It's from one of Jan Gehl's books, illustrating the actual visual perception of buildings from pedestrian point of view. What it's showing is the relationship between distance and viewable building height. In other words, how far away do you have to be from a building in order to "see" it?
It turns out that because of the design of our human heads and eyes, the only part of a building that matters from the vantage point of the sidewalk is the very first floor. Everything else is out of sight, and out of mind.
In other words, the only time that people on foot even see or notice the "building as a whole" is from a great distance, such as from a freeway overpass, from across a river, or when they're looking at a city's skyline. Once you're actually walking in and engaging with city buildings themselves, only the ground floor makes any perceptible difference to the sidewalk experience.
To me this seemingly simple fact is interesting in light of the conversation about what architecture should be focused on. Often architecture seems focused on the building as a whole, the way it looks from a distance. Meanwhile, for people actually walking around buildings, the only meaningful variable is the design of the ground floor.
This should be noted when designing store signage (and the related regulations). I often find myself walking to the outer edge of a sidewalk and craning my neck to figure out the name of a store — signs are often designed to be seen by a car in the street, and even then they're often hard to read. Signs that hang out perpendicular from a building or at an angle like a marquee are better for pedestrians. Unfortunately, I think such signs are subject to extra fees because they technically occupy some of the right-of-way (even though they're up in the air). Regulations like that ought to be repealed where they exist.


The other day, as I am prone to do, I had a brilliant idea. I was watching some tennis after lunch, but mainly having a little post-prandial nappins because I am getting old. I was awoken by a familiar foe: my own bladder. It was full of urine which I needed to expel.
Having a full bladder is no fun. Things are very tightly packed inside your cavities, so a big melon of a bladder pushes on your other squishy bits and makes you very uncomfortable. Surely humans should have evolved their way out of this problem by now?
So, instead I hitched my cart to the Intelligent Design wagon, in as much as I am very intelligent and have designed a solution. It is simple: put the bladder in the scrotum. Please admire my diagrams (click the picture for a bigger version).
It is probably worth pointing out at this stage that this is only applicable to male genito-urinary medicine. Ladies, I'm afraid you'll have to figure out your own solution. However, with all the additional bits you have rattling round in there, I'm guessing a full bladder is probably the least of your worries.
Anyway, as you can see from Figure 1, the current urinary system is fairly elegant and, most importantly, it works. But does it work smart? The answer is no. Ergonomic design principles have been disregarded, as well as your most tender assets - your cobblers - reduced to hanging exposed where any passing child or slighted woman may kick them. So, to Figure 2. As you can see, I have moved the bladder to the scrotal sac. This will free up vital space in your peritoneal cavity for that extra sausage or a slice of pie. Also, the wrinkled skin of the scrotum will allow the bladder to inflate to a good 3 or 4 litre capacity - rather than its current meek single unit - giving the busy male extra time between wees. NOT TO MENTION the additional bonus of a huge package.
Obviously, this change is not without its difficulties. The testes would have to grow accustomed to the rather darker surroundings of the renal system. Perhaps more troublesome would be man's pesky old enemy, gravity. With the bladder lower than the urethra, evacuation could prove problematic, although a spirited squeeze - akin to that of a bagpipe player - should resolve any really stubborn dregs.
The issue which needs to be most urgently addressed, however, is that I have just noticed that the bladder isn't technically connected to the urethra in any way. There's a chance that Figure 2 won't work. No, it won't. Bugger.
This wouldn't work. The reason the testicles are "outside" is because sperm don't like the heat and need to be kept at a lower temperate than the core body.
I'm not sure who is the bigger idiot - you or young Anthony here.
I think it's pretty obvious that I am the biggest idiot in the world.
yes, but Anthony appears to be taking you seriously. I cannot condone this behaviour.


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Last names beginning with T
Taylor, Richard
Links and sources
Dictionary of New Zealand Bography logo
Story: Taylor, Richard
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Kirk, A. L. 'Richard Taylor's North Cape land grant'. Historical Record 6, No 2 (Nov. 1975): 3–10
Macgregor, M. Petticoat pioneers. Book 2. Wellington, 1975
Mead, A. D. Richard Taylor, missionary tramper. Wellington, 1966
Murray, J. 'A missionary in action'. In The feel of truth. Ed. P. Munz. Wellington, 1969
Owens, J.M.R. The mediator: a life of Richard Taylor 1805–1873. Wellington, 2004
Ross, J. E. 'The missionary work of the Rev. Richard Taylor at Wanganui'. MA thesis, Victoria, 1965
Taylor, R. Journal, 1825–1826. MS. WTU
Taylor, R. Journal, 1833--1873. qMS. WTU
J. M. R. Owens. Links and sources for 'Taylor, Richard', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1t22/taylor-richard/sources (accessed 18 January 2022)

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According to news reports, there appeared to be no letting up in the "relentless rhino poaching onslaught" in South Africa… The country…was on track to lose more than a thousand rhinos for the fifth straight year.
Unofficial kill figures show the country has lost 483 rhinos to poachers in the first five and a half months of 2017.
One of the most serious environmental crimes, wildlife trafficking encompasses all stages in the supply chain, from taking wild fauna from its habitat, to trading, importing, exporting, processing, possessing, obtaining and consuming of these species. Driven by an extraordinary low-risk/high-profit ratio, the trafficking of endangered species is estimated to generate over EUR 4.4 billion in profits globally per year (2011).
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Rhino poaching has now been evaluated to a priority crime in South Africa… This was confirmed by Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa ahead of the 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Thailand. The top-level meeting of the world's major environmental bodies started in Thailand today and runs until March 14.
With 128 rhino already killed by poachers this year, well up from the 80 for the corresponding period last year, the National Joint Operations Centre, co-ordinated by the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigations, has moved rhino poaching up on its priority rating list. Molewa also said Cabinet had emphasised the need for more technology, specifically in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), to be pushed the way of rhino anti-poaching forces. These are currently comprised mainly of SANParks rangers supported by elements of the SA National Defence Force as well as police, customs and excise inspectors from SA Revenue Services and any number of NGOs.
SANDF elements are first and foremost deployed for border protection in the park but where manpower allows, assist rangers in anti-poaching operations. The SA Air Force has also, again where resources allow, made assets available for anti-poaching operations. This has seen a pair of BK-117s of 15 Squadron C Flight in Kruger to assist with aerial surveillance.
Leading South African private sector defence industry conglomerate, the Paramount Group, has also committed itself to the rhino anti-poaching effort. It has made a Seabird Aviation Seeker light observation aircraft available to Kruger via the Ichikowitz Family Foundation. The additional eye in the sky is a boost to Kruger's own fleet of helicopters, light observation and fixed wing aircraft.The SANParks flagship late last year announced a more militaristic approach to stopping rhino poachers. This saw retired SA Army major general Johan Jooste join the national conservation organisation's anti-poaching set-up as its head.
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The Inuit see the animal as a fierce predator, a cultural symbol and a valuable source of food, warmth and money in a part of the world where all three are in short supply.Yet to animal-welfare and green groups in warmer places the polar bears are both an icon in the fight against climate change and an animal under threat of extinction. The melting of the Arctic's ice cap, which the bears use as a hunting platform, means the estimated population of between 20,000 and 25,000 will decline sharply, they say. They see hunting the bears as an anachronism and want international trade in bear pelts and parts, already severely restricted, completely banned.
These opposing views are set to clash at a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), an intergovernmental agreement, between March 3rd and 14th in Bangkok. Having failed at the previous meeting of CITES in 2010, the United States is again leading a move to switch the polar bear from Appendix II of the convention to Appendix I, which would ban trade in all but "exceptional" circumstances. The American proposal is backed by Russia but opposed by Canada, Norway, Denmark (which represents Greenland) and the CITES secretariat.
The debate promises to be emotional. What it lacks are facts. The Americans acknowledge that only eight of the 19 known groups of polar bears have been surveyed since 2000. Of the remaining 11, four have never been surveyed. The submission relies on a controversial forecast undertaken for the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 2007 that suggests the decline in sea ice will lead to the disappearance of two-thirds of the world's polar bears by 2050. Should the United States obtain the two-thirds majority needed to change the bear's status, it will be a blow to the Inuit. Their trade in walrus tusks and narwhal horns has dried up because of curbs on sales of ivory designed largely to protect elephants. The trade in seal pelts and meat was curtailed by a 2009 import ban by the European Union, though this granted a limited exemption to indigenous peoples.
In Canada polar bears are hunted under annual quotas set by territorial governments. The Inuit trade bear pelts, claws and teeth, and sell some of the quota to trophy hunters, who employ local guides and buy local supplies…..
Countries which want to become observers at the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental body, will be reluctant to vote against Canada, Norway and Denmark on the issue. Canada takes over as chairman of the council in May. Still, it will take resolve to stand up to the United States, also a council member, and the array of animal-welfare and environmental groups backing its position.
The Inuit also argue that if the problem is climate change, to ban trade in polar bears is to attack the symptom rather than the cause. That was the argument of the European Union's environment commissioner, Janez Potocnik, when the European Parliament debated the issue earlier this month. But the MEPs still voted in support of the American position.
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It took three years, but a research team at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has expanded its initial research on 400 patients and has performed its 1,000th MRI-Transrectal Ultrasound (MRI-TRUS) 3-D fusion procedure this month.
The researchers found that the procedure improves the detection of clinically significant prostate cancer.
"Our previous study with approximately 400 men has shown that, compared with systematic (conventional, 12-core) biopsy, targeted MRI-TRUS biopsy diagnosed 11 percent more intermediate-to-high risk and 16 percent fewer low-risk tumors," Dr. Daniel Costa, assistant professor of radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, told HCB News.
He said that moving forward, the research team — also composed of physicians from the urology and pathology departments at UT — will need to better evaluate the method in other patient populations. This includes determining MRI-TRUS diagnostic performance on the basis of outcome factors, such as disease-free survival and cost-effectiveness.
The researchers have partnered with colleagues in Brazil to conduct two follow-up studies.
According to Costa, their recent expanded study helped confirm several key findings.
"Our work also highlighted its (MRI-TRUS) robustness and consistency," he said. "With these results replicated when using different imaging protocols — such as studies done with and without endo-rectal coil — different image fusion devices, as well as various radiologists and urologists with different levels of expertise."
He added that the use of the MRI-TRUS fusion biopsy has demonstrated that it is a good option for men with high clinical suspicions for prostate cancer, which include elevated and rising PSA blood levels and abnormal digital rectal exams.
Such patients often test negative using conventional TRUS only biopsy. These patients may or may not have prostate cancer and they may or may not have an aggressive form of the disease.
The fused MRI-TRUS image creates a 3-D model, and flags anomalies that could be areas of concern. That helps guide urologists to select biopsy samples to determine whether cancer is present and how severe it may be.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer diagnosed in men, after skin cancer. Prostate cancer risk increases with age, with most cases occurring after age 60. According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), about 180,890 men will be diagnosed this year, and about 14 percent of men will be diagnosed sometime during their lifetime.
"Patients diagnosed at a later stage of disease, or with a more aggressive cancer, have lower rates of survival, making it vital that we quickly identify those who are at the highest risk," said Claus Roehrborn, Chair of the UT Urology Department and a member of the MRI-TRUS study team.
Another team at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center is also using a MRI-TRUS method to obtain random tissue samples from 12 cross sections of the prostate to diagnose prostate cancer.


