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Rhetorically hyperbolic? Or reckless disregard for truth? (Update)
Posted January 23rd, 2014 by Sylvia S Tognetti and filed in Paradox
When will NRO and Mark Steyn et al tell their followers that they are now claiming, in their defense, that their allegations of fraud against Michael Mann were merely rhetorical hyperbole rather than statements of fact that can be proven false?
Motions to dismiss a complaint by Michael Mann against NRO and Mark Steyn have been dismissed by DC Superior Court Judge Weisberg, who has affirmed previous rulings. In his ruling, he states that the allegation that the plaintiff , i.e., Michael Mann, "molested and tortured data" is not rhetorically hyperbolic – as was the comparison to convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky. Whether it was false and made with "actual malice" are questions of fact that a jury will now get to decide.
For background, see my previous post, and updates by Eli Rabett and Climate Science Watch, which has been keeping the closest tabs on the case.
Rhetorical hyperbole? Or reckless disregard for truth?
Posted July 28th, 2013 by Sylvia S Tognetti and filed in Paradox
Rather than stand behind their allegations – that Michael Mann has been engaged in fraud and scientific misconduct, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and the National Review (NR) along with two of their journalists. now argue that these were merely "expressions of opinion and rhetorical hyperbole… not assertions of fact".
These arguments were made in their Motion(s) to Dismiss a Complaint brought against them by Michael Mann for "utterly false and defamatory statements" with regard to the falsely debunked hockey stick. On July 19, that motion was denied by the DC Circuit Court, which held that the statements were based on "provably false facts", and thus not protected under the constitution. (unless indicated otherwise, quoted text in this post is from the legal documents available through the above link)
As a public figure, the challenge for Mann and his legal team will now be to show that there was "actual malice." In this case, that the statements are not merely false, but that they were "made with knowledge of their falsity", i.e., "with reckless disregard for their truth." Given that there have been at least six investigations of Mann's research activities that have found no evidence of data manipulation or other scientific wrongdoing, which were at least partly a result of calls for investigation by CEI itself, this case should not be a difficult one to make. (Those six investigations do not include all of the peer-reviewed studies confirming Mann's work.) Although Judge Green found it likely that Mann "could prove actual malice", she also considers it a potentially close case.
So unless the defendants find other ways to have the case dismissed, it looks like a jury will get to decide whether they were making good faith arguments, or not. In a few previous posts, I reviewed some of the hockey stick allegations to make that case that these so-called climate "skeptics" are not acting in good faith. Rather, that they are engaged in a deceptive parody of science, intended to deceive those least informed, who cannot tell the difference. It starts with the act of calling themselves "skeptics". Given that the "defendants contend that any reasonable reader would interpret their statements as rhetorical hyperbole," it might be interesting to hear from their readers (or maybe not). In those previous posts, I neglected to discuss the role of certain think tanks, such as CEI, who played a lead role in publicizing if not actually fabricating these unsubstantiated claims, and in calling for investigations. However, much of what is known is well chronicled in Michael Mann's book, and by John Mashey. Revisiting these…
It also looks like Myron Ebell (one of the ringleaders at CEI) will get what he once wished for. According to some of the Mashey Chronicles, back, in 2005, when Congressman Joe Barton sent letters to Mann and his co-authors, essentially initiating a witch hunt, Ebell very promptly circulated those letters to an undisclosed email list – possibly before they were even seen by those to whom they were addressed. Ebell was also quoted in a BBC article saying "We've always wanted to get the science on trial" and "we would like to figure out a way to get this into a court of law."
So one would have expected at least CEI to welcome the opportunity to make their case, and to hear something more from them than the chirping of crickets. However, as Eli has pointed out, the arguments in their Motion to Dismiss, that the statements were "not assertions of fact" is "going to make it tough for them to argue that they were telling the truth about him and askin for discovery to dig dirt." Mann will be under no such limitations.
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An aggressive and practical strategy?
Posted April 26th, 2007 by Sylvia S Tognetti and filed in Paradox
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At the Oil Drum, Jeff Vail provides a more nuanced explanation of why energy efficiency measures are not effective as a standalone solution for reducing energy consumption (alluded to in earlier PNT posts, here and here and in future ones not yet written…). Among these are the Jevons Paradox which, applied to energy has a "rebound effect." Lower demand brings down prices which increases demand. Perhaps not to previous levels, but then there is the indirect or "shadow" rebound effect of what is done with the money saved, like taking a trip to Hawaii, or just spending it on plastic baubles or other goods and services that require energy to produce.
One solution to this is an energy tax, and then investing the proceeds in the design of and transition to lifestyles that consume less energy, like development of mass transportation, for example? Gas taxes are a show-stopper for elected officials who fear to even mention the possibility but, if prices are going to go up anyway, the choice isn't between paying more or less but between adding to oil company coffers and getting better public transportation and other public services in exchange. But to do that, we would also have to keep our elected officials accountable… An interesting research question is whether there would be a higher willingness-to-pay taxes if those paying them had more confidence it would bring improved services.
As for reducing the reduction of the rate of increase in Greenhouse Gas Emissions by a whopping 4/10ths of 1%, Stephen Colbert gives credit, where credit is due for the administration's "aggressive and practical strategy" for increasing real estate in Greenland, includes a few hot melting facts, and nails Bush for not paying any attention to the Poles:
Luntz – just "a language guy"?
Frank Luntz, whose infamous 1998 memo recommended playing up scientific uncertainty to avoid action on climate change, now says he is "a language guy… not a policy guy", as if these two could be separated. In an interview that aired last night on the Frontline series on Hot Politics, he also said his role was just "to figure out what language would work." Since then, as the interviewer stated, ""[An] entire group of science skeptics grew up around that, who have in some ways moved the debate back to "scientists aren't really sure," when in fact scientists are sure. ""
Now that the context and his beliefs have shifted, Luntz is trying to make himself look "reasonable" and position himself in that elusive middle ground, blaming the lack of action on "those who have used global warming as a baseball bat to beat up the opposition." Though he now accepts the scientific consensus on climate change, in his view, "the problem with those who advocate a change to global warming is that, frankly, they're hysterical." As for those who still follow his 1998 recommendations, "That's their responsibility. They have to defend that."
hmmm – I'll fess up to having been, at times, hysterical, but not as much about global warming as about the impossibility of having the kind of quiet rational discussion about it – of the kind that Luntz now advocates, with seemingly intelligent people who still maintain that "the evidence isn't all in." Believe me, I have tried, only to have Benny Peiser quoted to me again. Which takes us back to the 1998 Luntz memo. He says he was only reflecting back the language-in-use of the day. But that isn't quite right. Actually, what he did was misuse the language of the day to reinforce a distorted image of science as a crystal ball, as if it could ever provide certainty, and exploit (or enable others to exploit) the fear of uncertainty and general angst about the future for political gain. He also helped give credence to arguments that lacked intellectual merit, clouded public discourse, and prevented earlier action on an issue not only of high uncertainty but also urgency and high stakes, which he now says requires preventive action!*&!%!!^@&%^&!!!
ok, following Luntz' current advice, I'm going to just take a deep breath…. Lets talk – about uncertainty. As I said in one of the initial posts on this blog, "if science could provide certainty, decisions would just be a problem like that of rocket science. With enough research, computer models would tell us the best course of action, and the losers could all be compensated. And if you believe that is even possible, you probably also believe there was a decisive victory for Bush in the recent US election." Like the birds and the bees, uncertainty is a fact of life, for which science can at least provide a navigational device. (the bees might need to learn science too, to make up for the loss of their navigational devices, but I digress)
I'm really glad Luntz has changed his beliefs and his tune but if he wants absolution, he needs to take some responsibility for his words and the way they are used, just as scientists can no longer separate themselves from the intended uses of the knowledge they generate.
He also now says:
I believe in common ground, and I believe in a consensus. There has to be a way that we can be environmentally protective and not be anti-economy. There has to be a way that those who care about the future both from an economic standpoint and a environmentally responsible standpoint can be in the same room and find agreement that moves us in the right direction.
What's the language? It's a balanced approach; it's a common-sense approach. It takes into account this consensus that you speak of, and you even used the word, the word "consensus." Mark my words, the word "consensus" is going to be part of the environmental debate going forward, because it suggests that people — rational people, decent people — can come together and have an agreement, not only on what is happening in this country, but how best to deal with it in the future.
The only problem I have with these last statements is that he probably gets paid a lot more than I do to say them. It isn't like I, and many others, haven't said similar things. More on that to come…
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our hearts?
Why are we reading, if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage and the hope of meaningfulness, and press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?
What do we ever know that is higher than that power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and which reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered?
Why does death so catch us by surprise, and why love?
We still and always want waking.
I am bewildered by life most of the time. Anyone looking at these online pages can see the struggle as I wake each day to seek out what I'm called to and how to make this sad and suffering world a better place.
I have so little wisdom to offer a reader other than my own wrestling match with the mysteries we all face.
When a light does shine out through darkness, I am not surprised. It was there all the time, but I needed the eyes to see such beauty laid bare.
Thank you, Ann Voskamp, for linking to this Barnstorming blog over the past two years, sharing my photographs of our farm and the surrounding scenery of Whatcom County with thousands of your readers around the world. Just this past weekend over 2000 of your special people came to visit Barnstorming in our little corner of the web, and many of them have stayed on to chat on our farm porch as well as yours.
If you have not visited Ann's blog before, you must. Look for "Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for your Weekend" every Saturday on "A Holy Experience" and look for her stories during the week, along with news about her upcoming book.
Ann has transformed many lives through her open-hearted witness of her own transformation. As one of those broken people aching for gospel glue to pull my pieces together, I am indebted to her remarkable wisdom and grace.
…anything can be written about. Not because nothing is sacred, but because everything is.
Too much on the internet is "anything goes" because nothing is considered too sacred to be dissected, illustrated, exploited and promoted in as public a way as possible. Most of it is so cringe-worthy that it feels very risky to click on any unfamiliar link as it may take the viewer into such a dark corner of the web that it feels impossible to escape. Once an image is seen, it is difficult to erase from the mind's eye, even this picture of slugs "canoodling" (sorry, but I've tried to figure out for over a year how to use this photo on my blog).
My little corner of the web is meant to be a path into the light, instead of a portal into the dark.
Over the years I've written about many things that are personal, whether it is mistakes I've made, overblown worries, my childhood family's struggles, my parents' dissolving marriage, my obsession with garden gnomes, health care controversies, forgiveness, and surprisingly, the page that for years gathered the most visits on my blog: my horse's bodily functions.
Even horse poop can be seen as sacred…I guess. At least someone must think so.
Still, some things remain too sacred to be written down, and because I hold them close in my heart, they will stay that way.
Most days I'm the ocean rocked by the most minute ripples. The building waves created by forces beyond my control feel tsunami-like though they probably started out small. I can do nothing but let them flow over, around and beneath me, riding them up and down, trying not to get submerged for long and not get sea-sick. Lately it feels like a barrage: instead of letting up, the billows roll larger and mightier, at times relentlessly powerful, changing everything in their path.
Instead of being the rippled, I hope some time to become the rippler in a way that can move oceans or mountains or most amazing of all, another soul, just once. In some tiny way, I hope I can say or do or write something that makes a positive difference in someone's life, and that person forwards the ripple, spreading the wave a little further, a little broader, a little deeper to affect others. Traveling far beyond the original thrown pebble, it can never to be pulled back once it is let loose.
I know what it is like for a blog post to go viral, becoming an ocean in churning turmoil, not a mere pebble starting with a least movement. Instead, I hope to be the most insignificant of change agents, barely there, just moving enough of another heart and soul to start something that will grow and spread by itself, wild and wonderful.
Perhaps Eliot had predicted the unknowable future. It now is a "twittering world" in a way that Eliot, critical of dehumanizing technology of his time, somehow was prescient enough to foresee.
When birdsong begins on our farm in early June at 4 AM in the apple, cherry, chestnut, and walnut trees outside our bedroom windows, I am brought face to face, eyes and ears wide open, with the immediate present, distracted from the distraction of my dreams by the distraction of awakening to music of the creative order among the branches, amidst cool morning air.
Once the birds settle into routine conversation after twenty minutes of their loudly tweeted greetings of the day, I sit down bleary-eyed at my computer to enter the twittering world of technology, too often filled with fancies and empty of meaning.
Yet, I'm determined. Not here the darkness, if I can keep it at bay.


