lissabon, Lagos in Nigeria, nach Belgisch-Kongo, nach Kisumu am Victoria-See und nach Durban als Endpunkt.

Konstruktion
Das Flugzeug war ein in Ganzmetallbauweise ausgeführter Schulterdecker mit seitlichen Stabilisierungsschwimmern, in denen auch ein Teil des Treibstoffs untergebracht war. Der erste Prototyp hatte lediglich ein einzelnes Seitenleitwerk, das später zur Verbesserung der Seitenstabilität durch ein Doppelleitwerk ersetzt wurde. Als sich auch diese Modifikation als unzureichend erwies, sah man in der Mitte eine zusätzliche Seitenleitwerksflosse vor.

Die Pan Am Clipper wurden luxuriös gebaut, was wegen der langen Dauer des Überseefluges erforderlich war (insgesamt ca. 24 Stunden von Southampton nach New York). Die 74 Sitze konnten in 40 Kojen für Nachtreisen umfunktioniert werden. Das Flugzeug hatte einen Ess-/Aufenthaltsraum und die Mahlzeiten wurden von Köchen aus 4-Sterne-Hotels zubereitet. Männern und Frauen standen getrennte Umkleidekabinen zur Verfügung. Die Transatlantikflüge waren nur für drei Monate im Jahr 1939 in Betrieb; es war eine luxuriöse Form des Reisens für Superreiche; der Preis für den Flug von New York nach Southampton betrug 675 US-Dollar, was heute ungefähr  US-Dollar entspricht.

Die Boeing 314 "Pan Am Clipper" kommt auch in dem Roman "Nacht über den Wassern" des britischen Autors Ken Follett vor und wird darin sehr detailliert beschrieben.

Technische Daten

Verbleib

Heute gibt es weltweit keine existierende Boeing 314 mehr. Das Flugbootmuseum im irischen Foynes besitzt jedoch einen Nachbau in Originalgröße.

Siehe auch
 Liste von Flugzeugtypen

Literatur
 BOAC's Boeing Clippers. In: Aeroplane Monthly Oktober 1985, S. 508–511. (Nachdruck aus The Aeroplane Februar 1942)
 Ed Davies: Super Clipper Part 1 – Boeing's incredible Model 314 Flying–Boat. In: AIR Enthusiast. November/Dezember 2001, No. 96, S. 69–77.
 Ed Davies: Super Clipper Part 2 – Boeing's incredible Model 314 Flying–Boat. In: AIR Enthusiast. Januar/Februar 2002, No. 97, S. 2–11.
 Peter Berry: Boeing 314 Special Missions. In: AAHS Journal. Summer 2000, S. 132–137.
 Roy Allen: Over the hostile oceans – The flying boats of newly-formed BOAC carried on plying a vital trade during wartime. In: Aeroplane Monthly. April 2015, S. 26–29.

Weblinks

 Artikel des LIFE Magazin, Seite 36ff, 23. August 1937, Seite 38 (englisch)
 Luxus in der Luft

Einzelnachweise

Langstreckenflugzeug
Transportflugzeug
Flugboot
Pan American World Airways
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Erstflug 1938
Viermotoriges Flugzeug mit Kolbenmotoren


