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Rough legged hawk gets help from a Gambell friend
By Diana Haecker
A rough legged hawk got a second lease on life when a Gambell woman and her mother happened upon the injured bird while riding their ATV, coming to its aid and then sending it to a bird sanctuary in Anchorage, where the animal will be nursed to health to be released back into the wild.
Caitlin Konahok of Gambell said in an email to the Nugget that she was riding her Honda with her mother and two dogs on October 23, when her mother noticed the bird at the side of the road. "My dogs ran to it to get a closer look but it flew away a few feet and had its wings up to make itself look bigger defending itself against my dogs. My dogs walked away and left it alone," Konahok reported. The two women felt there is something wrong with the bird for it to not fly off. Her mother had a towel with her and gave it to Konahok to catch the bird. "My smaller dog was keeping it distracted so I snuck up behind it and gently threw the towel over it and picked it up," she said. They took the bird home and, with Gay Sheffield providing the contact, connected with the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game office in Nome. They connected Konahok with the Bird Treatment and Learning Center in Anchorage, an organization that provides rehabilitative care for injured, ill and orphaned wild birds. They wanted to see if the bird is indeed injured and instructed Konahok to release it. She, her family and the bird drove back to the mountain to see if it flies away on its own. But, reports Konahok, "it wasn't going to fly away no matter how much time and space I gave it." So she went about catching the raptor. "I'd chase the hawk for a while then we would both rest and look at each other. I couldn't give up after seeing its little curious face looking back at me. I went after it one more time after thinking 'okay if I don't catch it this time I'm going home." It started running then tripped on the snow so when I got closer to, I spread my arms out to look like a bigger bird gliding down on the hawk. The hawk lied down staying still so I quickly but carefully grabbed its feet." She wrapped it in a towel then drove home.
The next day she contacted Fish and Game and they arranged a Bering Air trip for the hawk to Nome and then on to Anchorage's Bird TLC. "While I had the hawk with me at home I decided to name it "Konahawk" like my last name," said Konahok. ADF&G Assistant Area Biologist Alicia Carson said when she picked up the animal from Bering Air she "was pleased to see that the hawk was vigilant and bright eyed but appeared to have some damage to his feathers." Nome ADFG facilitated his transition from Bering Air to Alaska Air Cargo in Nome. Carson reported that upon arriving in Anchorage, Bird TLC pick up the hawk and assessed his health, saying that he is doing well, has a very healthy appetite, and is in his own enclosure to limit human interactions.
Executive Director Laura Atwood at Bird TLC told the Nugget that the gender of the bird is unknown, but he or she is about one to two years old and the prognosis for its recovery looks good. "There are no injuries but there is significant damage to the flight feathers on both wings and the tail. Because of this, the hawk cannot be released until it has gone through a molt which will be spring or early summer of 2023. We cannot determine the cause of the damage to the feathers," Atwood said in an email.
She added that due to the damage to the flight feathers, they could not release this bird at this time because they are a migratory species and the migration period has passed.
While Bird TLC isn't sure yet where to release the hawk, Konahok expressed happiness that the hawk will recover. "I'm hoping that it can be released back in Gambell since there has been hawks near the village for at least a decade now. The smart and beautiful bird was very alert and healthy looking. I didn't want to give up on it. I knew it wasn't ready to give up either," she said.


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Liberty the Belle
Paul is pictured here with Anita and Liberty presenting the cheque to the three nurses who made the most significant donation to his family – the gift of life.
As Masons we are surely very generous in the amounts that we donate to many different good causes each year.
Often though, we may be at a distance from the decision to donate to a particular good cause which may be supported at Provincial or National level.
But every now and again we get the chance to show our personal gratitude for the help received from a particular organisation.
Such an opportunity came the way of W. Bro Paul Bungay, who has just finished his year as Worshipful Master of Horsa-Dun Lodge, No. 3123.
His granddaughter, Liberty, was born prematurely, and was given very little chance of survival.
Due to the skill, dedication and intense effort on the part of the neo-natal department at Chelmsford Hospital, not only did she survive, but thrived.
Paul declared to the Lodge his intention to donate funds to the neo-natal department, as a token of his family's everlasting gratitude for saving his granddaughter.
With the generosity and support of the Lodge (mightily assisted in the funds raised by W Bro Albert Mance, who dyed his hair pink to raise donations), Paul raised the fantastic sum of £3,851.
He presented the cheque to the hospital, which was made all the more special by way of Paul taking along his daughter Anita and his granddaughter to meet again the team of nurses who dedicated themselves to ensuring Liberty's survival.
There will be many successes in his life which Paul will fondly remember and celebrate, but I suspect that this occasion will be one of which he, and Horsa-Dun Lodge, will be especially and justifiably proud.
Contributed by W. Bro Frank O'Keefe – Horsa Dun Lodge No 3123
Also read:-
– A Teddy Bear's Picnic and More at Horsa Dun Ladies Festival
– Grabbing 'em whilst they're young !
– Oodles of fun (and a punk rocker) at Horsa Dun !
– Albert Sees Red……As a way of raising some cash for the WM's charity
– What Goes Around Comes Around with Horsa-Dun Lodge and Isabel Hospice
– Food for thought at Horsa-Dun Lodge
– The Horsa-Dun Lodge, No. 3123 Master's Garden Party In Verse.
– www.horsadun3123.org
A Teddy Bear's Picnic and More at Horsa Dun Ladies Festival Oodles of fun (and a punk rocker) at Horsa Dun ! What Goes Around Comes Around with Horsa-Dun Lodge and Isabel Hospice Festival Platinum Grand Status comes of age

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I have received the sad news that my father sold the Orange Bomb, that classic of my teenage years. (We took it to prom. You wish you were as cool as us, driving to prom in an eight-seat orange '72 Vista Cruiser with a moon roof and racing stripes. Later its power brakes quit on the edge of Eaton Canyon and I had to flatten a poor old lady's mailbox to keep from going over the edge.) But cry no more — it's still in the family; Dad sold it to my cousin John, artist and musician of Psycotic Pineapple fame. A more perfect match could almost not be made. I can only imagine how the brakes will do on San Francisco streets. Good luck, John.
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We love to cook this at home because there are many variations which one can prepare depending on what is available in the pantry, be it the "Ayam Tempra" form with chicken, "Ikan Tempa" with fried fish or even "Telor Tempra" with beautifully crisped sunnyside ups, using just a few ingredients. I'm sure the moreish tasting sauce would be absolutely delish when drizzled over crispy deep fried pork chops which had been coated with soda cream cracker crumbs, not unlike how Hainanese Pork Chops are prepared. "Babi Tempra", not quite an authentically Peranakan rendition but no less yummy I'm sure.
We love to cook this dish with drumsticks which had been chopped down to smaller chunks. Usually two whole drumsticks with thigh are more than even for a small family, but feel free to use drumlets or chicken wings instead. If drumsticks are used, do ensure that they are chopped down to uniformly sized chunks for more even cooking time.
Apart from chicken, this dish calls for very few other ingredients but each one of them are really important to bring out all the piquant flavours. I do know some folks who cook it with vinegar for the sourish note but we prefer to use calamansi instead for that fruity tang. Onions are sweated first for their sweetness and it doesn't really matter if white, yellow or purple onions are used. All of them work equally well. Chilies are added for a hint of spiciness as well as contrast with its vibrant colours, all aimed at whetting the appetite both visually and in flavour.
To a heated wok, add cooking oil and pan fry chicken chunks until the skin begins to brown slightly and crisps up. Dish and set aside.
Return chicken chunks to the pan and add sliced red chilies, dark soya sauce, calamansi juice, sugar, salt and stir fry until the chicken are uniformly coated with dark soya sauce.
Add hot water and bring everything to a boil before lowering flame to simmer for 2-3 min with lid covered.
Taste and adjust with more salt, sugar or calamnsai juice if necessary.
Stir fry for 1/2 min or so to concentrate the juice slightly and dish up.
This entry was posted on September 16, 2014 by Alan (travellingfoodies). It was filed under Food, Simple Eats and was tagged with Ayam Tempra, Baba, bawang besar, bawang beseir, calamansi, cili merah, Nyonya, Peranakan, red chili, sour and spicy chicken, straits chinese.