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Vodafone UK has announced major network improvements across Newcastle, bringing stronger indoor and outdoor coverage, and mobile internet services across its 3G and 4G networks. This is part of Vodafone's approximate £2 billion investment across the UK in the last two years, which will help extend 3G and 4G mobile coverage to more than 98% of the Newcastle population.
The upgrade forms part of Vodafone's approximate £3 million daily nationwide network and service investment rolled out over the last two years. This investment is already benefitting customers in Newcastle, a fact endorsed by results from independent technology consultancy LCC, which show that Vodafone has unbeatable indoor and outdoor 4G coverage in the city**. In light of this, 4G data usage in Newcastle is growing month on month, and total data usage is now more than double what it was this time last year.
The data usage across Newcastle peaked at major sporting events over the last year, including key football matches such as the recent Newcastle United vs Manchester United Premier League game. Data usage on this day increased by over 20%; the equivalent of nearly 19,500 extra hours of web browsing.The average data traffic per week in Newcastle is equal to browsing the internet for over 600,000 hours*- that's equivalent to someone surfing the web for nearly 70 years!Around 70% of the data traffic in Newcastle is now 4G data.Daily 4G data traffic in Newcastle now equals around 380,000* songs being streamed every day.
**4G coverage assessed by LCC in November 2015 against key competitors with 4G coverage.