Even your jewelry wears jewelry. Shell cameo of a classical woman updated in the 1920s with diamond bandeau, pendant necklace and earring, (.35 carat total weight, I-J color, SI2-I1 clarity) just as the modern flapper might wear, set into a 14K white gold frame with delicate filigree work. This cameo measures 2 3/8 tall by 1 3/4 wide.


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È noto per aver diretto le opere di Richard Wagner a Bayreuth e all'Oper Frankfurt.

Biografia
Weigle ha studiato alla Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" corno, pianoforte e direzione d'orchestra. Nel 1987 fondò il Berlin Chamber Choir e in seguito diresse la New Berlin Chamber Orchestra. È stato il principale suonatore di corno dell'orchestra dell'Opera di Stato di Berlino per 15 anni. È stato anche membro dell'orchestra jazz "Vielharmonie" a Berlino Est.

Nel 1993 diventò direttore principale della National Youth Symphony Orchestra di Brandeburgo e nel 1997, direttore principale della Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Ha suonato in molti teatri d'opera, tra cui la Semperoper, l'Oper Frankfurt, la Wiener Volksoper, l'Cincinnati Opera, la Wiener Staatsoper e la Metropolitan Opera di New York.

Nel 2003 diresse La donna senz'ombra di Richard Strauss all'Oper Frankfurt con il direttore Christof Nel e fu nominato "Direttore dell'anno" dalla rivista tedesca Opernwelt. Ricevette il titolo nuovamente nel 2005 e nel 2006. Dal 2004 al 2008 è stato direttore musicale del Gran Teatre del Liceu a Barcellona.

Weigle ha diretto una nuova produzione de I maestri cantori di Norimberga di Wagner nel 2007 al Festival di Bayreuth, messo in scena da Katharina Wagner, nonché diverse repliche negli anni successivi.

Dalla stagione 2008/2009 Weigle è stato Generalmusikdirektor dell'Oper Frankfurt, succedendo a Paolo Carignani. Ha diretto nuove produzioni di Daphne e Arabella di Richard Strauss, Die tote Stadt di Korngold, Lear di Reimann e Il pipistrello di Johann Strauß ed eseguì Il flauto magico di Mozart, Fidelio di Beethoven e Tristano e Isotta e Parsifal di Wagner. Eseguì le quattro parti de L'anello del Nibelungo di Wagner, messo in scena da Vera Nemirova, finendo con Il crepuscolo degli dei nel 2012. Il ciclo completo verrà eseguito due volte nel 2012. Tra i cantanti c'erano Susan Bullock nei panni di Brünnhilde, Eva-Maria Westbroek nei panni di Sieglinde, Frank van Aken come Siegmund e Terje Stensvold come Wotan. Furono registrate singole esibizioni. Gavin Dixon ha annotato nella sua recensione de La Valchiria:

Weigle è un nipote del direttore d'orchestra e insegnante di musica Jörg-Peter Weigle e il fratello del violista Friedemann Weigle dell'Artemis Quartet.

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Collegamenti esterni

 Sebastian Weigle (Conductor) bach-cantatas.com 2007
 Sebastian Weigle wagneropera.net
 Sebastian Weigle Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
 Sebastian Weigle Naxos

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Nevėžis je rijeka u središnjem dijelu Litve, šesta je najduža litvanska rijeka.

Duga je 208,6 kilometara, a teče samo u granicama Litve. Nevėžis je druga najduža rijeka, nakon Šventoji, čiji se tok u cijelosti nalazi u Litvi. Izvire u općini Anykščiai odakle teče prema sjeverozapadu do Panevėžysa gdje okreće prema jugozapadu. Zatim protječe kroz Kėdainiai, a u Njemen se ulijeva kod Raudondvarisa, zapadno od Kaunasa.

Izvori

Rijeke u Litvi
Porječje Njemena


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Roots: The Next Generations is an American television miniseries based on the last seven chapters of Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family. First aired on ABC in February 1979, it is a sequel to the 1977 Roots miniseries, tracing the lives of Kunta Kinte's descendants in Henning, Tennessee from 1882 to 1967.

Roots: The Next Generations was produced with a budget of $16.6 million, nearly three times as large as that of the original. The screenplay was written by Ernest Kinoy.

Plot
For the first part of the story, see Roots

Chapter 1 – 1880s
The story resumes in 1882, 12 years after the arrival of "Chicken George" Moore (Avon Long) and his family in Henning, in West Tennessee. George, elderly and showing his age, moves in with Tom Harvey (Georg Stanford Brown), one of his sons, along with Tom's wife, Irene (Lynne Moody), and their two daughters, Elizabeth and Cynthia. Tom, a great-grandson of Kunta Kinte, has become a leader of the black community in Henning. Although he has established a working relationship with the town's white leader, Col. Frederick Warner (Henry Fonda), a former officer in the Confederate Army, race relations are strained, due in part to the new Jim Crow laws and similar influences.

Col. Warner's younger son, Jim (Richard Thomas), meets  Carrie Barden (Fay Hauser), a young African-American schoolteacher and a graduate of Fisk University, a black school in Nashville (the capital of the state and in Middle Tennessee). Tom has taken the lead in hiring Carrie for the local school for the black children. Col. Warner disapproves of the relationship between Jim and Carrie, so he seeks to persuade Tom to fire Carrie or to close the school.