I know, this is one of those topics that is difficult to get at. The various efforts to give concrete form to the Necronomicon have created a discursive Scylla and Charybdis. On the one side, you find those who accept that the appearance of the text in Lovecraft's fiction serves a prophetic role, calling out to the occultists who would give it concrete form. On the other side, you have those invested in its fundamentally literary character dismissing such efforts as, at best, a really weird and potentially schizophrenic sort of fan service.
That dilemma is actually useful for me, though. It repeats in miniature the tension I have been gesturing at between aesthetic and occult modernity. In the last post on this topic, I put forward the notion that what the artist often does is provide the occultist with a sensibility, a manner of seeing and understanding, that provides the occultist with a window into a previously less visible (or perhaps previously inaccessible) spiritual network. Here I want to suggest that the Necronomicon defines a key element of that.
To do this, I will need to position the Necronomicon in its fictional context, as a literary element that serves as a locus of occult associations. It does more than just conjoin disparate elements, but links them into a potent talismanic image. It is as a subtle talismanic force rather than a text that I want to seek out the nature of the Necronomicon.
With this in mind, let's turn to the Necronomicon as it H. P. Lovecraft uses it within his work. I will break this discussion into three or four posts. The first two posts are just notebook posts that lay out the various appearances of the Necronomicon in Lovecraft's work. The first post gathers together mentions of the text while the second post gathers together the quotations from the text that Lovecraft composed.
From there, the post(s) will proceed to analyze that material and examine it against its occult horizon.


12/17/2016 update to the Petition to Prohibit Wildlife-Killing Contests in Minnesota.
The third annual "Save the Birds" Coyote Hunting Tournament is set to take place January 13-14, 2017 in Marshall, MN.
Killing predators is not an effective or ethical way to improve prey populations or hunting.
No organization with a scientific predator-management policy should be sponsoring this event.
This event is not appropriate for a public place.
Brau Brothers Brewing Company and the City of Marshall, MN.
Their addresses are provided below. Sample letters are attached (scroll all the way down).
Talking point #1: killing predators is not an effective or ethical way to improve prey populations for hunting.
The poster for the 2017 "Save the Birds" Coyote Hunting Tournament--in addition to the misleading slogan across the top--features a photo of a coyote with its jaws open, closing in on a pheasant that, for some reason, isn't flying away. The first question that probably occurs to conservationists, birdwatchers, biologists, and wildlife managers is "why isn't the pheasant flying away?" Assuming that the photo depicts a natural event, one answer might be that the pheasant was injured and/or diseased. In that case, the coyote would be providing one of the ecological services that predators and scavengers provide--removing injured and diseased animals from the prey population (thus making the population stronger), and removing carrion from the landscape (thus facilitating its return to the earth).
The event organizers, however, seem to be posing a different question: "why are we letting this coyote steal our game?" They're ignoring the science, and in its place they're promoting misinformation, trying to make it look more appealing by lacing it with cash and merchandise from vendors and sponsors of the event. There's money involved, from the marketing of the event, to the awarding of door prizes and tournament awards, to the vendor promotions, and finally to the operation of a raffle in the guise of charitable gambling. In other words, the organizers and sponsors are selling firearms and ammunition, optics, lights, acoustic and electronic calls, clothing and accessories, and other supplies--as if they're recruiting hunters to some kind of elite tactical unit. But they're not, of course; they're just out there engaging in a cruel and biologically-pointless event.
The information gap between what we know from science and what we're told by the promoters of this event needs to be addressed among conservationists, wildlife managers, and legislators. That's one of the goals of the Petition to Prohibit Wildlife-Killing Contests in Minnesota.
The event poster can be viewed on the facebook page SaveTheBirdsCoyoteHunt and through the "forms & docs" link on the event listing at CoyoteContest.com. The photo is catalogued at Shutterstock.com.
Thanks to the petition signers who wrote to the NWTF last season to ask them to follow their own good advice on how to promote turkey populations and turkey hunting. Their advice: to focus on restoring and maintaining high-quality turkey habitat (and to leave the predators alone).
And thanks to those who wrote to the Marshall Visitors Bureau last season to point out how its sponsorship was detracting from its mission of promoting local tourism--for people in general, not just for one special interest.
Talking point #2: No organization with a scientific predator-management policy should be sponsoring this event.
For some reason (maybe we haven't reached them yet), Pheasants Forever (PF) has continued its sponsorship of this event this season. Now it's time to write to them again, to ask them to follow their own good advice on how to promote pheasant populations and pheasant hunting. Their advice is the same as that of the NWTF: focus on restoring and maintaining high-quality pheasant habitat (and leave the predators alone).
The published recommendations of NWTF and PF on habitat and predator management are available online by searching their websites for the keyword "predator", or by following the references provided in last season's petition update MN coyote-killing contest deceptively labeled to "Save the Birds."
Talking point #3: This event is not appropriate for a public place.
Brau Brothers Brewing Company is a taproom in the City of Marshall, MN. The neighborhood includes mixed retail, residential, school, and other community properties. This an not an appropriate site for the handling, weighing, and public display of blood-soaked coyote carcasses. After the contestants have gone in for supper, the carcasses are still out in the open trailer in the parking lot, to be disposed of, later, by the event organizers. No guidelines have been published on the personal hygiene of contestants entering the taproom from the carcass check-in area. This might not be the most appetizing image for customers at the Brau Brothers' taproom or the Perkins Restaurant and Bakery across the parking lot, or for the residents and visitors to the City of Marshall.
Killing predators is not an effective or ethical way to improve prey populations for hunting.
Killing for fun and prizes is bending the rules of sportsmanship.
Petitioners have submitted a proposal for Minnesota hunting-contest regulations.
Petitioners are still waiting for a response from the MN DNR.
The MN DNR has nothing to do with this event, but has so far declined to take a position against it, or to take a position in support of the regulation of hunting contests in Minnesota. The MN DNR is fully aware of this event, and has sent Conservation Officers to the event, to counsel event participants in legal coyote-hunting practices.
The Office and staff of the Minnesota Governor and Lieutenant Governor have nothing to do with this event, but have so far declined to take a position against it, or to take a position in support of the regulation of hunting contests in Minnesota. The Office and staff are fully aware of this event.
Point #3: please write to neighboring businesses and public officials--making it clear that we understand that they are not associated with this event--but voicing our concern for the negative image that this event might give to neighboring businesses and the community as a whole.
Concerned Local Organizations--not involved with this event.
The owner of the Marshall, MN Perkins Restaurant & Bakery called this morning, 12/19/2016, to remind petitioners "to be very clear, Perkins has nothing to do with this."
He's concerned, and grateful that petitioners have let him know about the coyote-hunting event that's coming up again in 2017 in the parking lot that the restaurant shares with the event host Brau Brothers Brewing Company.
He'll be calling Brau Brothers to talk about this, and he'll be looking into it further.
As always, petitioners are asked to be on their best behavior when contacting people and organizations about this event, and this Petition against it.
Perkins has nothing to do with this event. They are located across the parking lot from the site of the event at Brau Brothers Brewing Company.
Dollar Tree has nothing to do with this event. They are located adjacent to the site of the event at Brau Brothers Brewing Company.
Hy-Vee has nothing to do with this event. They are located across East Southview Drive from the site of the event at Brau Brothers Brewing Company.
The City of Marshall has nothing to do with this event, but could look into an Ordinance against the indecent public display of animal carcasses.
The Marshall Independent has promoted this event in the past, and been critical of the Petition to Prohibit Wildlife-Killing Contests in Minnesota.
Photo by Lori Iverson, 2010.
From the U.S. National Digital Library. A coyote on the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming listens intently as it detects movement under the snow. Seconds after the picture is taken, the coyote pounces and catches a small animal.


iRig MIX Summer Spin Tour kicks off on August 11, 2012 in Guitar Center Hallendale from 1pm to 4pm. The tour will span across the US at several Guitar Center locations including the Manhattan, Indianapolis, New Orleans and others. A DJ will be performing live in the Pro Audio/DJ Room mixing it up with iRig MIX and DJ Rig on iPad. This is your chance to see iRig MIX in action and enter for a chance to win prizes and giveaways during the tour. Be sure to follow our Facebook and Twitter pages for more information and details about other locations and dates.
1101 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd.