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The Secret Disclosed: ghostly riots in Bury St Edmunds
December 7, 2017 KirstyTHartsiotis2	Leave a comment
I'm all about ghosts at the moment, what with Suffolk Ghost Tales coming out next week. But this blog is a bit naughty, as it's actually inspired by the background to a story in my previous Suffolk book, Suffolk Folk Tales. The question is, how do ghosts come to be? You'd think that it would be by someone dying and proceeding to haunt a place, wouldn't you? But that's not always the case … sometimes they are conjured up out of the collective mind of the people, and such is the case for the Grey Lady of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.
Once upon a time there was a woman by the name of Margaretta Greene. She was a scion of the Greene family of Bury, best known, perhaps, for the brewers Greene King. She lived in a very strange building indeed, a building that had once been part of the vast west front of St Edmund's Abbey, but was – and is – now houses. So vast was the abbey that just one side of the west front contains these houses, organically emerging out the rubble stone that lay beneath the dressed that was all taken away to build other parts of Bury after the monastery was dissolved in 1539. The Marquis of Bristol, who owned the abbey land from 1806, had the west front converted into houses, as well as beginning the Abbey Gardens we know today. They were nearly destroyed in the 1950s, but fortunately are still with us today.
These houses lie close to the Great Churchyard between the abbey and St Mary's, and it's easy to imagine the affect this setting might have on a Romantic young woman… In 1861 she privately published a slender volume entitled The Secret Disclosed: A Legend of St Edmund's Abbey 'by an Inmate' telling a sorrowful tale of unrequited love, royal conspiracies, murder, poison, and death in the secret tunnels that were said to lie under the town connecting its religious buildings. The protagonist of this tale, young nun Maude Carew and Queen Margaret of Anjou, the definite baddie in this melodrama, she said, haunted the Churchyard every 24 February at precisely 11pm.
The people of Bury fell for it hook, line and sinker. Well, why wouldn't they? Margaretta had said that she'd heard footsteps in her house, which had led her to find a casket containing the manuscript which she had simply transcribed … well, it had to be true, didn't it?
The next 24 February, 1862, a horde of folk gathered in the Churchyard to see the ghosts. Did people really expect to see a ghost? It seems so, as by the time 11pm approached, the crowd was so excited as to be almost hysterical. And when, inevitably, the ghost didn't appear? Well, some said that it did – but no one could agree on what the ghosts looked like. Were they white? Were they black? The mood turned ugly as the crowd realised they'd been duped. All hell broke loose, the ghost watchers rioted – and indeed a window was broken in Greene's house.
And yet, Maude Carew, despite being a fictional character, lived on as a ghost in Bury. She became the Grey Lady of Bury, taking over the personalities of other Grey Ladies in the town and roving way beyond her proper haunting ground of the west front and churchyard. Can she possibly be the female ghost who is said to haunt Cupola House in the Traverse, along with the object of her desire, Father Bernard – aka the brown monk? More realistically, a Grey Lady, dressed in the robes of a nun, is said to haunt the Fornham Road area, including St Saviour's hospital. Now, this isn't unreasonable, if the story Greene was true, as it was at St Saviour's hospital that the unfortunate victim in the story, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, died that 24 February 1447.
Yes, the tale does have a historic background – one familiar to both students of history and students of literature, as his tale is immortalised in Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II. Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester was Henry VI's uncle, and was Lord Protector, and, after 1435, was heir to the throne. In 1441 his wife, Eleanor, was arrested on a charge of witchcraft, for, with 'the Witch of Eye' (no, not the Suffolk Eye, 'Eye next Westminster') Margery Jourdemayne, it was prophesised that Henry VI would die that year. Of course, he did not, and this was the end of Humphrey's career – and Eleanor and Margery's lives. He was summoned to a parliament at Bury in 1447. There was a rumour Humphrey was poisoned, but he might also have had a stroke, as he lay unconscious for three days after a banquet. If he was poisoned, it's just as likely that it was by the Earl of Suffolk, William de la Pole, as it was thought that Suffolk's enemies might rally to Gloucester… And that is what was whispered during Cade's rebellion in 1450 that saw Suffolk fall from grace, although there is no evidence that he was poisoned. Dark, complicated times – I think we can identify with them!
This story has been taken from Haunted Bury St Edmunds by Alan Murdie (Tempus, 2006). Murdie is a great expert on Bury's ghosts – and is also the Chairman of the Ghost Club. I fell in love with the tale when I first read it, researching Suffolk Folk Tales back in 2012, and think it sad that A Secret Disclosed isn't available … anywhere! Not even on archive.org. There is a copy in the Record Office in Ipswich – but what other copies exist? It would be a shame for the ghost to live on, but the original story to die…
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Is John Ball a dream?
November 28, 2016 KirstyTHartsiotis2	Leave a comment
It's a tough one, this. William Morris's novella A Dream of John Ball paints a heroic picture of one of the most complicated and contested episodes in English history: the so-called Peasant's Revolt of 1381. The main character, dreaming his way back to the 14th century from Morris's dirty, depressed and over-populated London to a clean and well-kept Kentish village, discovers he has arrived at exactly the moment when John Ball, the excommunicate priest recently sprung from Maidstone jail by a growing body of rebels, arrives to preach and incite the locals to take up their weapons and march on London. The villagers are decent, happy to share what they have with the stranger, and all too glad to follow John Ball to bring down the feudal system and reinstate the primordial communism known by the first men and women, when there were no gentlemen. But was it like that?
I've been homing in on the Great Rising from two different directions. Firstly, this blog, and my all interest in Morris and his political messages, and secondly, from the book of Suffolk ghost tales I'm researching and writing at the moment. Suffolk was the original home of the hated Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury, Simon of Sudbury, and the county exploded into rebellion as Kent and Essex rebels were marching on London. These are dark tales. There's no surprise that there are ghost stories associated with the rising. The rebellion in Suffolk, especially around Bury St Edmunds, Mildenhall and Lakenheath, was brutal, full of revenge, petty and great.
And that's one of the problems, for me. This communist uprising with its noble aims of distributing the wealth to one and all was no such thing. Did John Ball even write his letters? The famous phrase, 'When Adam delved and Eve span, who then was the gentleman?' was in the common parlance. Did Wat Tyler taste power and have it go to his head? Did Jack Straw even exist? What then was going on?
Well, as with everything in life, it's complicated. The 14th century was a tumultuous one – I remember reading when I was a teenager Barbara Tuchman's magisterial (but now rather out of date) A Distant Mirror, which calls it a calamitous century. The Hundred Years War, the Black Death, revolt and rebellion, it was all kicking off. And yet, for many, in the latter half of the century, things had improved in southern England, at least. Much of the population had meat on their tables, wore better clothing, had the chance of better wages. The successive plagues had more than decimated the population, and so there were opportunities for those who were left. As you can imagine, landowners were not keen to face up to this. Parliament pushed through statutes that artificially suppressed pay. Not popular. Worse, the war with France wasn't going well in the aftermath of the last illness of King Edward III and into the minority of his son, Richard II. And war was costly.