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Being a pantser came natural to my writing. Pantsing provided the process for living. I had a plan for life – my long term goals and objectives – but I lived out life in the moment (and often moment by moment).
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A friend sent me an article about J.R.R. Tolkien and his process for writing (as shared by the writing cooperative). It, along with some thoughts from another friend, have me rethinking my "living in the moment" process when it comes to my writing (I have LONG AGO rethought that process in life – home schooling three boys and working from home required more detailed planning).
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I needed a better plan. I watched in awe as my plotting friends explained how they outlined their books, the chapters, and even the scenes. I tried. Really I did. But my plotting dreams faded faster than a list of New Year Resolutions.
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Cary CASH Club Hopes Taking Stock Pays Off
Posted 11:00 a.m. Feb 6, 2000 — Updated 11:00 a.m. Feb 6, 2000
CARY — At one time, going to market meant heading to the store for a loaf of bread or gallon of milk. Today, it means running with the bulls to a stock market that is red hot, and some Cary women are leading the charge.
They have been meeting once a month for a year, and now the group called the Cary Area Stockholders, or CASH, are finally ready to make an investment.
CASH members do not want to make a wrong move now. So before making their pick, they meet to make one last check on all of their options.
This group of women has put in $30 a month and countless hours of research on companies to feel good about the decision they make.
"I think the first step is like the first time you go into that water. It's cold, but then after that, you're OK with it," says CASH member Shield Barnes.
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Lowe, Pauline House, Altadena, CA (1934)
596 East Punahou Street
Altadena, CA 91001-1657
Pauline Lowe was a friend of Harwell H. Harris's who worked as a merchandise buyer for the Bullock's Wilshire Department Store. The Lowe House, with its mix of Japanese characteristics and ranch house plan, bewitched contemporary magazine editors until about 1940. The Lowe House was reproduced in many magazines and even sparked a controversy. In 1935, the Chicago firm of Schweikher and Lamb produced a design very similar to that of the Lowe House, that won the General Electric Small House Competition. Some in the professional press excoriated Paul Schweikher and Theodore W. Lamb for plagiarism, but Harris received a significant amount of positive publicity from the incident.
The Lowe House cost less than $4,000 to erect in 1933-1934.
House greatly altered;
PCAD id: 21
"Winning designs in the "Home Electric Competition"", American Architect, 146: 33-48, 04/1935. Hines, Thomas S., Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism 1900-1970, 487-488, 2010. Mock, Elizabeth, Built in USA, 1932-1944, 23, 1945. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 410, 1994.
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Thomas Randolph Bell
(1943-01-26) January 26, 1943 (age 77)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Philadelphia soul, R&B, soul, pop
Songwriter, record producer, arranger
The Stylistics, The Delfonics, The Spinners, Elton John, Deniece Williams, James Ingram
Thomas Randolph Bell[1] (born January 26, 1943) is a Jamaican-born American singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer, known as one of the creators of Philadelphia soul in the 1970s.[2] Bell is best known for his success with the Philadelphia sound in the 1970s, particularly with the Delfonics,Stylistics and Spinners. In June 2006, Bell was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2016, Bell was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum.
Bell, classically trained as a musician, moved to Philadelphia as a child, and as a teenager sang with Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and Daryl Hall (of Hall & Oates fame). Bell's first big break in soul music came with Cameo Records in Philadelphia where he worked as a session player and arranger.[2] In 1967, he was introduced to a local group called The Delfonics, producing two singles for them on subsidiary label, Moonglow.[2] Bell brought a mellifluous, hypnotic haut en couleur style to soul music and soon his production talents yielded several big hits for the group on the Philly Groove label, run by their manager Stan Watson.[2] These included "La-La (Means I Love You)" and "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time),"[2] the latter nominated for a Grammy Award in 1970.
Bell had also joined the fast-growing record production company operated by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff in Philadelphia, working as an arranger for acts such as Jerry Butler, Archie Bell & The Drells, The O'Jays and Dusty Springfield.[2] He arranged some of the early big hits, including the O'Jays' "Back Stabbers", on Gamble & Huff's own record label, Philadelphia International Records, which they launched in 1971.[2] He also joined the two in setting up a music publishing company for their songs, Mighty Three Music.[3]
By 1971, Bell had moved on to produce another local group, The Stylistics, this time on Avco Records.[2] By then, he had teamed up with the Philadelphia-born songwriter, Linda Creed and this partnership, along with Russell Thompkins, Jr., the lead singer of the Stylistics, generated three albums full of memorable tracks. Bell and Creed became one of the era's dominant soul songwriting teams, penning hits such as "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)", "You Are Everything", "Betcha by Golly, Wow", "Break Up to Make Up", "You Make Me Feel Brand New," and "I'm Stone in Love with You" (the latter with Anthony Bell).[2]
In 1972, Bell agreed to produce The Spinners for Atlantic Records.[2] The group, who had long been with Motown Records, had joined Atlantic after failing to get the attention they wanted. It was the start of a successful collaboration that lasted for seven years and eight original albums. Bell revitalized the group, producing five gold albums that included chart success with singles such as "I'll Be Around", "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love", "Games People Play", and "The Rubberband Man".[4] In 1974, he was awarded a Grammy for Best Producer of the Year.[5]
In 1975, Bell produced an album with Dionne Warwick called Track of the Cat, one year after he had teamed her with the Spinners on the song, "Then Came You", which topped the Billboard Hot 100 and reached #2 on the R&B chart. He also worked with acts such as Johnny Mathis (two albums),[2]Billy Paul, Ronnie Dyson, Anthony & The Imperials and New York City in the mid to late 1970s, but generally with less commercial appeal.
Subsequently, Bell had success with Deniece Williams, including her R&B #1 and Top 10 re-make of The Royalettes' "It's Gonna Take a Miracle" in 1982;[6][7]James Ingram with "I Don't Have the Heart" in 1990 (Bell's second #1 pop hit); and Elton John, whose EP, The Thom Bell Sessions, featured back-up by the Spinners and produced the Top 10 hit, "Mama Can't Buy You Love", in 1979. Other artists Bell produced in the 1980s included The Temptations, Phyllis Hyman, Dee Dee Bridgwater, and he even re-united briefly with the Stylistics in 1981 on Philadelphia International's subsidiary, TSOP.
Warner Chappell Music acquired Mighty Three Music in 1990.[8]
A December 2008 interview with Bell featured on the Philly Soul box set, Love Train, stated he would soon compose a piece for the Philadelphia Orchestra. Past Orchestra members played in MFSB, the house band who played on many Bell productions.
Producing and songwriting
1968: "La-La (Means I Love You)" - The Delfonics
1970: "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" - The Delfonics
1971: "Hey Love" - The Delfonics
1971: "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)" - The Stylistics
1971: "You Are Everything" - The Stylistics
1972: "People Make the World Go Round" - The Stylistics
1972: "I'm Stone in Love with You" - The Stylistics
1972: "I'll Be Around" - The Spinners
1972: "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love" - The Spinners
1973: "I'm Doing Fine Now" - New York City
1973: "One of a Kind (Love Affair)" - The Spinners
1973: "Ghetto Child" - The Spinners
1973: "Break Up to Make Up" - The Stylistics
1973: "Rockin' Roll Baby" - The Stylistics
1974: "You Make Me Feel Brand New" - The Stylistics
1974: "Mighty Love (Part I)" - The Spinners
1974: "Then Came You" - The Spinners (with Dionne Warwick)
1975: "They Just Can't Stop It the (Games People Play)" - The Spinners
1976: "The Rubberband Man" - The Spinners
1979: "Are You Ready for Love" - Elton John (with the Spinners)
1979: "Mama Can't Buy You Love" - Elton John
1980: Dee Dee Bridgewater
1981: "Silly" - Deniece Williams
1982: "It's Gonna Take a Miracle" - Deniece Williams
1990: "I Don't Have the Heart" - James Ingram
^ "BMI | Repertoire Search". Archive.today. Archived from the original on July 14, 2012.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. p. 117. ISBN 1-85227-745-9.
^ Gamble-Huff website recognizing 50th-year anniversary of Mighty Three Music
^ John A. Jackson (2004). A House On Fire: The Rise And Fall Of Philadelphia Soul. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195348804. Retrieved 2020.
^ 1974 Grammy Awards
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 625.
^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
^ SHIVER, JUBE (1990-07-28). "L.A. Company Buys Catalogue of Black Music: [Home Edition]". Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif., United States. p. 2. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved .
Exclusive Thom Bell Interview published January 2012
Bio at soulwalking.co.uk
2006 Interview with Terry Gross on "Fresh Air"
An interview with Soul Express in February 2018
Elton John - 04- Mama Cant Buy You Love - 1977 - Thom Bell Sessions Listening Sessions
Barbara Mason - Yes, I'm Ready
Deniece Williams performs "Its Gonna Take A Miracle"
LOVING YOU, LOSING YOU ~ ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK
THADEU VENTURA |(tenor sax) - YOU MAKE ME FEEL BRAND NEW
Elton John - Are You Ready For Love
Mila J - Complete
Kandace Springs - People Make The World Go 'Round
10cc, American Style - "I'm Not In Love" by Dennis Englewood
French Montana - Shot Caller
Will Downing - Stop, Look, Listen To Your Heart
Mary J. Blige - Everything
Shelly Thunder - Break Up
"In the mouth of madness" trailer
Ladies and gentalman, Introducing the Earl Young Website
The Stylistics - Greatest Love Hits - Our Love Will Never Die
The Stylistics - Greatest Love Hits - I'd Rather Be Hurt By You Than Loved By Somebody Else
The Stylistics - Greatest Love Hits - Because I Love You, Girl
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Discussion in 'E-mail Discussion' started by cothrun, Apr 8, 2004.
I've got a user complaining that some of his mailboxes for a add-on domain aren't visible from cpanel.
What else can I look for? Should I try manually adding them to valiases? Anything else?