On February 19, 2019 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus Evgeny Shestakov met Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Italian Republic in the Republic of Belarus Mario Baldi.
During the meeting the sides discussed the results of the bilateral consultations between foreign ministries at the level of Deputy Ministers, which took place on February 7, 2019 in Rome, exchanged their views on the current state and development of the Belarusian-Italian relations, including political, economic and humanitarian cooperation.
Special attention was given to the prospects of organizing bilateral events during this year, among them the next meeting of the Joint Belarusian-Italian Commission for Economic Cooperation.


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Riverdale's Season Four Will Kick Off With A Tribute To Luke Perry, Showrunners Announce
July 15, 2019 2:50 pm EDT
MODIFIED DATE: July 15, 2019 2:47 pm EDT
Suraj Gouda
Riverdale's season 4 will air with a tribute to Luke Perry, who died in March 2019 after suffering a stroke. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the show's creator announced on Wednesday.
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Aguirre-Sacasa shared a photo of the script for Season 4 premiere, titled "In Memoriam." Perry, who played Fred Andrews, had his last appearance on Riverdale in April, nearly two months after his death, the absence of his character, Fred Andrews, has yet to be addressed on screen. Luke was an original cast member of the show, appearing in almost every single episode of the series till date.
A HEAVY SILENCE
"Probably the most important episode of #Riverdale we'll do this year, if not ever," he shared on Twitter. "A tribute to our fallen friend. Thankful for this opportunity to honor Luke & Fred."
"It was just devastating," Roberto recalled. "And we wanted to honor Luke, and figure out the best way to handle the character of Fred Andrews in the show, so we sort of said, you know what? Let's not squeeze, let's not rush to squeeze something into the finale, or into the last couple of episodes, let's really think about it, and let's tell that story at the beginning of season four."
"Luke was one of the hearts of the show — Luke and KJ Apa, their relationship, and as crazy as things got, we always turned back to them, That was so wonderful to have, and so that was part of our thinking too. We wanted to take the time to understand how the show will change without Fred, and how we could best address that."
SEASON FOUR: RELEASE DATE
The CW hit series Riverdale returns for its fourth season on Wednesday, October 9, 2019.


We need to stop housing the mentally ill in detention facilities because they've committed low-level offenses and the police have nowhere else to take them. The much anticipated opening of the Unity Center should help with this problem, but we also need to increase the number of health care professionals in our detention facilities, create policies that guide staff on diverting the mentally ill to other options and provide improved crisis training to our corrections deputies.
Mike is committed to working with service providers, health care and public safety professionals, and mental health advocates to keep our community safe by breaking the cycle of recidivism, especially when it involves addiction and mental illness.


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New Single "The Needle of the Human Race" on August 30th 2018
August 16, 2018 by Mike Vitale in New Music
My latest single "The Needle of the Human Race" will be available at all digital distribution locations on August 30th 2018. You know the drill: Spotify, Apple Music. iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, iHeartRadio, Deezer, Soundcloud, Bandcamp—all the places.
This was one of the first mixes I had completed from Patreon backers. A special thank you to all of these people for whom of which this is all happening, because of you and your belief: Erik Gomez, Fernando Gallegos, Heather Renz, Amy Armitage, Austin, Bob Emerson, Bridget Mackiewicz, Carey Brown, Carson Fonseca, Fern Rouintree, Brenda Matea, Ashley Thom, Jake, Janet Woodward, JayPee, John Sinambal, Joshua Jon Day, Judy and Jody Timmerman, Kelly McDonald, Lex, Matt Vitale, Megan Kaplinsky, Ron Feldman, Sarah Lim, The Luna Eclipse, Tim Grobaty, Yeggi Watts.
The song was mixed by Jon O'Brien at Music Box Studios in Fullerton, CA. I recently had it mastered by Mark Chalecki and his amazing attention to detail that I admire a great deal.
A big thank you to all of my friends that played on this song. Frank Reina on drums and Scott Dibble on Keys. Most of all, thank you my friend Dave Gonzalez who played bass on this tune. God bless him. He passed away before having the opportunity to ever hear this song, completed—it breaks my heart to say that—it hurts even more to know that he is gone. Then again, perhaps people such as Dave never really die, or are gone—they simply become music. I will lean in that direction with tears in my eyes and a smile on my face.
A big thank you to my friend Ryan C Jones for the cover photo of this song. If I remember correctly, he shot this photo on his phone. You are such a gift Ryan and I am deeply appreciative of you, your talent, and your kindness.
For anyone interested in Pre-Saving the song on Spotify, simply click the image above and it will put you in a place to do that.
Most of all, thank YOU (the person reading this) for finding interest in me and the music I'm making. You validate my life and efforts.
August 16, 2018 /Mike Vitale
The Needle of the Human Race, Mike Vitale, New Music, New Single, NEw Song, New Song, 2018, August 30th 2018, Jon O'Brien, Mark Chalecki, Mixing, Mastering, Frank Reina, Studio 333, Dave Gonzalez, Scott Dibble, Music Box, Fullerton, Los Angeles, Ryan C Jones, Ryan Christopher Jones, Patreon