It's a tough one, too, because I approve of taxation. Unlike Morris, whose ideas tended towards a stateless anarchism, my experience of living in the safe, peaceful society that has been Britain for the majority of my forty-plus years on this earth has led me to believe that a form of taxation that allows us to pay when we can (i.e. when we have an income) for things that we might need when we can't – things like the our universal health care system, our free schooling, our state pensions, our welfare state, and, when I was young, for the fees and grants that allowed everyone to go to university, if they made the grade. And the peasant's revolt is a lot about taxation, and not wanting to pay it.
But how much do you tax? And whom? There can be no doubt that a line was crossed by parliament. It was Simon of Sudbury who demanded the last and largest amount – £160,000 (a labourer was paid roughly 5p a day, just to contextualise that). Over a 3 or 4 year period a bewildering number of different taxes were laid on the country, and everyone, rich and poor alike, had to pay. There's even an account of a sergeant at arms, John Legge, lifting girls' skirts to see if they were old enough for sex i.e. had pubic hair, and were thus old enough to pay the tax, liable from age 15. Nice. The tax collectors turned up with bully boys, and corruption was rife. The burden of the later taxes fell hardest on the poor.
Chelmsford celebrating John Ball in this painting by Bernard Fleetwood-Walker, 1938, in the County Hall.
And people were already angry. Angry with successive wars, Angry with a venal church that cared little for the pastoral needs of the ordinary folk in their parishes. Angry with the continuing burden of petty rules and regulations, particularly for serfs, who were effectively owned by their landlord – they had to pay, for example, merchet, a kind of fine to get married, and owed time and produce to their lord. It must have seemed they got little in return for this bargain. More people were making their way off the land and into towns, and in the towns and villages too were itinerant preachers, ready to speak of a better way of being – as John Ball is supposed to have written, 'Now pride reigns as prize, covetousness is held wise, lechery without shame, gluttony without blame, envy reigns with treason and sloth is in high season. God bring remedy, for now is time…' To rise up? Yes.
But to rise as they did, looting and murdering? That's what I find hard. There are moments of calm, such as when John Wrawe, in Suffolk, and his men, repair to an alehouse in Long Melford for a pipe of wine, and pay the landlord from their takings, Robin Hood style. But contrast that with the treatment of John de Cavendish and John de Cambridge, a king's justice and Bury's prior respectively. One waylaid and executed at Lakenheath, the other at Mildenhall, and their heads paraded around Bury for the amusement of the people. Then there's the looting. Some of it reasonable – take the records and burn them, that's a great way to start a new world order, as we are then, in theory, created as equal as we were when we were born. But much of the violence seems meaningless. It reminds me of the riots in Britain in 2011 after the trigger incident of a police killing. And again, the revengeful outpouring of hate and violence that erupted after Trump was elected. The people are angry. They will take revenge.
The skull of Simon of Sudbury at St Gregory's, Sudbury.
The times are more dangerous now, the stakes far higher. John Ball was a sort of left-wingish (if we can say such a thing of a medieval character!) populist. The populous were whipped into action all too easily because they had cause to be angry and had no voice. Then, the rebellion was put down hard. Nobody listened. The chroniclers vilify Ball and Tyler and the rest. They try to make people like Simon of Sudbury and John de Cambridge martyrs, and my goodness, these were not nice men they were trying to sanctify! But they were the establishment, and it had enough might to suppress pretty much anything, then. Does it today? Do we want to be able to? Do we want more surveillance? Do we want harsher laws to 'protect' us? No. So we mustn't make the mistakes of the past. We must listen to those who are angry and find common ground, the common ground of our thoughts and the decency with which we all believe we are living our lives. And those who are angry need to listen, too. Need to see that revenge and violence against whoever the scapegoat might be – whether the establishment, or whether against a random 'other', such as the forty unfortunate Flemish clothworkers murdered during the Revolt in London – is not the way to make their own lives better.
And so, for once, if we are going to dream of John Ball, let's make him a not rabble-rouser but a peaceable man.
An illustration of the priest John Ball on a horse encouraging Wat Tyler's rebels of 1381, from a c. 1470 manuscript of Jean Froissart's Chronicles in the British Library.
John Ball by Bernard Fleetwood-Walker, 1938, image copyright Essex County Council
The skull of Simon of Sudbury, copyright Evelyn Simak
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The Tales are coming! Upcoming events for Suffolk Folk Tales
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I'll be arriving for a week of events on Friday 31st May. I'll be kicking off with a short slot at the Everyman Folk Club, and then into a week of signings at bookshops around the county. I'll then be back in July for another signing and another event – watch this space!
Book signing for Suffolk Folk Tales.
Join Kirsty Hartsiotis at the Butter Market Waterstones in Bury St Edmunds for a book singing with a tale or two from the book told for free! Her new book Suffolk Folk Tales is a fascinating look at traditional and modern folk tales set in the heart of beautiful and mysterious Suffolk.
Waterstones, Butter Market, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 1DW, 12:00pm.
Further details: 01284 750877, or Waterstone's website
Suffolk Folk Tales talk and storytelling.
Come and find out about the stories that haunt Suffolk's countryside and towns – and hear local stories told by the author, storyteller Kirsty Hartsiotis. Event arranged by the Halesworth Bookshop.
Halesworth Library, Bridge Street, Halesworth, IP19 8AB, 10:30am
Contact: 01986 873840 for details
Book signing for Suffolk Folk Tales. Join Kirsty Hartsiotis at Waterstones in Lowestoft for a book signing with a tale or two from the book told for free! Her new book Suffolk Folk Tales is a fascinating look at traditional and modern folk tales set in the heart of beautiful and mysterious Suffolk.
Waterstones, 98 London Road North, Lowestoft, NR32 1ET, 12:00pm.
Further details: 0843 290 8467, enquiries@lowestoft.Waterstones.com
Book signing for Suffolk Folk Tales. Join Kirsty Hartsiotis at the Waterstones in Ipswich for a book singing with a tale or two from the book told for free! Her new book Suffolk Folk Tales is a fascinating look at traditional and modern folk tales set in the heart of beautiful and mysterious Suffolk.
Waterstones, Buttermarket, Ipswich, IP1 1BQ, 11:00am.
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Suffolk Ghost Tales
Gloucestershire Ghost Tales
Suffolk Folk Tales
Wiltshire Folk Tales
Ballad Tales
The Anthology of English Folk Tales
Musings by Kirsty Hartsiotis on writing, storytelling, folk tales and the Arts and Crafts Movement
Suffolk Ghost Tales – new write up
Holiness and profanity? A visit to Cerne Abbas
The Treasure Seekers: finding (or not) gold and wealth in local folklore
Ghosts of the Mounds: prehistory and ghostlore in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, a beginning
Suffolk Ghost Tales book launch
Palace of Memory is by Kirsty Hartsiotis.
All posts and content copyright Kirsty Hartsiotis unless otherwise stated.
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Scelio fritzi är en stekelart som beskrevs av De Santis och Loiacono 1993. Scelio fritzi ingår i släktet Scelio och familjen Scelionidae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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I read this article this morning and knew that it needed to be read by others. This war has to stop, our President who we all hoped would bring us together, has instead moved us further apart by his rhetoric about guns and police. Please read this article, by a man of color who speaks the truth about what is going on today. It saddens me that we cannot seem to get beyond the hate rhetoric of Black Lives Matter, and the media who depict police and white people as all haters, then talk about killing cops. Our nation was better about race relations 8 years ago than we are today. It needs to change, we need to see one another as human beings instead of black, brown, red or white.
That was the dream of Martin Luther King, and it should be the fact among us as members of the human race. Let the anarchists, and race baiters go somewhere besides our country.
I'm literally fighting back tears as I write, again, about this prevalent injustice. They dont see us as individual human beings, but a group to be exploited, separated, and judged based on our pigmentation.