Sacked NUW NSW official Nick Belan has today continued his challenge to the FWC's ability to rely on evidence given to royal commissions, urging a full Federal Court to treat the tribunal like a court and find that it should not have been able to uphold his sacking on the basis of admissions made in 2015.
A senior FWC member has approved an employer's request for legal representation in a dismissal case, but not before requiring hearings be conducted in private, that he be free to provide "appropriate" guidance to the unrepresented former worker, and that he retain the power to revoke permission if the lawyer complicates proceedings.
FWC slams HR department's "entrapment"
The Fair Work Commission has sought to better delineate the law around so-called constructive dismissals, in a case in which it lambasted a multinational company's HR department for overseeing a process it likened to "entrapment".
A worker will have another shot at seeking a 45-day extension to file his general protections claim after an FWC full bench found he was wrongly refused on the basis that he needed a credible explanation for the entire length of the delay.
Abandonment of employment clauses have been removed from six modern awards in the wake of an FWC full bench ruling that employers must take the "additional step" of ending the employment relationship when a worker walks off the job.


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Die Skulptur Madonna mit Kind in der Kirche St-Vincent in Portets, einer französischen Gemeinde im Département Gironde der Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine, wurde im 15. Jahrhundert geschaffen. Im Jahr 1930 wurde die gotische Skulptur als Monument historique in die Liste der denkmalgeschützten Objekte (Base Palissy) in Frankreich aufgenommen.

Die bemalte Skulptur aus Eichenholz ist 1,20 Meter hoch. Das Jesuskind sitzt auf dem linken Arm von Maria, die das Kind mit der rechten Hand am Arm berührt. Beide schauen den Betrachter an.

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 Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Gironde. Flohic Éditions, Band 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-125-2, S. 1140.

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Monument historique in Portets
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Poster I made with some help from my man Alex Derwick, for the SUNY Purchase Quad Wars.
I've recently joined the ranks of the band Wyldlife. We're playing at the Suny Purchase C0-0p this Friday, April 24th at 8:00. Its going to be a sick show, and its free! Come check it out!
I've been working on a collaboration with my girlfriend Jenni Berthelot, who is a student in the dance conservatory at Purchase College. We wanted to do a collaboration combining visual art, music, and dance, which would lead to an investigation into my subconscious.
We chose the song "Saeglupor" by the band Sigur Ros, and translated it into three tones of green. First I painted while the song was playing with light green paint. Then I took the painting off the wall and Jenni danced on top of it to the music, with green paint on her socks, making some really beautiful marks on the paper.
Once Jenni had finished I hung the painting up on the wall and stared at it for a while trying to distinguish some figures or characters in the lines that Jenni and I had created abstractly. After staring at it for about half an hour I was able to make out a bird's head in some of the brush/feet marks, so I brought it out with dark green paint. I'm really happy with the end result, and we're talking about making more paintings to different songs, so stay posted!
I've been working as art director for this record label shack attack records, and their first production was my buddy Nick Corbo. I had the opportunity to hand print every cd. 2 color screen prints in an edition of 97, just $5!
Thought I'd post some of my favorite photos. enjoy!


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It's uncommon to venture into Yellowstone without encountering bison. At over 4,000 strong, they're a dominant presence on the roads, on the trails, and throughout the Park's verdant valleys.
Many people pass them by in search of more toothy things like bears and wolves, but if you pay attention, bison exhibit fascinating behaviors and features that most folks miss. The highlights of the bison year—calving in the spring and the rut in late summer—are two of Yellowstone's most exciting spectacles, and two I love to photograph.
Second only to grizzlies, the arrival of the first baby bison in the Park is eagerly awaited. Born in mid-April, the wobbly calves are up and running with the herd within hours. Soon, it seems the entire landscape is littered with little "red dogs" jumping, kicking, and cavorting. They are a joy to watch all summer long; I will often find a place to just sit and observe the herd, listening to their soft grunts and watching their gentle dance across the green meadows.
Standing on a grassy hillside above the Lamar or Hayden valleys in early August, the scene is quite different. Bison gather by the thousands for their mating season, the rut, in a sea of black dots shifting and morphing across the golden landscape. Plumes of dust rise high into the air as magnificent, 2,000-pound bulls wallow and strut.
They bellow their virility in deep-throated guttural roars, competing with other bulls for females coming into estrus. Calves follow forlornly behind their mothers, ready to scurry out of the way when a bull approaches. It's a timeless and awe-inspiring scene, one I never tire of watching and photographing.
Jenny Golding runs the website A Yellowstone Life and writes from her home in Gardiner.


I like reading short stories but I hate writing about them. A short story is so fleeting and ephemeral -- it's like trying to describe a cloud.
This collection of 10 short stories by George Saunders is especially difficult and elusive. His writing is rich and visual, but there is always danger lurking for each character. I had to take a pause break after finishing each story because I felt so unsettled.
My favorite stories were "Victory Lap," which involved two high school students and a traumatic incident; "Escape from Spiderhead" about a prison inmate who is enrolled in a chemical testing study; "Puppy" about two women trying to make the right choices for their children, albeit in very different ways; and "Exhortation," which is a company memo written to boost employee morale in a challenging job.
"What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded…sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.
"Or, to look at it from the other end of the telescope: Who, in your life, do you remember most fondly, with the most undeniable feelings of warmth? Those who were kindest to you, I bet.
"It's a little facile, maybe, and certainly hard to implement, but I'd say, as a goal in life, you could do worse than: Try to be kinder."


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The Search Results Instrument is the results instrument. Almost all other marketing instruments are used to configure and specify the data to pull (Configuration Instruments), or use its the results for further actions (Processing Instruments). Each of these categories of instruments will be discussed in the following sections.
The results instrument provides a view of the data based on the specifications. You can change the columns displayed by right-clicking on the instrument and choosing "Column Chooser". You can edit other instrument options by by clicking the word "edit" at the top right left of the instrument.
Note: Clicking on a row will auto-toggle the check box in the row unless all rows are selected.
Note: Many of the options for the results instrument are actually set by other instruments (such as the Search Tree Instrument).