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A New Portfolio Competition and Micro Grants for Minority Landscape Architects
September 15, 2022 September 19, 2022 ASLA staff
Check out @nationalamla on Instagram for more from the National Association of Minority Landscape Architects. / images courtesy of NAMLA
Since its 2020 founding and being covered by Landscape Architecture Magazine last year, the National Association of Minority Landscape Architects (NAMLA) has had lots going on, from the formation of student chapters to launching a NAMLA Talk Series. Today on The Field, we're highlighting two NAMLA opportunities with a deadline of this Sunday, September 18, for submissions. Act fast!
Landscape Architecture Portfolio Competition
NAMLA has announced their inaugural Portfolio Competition, open to landscape architecture students, interns, and apprentices. Winners will receive a cash award and will be featured on NAMLA's social media platforms.
Submission checklist:
Aspect ratio: 1:1 or 4:5 (portrait)
Captions for each image (2,000 characters max., including spaces)
Portfolios must be submitted via email by September 18, 2022.
This competition is a collaborative effort with Vectorworks and OJB Landscape Architecture.
Apply for a NAMLA Micro Grant
NAMLA's seventh Micro Grant opportunity is sponsored by OJB Landscape Architecture. The prompt for applicants to respond to is:
How can minority groups empower one another to help create pathways to leadership opportunities within landscape architecture?
Submissions via email are due on Sunday, September 18, 2022, by 11:59 PM PT, and must be 2,000 characters or less, including spaces.
Previous NAMLA Micro Grant prompts and winners' responses have included:
What do you think of a non-degree self-taught or apprenticeship trajectory to becoming a landscape architect? How would this impact racial and cultural diversity in landscape architecture?
"History has proven that a degree in landscape architecture or architecture is not necessary to be successful in the field.
Degrees are expensive and unattainable for many, especially minorities who, through prejudicial and discriminatory practices, have been prevented from breaking the cycle of poverty and gaining the intergenerational wealth that is often required to graduate without crippling lifelong debt.
The self-taught or apprenticeship trajectory allows for further flexibility and individuality, increased equitable opportunities for career advancement, and greater inclusion and integration of racial, class, and cultural diversity. With a self-taught approach, individuals can tailor their education to their abilities and career goals.
Although landscape architecture degrees typically involve greater opportunities for individualization, there still exists a degree of homogenization.
While it is important to attain a standard level of proficiency regardless of career trajectory, an apprenticeship provides participants with a broader perspective, allowing for greater originality in design. Additionally, a self-taught approach offers aspiring landscape architects who do not thrive in a classroom environment a chance to excel in the field.
Furthermore, by equalizing the various routes of career development and by removing the degree requirement that typically privileges the already privileged, firms might hire and promote talented individuals who would ordinarily never have had the opportunity to be interviewed.
This shift away from institutionalized education goes a step further than affirmative action to confront the systemic policies that limit minority advancement in landscape architecture.
By revaluing unconventional forms of skill acquisition and by giving aspiring landscape architects greater agency over educational and career opportunities, we can further integrate disadvantaged groups and increase the racial, class, and cultural diversity within the field."
– Micro-Grant Winner Madison Main, Associate ASLA
See NAMLA's Instagram for quotes from other respondents.
Basquiat once said, "I am not a Black artist. I'm an artist." Are minorities being pigeonholed to focus on "cultural" landscapes in order to get exhibited or published? If so, how do we ameliorate this?
"A minority designer must navigate a complex array of sociocultural and socioeconomic obstacles in the profession to "prove themselves" at the same table as that of a white counterpart. The disparity in diverse representation of people in leadership positions could be the root of this problem. A network that embodies a predominantly white representation indicates that BIPOC will be less likely to lead. Landscape architecture has come a long way from holding traditionally eurocentric values to analyzing and synthesizing design for diverse communities or specific groups of non-white people. While design representation of diverse communities is essential, "cultural" landscapes should not be the minority designer's only focus.
As diversity in clientele and project types evolve, so should diversity in designers.
In order to ameliorate this inherently racist issue, we must view minority designers through the same lens that we view the white counterpart and trust that we are capable of performing proficiently. Since to say that minorities are pigeonholed to focus on "cultural" landscapes in order to get exhibited or published is to say that we've succeeded at getting a spot at the drawing board to begin with. This means that we have been hired because we have the necessary technical expertise and educational background to accomplish the same type of projects as anyone else. Needless to say, we must be cognizant and accepting of the differences in the soft skills necessary to communicate between minorities and other groups of people who may not be minorities."
– Micro Grant Winner Adriana Garcia, ASLA
How can we go beyond "participatory design" workshops for public projects that disproportionately go to white-owned firms to minority-owned firms being selected to lead public projects, especially in communities of color?
"For minority-owned landscape architecture firms to be selected to lead public projects, especially in communities of color, the advantages of doing so must be more widely understood. Minority landscape architects have experiential knowledge that can be integral to developing and utilizing best practices, especially in the setting of minority-owned firms.
Minority experiences vary. Here the term minority includes self-identifying as BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, multicultural, multi-racial, and multi-ethnic. What unifies minority experience is that one does not identify with the majority culture.
Experiential knowledge originates from lived encounters and participation. It is individual, continuous, and multifaceted. Awareness of one's own experiential knowledge reinforces an understanding that others have independent, unique, and complex experiential knowledge. This understanding provides a foundation for practices of intention, empathy, and authenticity. The experiential knowledge of minority landscape architects is important because it offers perspective on the specialized work needed to better understand and serve people and populations that are outside of majority culture. This perspective can only be forged through the experience of living as a minority.
A minority-owned firm, with minority leadership and practitioners, presents an opportunity to draw on a diversity of experiential knowledge, collaborate and innovate beyond current practices. Workplace culture can mirror and support practices with communities. The immense potential for utilizing experiential knowledge in minority-owned firms, especially for public projects with communities of color, cannot be replicated or replaced by majority culture firms. It is imperative that this potential be more widely understood throughout the field of landscape architecture."
– Micro Grant Winner Cynthia Cukiernik, Student Affiliate ASLA
Social and environmental justice through landscape architecture: what new ways can landscape architects marshal solutions toward social and environmental justice?
"A way landscape architects can marshal solutions towards social and environmental justice is by incorporating just one word: Natives. In the environmental sense, incorporating native plants in the chosen area can greatly benefit nature, due to the impact of natural plants on the environment like supporting its local ecosystem through protecting the local species around them.
Another benefit of growing and caring for native plants in an area is it can draw tourists. Because if you think about it, why travel across the country to see the same flower that you can plant in your backyard while it harms the local ecosystem. If you only have native plants to a certain state, tourists will be more willing to travel to experience the native plants in their home.
People native to the chosen area, who have cared for and grown these plants for many generations, have proficient knowledge of how to appropriately care for these plants. Hiring people of Native descent as plant specialists to an area promotes social justice as well as environmental justice.
For generations, we have removed native plants that have been here long before us, native plants that were being taken care of by Native families. By removing them we have removed their history—we should pay people of Native descent to grow plants that were here long before us to honor their culture.
By paying plant specialists a living wage and benefits it can also improve the environment most people of color tend to live in. Like better access to doctors and health specialists. Better quality food for themselves and their loved ones.
Overall, including more native plant species can greatly improve the environment, and by embracing Natives into the landscape community there will be a better social environment for people of color and healthier earth."
– Micro Grant Winner Stephanie Navarro
Should courses on race, gender, and class be part of landscape architecture curriculums?
"The practice of landscape architecture is essentially humans' efforts to change the built and natural environments. Yet the definitions of so-called humans and environments are never innocent of racial, gender, and class meanings. Capitalism and colonialism have a long history of dismissing colored people, women, and people of the lower class as "cheap nature." Their bodies are used like trees and soils and are shaped into the landscape for capital accumulation.
Learning the history of race, gender and class enables us to traverse the binary thinking of human and the environment. When working on design projects, I am always troubled by the spatial power play that pictures an existing place as a passive "site" for human intervention. Too often, I feel unsettled about extracting certain elements to represent the site while trivializing other underlying and entangled relationships and processes that make up the space to design. Therefore, I feel an urgent need to critically examine existing spatial practices and revisit the underlying power paradigm through the curriculum.
Only by realizing the entangled human hierarchies and organizations that constitute space, landscape architects can consciously forge the relationship between space and humans that they favor. When seeing and designing landscape, we must realize that the environment we are making is not independent of human labor and activities. Species activities make the environment and vice versa. Therefore, what we are designing and who we are designing for are entangled and interrelated. As landscape architects, we must make conscious decisions about who can enter, use, and change the space as they want, without the unintentional negligence of a certain group. The consciousness cannot be fostered without the education and realization of race, gender, and class contexts."
– Micro Grant Winner Esther Xie
What do you think is the biggest challenge for minorities in obtaining leadership roles in landscape architecture?
"Landscape architecture in the U.S. is a historically white profession guided by Western pedagogy, thought, practice, and bias. This fact underlies the biggest barrier for minorities to achieve leadership roles in the field. Though the discipline is growing more diverse, changing dominant structures and perspectives is a challenge.
Today, over 55% of landscape students are white. Only 19 professors of U.S. accredited programs are black. Only 10% of professionals identify as Latino and only 3% as black, both of which are disproportionately less than their representation in the U.S. population. Data on indigenous student enrollment was not even recorded until as recently as 2016. Leaders of landscape architecture, predominantly white and male, hold significant decision-making power over who joins their ranks. Though these principals and tenured faculty can indeed support and realize diverse leadership, it takes great effort and courage to upend conventions to do so. Often, the status quo is upheld.
The key to increasing diversity in landscape architecture leadership relies on active advocacy and collective empowerment of minorities. This undertaking goes beyond inclusive hiring policies and quotas. In fact, no single solution exists. Instead, the remedy requires redefining what landscape architecture is and can be; it mandates more access to opportunity for BIPOC; it begins with outreach and education; it is sustained by mentorship and advocacy. The field must be promoted so that "landscape architect" becomes as commonly known to aspiring youth as "doctor," and its mission should be as clear. It is about the care and future of communities, which all people should be encouraged to engage in—especially BIPOC. If more minorities join the field, there will be stronger collective power and pressure applied on institutions to meet demands for more leadership roles. As a result, the diversity of voices will renew the importance and relevance of the profession at large."
– Micro Grant Winner Dana Tinio, Student ASLA
See NAMLA's Instagram for quotes from other respondents: part 1, part 2.
Micro Grant winners' submissions reposted with permission from the National Association of Minority Landscape Architects (NAMLA).
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Since launching his recording career a decade ago, Justin Townes Earle has established a reputation as a singular leading light in the Americana music community. With fearless, personally charged lyrical insight and infectious melodic craftsmanship, the young veteran singer-songwriter has built a rich, personally charged body of work.
Now, on his seventh album (and New West debut) Kids in the Street, Justin Townes Earle raises the creative and personal stakes to deliver a deeply soulful set that's both emotionally riveting and effortlessly uplifting. Taking himself out of his creative comfort zone and assembling a new set of collaborators, Earle has created one of his most potent efforts to date, reflecting all manner of new influences upon his life and his art.
"Life has changed a lot for me in the last few years," Earle reflects. "I got married and am getting ready to become a father, and this is the first record that I've written since I've been married. There's definitely an uplifting aspect to this record in a lot of ways, because I'm feeling pretty positive.
"When I wrote songs in the past," he continues, "I was looking in on what I was feeling, but this record's more about looking outward on what's happening, and writing about subjects like gentrification and inner city strife. This record also has more of a soul influence to it, and it's got a deeper connection to the blues than anything I've done before."
Earle's current level of inspiration is apparent throughout Kids in the Street, on which such tunes as "Champagne Corolla," "Maybe A Moment," "Faded Valentine" and the haunting title track paint vivid, vital portraits of characters at the mercy of forces beyond their control. Elsewhere, Earle's personalized update of the trad blues number "Stagalee" recasts that outlaw classic in modern terms, and his reading of Paul Simon's "Graceland" (included here as a bonus track) locates the gospel/blues number that's always been at the song's heart.