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Uwolnić orkę (ang. Free Willy) – film familijny z 1993 roku, w reżyserii Simona Wincera.

Jego kontynuacjami były: telewizyjny serial animowany Free Willy z 1994, Uwolnić orkę 2 (ang. Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home) z 1995, Uwolnić orkę 3 (ang. Free Willy 3: The Rescue) z 1997 i wydany na wideo film Uwolnić orkę 4: Ucieczka z Zatoki Piratów (ang. Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove) z 2010.

Premiera filmu w Cartoon Network odbyła się 25 grudnia 2012 roku o godz. 09:05 w ramach Świątecznego Kina Cartoon Network.

Obsada
 Keiko – orka "Willy",
 Jason James Richter – Jesse,
 Lori Petty – Rae Lindlay,
 Jayne Atkinson – Annie Greenwood,
 August Schellenberg – Randolph Johnson,
 Michael Ironside – Dial,
 Richard Riehle – Wade,
 Michael Bacall – Perry,
 Danielle Harris – Gwenie,
 Isaiah Malone – Vector,
 Michael Madsen – Glen Greenwood,
 Mykelti Williamson – Dwight Mercer,
i inni.

Wersja polska
Wersja polska: Master Film,
Reżyseria: Henryka Biedrzycka,
Dialogi: Krystyna Uniechowska-Dembińska,
Dźwięk: Dorota Błaszczak,
Montaż: Agnieszka Kołodziejczyk,
Kierownictwo produkcji: Romuald Cieślak.
Udział wzięli:
 Norbert Jonak − Jesse,
 Katarzyna Tatarak − Rae Lindlay,
 Dariusz Odija − Randolph Johnson,
 Piotr Zelt − Glen Greenwood,
 Renata Dobrowolska − Annie Greenwood,
 Janusz Wituch − Dwight Mercer,
oraz
 Jarosław Boberek,
 Piotr Wyszomirski,
 Leszek Abrahamowicz,
 Robert Czebotar,
 Jacek Sołtysiak,
i inni.

Linki zewnętrzne

Amerykańskie filmy z 1993 roku
Amerykańskie filmy przygodowe
Amerykańskie filmy familijne
Filmy w reżyserii Simona Wincera
Filmy wytwórni Warner Bros.
Filmy z serii Uwolnić orkę
Filmy wytwórni Alcor Films
Filmy wytwórni StudioCanal


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Province: 24 León Municipality: 24149 San Millán de los Caballeros
De facto population
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De jure population
.. .. .. 208 169 203 198 188 193 244 283 302 339 281 249 210 209 187
.. 77 76 70 58 63 62 48 43 53 60 72 76 70 69 61 70 85
Entre el Censo de 1857 y el anterior, aparece este municipio porque se segrega del municipio 24168 (Toral de los Guzmanes)
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.. Non-existence or lack of information.
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Orazio Maffei (1580–1609) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.

Biography
On 16 Sep 1607, he was consecrated bishop by Marcello Lante della Rovere, Bishop of Todi, with Metello Bichi, Bishop Emeritus of Sovana, and Girolamo di Porzia, Bishop of Adria, serving as co-consecrators.

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1580 births
1609 deaths
17th-century Italian cardinals
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My daughter and I recently became residents here at the Kensington Park Senior Living Community. This venture on a new way of life brought back memories of earlier times when my wife and I began our suburban living in the Kensington-area. The contentment of those early years was largely attributed to the bucolic setting which had somehow resisted the helter-skelter development elsewhere in Montgomery County, especially near the massive shopping malls.
The semi-rural setting then was in perfect harmony with the period stores along Howard Avenue, most notably Mr. Victor's Variety Country Store and the family-owned and operated Mizell's lumberyard. There were antique and secondhand book shops, as well as a small grocery store. One of the county's first farmers' markets was located in the B&O Railroad station parking lot. I can recall the annual Labor Day parades featuring the neighborhood children and local political candidates running for office. Commuting to Washington in those days was a pleasant 30-minute drive through Rock Creek Park. If you didn't want to drive or carpool, there was the B&O commuter train which stopped at the Kensington station.
Daily excitement was experienced when the Kensington Volunteer Fire Department answered an alarm call. In those days fire stations were manned by a small number of full-time employees who were augmented by local community volunteers who were alerted by the sounding of the air-raid siren on the station roof. The arrival of the volunteers in their personal vehicles was chaotic and disruptive of local traffic. Luckily, firefighting in those days did not entail sophisticated equipment or procedures. In later years, televised "demolition derbies" brought back memories of those long ago scenes.
Taking up residence at Kensington Park, my daughter and I hope to recapture some of the satisfaction and contentment we remember from our early years in this neighborhood. Sometimes life really does come full circle.


It's hard at this time of the year, at this latitude, to do much photography outdoors without a tripod and a lot of warm clothing. I've been working on some indoor stuff, practicing my Strobist-fu and seeing where I can go with that stuff.
I've struggled to get April to pose for portraits, without turning it into a game for her. I decided to have her do funny faces, which she thought was hysterical.
My wife wasn't so keen on the low-key appearance of these shots, which came from a dark navy throw that we have on the sofa, so she asked that I do some more lighter shots. I haven't finished processing them yet, but I came up with the idea for this shot whilst I was working through them.


Tasty Tuesday: Lentils, the food of kings!
Several years ago at one of our girlfriend lunch days my friend, Alice, served us the most unusual meal! She fixed the same meal that David ate as he ran away from Absalom. We had barley, leeks (onions), lentils, and she also served lamb chops. It was one of the best meals I've ever eaten!
Lentils are mentioned in the Bible – you can read about that here. My hubs is happy as a clam if I fix lentils and rice for supper.
Lentils are an excellent source of molybdenum and folate. They are a very good source of dietary fiber, copper, phosphorus and manganese. Additionally, they are a good source of iron, protein, vitamin B1, pantothenic acid, zinc, potassium and vitamin B6.
If lentils were good enough for the heroes of the Bible – I am going to feature them this month on Tasty Tuesday. Today we are featuring two entrees. Shepherd's Pie and Antipasto Lentils, both vegetarian fare.


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How do humans change the planet?
Introduction to ESS3.C
from A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas (pages 194-195)
Recorded history, as well as chemical and geological evidence, indicates that human activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life have had major impacts on the land, rivers, ocean, and air. Humans affect the quality, availability, and distribution of Earth's water through the modification of streams, lakes, and groundwater. Large areas of land, including such delicate ecosystems as wetlands, forests, and grasslands, are being transformed by human agriculture, mining, and the expansion of settlements and roads. Human activities now cause land erosion and soil movement annually that exceed all natural processes. Air and water pollution caused by human activities affect the condition of the atmosphere and of rivers and lakes, with damaging effects on other species and on human health. The activities of humans have significantly altered the biosphere, changing or destroying natural habitats and causing the extinction of many living species. These changes also affect the viability of agriculture or fisheries to support human populations. Land use patterns for agriculture and ocean use patterns for fishing are affected not only by changes in population and needs but also by changes in climate or local conditions (such as desertification due to overuse or depletion of fish populations by over-extraction).
Thus humans have become one of the most significant agents of change in the near-surface Earth system. And because all of Earth's subsystems are interconnected, changes in one system can produce unforeseen changes in others.
The activities and advanced technologies that have built and maintained human civilizations clearly have large consequences for the sustainability of these civilizations and the ecosystems with which they interact. As the human population grows and per-capita consumption of natural resources increases to provide a greater percentage of people with more developed lifestyles and greater longevity, so do the human impacts on the planet.
Some negative effects of human activities are reversible with informed and responsible management. For example, communities are doing many things to help protect Earth's resources and environments. They are treating sewage, reducing the amount of materials they use, and reusing and recycling materials. Regulations regarding water and air pollution have greatly reduced acid rain and stream pollution, and international treaties on the use of certain refrigerant gases have halted the growth of the annual ozone hole over Antarctica. Regulation of fishing and the development of marine preserves can help restore and maintain fish populations. In addition, the development of alternative energy sources can reduce the environmental impacts otherwise caused by the use of fossil fuels.
The sustainability of human societies and of the biodiversity that supports them requires responsible management of natural resources not only to reduce existing adverse impacts but also to prevent such impacts to the extent possible. Scientists and engineers can make major contributions by developing technologies that produce less pollution and waste and that preclude ecosystem degradation.
K-12 Progression and Grade Band End Points for ESS3.C
from NGSS Appendix E: Disciplinary Core Idea Progressions
Things that people do to live comfortably can affect the world around them. But they can make choices that reduce their impacts on the land, water, air, and other living things. (K-ESS3-3) (secondary to K-ESS2-2)
Human activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life have had major effects on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space. But individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth's resources and environments. (5-ESS3-1)
Human activities have significantly altered the biosphere, sometimes damaging or destroying natural habitats and causing the extinction of other species. But changes to Earth's environments can have different impacts (negative and positive) for different living things. (MS-ESS3-3)
Typically as human populations and per-capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise. (MSESS3-3),(MS-ESS3-4)
The sustainability of human societies and the biodiversity that supports them requires responsible management of natural resources. (HS-ESS3-3)
Scientists and engineers can make major contributions by developing technologies that produce less pollution and waste and that preclude ecosystem degradation. (HS-ESS3-4)
Grade Band Endpoints for
By the end of grade 2. Things that people do to live comfortably can affect the world around them. But they can make choices that reduce their impacts on the land, water, air, and other living things—for example, by reducing trash through reuse and recycling.
By the end of grade 5. Human activities in agriculture, industry, and everyday life have had major effects on the land, vegetation, streams, ocean, air, and even outer space. But individuals and communities are doing things to help protect Earth's resources and environments. For example, they are treating sewage, reducing the amounts of materials they use, and regulating sources of pollution such as emissions from factories and power plants or the runoff from agricultural activities.
By the end of grade 8. Human activities have significantly altered the biosphere, sometimes damaging or destroying natural habitats and causing the extinction of many other species. But changes to Earth's environments can have different impacts (negative and positive) for different living things. Typically, as human populations and per-capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise.
By the end of grade 12. The sustainability of human societies and the biodiversity that supports them requires responsible management of natural resources. Scientists and engineers can make major contributions—for example, by developing technologies that produce less pollution and waste and that preclude ecosystem degradation. When the source of an environmental problem is understood and international agreement can be reached, human activities can be regulated to mitigate global impacts (e.g., acid rain and the ozone hole near Antarctica).
Performance Expectations Associated with ESS3.C
K-ESS2-2
K-ESS3-3 5-ESS3-1 MS-ESS3-3
MS-ESS3-4 HS-ESS3-3
HS-ESS3-4
Additional Resources for ESS3.C
A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas (pages 194-196)
Bozemanscience Video