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Let's Design a Green Blueprint for Green Tomorrow...
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With the advancement in technology and software, it is possible now to evaluate the energy performance of a building at early stage of building designing process.
Let's design a blueprint for green tomorrow green where we and our generation would inhale fresh air!
Energy efficiency is becoming a key factor. Of late, "Go Green" slogan has been organic part of the architecture industry. International outcry for a greener and safer earth, increasing environmental consciousness among people, greenhouse issues raised by the environmentalists across the globe are compelling the architecture firms, virtual building solutions firms and real-estate developers to develop energy efficient tools which can minimize the environmental impact and predict the amount of energy a building consumes over its life-span much before its construction. In response to the increasing demand, architect engineers and software experts develop various tools to be used in the early design phase, as 80% of the sustainable design decisions that affect a building's energy performance are made by the architect designer at the early design phase, to increase the building performance. With the advancement in technology and software, it is possible now to evaluate the energy performance of a building at early stage of building designing process.
Impact of the Construction Industry
The construction industry has a profound impact on our daily lives: the buildings we live and work in, the roads and bridges we drive on, the railways, airports and harbors we travel and trade from are the greatest contributions of this industry. According to a report published by Pricewaterhouse Coopers, "The construction industry accounts for around one-tenth of the world's gross domestic product, seven percent of employment, half of all resource usage and up to 40 percent of energy consumption." It indicates large amount of land use, energy and water consumption, and air and atmosphere alteration. To mention, in the US alone, more than 2,000,000 acres (8,100 km2) of open space, wildlife SUPS habitat, and wetlands are developed each year. More commercial and residential building will be developed in the coming years. Increasing energy and water consumption will alternate the ecological balance and healthy atmosphere. The demand for advanced energy efficient tools is increasingly sweeping the architectural design industry.
Global Scenario and Today's Need of the Hour
In the last century constant movements led by environmentalists, scientists and NGOs forced developed and developing countries both to set some standards and benchmarks to be followed by architecture design firms, real estate developers, architects and engineers to reduce green house effect. With the passing of time, architecture firms around the world have developed advanced tools to help architecture designers and building developers meet the standards set by various Councils and energy bureaus. There are hundreds of energy rating tools available in the market. These tools are being considered need of the hour. Autodesk® has developed an energy rating tools called Ecotect® help architects and designers evaluate multiple design alternatives at early stages of the design process. In conjunction with 3D, these tools enables architect designers to assess and control solar access, natural and artificial lighting levels, overshadowing, wind exposure, thermal performance, etc.
Sustainable Building versus Business Sustainability
By using these tools, architecture firms can estimate the costs over the life cycle of the building. For commercial and industrial estate, savings can be impressive. Decrease in energy consumption means comprehensive increase in net operating income. A study conducted by US architectural firm concluded energy rating tools could reduce upto 30% energy consumption over the entire life cycle of the building. The report decisively indicates reduction in energy consumption means comprehensive increase in net operating income and building asset value of 5 percent. Graphisoft EcoDesigner, SPOT Software, HiLight, GuamSoft help the designer quantify the existing or desired electric lighting and annual daylighting performance at the building design phases. SPOT program decides the optimal photosensor placement for the space relative subject reducing annual energy consumption.
Harvesting More Sunlight Means More Energy Saving
As of 2006, buildings used 40 percent of the total energy consumed in both US and European Union. In US, 54 percent of that percentage was consumed by residential buildings and 46 percent by commercial buildings. Buildings account for 12.2 percent of the total amount of water consumed per day in the United States. According to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the amount of natural resources buildings consume and the amount of pollution siphoned off is seen as crucial threat for future sustainability. If the same continues, we will be running out of natural energy resources very soon. Sunlight is the greatest and utmost source of energy. If sunlight is well harvested, we can save other natural energy resources like coal consumption. Most of the buildings designed by energy rating tools have significantly better daylight harvesting, use of shading, greater occupancy control over light levels and less glare. Department of Energy in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and several universities has developed a stand-alone building energy simulation software namely EnergyPlus for modeling building heating, cooling, lighting, ventilating, and other energy flows as well as water flow in buildings. SPOT, HiLight and REM/Rate Home Energy Rating Tool also enable the architect designers to model the buildings in such a way so that buildings get maximum access to daylight. This software determines the shape of the building accordingly be it awkward or be it gorgeous looking.
Maintaining Ecological Balance
Wastage material, resultant of the building construction has greater impact on ecosystem as it disrupts the natural ecological balance. Surplus materials more particularly by-products of the building construction pollute the environment hazardously. It distorts soil structure and exploits soil fertility. The construction industry in UK produces nearly 20% of all UK waste, equating to approximately 90 million tonnes sent to landfill every year. This figure is sufficient enough to prove the impact of construction industry on ecological system. By using energy efficient tools, architectural designers can show the ecological effects of building choices related to materials used and estimate the environmental and cost impact for the whole building. Energy-rating tool BeCost predicts the ecological effect of building choices related to materials used and estimate the environmental and cost impact for the structure and whole building. With Envest 2 software, designers input their building design parameters (height, window area, number of storeys, etc) and choices of elements (external wall, roof covering, etc). As resultant, Envest 2 shows the effects of different construction materials selected and predicts the environmental impact and costs of various strategies for heating, cooling and operating a building. Equer helps the design professionals, management and renovation team to claim the best innovative techniques like materials, renewable energies, water savings, and so on.
Go Green today…Save Green Tomorrow
Most importantly, energy-rating tools can gift us a green tomorrow reducing the carbon footprints and sending less greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. 38 percent of the total amount of carbon dioxide in the US can be attributed to buildings, 21 percent from homes and 17.5 percent from commercial uses. More efficient energy rating tools are being developed indicate most sustainable and green cities being built. Go Green now…Save green tomorrow. Equer, a comprehensive sustainable energy rating tool was developed with an objective of reducing carbon footprint of the construction industry to global warming. This simulation tool determines the environmental consequences of various design choices over the life cycle of the studied building. Even, Envest 2 helps designers and real estate developers to compare between different buildings and specifications to find the best alternative way to reduce energy consumption.
Movies like "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore; "The Day After Tomorrow" and recently released "2012" directed by Roland Emmerich; the international panel for Climate Change; and environmentalists - all are raising various issues related to environment and trying to rouse environmental awareness among people across the globe advocating decisive action to make societies green and sustainable. There are really no choices left. We must build green building to continue the journey of our civilization. Human beings have a propensity to wait until the last safe moment responding. But, if we don't take any necessary steps in this moment of grave crisis and channelize our efforts designing a blueprint for 'Green Tomorrow', then there is every reason to believe that the prophecy of Apocalyptist will come true. There are so many energy efficient tools discussed above available in the market for designing green architecture. If these are utilized properly, the first 30 minutes of the designing buildings can change the entire world and make our world sustainable for long time. Let's design our tomorrow green and remove the fear of apocalyptic by 2012 where we and our generation would inhale fresh air!
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Over 13.6 million people were newly displaced in 2018, UNHCR says
The number of people fleeing war, persecution and conflict exceeded 70 million globally last year. Churches worldwide will celebrate World Refugee Sunday on June 23.
Evangelical Focus
UNHCR · GENEVA · 20 JUNE 2019 · 17:00 CET
There were 37,000 new displacements every day in 2018. / UNHCR.
Around 70.8 million people fled war, persecution and conflict in 2018, 2.3 million more than a year ago. This is the highest level that the UN Refugee Agency has seen in its almost 70 years.
According to the UN Refugee Agency, this figure is "conservative" and likely to be higher, as the 4 million people displaced by the Venezuela crisis "are only partly reflected in the statistics".
Data from UNHCR's annual Global Trends report, released this week, shows that 13.6 million people were newly displaced in 2018, which means that there were 37,000 new displacements every day.
111,000 UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN REFUHESS IN 2018
Furthermore, "every second refugee was a child", and a total of 111,000 unaccompanied and separated child refugees were forced to survive alone in 2018.
"What we are seeing in these figures is further confirmation of a longer-term rising trend in the number of people needing safety from war, conflict and persecution", said the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi.
Grandi pointed out that "we are also seeing unprecedented engagement by new actors including development actors, private businesses, and individuals […] We must build on these positive examples and redouble our solidarity with the many thousands of innocent people who are forced to flee their homes each day".
TWO THIRDS OF WORLD REFUGESS COME FROM JUST 5 COUNTRIES
As in 2017, over two thirds of the world's refugees come from just five countries: Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Myanmar and Somalia.
For the fifth consecutive year, Turkey hosted the largest number of refugees worldwide, with 3.7 million people. The main countries of asylum for refugees were Pakistan, Uganda , South Sudan and Germany.
Meanwhile, UNHCR reported that, according to government statistics, 92,400 refugees were resettled globally in 2018 by 25 countries, fewer than 7% of those awaiting resettlement worldwide.
Canada resettled the largest number of refugees (over 28,000) refugees, with the United States coming in second with 22,900, followed by Australia, the UK, and France.
REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE
The UN report identifies three main groups: first, the refugees, people forced to leave their country because of conflict, war or persecution. In 2018, the number of refugees reached 25.9 million worldwide.
The second group is the asylum seekers (3.5 million in 2018). These are people outside their country of birth, who are under international protection but are yet to be granted refugee status.
The third and biggest group (41.3 million) includes the people displaced to other areas within their own country, a category commonly referred to as Internally Displaced People or IDPs.
569 DIED IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SINCE JANUARY
Leaving their countries to look for a better future puts refugees in danger everyday. That is the case of the 22 migrants who are reported to have died in the Alboran Sea, the western Mediterranean between Spain and Morocco, this week.
A ferry travelling between Nador, in northern Morocco and Motril, in the south of Spain, spotted the boat in trouble on Wednesday afternoon and rescued the 27 people who were still on board,of the 49 who started the trip.
According to the International Organization for Migration, 569 migrants have died or went missing since January throughout the Mediterranean, 173 of them while attempting to make it to Spain.
A CHRISTIAN RESPONSE: WORLD REFUGEE SUNDAY
The United Nations declared June 20, World Refugee day, and the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), along with the Refugee Highway Partnership (RHP) has called on churches to participate in the World Refugee Sunday (WRS) on June 16 or 23, the Sundays before and after that day.
"The situation may feel overwhelming, but if local churches take time to pray, to reflect on God's perspective on refugees and displaced people, and then reach out to those in their surroundings who may have been forced to flee, they can make a great difference in people's lives" , said Bishop Efraim Tendero, Secretary General of the WEA.
The WEA and the RHP provide resources for Christians and churches to celebrate that day and make an impact.
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The Preserve at Little Pine in Madison County
Feb 2, 2011 | Easements, North Carolina, Press Release, Projects
This past year the Southeast Regional Land Conservancy (http://serlc.org/) added a key jewel to its crown of protected land in the high mountains of the Southern Appalachians. Undisturbed forest habitat with so many Old Growth attributes is quite rare and restricted in our region due to the intensity of logging throughout history. In 2010 a tract with such grand forests was added to the protected lands within The Preserve at Little Pine in Madison County.
The 107-acre tract covers undulating mountainous coves and ridges. It became part of the extensive protected easement lands that now total one thousand two hundred twenty-one (1,221) acres…not a small amount for mountain land close to Asheville. Large, continuous blocks of land are crucial to population health of plant and animal species alike. Numerous rare plant species on the North Carolina Watchlist are present on the site. Many indicator species associated with the unusual circumneutral geologic conditions also thrive in the easement. These habitats are now protected for all future generations to come.