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Year working: 1881 – 1952
Guy Lipscombe was probably one of the first UK artists to specialise in motoring. D B Tubbs in his authoritative work on motoring artists 'Art and the Automobile' says that Lipscombe was employed in 1903 by Temple Press to take charge of the art department at The Motor. This is slightly surprising for a young man of 22 so he must have already established himself in the art world. Tubbs also quoted his date of birth as 1883 (which would only make him 20 years old). However, the date used above of 1881 comes from the Imperial War Museum. The Motor was founded in January 1902 so it was very much in its infancy when Guy Lipscombe joined them. The Motor at this date carried very few art illustrations however by 1907 we see the magazine starting to issue free colour prints. The art of Guy Lipscombe was used for one of these issued on the 14th November 1907. Three prints were issued entitled 'The Hill Climb', 'The Race' and 'The Rally'. The subject of 'The Hill Climb' shows an early large Daimler at a speed climb with a flag marshal in the background. The original watercolour survives today. The other major early work of Lipscombe to survive is the very large oil painting that hangs on the stairs of the RAC Club in London. This is a scene of the racing cars of Nazzaro (Fiat) and Richez (Renault) battling for the lead in the 1907 French Grand Prix at Dieppe. This work is truly magnificent and it is a wonder that it has not been depicted more in texts about automobile art. The painting ranks with anything famed continental artists produced. In the book (From Bouverie Street to Bowling Green Lane) about the history of Temple Press there is a photograph of Guy Lipscombe and underneath there is a claim that he was the originator of mechanical prospective drawing in Temple Press and it gives some examples of his technical art from around 1904/5. During the First World War Guy Lipscombe was a War Artist and went with the troops to Italy and Gallipoli. There are examples of his work in the Imperial War Museum art collection. After the war his work appears in The Motor Owner from 1919 onwards but also we see him working for The Autocar with at least 40 front cover designs between 1922 up to 1930 He was probably working as a freelance designer at that time. Guy Lipscombe seems to have moved away in the 1930's from motoring art as a major income. He must have been a fairly prolific artist as paintings regularly appear in the auctions. These are a range of topics such as country cottages, gardens, shipping and portraits, most of these being oil on canvas. Guy Lipscombe used a variety of media for his early works such as charcoal, watercolour and oils. The art is normally signed Guy Lipscombe in script but early postcards have been seen signed simply Guy L. The true influence of Guy Lipscombe on the UK motoring art scene is not fully understood and he must have been the man by which other artists (possibly Crosby) set their standards. It is unfortunate that Guy Lipscombe has not been recognised for his true contribution and the quality of his art.
From Bouverie Street to Bowling Green Lane by Arthur C Armstrong published by Hodder and Stroughton 1946 My Picture-Book of MOTORS by various authors published Ward Lock circa 1930
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CLEARLAKE CAPITAL GROUP PORTFOLIO COMPANY BUY.COM SOLD TO GLOBAL ONLINE RETAILER RAKUTEN
Buy.com to Serve as Rakuten's U.S. Platform in Global Expansion to Become the World's #1 Online Retail Marketplace
NEW YORK, NY – May 21, 2010 – Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. ("Clearlake"), a private investment firm, today announced that its portfolio company, Buy.com, a leading U.S. online retail marketplace, has been sold to Rakuten, Inc.
Japan-based Rakuten's core business, "Rakuten Ichiba," is Japan's largest Internet shopping mall, offering more than 50 million products by more than 33,000 merchants. The acquisition is highly strategic for Rakuten, and will accelerate the company's plan to expand its online retail marketplace into North America and Europe for sellers and buyers. Combined, the two companies represent one of the world's largest online retail marketplaces, offering consumers more than 60 million products from close to 35,000 merchants around the globe.
Rakuten's all-cash acquisition of Buy.com is valued at approximately $250 million. Additional terms were not disclosed.
"We are very pleased to have sponsored Buy.com and management as its first and only institutional investor," said Behdad Eghbali, Partner, Clearlake Capital. "The Buy.com team has built a leading scalable marketplace platform, and the brand is strong and remains positioned for additional growth. Buy.com will serve as a powerful foothold for Rakuten in the U.S. as they seek to take their unique shopping and selling experiences global."
In North America and much of Europe, Buy.com has recently surged as a major online marketplace, having experienced profitable growth for the past three years including growth of over 146% in its marketplace segment year over year in 2009. Buy.com was the first online retailer to offer enhanced shopping features and integrate commerce in social media such as BuyTV and collaborative commerce.
"This is an exciting day for Buy.com," said Neel Grover, President and CEO Buy.com. "We have worked hard to build a destination site that stands for the best of online shopping: great deals, strong product insights and special features that make the online shopping experience convenient and affordable. We look forward to our future as a key piece of Rakuten's global success, and we thank the Clearlake team for the support and guidance they have offered us throughout our partnership."
Buy.com was advised by Catalina Securities, Lazard and Dorsey & Whitney LLP.
ABOUT CLEARLAKE CAPITAL GROUP
Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is a private investment firm focused on special situations such as corporate divestitures, recapitalizations, buyouts, restructurings, turnarounds and minority equity investments. Clearlake seeks to partner with world-class management teams by providing patient, long-term capital and operational expertise to invest in businesses going through change. Clearlake's founding principals have led over 50 investments totaling more than $2.6 billion of capital in sectors including business services, communications and media, energy and power, healthcare, manufacturing, retail/consumer and technology. For more information, please visit www.clearlakecapital.com.
ABOUT BUY.COM
With more than 14 million customers, Buy.com is a leading retail marketplace, focused on providing its customers with a great shopping experience and a broad selection of retail goods at everyday low prices. Buy.com offers millions of products in a range of categories, including consumer electronics, computer hardware and software, cell phones, books, music, DVDs, games, toys, bags, fragrance, home and outdoor, baby, jewelry, shoes, apparel and sporting goods. Founded in June 1997, Buy.com is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. Buy.com® and The Internet SuperstoreTM are trademarks of Buy.com Inc.
In Japan, Rakuten has approximately 64 million registered members and sales in 2009 totaled US$3.2 billion. Its core business "Rakuten Ichiba" is Japan's largest Internet shopping mall and offers more than 50 million products by over 33,000 merchants, some of whom have turnover of more than US$1 million per month. In addition to its Internet shopping mall, Rakuten, which has more than 6,000 employees, is engaged in other Internet businesses such as travel agency and financial services.


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GREEN BAY, WI (Dec. 21st, 2015) – Carnivore Meat Company, manufacturer of Vital Essentials® has earned Food Safety System Certification, FSSC 22000.
The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) certification validates Vital Essentials' commitment to its food safety program for its manufacturing process at their USDA Certified and Federally Inspected pet food facility in Green Bay, WI. Vital Essentials' manufacturing process for frozen and freeze-dried pet food and pet treats adheres to the same safety and quality standards of top-tier human food companies worldwide.
During the certification process, Vital Essentials' facility went through an extensive audit process in which all areas of the operation were examined: management engagement and responsibility, GMP's and SOP's, supplier and sourcing audits, workplace safety, HACCP food safety program, emergency response and preparedness planning, traceability, validation, verification and continuous improvement.
Vital Essentials is the first in the raw pet food category, in the U.S., to receive the FSSC 22000 certification. This certification bolsters several of the company's other achievements. Vital Essentials is one of only three USDA Certified and Federally Inspected pet food facilities in the world. They have earned a superior rating (99.3%) from Bureau Veritas (BV), an international food safety audit firm, and recently received their EU certification, permitting the import of their pet products into Europe.
Vital Essentials, maker of the ALPHA Prey-model diet, is the most tenured RAW pet food producer in the nation, providing RAW pet nutrition since 1968. The family owned company located in Green Bay, WI, manufactures high quality RAW frozen and freeze-dried pet food, snacks and treats. Sourced, made and packaged in the USA, every Vital Essentials product stands up to the same promise – Purely RAW, Instinctively Healthy.