After an argument between Tom and his older daughter, Elizabeth (Debbi Morgan), about his refusal to accept her suitor, John Dolan (Brian Stokes Mitchell), because he is half white, (although Irene reminds Tom that his father Chicken George is also half-white, and Tom himself is a quarter white) Tom decides to allow Carrie to continue teaching. Jim and Carrie marry in Memphis.

Col. Warner disinherits Jim (by removing him from his will), but he says that he will ensure that no harm comes to the couple from the hoodlum white element of the town. Jim, with his new bride, receives a warm welcome to the local black church.

A year later, Chicken George dies in 1883 at age 83 (note in Roots, George is said to have been born in 1806, which would make him 77), and the family bury his body beside that of his wife, Mathilda "Tildy", who died in 1875 at age 76.

Chapter 2 – Turn of the 20th Century
In August 1896, 13 years later, Elizabeth, Tom's older daughter, arrives from Kansas City, Missouri, for an extended visit, amid tension between Tom and Elizabeth, due to Tom's rejection of her suitor years before.

Cynthia "Cinthy" (Bever-Leigh Banfield), Tom's younger daughter, meets Will Palmer (Stan Shaw), a hard-working young man; after a properly supervised courtship the couple marry in their church.

Andrew Warner (Marc Singer), an unemployed playboy and the older son of Col. Warner, becomes interested in politics, and he eventually opposes his father in the public arena.

While Will works for Bob Campbell (Harry Morgan) at his lumberyard, he does so in such an enthusiastic, industrious, and effective way that he attracts the attention of both Col. Warner and T.J. Calloway (John Carter), the local banker. Because of Campbell's increasing problems with alcohol and his decreasing attention to his business, and after Campbell's default on his loan from the bank, Calloway forecloses, takes over the lumberyard, sells it to Will, and finances his purchase. Thus the R. Campbell Lumber Company becomes the W.E. Palmer Lumber Company.

By this time Jim and Carrie already have a son, named Frank "Frankie" (Marcus Chong), and they live peacefully and happily in the black community of Henning.

However, in the atmosphere of the growing anti-black attitudes in the South during the 1890s, racial tension increases in Henning too, as several incidents demonstrate. For example, Tom suddenly becomes turned away when he again applies to register to vote, and he forcefully insists that every time since the Civil War he has voted without interference, in both Alamance County, North Carolina, and in Lauderdale County, Tennessee.

Will and Cinthy rejoice over the birth of their daughter, Bertha George, named in part in honor of Chicken George, one of her great-grandfathers.

Chapter 3 – World War I
By September 1914, after 17 more years, telephones, electricity, and automobiles have arrived in Henning, both the town and Will Palmer's lumber company have grown, both Tom and Irene Harvey have died, as has Mrs. Warner, and Andrew Warner, the colonel's older son, now serves as a member of the US House of Representatives.

Dr. Frank Warner (E. Lamont Johnson), the son of Jim and Carrie Warner, has completed undergraduate college, medical school, an internship, and a residency, and he's about to start his medical practice. Cinthy calls him "the first colored doctor in the county".

Will and Cynthia send their daughter Bertha (Irene Cara) to Lane College, a black school in Jackson, Tennessee.

Col. Warner, frail and confused, collapses on a street while Jim, Carrie, and Frank are present nearby. They rush to him, and Frank starts to treat him. However, Earl Crowther (Paul Koslo), the Warner chauffeur, and a gang of rednecks take charge, ignore both Jim and Frank and nudge them aside, and insult Frank, who predicts that the colonel will die before they get him to the white physician. He does indeed die.

At the college, Bertha meets and soon falls in love with Simon Alexander Haley (Dorian Harewood), a waiter in the dining room and a son of a sharecropper, who lives and works near Savannah, Hardin County, Tennessee, about 116 miles due east of Memphis. Simon, who greatly admires Booker T. Washington, quotes to Bertha from his writings, including these words: "The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges to come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than artificial forcing". Referring to Washington, Simon says, "I have formed my life in his image".

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) resurges in Henning. They burn a cross, hold a parade, and burn down the clothing store of a Jewish merchant, Mr. Goldstein (Jiří Voskovec), who has moved to Henning from Chicago, Illinois, and who returns there.

Simon leaves Lane College, and he has made plans to continue his education at the Agricultural and Technical (A&T) College of North Carolina (which later becomes renamed as the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical (A&T) State University), in Greensboro, North Carolina. He has applied to enroll in the school and has arranged to work on the campus to pay for his room and board.

His father, Alec Haley (Hal Williams) has promised him $50 to pay for his tuition, but now he tells him that he cannot keep his promise because of the recent poor crops due to floods and boll weevils. To avoid becoming an indebted sharecropper himself, Simon works the summer as a railway porter for the Pullman Company. He works with an older porter, Dad Jones (Ossie Davis), who becomes his fatherly friend and—in one instance with another porter—his protector.

During one trip, Simon meets and talks with a kindly and wealthy passenger, R.S.M. Boyce (James Daly), an executive of the Curtis Publishing Company, the publisher of The Saturday Evening Post and several other well-known magazines. They discuss Simon's plans and difficulties. When Boyce steps off the train, he hands to Simon a generous tip and one of his business cards, inviting him to inform him of his progress. When Simon leaves his position to return to school, he learns that Dad was fired for discussing unionization of the porters with a labor spy. When Simon arrives at the college, he learns that Boyce has already paid for the coming year in full for his textbooks, tuition, and room and board.

Simon and Bertha continue to keep in touch with each other, and Bertha and her parents, Will and Cynthia, travel to Simon's graduation, where he will receive his bachelor's degree in agriculture. When the family arrives at the campus, Bertha receives a message that Simon and six of his classmates have just left and enlisted in the US Army for service in the World War (the "Great War", later renamed as World War I). The young couple see each other briefly when Simon and his all-black platoon of recruits board a train to go to the next stage in his life.

During May 1918, Simon receives his basic training in an all-black company at Camp Grant, Illinois, near Rockford, about 85 miles west-northwest of Chicago, then he, in an all-black outfit, goes to France and takes part in the fighting against the German Army of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Before Simon goes overseas, Bertha meets Simon in Chicago for a weekend (after Elizabeth pleads Bertha's case with Will, who first has vigorously opposed such a trip but eventually allows it).

While Simon is in the Army in France, Cousin Georgia Anderson (Lynn Hamilton), from Kansas City, visits Will and Cinthy, and she reveals that Chicken George fought with the Union Army during the Battle of Fort Pillow, due west of Henning, on the Chickasaw Bluffs, overlooking the Mississippi River. (That point implies that he survived the infamous Massacre of Fort Pillow.)

In July 1918, Simon receives word in France that his father has died in a hospital in Memphis; in due time, after the end of the war, Simon returns to the U.S.

Andy Warner raises his political sights even higher, and he becomes elected to the US Senate.

After the Army discharges Simon, on his way back home to Henning, he and his army associates stop at the home of one of them in Knoxville, in East Tennessee. While they are there, the Knoxville Riot of 1919 (a part of the Red Summer of 1919) takes place. Earl Crowther, now an aide to Sen. Andrew Warner, goes to Knoxville to take part in the mischief, and he dies there (at the hands of one of Simon's Army associates).

Simon arrives in Henning and receives a robust welcome, especially from Bertha, and the young couple move ahead with the plans for their wedding.

Will builds an attractive bungalow for Bertha and Simon, assuming that they will settle in Henning, but without asking about their own plans.

On the first Sunday after the completion of the house, the wedding takes place in their church building, then everyone adjourns to the front lawn of the new home for the reception, and a number of white neighbors join them. Among them are Sen. Andy Warner and his fancy new wife, from Washington, DC, and New York City, who arrive in a Rolls-Royce open touring car with a chauffeur.

Afterward, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Haley motor away in a Ford Model T to Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, where Simon will start working on his master's degree in agriculture.

Later, Will and Cinthy move into the bungalow. (The house still stands; it is now known as the Alex Haley House and Museum, and, as a state-owned historic site, is open to the public.)