If you can answer any of these correctly, then come along or put together a team for the MS Therapy Quiz Night, Milton Park's nominated and onsite charity.
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This release was recorded in 1988 but never released till late in 2016 and gaining ground.. I am currently working on my new full length pure Thrash Metal album from the Old School of course and it will melt your face off to the best of my ability for an old man LOL. I'm coming at you world like it or not.
Last Monday I captured ARGENTINA the DJ said she will share my release with all the metal stations in Argentina!!!! Thank you Metal Woman Radio for your support!!!! And I thank Metal Devastion Radio for your support as well as RETCHED covers the world one station at a time!!!!
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Heineken and Carlsberg back brewers' pledge for nutritional labeling on beer
29-Mar-2015 - Last updated on 30-Mar-2015 at 08:39 GMT
What's in a glass of beer? Nutrition and ingredient labeling will help consumers find out
Related tags Alcoholic beverages Beer Alcoholic beverage Brewers
Heineken, Carlsberg, SAB Miller, and AB InBev are backing a pledge from The Brewers of Europe, which commits to listing ingredients and nutritional information on beer.
The Brewers of Europe – the trade association representing 5,000 breweries – says the voluntary move will help consumers become more informed about beverages.
Foods and beverages are covered by the EU Regulation on Food Information to Consumers (FIC), but alcoholic beverages of more than 1.2% ABV are exempt from providing ingredients and nutritional listings.
But The Brewers of Europe wants members to follow the same rules voluntarily. It hopes this move will encourage other alcoholic drink sectors to follow its lead.
Like-for-like
Pierre-Olivier Bergeron, secretary general, told BeverageDaily.com that The Brewers of Europe want to let consumers compare like-for-like facts with all beverages, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, per 100ml.
"The first thing the regulations state for any drink – apart from alcoholic beverages – is the list of ingredients," he said. "The list of ingredients should be provided to consumers in descending order. With beer, you'd start with water; then cereals, malted barley, hops and yeast."
With regards to nutritional information, brewers will provide energy values in kilocalories, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrates, carbohydrates of which sugars, protein, and salt.
"What we're committing to is a situation where individual breweries provide those big seven on pack or online," said Bergeron.
On pack or online
Bergeron said consumers are interested in accessing information off-label as well as on pack. For example, 47% of consumers were 'very interested' in using product or brand related websites to access ingredient information or nutritional information for alcoholic beverages.
The body is asking brewers to provide information 'on pack and/or online.'
"We're not establishing any particular hierarchy between label and online platforms," said Bergeron.
"We're in a situation where consumers are increasingly equipped with access to online information. The penetration of fixed internet and mobile internet is expanding at an incredibly fast pace.
"One thing that is important: if a brewer chooses not to list nutritional values on the label, nevertheless they would have to clearly indicate how the consumer gets that information – a QR code or similar."
Level playing field
So will brewers plump for on pack labels or online information?
"It's difficult to predict, I think it's going to be a mix," said Bergeron. "It's going to be interesting to see how this moves forward. It could be that in half a decade global operators or smaller medium brewers will realise penetration of online is such that it is a priority."
The Brewers of Europe has not set a timescale for implementation.
"It's an important move, but the brewing sector in Europe is a colourful landscape of big and small breweries so it's going to take some time," said Bergeron.
"If individual breweries of our association want some support or calculation of nutritional values, we will be helping them."
The European Commission is due to release a review of FIC's current exemption for alcoholic beverages to provide ingredient and nutritional information. If the rules were to be extended to alcoholic beverages, The Brewers of Europe say it is essential that a level playing field is set out among all alcoholic drinks.
Earlier this month, spirits, wine and beer company Diageo pledged to provide nutritional information for each serve, either on pack or online.
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New breweries boost European beer sector
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When I check the memory usage graph on the Dashboard, however, I notice that the memory use peaks at 78%. My question is, why are we getting an OutOfMemoryError when we seem to have 22% of our memory remaining?
Can you tell me the vCores size that you assigned to your application? Can you try increase the vCores size of your application?
Hello @ravi_tamda_inchcape Currently we're using .2 vCores. Ideally we'd prefer to avoid increasing the number of vcores since the next step up from .2 is 1 whole vCore. Since each vCore means an additional cost, we would prefer to reduce the amount of memory we're using.
The reason I asked my question originally was because I'd like to know how much memory I need to save to keep our usage at .2 vCores or lower.