One of the highlights of every trip or commuting time for me is the free time it affords me to read and to think.
I usually do nonfiction but I am rediscovering now and again that fiction has it's alluring place.
I found, read and skimmed this wonderful novel during the weekend. Standing in the Shadows by Shannon McKenna is 26 chapters of intereting story of romance,crime and detectives, all with a lovely thrill to it.
It was a lighter reading while taking a short break from Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins, that I was reading during the trip.
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Re: Name that movie!
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Don't know the movie, not even sure I got the actor right: John Wayne?
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That's Babe Ruth in The Sandlot, a great, great movie.
I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster and drank pina coladas. At sunset we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day.
But I'm disturbed! I'm depressed! I'm inadequate! I GOT IT ALL! (George Costanza)
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That would be one of my favorite movies, Groundhog Day--or is it Groundhog's Day? We've watched that movie at least 20 times.
I wasn't like every other kid, you know, who dreams about being an astronaut, I was always more interested in what bark was made out of on a tree. Richard Gere's a real hero of mine. Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that. I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.
* I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. *
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Man, that's a good quote but I haven't the faintest notion what film it's from. Hate to see this thread come to a halt because nobody's brave enough to venture a guess though, so here goes:
You're an obviously literate person with good taste in films, so it's probably something thought-provoking and interesting. 'Though it has nothing to do with the quote (as far as I can tell), I'm going to take a wild stab and guess Aaron Eckhart in In the Company of Men.
You may have to give us a hint. Maybe another snippet of dialogue?
Oh man, that quote by U'ilani sounds so eloquent, but there's 10% of my brain screaming that it's really from a schlapschtick movie.
OK, here's an easier one:
"Round up every Hindu in New York and make it snappy!"
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Not sure about buzz's movie quote. It sounds like a Robin Williams line or maybe a Pakistani movie, lol, but that's as far as I can get without googling.
10% of my brain screaming that it's really from a schlapschtick movie.
That minority part is right--it's from Zoolander, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson--oh, and Will Ferrell. You guys have to see it. It's absolutely hysterical, but be sure to only view it when you're in the mood for a really silly movie.
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it's from Zoolander, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson--oh, and Will Ferrell. You guys have to see it. It's absolutely hysterical, but be sure to only view it when you're in the mood for a really silly movie.
I love those guys, but that movie is terrible! Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell are so good at being smart-dumb, but that movie is just dumb-dumb. Sorry.
Have you seen Owen Wilson in Bottle Rocket?
What? How can you not love Zoolander?! Impossible. Dumb-dumb can actually be brilliant when it's so shockingly slapstick silly. There are a ton of moments in that movie that crack me up. I bet you also hated Rat Race?
Nope, I haven't seen Bottle Rocket. Any good (not that I should take your assessment seriously, at this point )?
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hmm...so did someone make a NEXT Quote?.....if not I got one:
"I can't give Pudge tuna, do you know what tuna is? Its...its...its TUNA! I was late to practice because I had to go to the store, and buy peanut butter and jelly because all we have is...iss. stinken TUNA!!!"
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Lilo and Stitch!!!
Next (if I'm right, anyway): Who you goin' to the dance with? Spalding?
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Originally posted by jdub View Post
Great Movie......takes the edge off a bad day.
However, he was from Cimmeria. The land of ice and snow. Robert E. Howard's mythology is second only to J.R.R. Tolkien. Got me through high school. Thanks for the recall. Brings back good memories.
In a supporting role...........Hawaii's own
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ABSOLUTELY!! Good call, Nacho. Lopez was perfectly casted, no? No one takes me seriously when I get so excited about that movie.
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Tiger Woods has refused to accept calls in order to let their players get ready for their upcoming president cup challenge at the Australian Open. Tiger Woods, who was declared to be the leader of the American team, is reportedly facing a lot of condemnation for organizing his own charity event in Bahamas on the same date when national championship playoffs are announced to be held in the capital of Australia.
Both the national championship and the charity contest would be conducted just before one week of the President's Cup. According to the information revealed in the recent reports, Tiger Woods did not hesitate to advise the American team to prepare for the Hero World Challenge prior to the tournament going to held on 12th-15th December in Melbourne. Rumours indicate that to provide players with a considerable amount of time to prepare for their tournament as well as to make their visit to Melbourne, Bahamas event organization would be delayed by one day. Woods statement regarding his concern of ensuring that his players are well-prepared and are all set to play vigorously in the forthcoming tournament, clarify how sincerely he is performing his job of being the Captain of American players.
When questioned 'whether he's going to let his players perform in the Australian Open, he clarified that he would want his players to play in the Hero World Challenge. As per the statement of Woods, there have been constant assemblies scheduled to figure out the best possible solution. Here, the main objective of the American Captain is to find out a way which would let his team perform in both the Bahamas tournament and the National Championship playoff (only if they could get adequate rest and time to prepare for both the events simultaneously). He further mentioned that he's looking forward to recalling the American's first and the only defeat (till date) in 1998 in Melbourne which would help his players to partake in both the events and give their best to prove them once again.
Talking of the records
The historical records of the American team have been quite impressive as they won 10 out of the 12 Presidents Cup challenges against strong international players over the past years. In fact, one of those 2 matches that were held between the American Team and South African team was a tie. This indicates that American players are strong enough to win the maximum number of matches.
Woods visited Royal Melbourne this Wednesday which, as per his sight, did not change after he played Melbourne 2011 tournament. He often named it as 'a colossal golf course across the board'
On December 6th, he appeared in some of the amazing radio shows as well as morning television programs and then attempted a media conference that was organized nearby Yarra River. The American captain along with his better-half Erica Herman is reportedly traveling with his two younger ones. He has successfully won the best season on the United States PGA tour this year (which he was trying his luck in since 5 years).
With his surprising renaissance as a fantastic player, reports suggest he would soon be seen at Royal Melbourne Presidents Cup in the coming year. However, to qualify for the championship, his name must appear in the list of top 8 on the Tour points 2018-2019. If he won't make it, there are still 4 'American Leader's Pick' to be included.
For now, he considers himself as the part and a parcel of the American team, hoping to appear in the list of top 8 as well.
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The Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible include what is often referred to as the Deuteronomic History (Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1/2 Samuel, 1/2 Kings) 1/2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. This guide is intended to introduce students to the various academic discussions concerning these works, especially in terms of historiography, by providing digital access to important eBooks and journals articles.
This guide does not include commentaries; those can be found in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Commentaries Guide HERE.
These are not all of the resources available through the DTL. Please use the search bar above for further inquiries.
"In 1943, the famous Old Testament scholar, Martin Noth, published his monograph, berlieferungsgeschichtliche Studien, in which he established the hypothesis of a Deuteronomistic History and gave his treatment of the Chronicler's History. It quickly became one of the classics in the field and is probably Noth's most enduring legacy. This book brings together essays from an international symposium of scholars celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Noth's important volume and reviewing his other contributions to Old Testament study."
Michael Avioz, "The Book of Kings in Recent Research (Part I)"
Michael Avioz, "The Book of Kings in Recent Research (Part II)"
Jon D. Levenson, "Who Inserted the Book of the Torah?"
J. Gordon McConville, "The Old Testament Historical Books in Modern Scholarship"
Gary N. Knoppers, "Rethinking the Relationship between Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic history: The Case of Kings"
Bernard M. Levinson, "The Reconceptualization of Kingship in Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History's Transformation of Torah"
Frank Moore Cross, "A Reconstruction of the Judean Restoration"
Gary N. Knoppers, "Hierodules, Priests, or Janitors? The Levites in Chronicles and the History of the Israelite Priesthood"
Frank Moore Cross, "The Themes of the Book of Kings and the Structure of the Deuteronomistic History"
Isaac Kalimi, "Was the Chronicler a Historian?"
Martin Noth, "The Central Theological Ideas"
Antony F. Campbell, SJ, "Martin Noth and the Deuteronomistic History"
Brian Neil Peterson, "Deuteronomistic History Since Martin Noth"
Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible LibGuide by Christopher Crawford is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.