In November 1921, Simon and Bertha return to Henning to visit Will and Cinthy, and they surprise them with their three-month-old son, Alexander Murray Palmer Haley, whom Will promptly carries outside, lifts up, and ceremonially shows the Moon, in a tradition which was first portrayed in the first Roots series by Omoro Kinte and baby Kunta Kinte in The Gambia in West Africa in 1750 (though, in the first Roots, the tradition was a naming ritual, where the father held the naked child to the stars, gave the child a name, and said, "behold the only thing greater than yourself.").

Chapter 4 – The Great Depression
Late in the summer of 1932, after 11 more years, during the Great Depression, Simon, Bertha, and their children stay temporarily in the bungalow with Will and Cynthia. At age 10, Alex (Christoff St. John, who later respelled his first name as Kristoff) has two younger brothers, George (Stevan Crutchfield), named for Chicken George, and Julius (Ticker Thompson). While working at Will's lumberyard, Simon unsuccessfully tries to show Will better methods for bookkeeping and inventory control, but Will disregards and uses him as a manual laborer.

Shortly, however, Simon receives a special-delivery letter offering him a job as a professor of agriculture at the State Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) Institute for Negroes, in Normal, Alabama. (The school later becomes renamed as the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) University; the campus and the former town of Normal, named for the normal school established there, now lie within the city limits of Huntsville.)

Simon promptly and joyfully accepts his appointment, and he and his family move to Normal in their Chevrolet four-door sedan.

Not only does Prof. Haley teach his students in the classrooms and laboratories, but he also approaches the local farmers and, with little success, tells them about techniques which would enable them to replenish the soil and to produce better crops, using simple techniques, such as crop rotation. He meets Lyle Pettijohn (Robert Culp), the county agricultural agent and a son of a sharecropper in Greene County, Tennessee, so the two of them easily find mutual interests and objectives.

However, both Simon and Pettijohn meet resistance and incite violent reprisals by the white landowners.

Soon afterward, Will dies in Henning.

While Bertha is out of town with the two younger sons for the funeral, Simon and Alex spend some special time together, during which Simon says to him, "There's one thing poor people have in common no matter who they are, they have no education. Education is the key; it's the way up, the way out. That's why you must do well in school Alex, not only for yourself but to help others as well".

In May 1933, Bertha starts to show subtle signs of a threatening illness, and those symptoms continue during a summer vacation with the aging Cynthia (Beah Richards) in Henning.

When Simon and his family return to Normal, they find that his antagonists have broken in, damaged their home, and destroyed much of their property.

One afternoon, Simon returns to his home and learns that Bertha has experienced a relapse in her illness, and that her condition has become serious. Minutes later, because of internal bleeding due to an undisclosed problem, Bertha dies in Simon's arms while Alex watches.

Soon, Simon drives his three sons to Henning, where the boys move into the bungalow with Cynthia and Elizabeth. On the front porch of the bungalow, Alex listens to Cynthia, Elizabeth, and sometimes Cousin Georgia, while they retell the stories about Kunta Kinte, Kizzy, Chicken George, Tom, and the others.

Shortly afterward, Grandma Cinthy shows Alex a large cross-section disc cut from the trunk of a redwood tree in California, and she explains it to him. Will has marked the annual rings of the trunk in such a way as to indicate the years when various relatives had been born, and when several major world events had occurred.

Chapter 5 – World War II
On May 1, 1939, seven years later, at age 17, Alex (Damon Evans) arrives in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, where Simon now lives with Zeona (Diahann Carroll), his second wife, and where he now teaches agriculture at the Elizabeth City State Teachers College (a black school, later renamed as the Elizabeth City State University). Alex promptly sees that Zeona is pregnant. His academic work has become so lackluster and mediocre that he has dropped out of the Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) College (another black school, later renamed as the Alcorn State University), near Lorman, Mississippi. Simon strongly encourages Alex to enlist in one of the branches of the armed forces, in the expectation that two or three years of military life will cause and allow him to gain maturity.

In August 1939, Alex enlists in the US Coast Guard in Portsmouth, Virginia, and he reports directly aboard a cutter, USCGC Mendota (WHEC-69), without receiving the benefit of any boot camp or other basic training. However, Percival "Scotty" Scott (John Hancock), a gruff but kindly steward's mate first-class, the leading petty officer in the wardroom area among the mess attendants and steward's mates, takes Alex in tow. Alex begins as a mess attendant, starting on the career path toward his becoming a steward's mate, one of the few ratings available to black enlisted men in either the Navy or the Coast Guard during the era of World War II (WW2). (The real USCGC Mendota (WHEC-69) served 1945-73.)

While attending a church-sponsored dance for servicemen and local ladies, Alex meets Nan Branch (Debbie Allen), a naïve, single young woman, and they continue to meet at the church dances. On the eighth such meeting, Alex proposes marriage to Nan, and she accepts. They soon marry, then they visit Simon, Zeona, and their new baby, in Elizabeth City. Simon expresses disapproval because Alex has departed from his plan for him, and Zeona urges Simon to stop interfering.

Meanwhile, on December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan attacks the USA at Pearl Harbor in the Territory of Hawaii, thus drawing the US into the new war. By this time, Scotty has advanced to the rate of chief petty officer (chief steward's mate).

By July 1942, Alex and Chief Scott are somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean aboard USS Murzim (AK-95), an ammunition ship, one of several Naval vessels manned by Coast Guard crews during WW2. Scotty asks Alex why he receives so many letters, and he answers, in effect, that, if he wishes to receive letters, then he must write letters – to relatives back home. Then, at Scotty's request, Alex writes a love letter for Scotty to a girlfriend in Auckland, New Zealand, where the ship will make a port visit about two months later. The letter works so well that Scotty sets up Alex to write love letters for other shipmates for one dollar apiece. Thus, Alex enters the writing business. (The real USS Murzim (AK-95) served 1943-46.)

While at sea, Alex receives the news that Nan has given birth to a girl, and that she has given her mother's name, Lydia, to their baby. Alex expresses his pleasure about his new fatherhood, yet he says that he had wanted to give the girl the name of Cynthia, his maternal grandmother.

World War II ends, and both Simon and Alex start thinking about their respective plans for Alex. Simon makes a train journey to California, where he meets Alex at the Coast Guard Station on Yerba Buena Island, in the San Francisco Bay. Alex has advanced to the rate of petty officer first-class (steward's mate first-class). Simon and Alex articulate a sharp disagreement about the differences between their plans for Alex; Simon wants him to return to academia, but Alex intends to stay in the Coast Guard at least until he decides or discovers what else he should do. (Simon expresses a dream that Alex might become even a president of a university.)

Alex returns to the East Coast and to Nan and Lydia, and Nan again becomes pregnant. Alex requests and gets an assignment in New York City, so that he can live and work closer to the editors there, because of his intense interest in writing and his goal to become a published author.

Chapter 6 – Postwar
In November 1946, he and his family, in their Ford woodie station wagon, head northward to his next duty station, and they encounter not only racial discrimination but also frustration and disappointment while seeking a room in a motel or "auto court". Alex starts working, writing press releases in the public-relations (PR) office of the Coast Guard in Manhattan. While off-duty, he starts writing proposed articles and submitting them to magazines, but he receives only rejection slips.

Cdr. Robert Munroe (Andy Griffith), the officer in charge of the PR office, a Southerner with 30 years of experience in journalism, dismisses Alex's early writings as amateur but takes an interest in Alex, his work, and his plans, and he offers him constructive advice and guidance.

Alex continues to work hard on his writing, both on-duty and off-duty. He spends so much time on his own writing that Nan begins to complain, saying that he neglects her and their two children, Lydia (Kim Fields) and Billy (Joel Herd), by giving them so little time and attention.

While on annual leave from the Coast Guard, Alex and his family visit Cynthia, Elizabeth, and Cousin Georgia in the bungalow in Henning, and, partly with the encouragement of Grandma Cinthy, he starts to feel a need or wish to learn more about the roots of his family. (During that visit, Cinthy tells Alex that the old slice from the redwood tree has become hauled away to a dump because insects had begun reducing it to sawdust.)

Alex continues to feel much frustration and disappointment about his lack of success in civilian commercial writing.

Alex seeks and, in 1949, receives a change of his rating from steward's mate first-class to journalist first-class, and he remains as a journalist (no longer in the wardroom area). Later, he advances to the rate of chief petty officer (chief journalist, the first chief journalist in the Coast Guard), and he continues as a chief journalist for the remainder of his 20-year military career.