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Clober Golf Club
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Situated in Milngavie, very accessible for Bearsden, Clydebank, West End and Glasgow.
The course measures 4963 yards, par 66 for men and 4514 yards, par 67 for ladies and is a very enjoyable test for all levels of golfers.
Gary McFarlane our experienced PGA Professional and Manager will help you with any requirements or questions you may have at the club so don't hesitate to contact him at clobergolfclub@gmail.com.
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Cyatheaceae is commonly known as the Scaly Tree Fern Family. The Cyatheaceae is a family from Cyatheales Order, splits from Filicopsida (Polypodiopsida or Pteridopsida) Class. It is a family in Pteridophyta or Lower Vascular Plants Division. The family consists of 21 genera and about 527 species.


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In the course of my web travels today I found this poem, by Author Unknown, that explains why god gave us friends.
It's not very instructive from a metrical point of view, or even a religious one, but it leaves me with a few questions. For instance, did god give us friends because they fulfill all the qualifications outlined in the first four stanzas? Note that the author never explicitly states that friends will do any of the excellent things outlined - just that the absence of these things prompted god to make us friends. Maybe he created friends in order to outline in even sharper and crueler detail the degree of our solitude. It's like giving a kid a picture of an ice cream cone.
Second, are these "friends" human beings? Or do we form friendships with automatons designed in heaven's smoking factories to give us "companionship and cheer"? I imagine the god of this poem dispatching a friend for me at a moment of need - just peeling off a companion from the rind of his labours and flicking it to Earth (presumably in a convenient location, like a bar). What about Graham, a good friend of mine for twenty years, currently living in Australia? I'd hate to think he'd been slapped together for my sake, especially with his string of difficult relationships and the arguments he'd get into with his father. Or take Craig, who, if his purpose in life to be "a source of courage/ When troubles come [my] way," should at least be getting a few extra lecture sessions from the university. Come on, god: give my automatons a break. They're my friends, after all.
Nor does the poem say that I have to be anybody's friend. Which makes sense, since I'm a fully autonomous human being and not one of god's companionship machines. When someone "gladly take[s] the time/ To care and understand," do my recripocal gestures constitute friendship? Am I under any obligation to be a friend in return, or should I just "hold and treasure" their love "in [my] heart," as the poem instructs? If friends are just clockwork mechanisms designed to gratify my needs, I should be able to stub out my cigars on their foreheads when they buy me a beer or confess their deep devotion to me. Somehow that doesn't seem right.


POSTAL workers have received anthrax warnings to be extra vigilan following a company mailshot promotion that could cause panic.
A Manchester-based flour company has sent out samples of flour to nearly 6,000 homes, in an attempt to market its product.
The promotion has been highly criticised following the anthrax outbreak in the United States and the UK scares.
Post Office spokesman Alan Williams said: We have been put on alert because this firm is sending thousands of items of glutafin flour mix all over North Wales over the next two weeks.
The items are in a white video-sized box, so we are concerned as it is likely to cause some disruption.
Mr Williams added: "There is a build-up in foreign mail as well now,in the run-up to Christmas, and we have to be extra vigilant there."
Mr Williams, who is the Post Office s regional health and safety representative, continued: "This firm is totally stupid and the promotion could have been nipped in the bud.
"There has already been some panic, and it's a drain on emergency services. It could easily have been avoided."
Union representative, Ronnie Bourner, from Bangor, said a hotline had been set up for postal workers to receive advice or to report anything odd in the mail.
"There are procedures in place to deal with suspect packages and we have now issued rubber gloves following a scare in Chester," he explained.
A spokeswoman from Consignia, the company that runs Royal Mail, said: "We carry the mail, not censor it. But because of the current climate, we are giving some advance information to employees such as specific mailings that we have been made aware of.
"Our staff have to be alerted in case one of these packages leaked. But there is no cause for unnecessary alarm. Dr Natasha Bye, of Nutricia Dietary Care, the company sending out the samples, said she was aware of the sensitive nature of the matter.