The University of Michigan Tauber Institute for Global Operations hosts the annual Leadership Forum to provide Tauber students with opportunities to learn directly from current leaders in Operations from top global firms.
A panel discussion offers Tauber students insights about managing the complex fields such as Aerospace, Energy, Technology, and Big-Box Retail, while striving to employ sustainable practices in a rapidly evolving business landscape. The focus of the 2019 Forum is Automation / Machine learning.
Kim Vogel - Strategic Accounts Director of the Great Lakes Region at Microsoft.
Doug Mehl - Partner at A.T. Kearney.
Leslie Hardin - Lead of On-Campus Recruiting at American Industrial Partners.
Lisa Strama - President and CEO at National Center for Manufacturing Sciences.
Michael Mikula - Chief Engineer of Advanced Manufacturing at Ford.


Thread: Multiple SKUs on e-Commerce sites; best SEO strategy?
Hi, folks. I'm a copywriter that's lately become an SEO copywriter.
Several of his products come in multiple colors and configurations. At present, his site hosts a category page and then discreet pages for each color and configuration.
The kicker here is that all of his pages share the same copy.
With the post-Panda emphasis against duplicate content, he asked me if he should eliminate the individual SKU pages by combining them into a single dynamic page or if he should write unique copy for each SKU.
Combining the multiple SKUs into a dynamic page seems potentially tricky with regard to indexing information on each item. One big plus he mentioned with keeping separate pages for each SKU is that each one gets a listing on Google Shopping pages with an accurate photo of the item.
However, maintaining separate pages for each SKU seems at best to dilute each pages' rank, and at worst risks severe devaluation based on post-Panda duplicate content rules.
I'm a keyword guy much more than a web design or UX guy, so technical advice is particularly appreciated here.


Loads of great content up in this week's Nerd News!
Looks like there will be another Narnia movie in the works. I enjoyed the first one, but the last two were a bit on the shaky side for me. The Silver Chair might just be my favorite Narnia book, so I hope they do it justice. Here's hoping for Tom Baker to reprise his role as Puddleglum.
My good friend and "fiancé-in-law" Chris Yokel shared a really interesting comparison between Firefly and Joss Whedon's newest, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series. Check it out on his blog.
I know in your social media perusing, you're likely bombarded with approximately 300 bajillion, 25 flying fafillion BuzzFeed lists. They're either hilarious or obnoxious. Allow me to share a delightful one with you here today–10 Classic Fandoms Imagined as Kids that Will Warm Your Heart.
Looking for some spooky Halloween films that will make you think, spook you, but not knock you for a loop with gore and violence? My friend Dr. Amy Sturgis can help you out. Personally, I don't do horror, but Amy's thoughts on these films have compelled me to watch a few in years past and I've really enjoyed them. Check out all the Halloween fun here on her blog.
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And some gift you all day.
Some skew you and flay.
And it takes no contemplation.
And you've arrived at your destination.
You're on Coney Island now?
I'm amazed at what I've seen.
The question and its lovely response.
If "ye ask" ye does receive.
Took only a fraction, to create what has happened?
When each disguise bets our demise?
Trying to make a situation right..
An endeavor to avoid a certain plight..
Even though it could hurt someone else?
And delight in its new lyrics.
Would you like to hear more poems?
That come within from spirit?
Than consider this a poll.
I'll unleash a creative monsoon.
All of your undefinable works of majestic godliness.
ex: "The Grizzly Grandma's Boy"