On Christmas Eve 1950, Mel Klein (Milt Kogan), an independent writer on an assignment from a magazine editor, consults Alex, to get some statistics to go into a new article about the Coast Guard, and Alex asks Mel for advice. Mel tells him about Coronet, a small-format magazine (somewhat similar to the Reader's Digest), which, according to Mel, can't get enough short (600-word) human-interest stories.

In response to Mel's advice, Alex, that same night, dives into his work after hours in the office and submerges himself in his writing and rewriting – to the extent that he loses sight of his special duties to his family that special night – to take home the gifts and the tree, for which Nan and the kids have prepared a place in their apartment, and which they have awaited and anticipated.

Sometime after sunrise on Christmas Day, Alex finally arrives at their apartment – barely in time to see Nan and their children as they walk out and step into a taxicab – because Nan has decided to leave Alex and to move in with her mother in her home. Nan and Alex later divorce.

Chapter 7 – The 1960s
In October 1960, Simon, Alex (James Earl Jones), George (Howard Rollins), and others gather in Henning for the funeral of Aunt Lizzie. George is an attorney and a state senator (and the second black graduate of the School of Law at the University of Arkansas), Julius is an architect, and Alex is, as he describes himself, a professional writer with a respectable living. Simon implies that he does not feel as pleased with the accomplishments of Alex as he does with those of his two younger brothers.

In 1960, Alex meets Malcolm X (Al Freeman Jr.), and later he interviews him and a number of other notable people, including George Lincoln Rockwell (Marlon Brando), while writing for Playboy and the Reader's Digest.

Alex, as a co-author, writes also The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and he finishes it several weeks before the assassination of the subject person.

While Alex makes another visit in Henning, Cousin Georgia encourages him and his curiosity about his family heritage, then Alex continues his research – to the National Archives, a private source in North Carolina, a historical society in Annapolis, the headquarters of the United Nations, and eventually to the village of Jufureh in The Gambia in West Africa. Before Alex leaves for West Africa, Simon reconciles with his son, saying that he is proud of Alex's work on The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

In Jufureh, Alex listens to a native griot (a tribal oral historian), who tells about a young Mandinka man, Kunta Kinte, who went out to fetch wood to make a drum and was never again seen. Thus, Alex concludes that he has truly discovered his ancestor and his history in Africa.

Epilogue
As with the original, the new series again concludes with a postscript by Alex himself, who encourages viewers to explore their own genealogy, in part by interviewing their older relatives, consulting written records, and holding family reunions.

For the first part of the story, see Roots.

Cast
Number in parentheses indicates how many episodes in which the actor/character appears.

 Georg Stanford Brown – Tom Harvey (2)
 Lynne Moody – Irene Harvey (2)
 Debbi Morgan – Elizabeth Harvey (6)
 Beah Richards – Cynthia Harvey Palmer (older) (2)
 Henry Fonda – Colonel Frederick Warner (3)
 Olivia de Havilland – Mrs. Warner (2)
 Richard Thomas – Jim Warner (3)
 Marc Singer – Andy Warner (4)
 Stan Shaw – Will Palmer (4)
 Fay Hauser – Carrie Barden (4)
 Irene Cara – Bertha Palmer Haley (3)
 Avon Long – Chicken George Moore (1)
 Roger E. Mosley – Lee Garnet (1)
 Paul Koslo – Earl Crowther (4)
 Harry Morgan – Bob Campbell (1)
 Dorian Harewood – Simon Haley (5)
 Ruby Dee – Queen Haley (3)
 Hal Williams – Alec Haley (1)
 Greg Morris – Beeman Jones (1)
 Brian Stokes Mitchell – John Dolan (1)
 Ja'net Dubois – Sally Harvey (1)
 Slim Gaillard – Sam Wesley (1)
 George Voskovec – Mr. Goldstein (1)
 Jason Wingreen – Judge Quartermain (1)
 Charlie Robinson – Luke Bettiger (1)
 Ossie Davis – Dad Jones (1)
 Kene Holliday – Detroit (1)
 Albert Popwell – Fader (1)
 John Rubinstein – Lieutenant Hamilton Ten Eyck (1)
 Bernie Casey – Bubba Haywood (1)
 Pam Grier – Francey (1)
 Roosevelt Grier – Big Slew Johnson (1)
 James Daly – R.S.M. Boyce (1)
 Percy Rodriguez – Boyd Moffatt (1)
 Robert Culp – Lyle Pettijohn (1)
 Dina Merrill – Mrs. Hickinger (1)
 Brock Peters – Ab Dekker (1)
 Bever-Leigh Banfield – Cynthia Palmer (young adult) (3)
 Paul Winfield – Dr. Horace Huguley (1)
 Lynn Hamilton – Cousin Georgia Anderson (3)
 Kristoff St. John – Alex Haley (child) (1)
 Logan Ramsey – F.R. Lewis (1)
 Dennis Fimple – Sheriff Duffy (1)
 Damon Evans – Alex Haley (ages 16–28) (1)
 Debbie Allen – Nan Branch Haley (1)
 Andy Griffith – Commander Robert Munroe (1)
 Diahann Carroll – Zeona Haley (1)
 Rafer Johnson – Nelson (1)
 Carmen McRae – Lily (1)
 John Hancock – Scotty (1)
 Telma Hopkins – Daisy (1)
 Kim Fields – Lydia Haley (1)
 Milt Kogan – Mel Klein (1)
 James Earl Jones – Alex Haley (ages 39–46) (1)
 Howard Rollins – George Haley (1)
 Marlon Brando – George Lincoln Rockwell (1)
 Al Freeman Jr. – Malcolm X (1)
 Barbara Barrie – Dodie Brattle (1)
 Linda Hopkins – Singer (1)
 Bobby Short – Himself (1)
 Lee Chamberlin – Odile Richards (1)
 Norman Fell – Paul Reynolds (1)
 James Broderick – Dr. Lewis (1)
 Michael Constantine – Dr. Vansina (1)
 Johnny Sekka – Ebau (1)
 Zakes Mokae – African Minister (1)
 Claudia McNeil – Sister Will Ada (1)
 Bianca Ferguson – Sophia (1)
 Philip Michael Thomas – Eddie Franklin (1)

Production
Producers Stan Margulies and David L. Wolper were initially reluctant to make a sequel to the 1977 miniseries, but later agreed to do it. Writer Ernest Kinoy then originally wrote an outline for Roots: The Next Generations based on the final seven chapters of Alex Haley's book Roots: The Saga of an American Family and about 1,000 pages worth of family recollections that Alex Haley dictated into a tape recorder.

While Haley contributed as a consultant during the production, many of the family and other events depicted were factually inaccurate or wholly fictionalized. Some glaring examples include:

1. Jim Warner and Carrie Barden were in reality James Turner and Carrie White.  James was not the son of a prominent Colonel, who lived in Henning and did not have a brother, who eventually became a Tennessee senator. The miniseries opens in 1883. Jim and Carrie are introduced as strangers and later get married by running off to Memphis. In reality, Jim and Carrie were married in Lauderdale County, TN on 21 Apr 1876, seven years prior to the year the miniseries begins. It is also likely that Jim was not "white" since, in 1876, Interracial marriages were illegal. Lauderdale County officials would have refused to issue a marriage license to any interracial couple seeking to marry. Jim was likely a mulatto. In fact, according to the 1891 Tennessee voter registration rolls, Jim was identified as "black". The best evidence proving that Jim was not white is an affidavit found in his 1942 probate file in Lauderdale County signed by his widow, Carrie.  In paragraph 2 of the affidavit, Carrie referred to Jim (J.B. Turner) as "colored".

2. W. E. Palmer was Alex Haley's grandfather as portrayed by Stan Shaw. He married Cynthia Murray (Harvey in the miniseries). Part V opens in late summer, 1932 with interaction between Wil Palmer and his grandson, Alex. Wil shows Alex a slice of a tree explaining that time is short for people compared to the life of a tree. Alex's parents are living in Henning waiting for Simon to be hired by a college. Eventually Simon is hired by an Alabama College and the Haleys relocate there. After the move, Bertha learns that her father died in Henning. In reality, both Wil Palmer and Bertha Haley were dead by "late summer" 1932. Wil died on 5 Feb 1926 and Bertha died in Normal, AL on 16 Feb 1932. The scene regarding the tree slice could not have happened as portrayed since Alex was less than five years old when his grandfather died.