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"He's Condor Nyle," Alice explained, "the guy who left this compound to Ruth Black in his will."
Julia frowned. "But he's not dead."
"Yeah, there seems to be a lot of that going around. " Alice hustled Condor Nyle into the back of the van.
"This is the coolest," Carson said from the driver's seat. "You played the archaeologist in Curse of Amenhotep. Boris Karloff played the mummy. Isn't that ironic?"
Condor Nyle tried unsuccessfully to free his bound wrists as they turned onto the road. "This is kidnapping," he said, staring at Billy St. Clair's body on the floor next to him. "You have no right to detain me. And no it's not ironic. Lon Chaney, Jr. played the mummy, not Karloff, and what is it you find ironic about it?"
"It was Karloff," Carson said.
"Chaney."
"Karloff."
He frowned. "Yes, maybe it was Karloff. It was so long ago."
Carson smiled. "Karloff found himself playing Frankenstein for decades. Frankenstein was a zombie. And now you're a zombie. Isn't that special?"
"Let me ask you a question," Alice ventured.
"I don't have to tell you anything," Condor Nyle spat. "You have no call to mistreat me like this. I insist you let me call the police."
"Is it true you had an affair with Errol Flynn?"
He looked up at her. "Oh, my dear girl," he began. "An affair? It was nothing of the sort. When I think about that beautiful man, I remember the years we spent together. Not openly, of course. The world wasn't ready. But we loved each other until the day he died."
"And Lionel Barrymore as well?"
"Oh good heavens, no. He was very ugly. And about as romantic as a bag of dirt. Now where are you taking me?"
"That's a good question," Carson said. "What do you say, boss?"
Julia was holding the map close to her face, not looking happy. "Napa."
"I dislike Napa," Condor Nyle interjected. "Although the wine is superb. Take me to the police at once."
"Fine," Carson said, turning sharply, unexpectedly onto the Sutterville exit. "Let's do that then. Let's head to the police station."
"What do you think you are you doing?" Julia asked.
"Trust me," Carson said. "Let's go. Let's get some fingerprints. I'll even call ahead to have some TV crews there. Once people hear that you're still alive, there will be some explaining to do. How old are you now? 153?"
Condor Nyle fumed. "Is it necessary to be cruel?" he asked. "I'm only 117."
"Well you don't look a day over 55," Carson told him.
"I take care of myself. I eat right, no dairy."
"Shut up," Carson told him.
"Why Napa?" Alice asked. "Why not go to the lab?"
"Because we don't have a good clue as to who might be lurking at the lab," Julia said. "It would not be a good time to run into the police or whoever else might turn up. And I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of Ruth Black or Millicent Sorrows."
"You think she might come for us still? Why would she? She has Karen. Why bother with us?"
"Why bother with us?" Julia repeated, looking up from the map. "You think this is done, Alice? I don't think so. We know too much. They're going to need to make their peace with us, or…"
"Kills you, is what comes to mind," Condor Nyle interjected. "If you're lucky, they'll kill you. If you're lucky."
"Shut up," Alice and Julia yelled in unison.
Carson's watch buzzed.
"Dialysis?" Julia asked.
Carson said nothing.
"We need to get you to the Med Center."
He shook his head. "I don't need it."
"You need it. I don't care how good you feel."
"I don't need it."
Alice leaned over the seat. "What are you talking about? You could die."
Carson shook his head. "I have very little to think about most nights. Except you." He turned and gave her a grin. "So I'm well attuned to my bodily needs. And I don't need dialysis right about now."
"Three days."
"No way," Julia shouted. "We've been through too much together and I'm not going to let you die just because you're feeling healthy."
Carson grabbed her hand. "I don't need it. I'm not sure why, but I don't need it. I know my body in ways that you haven't even begun to know yours."
"You're sure?"
"We'll head to Napa for now, then if you need to, we can phone in an emergency to Kaiser's Napa dialysis clinic, but for now, let's just head to Napa. Then I have to try to remember the way."
"What's in Napa?" Alice asked.
"Lundt Castle." She pulled the big key chain from her jacket pocket. "Rocky has an option to buy. Anyway, I figure it will be the last place anyone would look for us. Rocky and Tim will come tonight. Then we can make a plan."
"Lundt Castle," Condor Nyle repeated. "Take 80 west to 128, then south around Lake Berryessa. You'll see it there, it overlooks the lake."
Julia and Alice turned to stare at him.
"How do you know where it is?" Alice asked.
"Dear girl, I could tell you of the parties they used to throw. Arthur Lundt loved parties. Once they even had a dancing bear. And Grace loved the swan boats. She drank quite a bit, but she was one of those women who could pull it off. Those boats were heavy and you had to pedal a lot, but they were something to look at on a summer night, passing back and forth as the band played."
Julia turned and stared at him. "I thought it wasn't supposed to work on men. Only women, but it worked on you just fine. You don't seem to have any brain damage."
He shrugged. "Let's just say I was born with something that most men are not?"
"What's that?" Julia asked.
"An ovary."
Carson let out a healthy burst of laughter. "You're kidding."
"It's not nice to laugh at those who are different from you, young man. I might have thought you of all people would understand that."
"An ovary, huh?"
"They removed it when I was thirteen. And that was the end of it. It had no impact on my life at all. None whatsoever."
"Until you met Ruth Black," Julia said
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Chief financiers within the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) are sponsoring former President John Mahama's comeback to contest as flagbearer of the main opposition party, National Democratic Congress (NDC), Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP, Bernard Antwi Boasiako has revealed.
Chairman Wontumi told GhanaNewsPage.Com in an exclusive interview that the NPP is neck deep in the campaign of the former President and will do everything within its means to ensure that former President Mahama is elected NDC flagbearer for the 2020 elections.
"In politics, you have to strategise and we strategized to ensured that NDC will elect Mahama as their flagbearer for 2020, we need him so we have made sure that we are sponsoring his campaign, we are doing everything within our means to ensure that Mahama is elected to lead the NDC again and later, they will see what we will do to him…," he told GhanaNewsPage.Com in an exclusive interview.
According to him, the NPP financiers worked hard to ensure that former President Mahama is favourite to lead the NDC party because he has lots of weaknesses that the NPP will sell to Ghanaian voters to ensure that Mahama is rejected.
Former President John Mahama on August 23, 2018 officially declared his intention to contest his party's flagbearership.
Mr Mahama's declaration brought to an end, months of speculation in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Ghana as a whole as to whether the former President would seek the leadership of the party one more time.
His aides went to present his letter of intent at the NDC's headquarters at Adabraka in Accra.
Ghana's former Consul General to Dubai, Ambassador Daniel Osei however claimed that Mr. Mahama "was too drunk to present the letter of intent himself".
He alleged that, minutes to the time of departure to the NDC headquarters at Adabraka, aides of the former President found him intoxicated thus resolved to present the letter on his behalf to the disappointment of the "rented" supporters.
But Chairman Wontumi told GhanaNewsPage.Com that the NPP knows very well that Mahama has lots of money and will be sharing it to the delegates so he will be re-elected to lead the NDC once more.


The French-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIFP) aims at promoting business between France and Portugal. Among the missions, the CCIFP helps the business owners with their implementation in France or Portugal. 400 French, Portuguese and French-Portuguese companies are currently members of the CCIFP. Every year for 7 years, the CCIFP has been in charge of the organization of the Portuguese Real Estate and Tourism Fair, held in Paris, showcasing the lifestyle, cultural dynamics and the economic vitality of Portugal with the presence of Portuguese Real Estate agencies, banks, insurances, tourism boards, local crafts, etc. The next edition will be on May 18-20, 2018.