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PRESS RELEASE: 15 August 2012
Ocampo goes, a corrupt and incompetent
court remains
Luis Moreno Ocampo's tenure as the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has come to an end. His replacement as prosecutor, however, does not in any way disguise the reality that the Court remains a corrupt and incompetent institution.
ICCwatch Director Marc Glendening notes:
"The former Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has epitomised the intellectual, legal and moral shortcomings of the International Criminal Court. While desperate to secure a second term as chief prosecutor, the ICC's European funders were very aware that Ocampo was a clear liability, having mired the Court in personal and legal scandals. Ocampo presided over a marked decline in the credibility and legitimacy of the International Criminal Court."
Ocampo's questionable decisions highlighted the institutional flaws and contradictions at the heart of the Court. While claiming that the ICC was independent, Ocampo and the ICC clearly came to be seen as a vehicle for the political interests of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council - this was particularly obvious in Ocampo's eagerness to indict the former Libyan leader Colonel Kaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and a former Libyan intelligence chief in the course of 2011 - something done in an unprecedentedly short time. The referral of Libya to the ICC in and so itself perfectly illustrated the ICC's relationship with the UN Security Council, and more specifically its five permanent members. Despite the fact that Libya was not a member of the ICC, it was referred to the ICC by the Security Council, three of whose five permanent members are not even members of the Court.
Under Ocampo the ICC studiously ignored any European or Western human rights abuses in conflicts such as those in Afghanistan and Iraq or human rights abuses by any Western client states. Instead, at the behest of the Court's European funders, the prosecutor's office focused exclusively on alleged events in Africa. The result is that every single person indicted by the ICC has been African.
Ocampo also bears absolute responsibility for the blatant prosecutorial misconduct that came to characterise his period in office. Ocampo's prosecutorial irregularities would have ended any fair trial because they compromised the integrity of any subsequent process. His misconduct extended to the withholding of hundreds of items of exculpatory evidence from the bench and defence in the course of the ICC's first, and so far only completed, trial. His gross misconduct was swept under the carpet by the court's political masters. The prosecution also produced witnesses who recanted their testimony the moment they got into the witness box, admitting that they were coached by non-governmental organisations as to what false statements to make.
Ocampo claimed that the ICC was "economical", yet it cost half a billion Euros to bring one deeply flawed trial to completion. Ocampo claimed that the office of the prosecutor was to be victim-centred yet Human Rights Watch has publicly criticised the Court's ambivalence towards victim communities. Ocampo claimed to bring "swift justice" but it took several years to bring the first accused to trial for allegedly using child soldiers. The Nuremberg trials, which addressed infinitely more serious charges, were over within a year.
Ocampo claimed to be fighting impunity, yet he himself afforded defacto immunity and impunity to several serial abusers of human rights who happen to be friends of the European Union and United States.
Ocampo's double-standards in Africa has derailed delicate peace processes - thereby prolonging devastating civil wars. There is a clear lesson for countries in Africa and elsewhere: do not join the ICC and do not refer your country to the ICC. It is the equivalent of inviting a cancer into your system.
ICCwatch Director Marc Glendening has stated:
"The reality is that Ocampo's behaviour while in office reflected the reality of the International Criminal Court. The Court exists only to further Western, and especially European, foreign policy and its own bureaucratic imperative - to exist, to employ more Europeans and North Americans and where possible to continue to increase its budget."
For more information concerning ICCwatch's critique of the International Criminal Court, please refer to www.iccwatch.org
[ENDS]
For a pdf version of this press release, click here (127k)
MARC GLENDENING - 0044 (0)7896 511 108 -or- 0044 (0)20 7306 3302
Email: mail @ iccwatch.org
© 2012 ICCwatch.org - All Rights Reserved


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A atleta paralímpica de natação da Austrália, Sarah Rose, nasceu em 18 de fevereiro de 1986.

A australiana nasceu com nanismo, na cidade de Sydney. Nos Jogos Paralímpicos de Atenas, em 2004, competiu em quatro provas e conquistou uma medalha de bronze na prova dos 50 m borboleta feminino na categoria S6. Quatro anos depois, em 2008, nos Jogos Paralímpicos de Pequim, Rose defendeu as cores de seu país disputando em quatro provas.

Em 2006, no Campeonato Mundial de Natação IPC, obteve a medalha de prata nos 50 m borboleta feminino na categoria S6.

Em 2012, ela fez um retorno após uma grave lesão nas costas, o que lhe causou afastamento do esporte por um ano, e alcançou seu objetivo de seleção para a equipe australiana nos Jogos Paralímpicos de Londres [2012].

Foi bolsista de natação paralímpica do Instituto Australiano de Esporte entre 2004 e 2009. Trabalha como assistente administrativa para The House with No Steps (Casa sem Degraus), uma organização criada para ajudar os deficientes.

Em 2016, foi premiada com Speedo Services, do Swimming Australia Awards, por seu bom desempenho na equipe de natação australiana.

Desportistas paralímpicos da Austrália
Naturais de Sydney


Voters in Issaquah, Washington narrowly rejected Proposition 1, a ballot measure that if passed would have repealed the plastic bag ban and bag charge. The measure lost by a narrow margin of only 350 votes.
The King County Department of Elections reported that out of 19,302 registered voters in the City of Issaquah, a total of 7,590 ballots (or 39.32%) were returned by mail and counted. A total of 3,595 "Yes" votes (47.68%) and 3,945 'No" votes (52.32%) were cast. The "No" vote keeps the bag ban ordinance previously passed by the City Council in place.
Proposition 1 was placed on the ballot by a grass roots group called Save Our Choice. Save our Choice was founded in December 2011 to first oppose the Seattle bag ban and bag tax and is a band of grassroots volunteers dedicated to fiercely defending consumer and merchant choice. Save Our Choice collected more than 15% of all Issaquah voters to qualify the measure for the ballot in October 2013. (Clark, 2014) Subsequently, Mr. Craig Keller, cofounder of Save Our Choice, successfully challenged the ballot title and description in court and won several much needed wording improvements to the ballot title and description.
According to Mr. Craig Keller, co-founder of Save Our Choice, Proposition 1 would have easily won had more grass roots volunteers turned up to help with the effort. Mr. Keller stated that few volunteers came out to help during freezing cold and windy weather prior to the election to stand outside stores handing out "message" bags and "Free Issy" decals before the election. Each "message" bag was a plastic bag with a message to vote "Yes" on Proposition 1 as shown in the illustration.
Mr. Keller noted that collecting signatures or handing out plastic "message" bags and decals was not without incident. On numerous occasions some store managers have called the Issaquah Police Department and that he had to stand his ground and school Issaquah Police Officers that the sidewalk in front of a store is a "public forum" and available for the exercise of political speech according to both state law and the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Issaquah's Proposition 1 was on the ballot in the February 11, 2014 special election. Most of the measures on the ballot were related to school district funding, maintenance, and capital improvements that may have brought a certain type of voter out, such as parents of school age children who might have been more supportive of the bag ban. Mr. Keller also believes that if the proposition to overturn the Issaquah bag ban had been on the ballot in a general election it would have won.
Also, on the ballot was a measure for the City of Issaquah to annex the nearby county area of Klahanie which does not have a bag ban. The measure lost by 32 votes. Save Our Choice leafleted two precincts in Klahanie encouraging voters to reject annexation based upon Issaquah's nanny state bag ban and red light cameras. Mr. Keller stated he thinks Save Our Choice helped to shape that outcome.
The fact that the race was so close showed that at least half of voters do not believe that the city council should impose lifestyle choices on residents by stripping away personal choices as to what kind of shopping bag works best for them.
I feel for the person that worked so hard on this. Your effort is appreciated, and I bet those employed by the plastic recycling business thank you.
In California, hundreds of people may lose their jobs due to this ban. Remember when paper bags were verboten? Now, they are again in vogue. Same thing will happen with plastic bags. They are not only recyclable, but they are made from product that should be recycled again.
Too many people are being willfully ignorant of the facts when a vote can produce this result.