3. Part VII opens in October 1960 with the funeral of Aunt Lizzie Harvey. In reality, Elizabeth Murray died in 1952, preceded by her sister Cynthia in 1949.

Also, in Part VII, Haley's interview of George Lincoln Rockwell is presented as having taken place prior to the assassination of Malcolm X when, in fact, the interview occurred in April, 1966, more than a year after Malcolm X's death.

The producers aimed for casting high-quality actors, and basically had no trouble signing the people they wanted because of the success of the first miniseries. While Georg Stanford Brown reprises his role as Tom Harvey, James Earl Jones was selected partially due to his physical resemblance to Haley. Wanting to also participate in the miniseries, Marlon Brando called "out of the blue" and asked for a small yet memorable role; he was cast as George Lincoln Rockwell and won an Emmy Award for his performance.

Broadcast history

Episode lists
Roots: The Next Generations originally aired on ABC as 7 two-hour episodes for consecutive nights from February 18 to February 24, 1979.

Ratings and viewers
The miniseries was watched by an estimated 110 million viewers and averaged a 30.1 rating and 45% share of the audience.

Part I aired a week prior to the rest of the series in the ratings.

Awards
Won
Primetime Emmy Awards:
 Best Limited Series
 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special – Marlon Brando for "Episode VII"

Nominations
Golden Globe Awards:
 Best TV Series – Drama

Primetime Emmy Awards:
 Outstanding Achievement in Makeup
 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special – Al Freeman Jr. for "Episode VII"
 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Special – Paul Winfield for "Episode V"
 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Special – Ruby Dee
 Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special – Ernest Kinoy for "Episode I"

TV One
In July and September 2007, the  TV One network reran the series hosted by several of the original cast including Lynne Moody, Dorian Harewood, Stan Shaw, Kristoff St. John, and Irene Cara.

Home media
The miniseries was released on DVD by Warner Bros. on October 9, 2007.

See also
 Alex Haley's Queen

References

External links

1979 American television series debuts
1979 American television series endings
African-American genealogy
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1970s American television miniseries
Films based on American novels
Films about race and ethnicity
Next Generations
Television sequel films
Television shows based on American novels
Television series based on actual events
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries winners
Television series set in the 1880s
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Travelling in your 50s has a lot of advantages over other times of your life. The wisdom of age, a bit more cash in your pocket, still able to take on lots of adrenaline activities and you've probably learned a thing or two about what a decent bottle of wine tastes like.
At the risk of stereotyping, most 50+ travellers are looking for a mix of lazy afternoons. a chance to wander, shop, and take it all in. It's more relaxing knowing you have booked the major things ahead of time, such as accommodation and your rental car – the rest you are happy to leave alone and see where fate takes you.
Here are our top picks for a memorable Autumn break in the Far North.
For a sheltered, laid back walk – the Northland's West Coast gives you the Waipoua Forest.
Here you will walk amongst giants as this forest is home to some of the largest kauri trees in the world, including the famous Tane Mahuta, "Lord of the Forest". You can see lots of native birdlife as well in this beautiful tranquil area.
Looking for something more vigorous? The walk to the Haruru Falls in the Bay of Islands is around 6km long and starts and ends from the Waitangi Treaty Grounds.
You are never far away from a loaf of artisan bread, a good strong coffee, the freshest seafood or an award-winning Sauvignon Blanc in New Zealand's North. Between Mangawhai and Kaitaia (and that's quite a distance) this region is littered with farmers markets, festivals, restaurants, bakeries, wineries, and orchards selling their fresh produce on the roadside.
The Bay of Islands is particularly flush with food and wine, and a lot of great accommodation options to support it. Kerikeri, Paihia, Russell and Opua are an easy drive from each other. If you arrive in the Bay of Islands by boat, cruise ship or plane the most convenient option is to arrange for your car hire pickup from Kerikeri Airport. The majority of our customers book this way which saves a lot of time fussing about trying to organise your holiday. And because we have lived in the area for a long time, we are sure to have answers to any of your questions.
Autumn's mild climate was a huge bonus to avid golfers. Northland has around 24 golf courses from Whangaparaoa to Kaitaia in the Far North. If golf is a real passion of yours, see our golfing blog giving you a bigger picture of what to expect.
The Bay of Islands has a sub-tropical climate so swimming, diving, and fishing from the Paihia Wharf are all realistic options at the time of year. This area is home to hundreds of tours and Far North Rentals can offer you six of the best at a discounted rate, just by booking through our website.
Autumn is a spectacular time of year to come Northward too. The days are still warm and relatively long, accommodation costs are reduced after the heady rush of summer and the scenery is starting to turn to brilliant yellows, oranges, and reds.
Northland is what you may consider 'an easy place to holiday'. Rich in history, nature, food, tours and sightseeing – it is easy to experience quality with anything and everything you do here. Some of the most beautiful islands in world, pro golf courses, 5-star accommodation, plus a great climate which produces excellent food and wine. Northland is a win-win destination.
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We're Suzy & Susan & we're the Founders of Style Bundle.
Today seems like the perfect day to tell you a bit about why we decided to leave our comfy jobs & dive on in to our own business.
We left our corporate jobs to ultimately become the masters of our own destiny. With 3 young children each, we wanted to be available for the everyday stuff - the netball games, the afternoon tea, the kinder pick ups - but didn't want to lose the identities we had carved out for ourselves in our working lives before kids.
In a leap of faith, we just went for it - we had an idea and we brought it to life. We wanted to prove to ourselves and our families that if you work hard to achieve your dreams - anything can happen.
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Берёзовка () — деревня в Докшицком районе Витебской области Белоруссии, в Крипульском сельсовете. Население — 169 человек (2019).

География
Деревня находится километром западнее центра сельсовета, деревни Крипули и в 14 км к юго-западу от райцентра, города Докшицы. С юго-востока к Берёзовке примыкает деревня Вороны. В 4 км к юго-востоку от Берёзовки течёт река Поня, приток Березины, на которой здесь создана обширная сеть мелиорационных каналов.

Берёзовка находится близ границы с Вилейским районом Минской области. Рядом с деревней проходит шоссе Докшицы — Долгиново. Ближайшая ж/д станция находится в 11 километрах к северо-западу в агрогородке Парафьяново (линия Полоцк — Молодечно).

История

Впервые Берёзовка упомянута в 1782 году. В то время имение принадлежало Хмелевским, но вскоре перешло к роду Свенторжецких.

В 1793 году в результате второго раздела Речи Посполитой Берёзовка вошла в состав Российской империи, где принадлежала Докшицкому уезду Минской губернии.

В XIX веке Свенторжецкие построили в имении усадьбу и деревянную католическую часовню.

После Советско-польской войны Берёзовка оказалось в составе межвоенной Польской Республики. В этот период некоторое время находилась во владении рода Козелло-Поклевских. С 1939 года — в составе БССР.

В 1949 году здесь образовали колхоз, который в 1990-е годы присоединили к колхозу Крипулей. Здание бывшей колхозной администрации было в 2002—2003 годах перестроено в католическую часовню.

Достопримечательности

 Усадьба Свенторжецких (XIX век). Усадебный дом не сохранился, от усадьбы осталось здание винокурни и фрагменты парка
 Деревянная католическая часовня (XIX век). Разрушена, остались развалины
 Каменная католическая часовня Остробрамской Божией Матери. Перестроена в 2003 году из здания бывшей колхозной администрации