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Volkswagen: Bull remains a cow – stock analysis (Shareholder)
Kulmbach (www.aktiencheck.de) – Volkswagen stock analysis by "Der Aktionär":
Sarina Rosenbusch from the investor magazine "Der Aktionär" takes a closer look at the recommended shares of Volkswagen AG (VW) (ISIN: DE0007664039, WKN: 766403, ticker symbol: VOW3, NASDAQ OTC symbol: VLKPF) in the current stock analysis.
The Germans struck again on the VW Golf last year. With 84,280 new registrations, the cult car was once again on top of the best-selling cars. In an interview with "Handelsblatt", CEO Oliver Blume has now announced that the Golf and two other models will be relaunched with electricity.
In addition to the Golf, the compact SUV Tiguan and the GTI variant should also be offered as electric vehicles. "We will not let icons like Golf die," the group said. Many consumers would wish that such cult models would also have a future in the electronic age.
According to Volkswagen, the Golf and Tiguan should come to market as part of a series of electric IDs under the ID.Golf and Tiguan names. The project is currently in the concept and design stage.
When can the new models be launched? From 2033, VW no longer wants to sell combustion engines in Europe. Until then, the Golf can be offered with electric and combustion engines in parallel. However, since a new car takes four to five years to be ready for the market and the new version of the Tiguan with a combustion engine will appear this year, it will probably take some time.
Today, Wednesday, JPMorgan analyst Jose Asumendi left an "Overweight" rating with a price target of EUR 235. Despite recent price cuts in the electric vehicle sector on the US market, the Wolfsburg-based company still has on regression and maximum sales prices in all key sales regions.
It was urgent for Volkswagen to finally step on the gas pedal when it comes to electrification. The Golf brand can also improve the electric car portfolio and attract new customers. According to Sarina Rosenbusch, Volkswagen's stock is still standing. DER SHAREHOLDERS prefer Porsche AG (ISIN: DE000PAG9113, WKN: PAG911) among German auto stocks. (Analysis from 01/25/2023)
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The Wolfsburg-based Volkswagen Group (ISIN: DE0007664039, WKN: 766403, ticker symbol: VOW3, NASDAQ OTC symbol: VLKPF) is one of the world's leading automakers and Europe's largest automaker. Ten brands from five European countries belong to the group: Volkswagen, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, ŠKODA, SEAT, CUPRA, Audi, Lamborghini, Bentley, Porsche and Ducati. In addition, the Volkswagen Group offers a variety of other products and business areas. This also includes financial services, including supplier and customer financing, leasing, banking and insurance, and fleet management.
With its plan for the future and the new Group Strategy 2030 "NEW AUTO – Mobility for Future Generations", the Volkswagen Group has paved the way for the biggest change process in its history: the restructuring of one of the best car companies to be. one of the world's leading providers of sustainable mobility. To this end, the Group will transform its core automotive business, including more than 30 additional electric models by 2025, with the expansion of battery technology and autonomous driving as new core competencies. (01/25/2023/ac/a/d)
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Erdoğan lifts Turkish MPs' immunity in bid to kick out pro-Kurdish parties
Supporters of the HDP party at a 5 June protest against the bill to remove lawmakers' immunity, which is seen as targeting pro-Kurdish MPs. Photograph: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images
Published by The Guardian 8 June 2016
President signs bill that allows prosecution of lawmakers currently under investigation – most of whom are from pro-Kurdish or opposition parties
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has signed a bill lifting lawmakers' immunity from prosecution – a constitutional change likely to remove a pro-Kurdish opposition party from parliament.
Erdoğan has accused the pro-Kurdish HDP, parliament's third-biggest party, of being the political wing of militants who have waged a three-decade insurgency in Turkey's largely Kurdish south-east. Kurdish militant groups have been blamed for bombings in Turkish cities.
The HDP denies links with militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). It fears an overwhelming majority of its 59 deputies could be jailed under the new law, mostly for views they have expressed.
Lawmakers have until now enjoyed immunity from prosecution. The new law allows prosecutors to pursue any of the 138 members of parliament who are currently under investigation. Of those, 101 are from the HDP or Turkey's main opposition party CHP.
Erdoğan's opponents say the lifting of immunity is part of a strategy to push the HDP out of parliament, strengthen the ruling AK Party – which he co-founded more than a decade ago – and consolidate support in the assembly for an executive presidential system he has long sought.
The legislation has increased concerns in the European Union about Turkey's record on democracy and human rights at a time when the EU is also trying to implement a controversial deal with Ankara aimed at stemming illegal migration to Europe from Turkish shores.


At Castle Primary School we aim to deliver a high quality PE provision which provides opportunities for pupils to become physically confident and also supports their health and fitness. We believe that opportunities to compete in sport and other physical activities build character and help to embed our school values of determination and respect.
We follow the National Curriculum, KS2 children are taught to swim, and we play a range of team games and sports in our outdoor PE sessions.
Castle Primary staff have been trained in Real PE, a scheme which concentrates on developing the whole individual, in addition to just physical skills. Throughout the year the children will learn personal, cognitive, social and creative skills through games and practice of movements. This is designed to prepare children for later life by allowing them to develop perseverance and the confidence to try new activities - qualities which are necessary for becoming professional athletes!
Opportunities to compete in sport competitions are offered throughout the year for a range of year groups and take part within a cluster of schools within B&NES.


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Canadian students are learning code and computational thinking from an early age. It's become an essential literacy, with provinces adding code to their mandatory curriculum so students learning on devices like iPads and other tablets and devices can develop all-important skills like creativity, critical thinking and problem solving. But for many parents, code is foreign. Helping a child with their homework could be a parent's first introduction to the language of code.
On the heels of Computer Science Education Week, we asked four teachers from across Canada for advice on how parents can help kids on their journey with code. Here are five tips from the those in the know.
"You don't need to be an expert, says Jason Trinh, a teacher based in Toronto. "Don't be afraid to not have all the answers." Debugging and figuring out why something doesn't work is part of the coding process, says Trinh.
Learning to code can be a co-learning activity. "Get lost in the code with the kids, talk about it, feel the feelings and don't worry about having to be the guide," he says.
Find an interest
Start with a question. "Find out what apps interest your kid, what parts they like and dislike," says Cari Wilson, the innovation and technology lead teacher at West Vancouver Schools. "Then ask questions like, 'What would you change about the app?'"
It's about getting your kid thinking about the fact that apps can actually be altered. Talk about the problems they see around them and how an app can help, says Wilson. "If they always forget to pack a dry shirt after hockey practice or shoes for dance class, ask, 'Can you think about how an app could help us with that? What would the app do?'" she says.
Coding unplugged
"To get kids coding they need to first realize what coding is. That's why I recommend starting with unplugged coding," says François Lake, a grade five teacher and tech specialist at École L'Arpège in Sainte-Julie, QC. Parents can try creating a recipe with their kids, or pretending to be a robot that can only be controlled with verbal cues, he says.
"In class, we put a toothbrush and toothpaste on a table and ask the students to provide instructions on how to brush your teeth. The students usually tell me to raise my hand to my mouth," says Lake. "But I'm not holding the toothbrush yet!"
All of that thinking is getting kids accustomed to the idea of coding without actually coding, says Lake. "With my grade five students, I have them guide me to turn on a light switch. They tell me to walk to the door and I'll bang into desks or spin around in circles when they say turn because they're not providing me with enough information," he says. It's a fun exercise for them too, and it's a really great way to get them thinking about code, he says.
Make a mess
The best way to learn to code and become interested in it is by playing with it, says Jennifer Lacroix, a grade six teacher at English Montreal School Board. "That's where apps like Apple's Swift Playgrounds comes in. It's challenge-based and, by applying code, you can see characters move on the screen and get an immediate response as to whether or not you did it correctly, says Lacroix. "The other great thing about Swift Playgrounds is the ability to use it to code other physical robots that can move around the child's environment," she says.
"Find the code around you," says Trinh. Explore what around you is controlled or created using code, he says. "From the algorithms that control your social media timeline to your favourite app—finding how code is connected to everyday life provides tangible examples to why digital literacy around code is so important," he says.


There are always new faces at Bryan FUMC's contemporary service—about a third of its attendees come from a nearby halfway house for women transitioning from prison, and for many, those services are their first taste of freedom.
The Brazos Valley Council on Alcohol and Substance Abuse (BVCASA) has a Transitional Treatment Facility just six blocks away. It serves both men and women who have just been released from prison, but the church mostly sees the women. That's because BVCASA's policy to release the men and women at different times, and the women's release time on Sundays fits the church's schedule.
Love and acceptance are something new for many of the women. After known by an inmate number—some for years—they're suddenly treated like human beings.
And sometimes, they don't even have those two outfits. Last summer, a group of 13 women were being transported to the halfway house, but didn't have the necessary clothes. Knowing about the Bryan FUMC clothes closet for this very purpose, the van driver stopped at the church first.
As the women became more comfortable in the church's contemporary service, they begin to respond. The church has baptized many over the years. And many others have rededicated their loves to Christ.
Bryan FUMC's Senior Pastor, the Rev. Rick Sitton saw the need for a contemporary worship service in 2017. They called it the Awakening, and at first, the 59-year-old Rev. Sitton led it himself.
Webber left the Baltimore Washington D.C. Conference when her husband took a position at Sam Houston State University in nearby Huntsville. She didn't have an appointment yet, but found that Bryan FUMC had a need.
In Webber's eyes, having women in transition as part of the congregation has been a blessing.
She doesn't have a special message for the women from the halfway house—because they're no different from the rest of us, she said.
The difference, she said, is that seeking to fill the holes in our lives by earning degrees and seeking wealth aren't illegal.
Like the halfway house, the ministry to these women is transitional. Soon, they're gone.