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Inside dangerous rapist's photography studio that he used to lure victims
Paul Brown set up an elaborate con in which he convinced women that they could find fame and fortune as models if they took part in his casting couch sessions
Ted DavenportCourt Reporter
The agency told the models they had to go to his studio in Okehampton for a test shoot but when they got there Brown used a mixture a flattery and false promises to make them go further than they wanted to.
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A photographer who deceived models into stripping off and having sex with him has been jailed for 21 years.
Paul Brown set up an elaborate con in which he convinced women that they could find fame and fortune as models if they took part in his casting couch sessions.
He founded an online modelling agency which contacted women and offered them the chance to become professional models. He hid his connection to the agency so the victims had no idea he was running it secretly.
He told them they could have lucrative careers in the adult entertainment industry but only if they took part either in naked shoots or if they had sex with him.
He was jailed at Exeter Crown Court as several of his victims watched from the public gallery and the back of the court.
He was branded as a pathological liar who had treated the women with contempt and used deceit to deprive them of informed consent.
Inside Brown's studio
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Brown, who used the false name of Paul Smart, persuaded six women to take part in what he called adult casting sessions in which he filmed himself having sex with them in what he called POV or point of view shots.
He got another five women to pose naked and then took close ups of their genitals without them realising what he was doing.
Brown invented two fictional women, who supposedly ran the Model South West (MSW) agency, but the messages he sent to potential models on Facebook actually came from Brown himself.
The women all thought the material would be sent to the agency, which would find them work. In reality, Brown kept the images for his own sexual gratification.
Some of the models were lured back to his studio by messages from the modelling agency saying the sex scenes had to be re-shot.
One model who was reluctant to strip naked heard Brown call MSW and pretend to have a conversation with the agency about how she was ideal for nude work.
The models came from all over Devon and were of all ages and sizes, ranging from 20 to the 60s, Many were vulnerable and insecure about their bodies and were fooled by Brown's smooth talking and flattery.
None of them ever received any offers of work and none of them received any of the money which he promised would follow.
Brown kept a record of his sexual conquests in a 'black book' which recorded details of some of the rape victims. It showed he had been using different aliases while contacting women for years.
The book contained the names, ages, physical details of Brown's partners and included a mark out of ten for their performance. The book even included his own wife, who scored nine out of ten.
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Brown joked with police in one interview that he was not Harvey Weinstein but employed a classic casting couch technique of offering fame and fortune in exchange for sex. The couch actually came from Ikea.
He set himself up as a photographer despite having little formal training and a background as an IT adviser, at one stage working for the NHS in Exeter.
Brown committed the offences while running his studio at the Fatherford Farm trading estate in Okehampton between 2015 and 2017.
The police were first alerted in 2017 by one of the rape victims who went to a genuine modelling shoot with a professional photographer a few days afterwards.
Brown's studio
She realised that what Brown had done amounted to a sexual assault and went to the police, who arrested him and seized the black book.
Police fear he still has access to some of the images of the women on two cloud databases run by Crystal Hosting and Google Drive which experts have been unable to access because he did not give them the access codes.
Brown, aged 41, of Richards Close, Okehampton, was found guilty of 15 rapes against six different women and voyeurism against five other women.
He pleaded guilty to one count of voyeurism, which involved him installing a hidden camera at his home to spy on a female visitor in the bathroom.
He was jailed for 21 years by Judge David Evans, who put him on the sex offenders register for life.
He told him:"You fantasised about a scenario of taking advantage of the women you photographed. They were all quite understandably convinced by your rigorously and carefully planned deception that the agency was real.
"Most felt uneasy and some felt under pressure and even intimidated by the situation. Everything they did at the studio was at your direction, but it was all a very convincing fraud.
"You are manifestly a compulsive liar and fantasist. You are also that very dangerous thing, an extremely convincing and persuasive liar. You gave the impression of being a professional photographer with long experience of the glamour and pornography industries.
"It was a complete fabrication, but it was all a well-planned and well rehearsed fabrication. You deceived many people and your purpose was your own sexual gratification.
"Your contempt for the individuality and humanity of the women who you deliberately deceived was breath-taking. It included your essential contempt for their informed consent.
"I have read all the victim personal statements and the harm you caused was profound. Nobody should be tempted to underestimate the harm you caused."
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Mr David Sapiecha, prosecuting, said the victims will provide impact statements for the sentencing hearing.
He said Brown has previous convictions for fraud which they were not told about previously because they were not relevant.
They date from 1999 to 2002 and involved him using false names and fictional companies to obtain £14,000 worth of computer equipment.
Miss Kelly Scrivener, defending, says he now acknowledges the effect of his offending on the victims and the bravery which they showed in going to the police and giving evidence at his trial.
DI Naidoo, the Senior Investigating Officer said: "Paul Brown was one of the most prolific sex offenders in the history of Devon and Cornwall Police.
"We welcome the sentence today. My team worked tirelessly to gather evidence with over 85 digital exhibits seized during the investigation. Paperwork found during searches of his home and business addresses also allowed us to contact further victims.
"This was a particularly complex rape investigation involving 16 victims taking over two years to complete. This all started with a single report.
"He raped and sexually assaulted women over a period of five years. He created a web of deceit to coerce women, many of whom were vulnerable, into allowing him to sexually assault and rape them. It wasn't until one brave young woman came forward that police were able to unravel the web that he had created."
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"If it were not for the courage of the victims in coming forward and the hard work of the police officers and staff involved, this case could not have happened and this offender would not have faced justice."
DS Lefort, the Deputy Senior Investigating Officer said: "This was a particularly unusual case and one which helps to dispel some of the myths that surround the subject of rape and other sexual offences.
"As can be seen with this case, offences do not necessarily follow the stereotypes often seen in the media. It is important that the public know that the police will fully investigate any such allegation and they should feel confident to come forward."
DC Northcott, the Officer in Charge of this investigation, said: "I would personally like to thank the victims in this investigation for their courage and bravery in speaking to us and their patience and support for what has been a lengthy investigation.
"Lastly, it is important to highlight that these victims all have automatic anonymity for life."
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