Примечания

Ссылки
 Берёзовка на сайте globus.tut.by
 Берёзовка на сайте radzima.org

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Gratitude is a simple practice that can have profound effects on your health and well-being. Positive effects linked to gratitude include social, psychological, and physical benefits, which increase the more you make gratitude a regular part of your daily routine.
"The limits to gratitude's health benefits are really in how much you pay attention to feeling and practicing gratitude," said neuroscientist Glenn Fox, a gratitude expert at the University of Southern California. "It's very similar to working out, in that the more you practice, the better you get. The more you practice, the easier it is to feel grateful when you need it."
How Gratitude Changes Your Brain
Gratitude has distinct neurobiological effects, including in brain regions associated with interpersonal bonding and stress relief. When Fox and colleagues told stories of survivors of the Holocaust to elicit gratitude in 23 female subjects, they found that "ratings of gratitude correlated with brain activity in the anterior cingulate cortex and medial prefrontal cortex," which are associated with moral cognition, value judgment, and theory of mind. Theory of mind is a psychological term that refers to our capacity to understand other people by attributing mental states to them.
Fox grew deeply interested in gratitude after his mother's death from ovarian cancer. During her illness, he would send her studies on the benefits of gratitude in cancer patients, and she kept a gratitude journal in her final years.
In one example, 92 adults with advanced cancer engaged in mindful gratitude journaling or routine journaling. After seven days, those who kept a gratitude journal had significant improvements in measures of anxiety, depression, and spiritual well-being, so much so that the researchers concluded that "mindful gratitude journaling could positively affect the state of suffering, psychological distress, and quality of life of patients with advanced cancer."
"Grateful people tend to recover faster from trauma and injury," Fox told The Pulse. "They tend to have better and closer personal relationships and may even just have improved health overall."
As it turns out, putting your gratitude in words can be an effective way to improve your mental health. Among 293 adults who sought psychotherapy services, those who engaged in gratitude writing reported significantly better mental health after four and 12 weeks than those who didn't write or who wrote about their thoughts and feelings.
Gratitude Boosts Health, Well-Being
Gratitude can be difficult to define, as it has elements of an emotion, a virtue, and a behavior all rolled into one. Gratitude involves a two-step process, as explained in "The Science of Gratitude," a white paper by the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California–Berkeley. Those two steps include "1) 'recognizing that one has obtained a positive outcome' and 2) 'recognizing that there is an external source for this positive outcome.'"
In this regard, the benefits of gratitude may be gleaned from the actions of other people or experienced in an internalized manner, such as when feeling gratitude about good fate or nature. In this way, gratitude is both a state and a trait.
As a state, gratitude is based on a person's ability to be empathic and experience grateful emotions that promote prosocial behavior. As a trait, it describes the practice of being grateful, noticing the little things in life, and appreciating the positive in the world and in other people. Gratitude can be felt from both being helped by others and habitually focusing on the good in your life.
A study published in Clinical Psychology Review found that gratitude has a positive effect on psychopathology, especially depression, adaptive personality characteristics, positive social relationships, and physical health, including stress and sleep. What's more, they noted that "the benefits of gratitude to well-being may be causal."
Fox also explained that "benefits associated with gratitude include better sleep, more exercise, reduced symptoms of physical pain, lower levels of inflammation, lower blood pressure, and a host of other things we associate with better health," including improved resilience.
It's likely that gratitude leads to benefits via multiple mechanisms, not only by improving life satisfaction, but also by contributing to an increase in healthy activities and a willingness to seek help for health problems. Those who are grateful have even been found to have a better sense of the meaning of life by being able to perceive good family function and peer relationships.
Gratitude Could Help You Sleep Better, Be Less Materialistic
Gratitude is known to facilitate improvements in healthy eating, and it benefits depression by enhancing self-esteem and well-being. A 2021 study comparing gratitude and optimism similarly found that both traits were associated with lower heart rate and blood pressure, better sleep quality, more exercise, less stress, more positive expectations and reflections, and greater feelings of appreciation toward others.
Feeling grateful can help you sleep better and longer, perhaps by improving your thoughts prior to sleep.
"The relationship between gratitude and each of the sleep variables was mediated by more positive pre-sleep cognitions and less negative pre-sleep cognitions," a study in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research reads.
Those who scored higher on measures of gratitude had better sleep quality and sleep duration, as well as less sleep latency (the amount of time it takes you to fall asleep) and daytime dysfunction.
Further, people who are more grateful tend to be happier, less materialistic, and less likely to suffer from burnout. Among adolescents, the simple practice of keeping a gratitude journal significantly reduced materialism and the negative effect of materialism on generosity.
Those who wrote down what they were grateful for donated 60 percent more of their earnings to charity, for instance. There's good reason to teach children the importance of gratitude, as doing so can improve school performance and orient individuals toward a positive life approach.
Positive Gratitude Interventions
If you're not a particularly grateful person, you might have to work on your gratitude skills. Fortunately, gratitude is something that you can practice, according to Fox.
"I think that gratitude can be much more like a muscle, like a trained response or a skill that we can develop over time as we've learned to recognize abundance and gifts and things that we didn't previously notice as being important," he said. "And that itself is its own skill that can be practiced and manifested over time."
Rather than a magic bullet, it's the regular practice of being grateful that makes a difference, according to Fox.
"You know, it's like water cutting rock through a canyon," he said. "It's not done all at once, and it's just steady practice is where you start to get things."
Two gratitude practices that you can try in your daily life include keeping a gratitude journal and expressing gratitude.
With a gratitude journal, you write down lists of what you're grateful for on a regular basis. Expressing gratitude is exactly what it sounds like, expressing grateful feelings to others, such as by saying thank you or writing gratitude letters, which you then read to the recipients.
Showing gratitude to your partner is also a good way to boost your relationship. In a study of romantic partners, gratitude from interactions was linked to increased connection and satisfaction in the relationship, with researchers suggesting that "gratitude had uniquely predictive power in relationship promotion, perhaps acting as a booster shot for the relationship."
Robert Emmons, a professor of psychology at the University of California–Davis and an expert on gratitude, has several tips for living a more grateful life. In an article he wrote for Greater Good Magazine, he advises that you remember hard times in your life, which remind you how much you have to be grateful for now; appreciate what it means to be human by tuning into and appreciating your sense of touch, sight, smell, taste, and hearing; use visual reminders, including people, to trigger gratitude, as this helps to combat forgetfulness and a lack of mindful awareness, two primary obstacles to gratefulness; and make an oath of gratitude, as simply vowing to be grateful can increase the likelihood that you'll stick to the behavior. Post your pledge to "count your blessings" somewhere where you'll see it often.
If you want to get started today, keep a notebook by your bedside and make a point to jot down one or two things that you're grateful for each night before bed and express gratitude to others often, such as writing quick thank you notes to friends.
Dr. Joseph Mercola is the founder of Mercola.com. An osteopathic physician, best-selling author, and recipient of multiple awards in the field of natural health, his primary vision is to change the modern health paradigm by providing people with a valuable resource to help them take control of their health. This article was originally published on Mercola.com
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Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) was een Amerikaanse worstelorganisatie in het professioneel worstelen, dat van 2007 tot 2012 als een opleidingscentrum fungeerde voor de World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Deze worstelorganisatie werd door de WWE gebruikt om hun aangeworven worstelaars op te leiden tot volwaardige professionele worstelaars.

Geschiedenis
In 2007 richtte Steve Keirn de Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) op nadat de worstelpromotie, Deep South Wrestling (DSW), niet meer bestond. DSW was het ontwikkelingsgrondgebied van WWE en besloot hun jonge talenten, die actief waren op DSW, verder op te leiden in deze nieuwe organisatie.

Op 26 juni 2007 maakte de FCW officieel hun debuut in Tampa (Florida), het hoofdkwartier van FCW, en de FCW richtte meteen een kampioenschap op, het FCW Southern Heavyweight Championship. Een jaar later, in februari 2008, de FCW richtte twee nieuwe kampioenschappen op: het FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship en het FCW Florida Tag Team Championship. Jake Hager was de eerste worstelaar die het Florida Heavyweight Championship veroverde en The Puerto Rican Nightmares (Eddie Colón en Eric Pérez) was het eerste tag team die het Florida Tag Team Championship veroverde nadat Colón en Pérez de toernooifinale wonnen van Steven Lewington en Heath Miller. Later richtte de FCW het FCW Divas Championship, een kampioenschap voor vrouwelijke worstelaars, op.

Op 5 oktober 2008 debuteerde de FCW met een wekelijks televisieprogramma, FCW, dat elke zondagavond werd uitgezonden op Bright House Sports Network totdat de WWE besloot om de naam van hun opleidingscentrum te veranderen.

In augustus 2012 besloot de WWE om Florida Championship Wrestling te sluiten en richtte de NXT Wrestling op als hun nieuwe opleidingscentrum. Door deze beslissing zijn alle FCW-titels opgeborgen.