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Coimbra Laser Lab is a multidisciplinary laboratory dedicated to the study of interactions between radiation and matter at the molecular level.
It is established at the University of Coimbra, supported by the Portuguese Science Foundation, and is part of LaserLab Europe– A consortium of leading organisations in laser-based research from 16 countries sponsored by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union.
Coimbra Laser Lab encompasses photochemical, photophysical and spectroscopic studies, from the infrared through the ultraviolet, covering timescales from femtoseconds at room temperatures to ultra slow processes at cryogenic temperatures.
The laboratory is equipped for (femto, pico and nanosecond) laser-induced transient absorption and emission measurements with UV, visible and near-infrared detection, time resolved photoacoustic calorimetry both for solutions and thin films, time resolved fluorescence decay and anisotropy measurements, fluorescence microscopy, vibrational photochemistry and low temperature matrix isolation studies. It also has facilities for working with complex systems such as supercritical fluids, or for narrow band near-infrared excitation, and a cell culture laboratory.
Current work focuses on areas such as photodynamic therapy, organic and polymeric photovoltaics for solar energy conversion, optical sensors, matrix isolation photochemistry, hot vibrational chemistry, properties of transient species, photocatalysis, light emitting devices, biological systems such as DNA compaction and skin permeation studies by luminescent techniques, and applications of photochemistry to art conservation.
Coimbra Laser Lab welcomes proposals for scientific collaborations and shares the research facilities and human resources with the scientific community.


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El municipio de Miami (en inglés: Miami Township) es un municipio ubicado en el condado de Miami en el estado estadounidense de Kansas. En el año 2010 tenía una población de 537 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 4,26 personas por km².

Geografía
El municipio de Miami se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, el municipio tiene una superficie total de 125.99 km², de la cual 124,33 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (1,32 %) 1,66 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 537 personas residiendo en el municipio de Miami. La densidad de población era de 4,26 hab./km². De los 537 habitantes, el municipio de Miami estaba compuesto por el 93,11 % blancos, el 0,56 % eran afroamericanos, el 0,37 % eran amerindios, el 2,23 % eran de otras razas y el 3,72 % eran de una mezcla de razas. Del total de la población el 4,47 % eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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Localidades del condado de Miami (Kansas)


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The battery box is attached to the product and controls its functions, also suitable for use indoors.
The battery box is easy to open, no tools are needed to change the batteries or function.
These outdoor LED lights are suitable for gazebos, parasols and outdoor features such as a wall, fence or simply on a tree.


In the age where gaming is now mainstream, the generation of millennial's who are now considered adults frequently turn to video games either to entertain themselves, relieve stress, and even interact socially online. Those from this generation and according to thousands of millennial's articles know that they break old traditions set by their predecessors. Old-school entertainment like physically playing classic schoolyard games to gambling in casinos and become less and less popular with the rise of gaming consoles, tabs, and desktop computers.
Encouraging friends and even family members to play multiplayer cooperative games is already considered a social experience like you would when interacting with them personally. That is because more and more video games in the recent times have been developed to become more realistic, complex, and socially interactive in nature. There has been research that notes that playing coop video games allow children, teens, and even adults to get new perspectives.
When playing social games, you don't need a high-end gaming laptop or desktop computer, there are plenty of alternatives such as playing on your smartphone. Controllers and joysticks are readily available for you to enjoy your mobile games. But you may purchase a protective covering especially if you're an aggressive player on a budget.
These casual games are easier, faster, and virtually requires no special skills so gamers of all ages can just jump right in and start having fun.
In this age of technology, cyber crime is a reality but there are steps that can be taken to prevent this from happening to you. Take advantage of the safety settings in all handheld devices, game consoles, and computers that are normally used by parents for their children. Cyber criminals and scammers commonly use alluring tactics like phishing, emails, in-game chat and messaging or redirecting you to a malicious website in order to take control not only of your game accounts but possibly your bank accounts and making your location vulnerable to unsavory criminals.
Playing video games is entertaining and all but too much of a good thing can be bad. Remember to let yourself rest after a prolonged period of gaming. Remember that video game addiction is a real thing and it may take over your life. Take frequent breaks, drink water, sleep the recommended hours at night, and eat when hungry.
Video games are just one of the many activities that give respite from life's stressors. Unless you're a professional gamer, there are so many things we need to be aware to be a responsible, smart gamer. Do you have any more smart tech tips that you wanna share? Write them down in the comment section below.
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This 60 inch double sink vanity delivers the dark tones of chai under a counter top of your choosing. White marble, beige marble or tempered glass will all bring out the gleam of the gorgeous cabinet. Comes with two under sink storage areas and four center drawers for personal items. You also get the matching mirror and sinks.
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Delineation through architectural study and structural design is at the heart of our three invited artists and whose work we are thrilled to present at CONVERGE 2016.
They are Andrew Mackenzie, Steven MacIver and Sam Johnson.
Our annual open submission exhibition offers the opportunity for artists, designers and makers working in all disciplines to test, showcase and engage their work with a wider public.


"E got all 4's in Science (the highest report card grade) and a lot of that is thanks to you and your class."
"I gotta tell you how impressed 'A' was last week when you showed us the rain ponchos in your bag! She said 'Thom comes really prepared to class!' She completely trusts you because you've given her the joy of adventure and exploration, while also helping her feel safe and protected - thank you!"
"Hey Thom, it was great participating in the class the other day. I really respect your perspective and the values that you try to impart to the kids. And it's fun! How do you work that deal with the raccoon to show up at just the right time?"
"Thom, I just back from Montana on an Elk hunt and I had to tell you that the fire building skills you taught me up north in August absolutely saved our hunt! The first 3 days of the hunt we were basically in survival mode with rain, sleet, hail and snow. Our gear was soaking wed each day and without those fire skills you taught me getting a fire started would have been impossible! Thanks again and I look forward to your next set of classes here in northern Michigan."
"Giving urban children the opportunity to learn about and become involved with nature was a very valuable and enriching experience (Birdhouse Building Project)."
"Dear Thom, 'S' has had a wonderful experience in your class and has learned a new skill she would like to keep practicing. I am giving her permission to bring home a bow if possible. Thank you for teaching her this skill and discipline."


UFC president Dana White on Wednesday announced Ronda Rousey's return to the Octagon. No, it won't be against Cris "Cyborg" Justino, for which many have clamored. It will be against bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 on Dec. 30 in Las Vegas.
White, however, said that if Rousey gets the belt back, the Rousey vs. Cyborg fight would happen.
Read into that what you will, but it is a fight that is likely to eventually happen. It would be huge business.
Now, taking that statement in context, does it mean that if Rousey comes back and beats Nunes that Cyborg is her next fight? You might infer that from what White said, but, no, he didn't put a time stamp on it.
More likely, Rousey would continue to try and defend the belt, while the UFC continued to feed Cyborg opponents in the Octagon, building the match-up to critical mass.
So, while it sounds good on the surface, don't read too much into the idea that there is a clear linear path to Rousey vs. Cyborg. For now, Rousey is on the comeback trail and that's where we stand, continuing to hope that the megafight eventually gets made.