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Published April 29, 2020 1:08PM
Despite being at the heart of Covid-19 economic impacts, the operator of Gisborne's airport, port and regional lines company owner, Eastland Group, says it is "well-positioned" to weather the storm — with no need for displays of "symbolism" such as voluntary pay cuts.
Chief executive Matt Todd said most of the company's business sectors — including Eastland Port, Eastland Network and Gisborne Airport — had felt the effects of the Covid-19 crisis. But overall, the company was well-positioned to weather the unprecedented situation.
"Most of our businesses have been impacted, but it's too early to forecast the extent of the impacts with any accuracy, as things are still developing day by day.
"Six weeks ago we thought the forestry sector and port would be the most affected; now it looks like these businesses may recover quite quickly.
"What we do know is that Eastland Group has strength through our sector diversity and, because our businesses are all essential services, we have been less impacted than many other companies.
"We have an agreed set of expectations around distributions to our shareholder, Trust Tairawhiti, and at this stage our view is that these will be met."
Tairawhiti's forestry supply chain was one of the first local industries to experience a slowdown with a significant decrease in log exports to China that began in early February.
Exports of kiwifruit and squash were unaffected and continued as normal.
In the final week at Alert Level 4, Eastland Port was granted dispensation from the Ministry of Transport to clear logs that had been sitting at the port. They also worked closely with local and national stakeholders to develop safety protocols which have been adopted by ports across the country.
"With the move to Level 3, the forestry industry is getting back to work, and we have a steady stream of log ships booked over the coming weeks," Mr Todd said.
"Coupled with increasing international demand for logs, this is extremely positive to see.
"It's been a tough time for everyone, but with one in four households in the region linked to forestry, the recovery of this industry will be vital for the recovery of the region as a whole."
Lines company Eastland Network was an essential service and remained focused on keeping the lights on.
During Level 4, the duty controllers were operating and Eastland Network's faults team headed out as required.
"Now that we're at Level 3, Eastland Network will start doing some essential maintenance such as fixing defects, inspections, and some tree work. They're also getting ready to restart their pole replacement programmes and will be advertising the planned power outages — though they won't be doing anything that affects people at home for the next few weeks at least."
Electricity demand had been slightly down on usual, with a slight move from the commercial areas out to the residential areas. The load has been more consistent so the peak has been flattened.
"We expect electricity demand to pick up again as more businesses open and we move into the colder weather," Mr Todd said.
Eastland Generation, including its Te Ahi O Maui and GDL geothermal power plants in Kawerau, continued operating and generating electricity throughout Level 4. The move to Level 3 would see them undertake larger maintenance projects and other essential work.
Gisborne Airport's new terminal construction had also re-started.
"The aviation industry has been devastated by the pandemic and the subsequent restrictions on travel.
"There are still no scheduled flights to or from Gisborne Airport at the moment, and they're unlikely to resume in the short term. A few essential flights, such as the air ambulance, have continued.
"We're pleased to have restarted construction work on the second and final stage of the new terminal building. It was originally scheduled to be completed in a few months, and this date will now be pushed out."
Mr Todd said supporting staff during the period had been critical to ensure the future success of the company.
"Eastland Group has worked to keep all its staff employed and on full pay over lockdown," said Mr Todd. "We believe our businesses are strong enough to weather the challenges that Covid-19 throws at us.
"While we understand the symbolism of senior staff taking a pay cut this only really makes sense if it is the difference between the business surviving or failing. Otherwise what we need as a national and regional economy is people spending money and paying tax.
"The world learned in the Depression that austerity measures actually made the situation worse not better, and it came through the global financial crisis far quicker because of fiscal expansion.
"A lot of small and medium businesses across the country and in this region are struggling to survive. As the alert levels continue to drop down from 4 to 3 and below, what Tairawhiti needs is people spending money at the local cafes, restaurants, retail shops and other businesses.
"This situation is challenging. However, as a community, everyone is pulling together. What is vitally important now is that we all work to support each other in Tairawhiti, and show leadership and collaboration to aid the region's recovery."
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What's Really Going On With Russell Martin?
(Looks like a decent swing to me. Courtesy of The AP)
As I watched last night's tremendous display of baseball by the Yankees and laughable ineptitude of the Brewers, I took notice of Russell Martin's line when he stepped in for his first at-bat and was instantly reminded of a post topic I wanted to cover last week and didn't get around to. That topic being just what the hell is up with Martin? He started the year hitting like a machine and making Cash look like a genius for signing him. Since then, he's been bothered by some injuries and his production has dropped off significantly. Observe:
- Mar/Apr- .293/.376/.587, 85 PA, 10 XBH, .424 wOBA, 170 wRC+
- May- .200/.333/.347, 90 PA, 5 XBH, .322 wOBA, 100 wRC+
- June- .176/.271/.176, 59 PA, 0 XBH, .219 wOBA, 29 wRC+
I'm well aware that his torrid April wasn't sustainable, but I also didn't expect him to fall off a cliff as bad as he has since then. from 170 wRC+ to 29 isn't just slumping. That's falling right off the face of the earth. So what is there in the numbers that can explain this dramatic decline in production? For starters, we know he's not pressing at the plate and swinging too much, because the one thing Martin has done is consistently walk. His BB rate doubled from April to June (8.2% to 16.7%), and he's still at a very nice 10.2% rate this month. He also doesn't seem to be making much weaker contact than he did earlier in the year as his LD% has gone from 19.0% in Mar/Apr to 18.2% this month.
Martin could very well be suffering from the same BABIP luck that Teix is right now, and there is some support for that. His value was at its highest, .281, in the first month of the year, and is currently sitting at a measly .205 in June. The percentages also show that Martin is hitting more groundballs and fewer flyballs this month than he has all year, so it seems reasonable to expect that, even if they are decently struck balls, if they're on the ground there's a good chance they're going to produce more outs than hits. And you definitely aren't going to be racking up any extra bases hits with the ball on ground more, no matter how fast you are.
My thought is that Martin is still probably feeling the effects of his earlier injuries, and while they aren't enough to keep him out of the lineup nor produce any significant holes in his swing, they might be just enough to have him keep them in the back of his mind when he's at the plate and adjust his approach slightly so as not to re-aggravate the injury. That combined with the resulting increased GB rate should logically add up to a lower BABIP and lower all around offensive numbers as a result. And just as it would have been insane to expect him to put up a .963 OPS all season, it would also be stupid to think that Martin will stay in this prolonged slump for the rest of the year. Sooner or later things have to balance out and we'll probably see him back around the .250/.350/.410 line.
Teix Making The Most Of The Hits He Does Get
(And exhale. Good. Courtesy of The AP)
Here's your food for thought on a Wednesday morning. Check out where Mark Teixeira ranks amongst the 160 qualifying players in MLB in some offensive categories:
HR- 24 (Tied for 1st)
RBI- 62 (Tied for 4th)
ISO- .296 (5th)
SLG- .542 (12th)
wOBA- .388 (19th)
wRC+- 145 (18th)
BABIP- .214 (158th)
And right there is your smoking gun, ladies and gentlemen. Mark Teixeira is being cursed by some horrific BABIP bad luck. Not only is he 3rd to last out of all MLB qualifiers, he's a full 16 BABIP points behind the guy ahead of him, Alex Rios. With a value like that, he should be putting up Jorge-type numbers (no offense, Jorge), not ranking in the top 2-12.5% in the most important offensive categories. People are going to look at the .246 BA and the sub-.900 OPS and assume Teix is having some kind of Rob Deer-like garbage year where he's either a homer or an automatic out, but that simply isn't the case.
The Yankees as a team hit .282 on balls in play. Imagine what Teix's numbers would look like if he was just hitting that! We wouldn't be talking about him possibly getting squeezed out of the All Star Game for Adrian Gonzalez, Paul Konerko, and Miguel Cabrera. We'd be talking about Teix being the runaway favorite for AL MVP and possibly knocking in 150 runs this year.
Now I'll be fair and admit that maybe Teix is guilty of becoming a little pull happy with the short porch at The Stadium, and so he could be contributing to his own bad luck. After all, both his BABIP and BA numbers dropped off last year from where he was in '09 while his power stayed the same. But Teix is too good a hitter to be wallowing away in the Chone Figgins and Kurt Suzuki levels of BABIP mediocrity. Sooner or later, some of these balls have to start finding gaps and green space instead of gloves. And when they do, watch out.


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