Kampioenschappen
 FCW Southern Heavyweight Championship
 FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship
 FCW Florida Tag Team Championship
 FCW Divas Championship
 Queen of FCW

Zie ook

 Deep South Wrestling
 NXT

Externe link
  Profiel van Florida Championship Wrestling op Cagematch.de

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Easy. The same way you would any other grocery product: list three or four functional benefits and put it on sale.
So, here's a sign from Pusateri's in Yorkville. Notice that the ham promises that it is rich in Proteans (oops, sorry, Proteins), Calcium, Phospherous, Iron and Vitamins B1 and B12. Considering that Loblaws was offering (March 27 flyer) San Daniele prosciutto silver, deli sliced for $1.79/100g or $17.90/kg, the Pusetteri's ham should contain around 27 times as much Protein, iron, calcium, vitamins, etc. Or no rational person would pay the equivalent of $50 per gram for something that cannot be snorted no matter how hard and fast you chopped it.
But, of course, no rational person would pay this, so Pusateris has DISCOUNTED the stuff. For a limited time (presumably limited to this life-time) you can buy the ham not for $500/kg, but for $440/kg a savings of $60/kg.
Managed to fight the crowds to get a clear shot of this in-store merchandising device. Note that there is no mention of better taste, cleaner pigs, or any unrational reason to pay a premium of 2700% for prosciutto.
Who says the stupid rich aren't suckers for a good deal. But, as any retailer knows, they should have included this in the weekly flyer.
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Category: 09. Dead Dog Munchies.
Junky Jeff blew shotguns too, but it wasn't the same. He preferred Stumpy, my brother's dog. He used to do his ferret, but it went insane, bit him, and ran out the front door. Then he did it to Russell's snake but it just killed her. So he figured he needed something with a bigger brain, and that's about the time Stumpy came sniffing by.
Stumpy was a mutt, and whether or not his brain was bigger than a ferret's is debatable. But man did he like to get high. The first time he didn't want anything to do with it. Jeff had to pin him to the floor while he blew the shotgun. After that he was all in. When he blew the smoke in Stumpy's face, he would lick at it like ice cream. Jeff gave shotguns straight from the pipe, putting his mouth over the bowl and blowing a stream out the mouthpiece. It looked like the tailpipe of Duke's tow truck. But it smelled sweet and Stumpy loved it.
Stumpy put his paws on the sofa and stuck his nose in Jeff's face while he blew thick streams of smoke. Stumpy licked in as long as he could, until he got too stoned. Then he would slowly sink lower and lower until he was lying on the floor. And Jeff would follow him down with the pipe billowing. Stumpy would get so high that he would just lie comatose on the floor. Then, after a few minutes, he would jump up, shake his head and look around like he just saw a ghost. But he couldn't run yet, so he just shook his head a few more times and slumbered home.
By the time he got to the kitchen door he was a ravenous wolf. Every time Jeff got him high, he would come home and attack his food dish in the kitchen. I could always tell when he was stoned. I could hear him eating from the living room. He would gnash at the food like he hadn't eaten for years. Sometimes he would choke from eating too fast. It wasn't a pretty sight either: food flying everywhere, saliva dripping on the Linoleum. And besides that, whenever he was stoned he stood crooked, like the legs on one side were longer than the others. I don't know why but whenever he got high he always leaned a little to the left.
After a while Stumpy got really stupid. He wasn't too smart to begin with. He got hit three times trying to cross the street. Once, while we were playing football, my mom drove by with Stumpy. Someone yelled, "Hey Stumpy" and he jumped out the window of the moving car. He didn't get hurt, but he sure got confused when he hit the ground.
But after he started getting stoned he got really stupid, and pretty fat too. All that smoking and eating caught up to him quickly. Soon all he did was get high, eat, and sleep. Whenever he heard Jeff outside, he would wake up and go lay on Jeff's feet until he got a hit. Then he would go comatose again. Then he would slumber home, eat all his food, and go back to sleep.
He died soon after that, suffocated eating Doritos. The bag got stuck on his head and either he was too stoned to pull it off, or just too lazy. We found him stiff on the floor the next morning, empty bag still on his head.


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Yun Bixue is in dire straits— Her fiancé has abandoned her for the country's top socialite. Worst of all, her family has been declared bankrupt, and the media has forced her into desperation. In her desolation, she seeks help from the powerful Young Master Xie, and gains strength through her marriage with him during her lowest period. From that day onwards, she eggs herself to grow stronger to become the best wife for her husband. This novel is a sweet, sugary book. There are no heart-wrenching scenes or misunderstandings. Sugary Scene Yun Bixue: "Limo, aren't you going to ask who I met today?" Xie Limo: "It doesn't matter who you met. What matters is that you're here by my side now." Yun Bixue "Limo, let's make a pinky promise. In the future, I will trust you, and you will trust me too. We will not allow external factors to affect our home, and we'll be just like the saying 'if you do not abandon me, I will always be at your side until the end of my life'." Xie Limo met Yun Bixue's determined gaze and without thinking, he reached out his finger and sealed the promise before intertwining their fingers together.


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When Ryan Reynolds buys a football team, big bucks await
He is partnering Rob McElhenney, the creator and star of the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, to buy Wrexham
Sat, Nov 14, 2020 - 5:50 AM
In a webcast presentation last Sunday to the Wrexham Supporters Trust, the fan-controlled non-profit that has owned the club since 2011, Reynolds (above) and McElhenney outlined plans for what was described as a Netflix-style documentary that tracks the team's fortunes.
In a webcast presentation last Sunday to the Wrexham Supporters Trust, the fan-controlled non-profit that has owned the club since 2011, Reynolds and McElhenney outlined plans for what was described as a Netflix-style documentary that tracks the team's fortunes.
ONE of Hollywood's leading actors, Ryan Reynolds, is on the cusp of acquiring the lowly Welsh football club Wrexham AFC.
It looks like the purest expression yet of why the sport has been attracting a flock of US investors: The seemingly insatiable demand for content.
The star of Deadpool is partnering Rob McElhenney, the creator and star of the FX comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, to buy Wrexham, a team currently languishing in 14th place in the National League, the fifth tier of English football.
European football has enjoyed an influx of investment from the US in recent years. Six teams in England's 20-strong Premier League are at least part-owned by American investors, who have also put big money into clubs in France and Italy.
The logic is largely a bet on the booming value of broadcast rights. Since 1992, the English Premier League's (EPL) broadcast income has jumped more than 60-times to £3 billion (S$5.34 billion) a season.
Wrexham is a long way from that jamboree, of course, as teams outside the top division earn little to no broadcast income. But there are other opportunities.
Such a deal would follow other EPL teams that have gotten the streaming platform treatment, such as Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur, Sunderland and Leeds United.
For those clubs, the documentaries were just one strand of the business - and a small one at that.
The Hollywood approach to Wrexham seems different, because it looks like the prospective show is key to why they want the club in the first place.
From a business perspective, buying Wrexham as a vehicle for a Netflix show makes sense. Since the club is now supporter-owned, the two actors will not pay anything to acquire it up front.
Instead, they have pledged to invest £2 million in the club's infrastructure, playing squad and facilities.
And it's not unreasonable to expect Netflix, Amazon Prime or whoever might acquire the broadcast rights, to spend several hundred thousand pounds per hour on a show, according to Ampere Analysis analyst Richard Broughton.
If we assume that the actors are able to charge, say, £300,000 an hour for an eight-part series, that could boost Wrexham's annual revenue by £2.4 million.
As owners of the team, Reynolds and McElhenney would not have to pay an additional cut to anyone else, as the producers of the other football documentaries had to do.
So they could reasonably look at profit representing 25 per cent of that income, or some £600,000.
This would handily move the club from the red into the black, as Wrexham otherwise expects to make a loss of £300,000 on revenue of £2.1 million this year.
The owners' star power could boost the numbers even higher. For Netflix and its rivals, sporting documentaries cost less to acquire than top-level sports programming (EPL games cost £9 million a pop) and have a longer shelf life.
Fans are likely to only watch a match live, while documentaries attract return viewing. The main hurdle to an ongoing series is whether it's compelling television.
This poses a risk to fans: Good TV requires troughs as well as peaks, meaning losses as well as wins. So if the owners' goal is must-watch TV, rather than on-field success, then their priorities may not align with those of Wrexham supporters.
The fans seem to think that is a risk worth taking. They already voted more than 75 per cent in favour of continuing the discussions with the actors, and are in the process of deciding whether to approve the final takeover bid.
At times, professional sports tend to veer into the realm of soap opera. It may be a smart move to monetise that. BLOOMBERG
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