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1 Lb Kenya Nyeri Tekangu Wakamata Double Washed Crown Jewel
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Intro by Charlie Habegger with Chris Kornman
There is no coffee quite so iconic as one from Nyeri. Well regarded for their singular flavor profile (grapefruit and currant are the classic descriptors), their screaming acidity, cleanliness, and meticulous sorting, coffees from this county in central Kenya are among the worlds' most coveted and memorable.
This offering, from the Wakamata washing station, has earned its place among the favored Nyeri coffees of memory. Zesty citric acidity, a slight savory note accompanying the sweetness, and a bit of dried berry here (replacing the "currant", perhaps) align it with its peers, yet its delicate clover-honey sweetness, chardonnay-like silkiness, and delicate melon, bright cranberry, and ephemeral orange blossom flavors are what set it in a league of its own.
The central counties of Kenya extend from the center of a national park, like six irregular pie slices, with their points meeting at the peak of Mt. Kenya. It is along the lower edge of these forests where, in wet, high elevation communities with mineral-rich soil (Mt. Kenya is a stratovolcano) many believe the best coffees in Kenya, often the world, are crafted.
Nyeri county is perhaps the most well-known of these central counties. Kenya's coffee is dominated by a cooperative system of production, whose members vote on representation, marketing and milling contracts for their coffee, as well as profit allocation. It's not perfect, and in Kenya in particular the number of individual margins sliced off an export price before payment reaches the actual farms is many, leaving only a small percentage to support coffee growth itself, and most often this arrives many months after harvest. However, Kenya coffees are sold competitively by quality, which means well-endowed counties like Nyeri achieve very high average prices year after year, and the smallholders here with a few hundred trees at the most are widely considered to be middle class.
The Wakamata processing station, or "factory", as they're known in Kenya, is one of four sites managed by the Tekangu Farmers' Cooperative Society (FCS), an umbrella organization that centralizes management and marketing relationships for their member factories.
Kenya is of course known for some of the most meticulous at-scale processing that can be found anywhere in the world. Bright white parchment, nearly perfectly sorted by density and bulk conditioned at high elevations is the norm, and a matter of pride, even for generations of Kenyan processing managers who prefer drinking Kenya's tea (abundantly farmed in nearby Muranga and Kiambu counties) to its coffee. Ample ground and river water supply in Nyeri has historically allowed factories to wash, and wash, and soak, and wash their coffees again entirely with fresh, cold river water. Conservation is creeping into the discussion in certain places–understandably in the drier areas where water, due to climate change, cannot be as taken for granted—but for the most part Kenya continues to thoroughly wash and soak its coffees according to tradition.
At Wakamata, cherry is hand-sorted for ripeness and floated for density before accepted and depulped each day. After the coffee is washed, it's soaked in fresh water to stop sugar fermentation and clean the parchment. The coffee is dried over a period of two weeks on raised beds, which are carefully constructed to ensure proper air circulation and temperature control for optimal drying. Their coffee this year is grapefruit-like, juicy in structure and with a refined sweet spice quality to the flavor balance.
Tekangu FCS includes the Ngunguru, Karagoto and Tegu factories along with Wakamata. The Society's name is a port-manteau of the original three factories: Te-ka-ngu. Tekangu was founded in 1998 and retains its main office at the Kayu factory, 17 kilometers from Kangema town, in the Mathioya district of Muranga County.
Green Analysis by Chris Kornman
Kenyan coffees are almost universally sorted according to the British grading system, assigning letter grades based primarily on the size of the bean. E grade is the largest, but generally disregarded as low density and inferior quality. This coffee is a AA, the most coveted grade, screened at a very tight 18-19 size. Kenyan coffees, too, are frequently noted for their high density, as we have here, and usually are also relatively low in moisture. That is the metric where this coffee breaks the curve, as it is close to 12% and has a slightly elevated water activity. The coffee came to us vac-sealed, and it's likely that at least in part this higher moisture level is due to its packaging type. You'll likely find that the coffee craves heat in the roast and the high moisture may cause early delays in absorption but will likely also pick up pace as the roast progresses.
By and large, Kenyan coffees are also characterized by a limited number of highly controlled cultivars. The oldest of these are SL28 and SL34, selections made in the early days of cultivation from legacy Bourbon and Typica populations which were suited to growing conditions in Kenya. More recently Ruiru 11 and Batian have entered the fold, and are proprietary hybrids integrating the genetics of more than a dozen separate varieties in order to improve quality, yield, and disease resistance. All four are present here in this coffee from Wakamata.
Ikawa Analysis by Chris Kornman
We've updated our V2 Ikawa Pro machines with the latest Firmware version (24) and run on "closed loop" setting. Our roasters underwent full service in October of 2018 which included replacement heating elements and an updated PT 1000 temperature sensor, and were recalibrated in September 2019.
I was really looking forward to getting a chance to roast and taste this particular coffee from Nyeri, and I have to say it really lived up to some pretty high expectations at basically each of the three sample roast profiles on the Ikawa. The coffee tended to reach first crack at or slightly before the expected time/temperature marks.
The shortest roast (blue) was my favorite, earning high marks in aromatics and aftertaste especially. The flavor spectrum really ran the gamut from softer melon and raspberry notes to zesty cranberry, grapefruit, and lemonade. It was bright but not aggressive, and had a lot of savory-sweet characteristics like salted caramel and raw honey. The relatively short color development (1:45) didn't seem to have a detrimental effect on the perceived viscosity, as the body reminded me a little of an oaked Chardonnay – silky, almost buttery.
The Maillard +30 roast (red) performed exactly as intended, extending color development by half a minute and otherwise leaving the curve almost untouched. It presented as a little simpler and more savory than the faster roast, with jackfruit, rhubarb, sarsaparilla, and tamarind as the dominant flavors.
The longest roast (yellow) — intended to produce darker roasts for coffees of lower density — in fact performed quite admirably here, producing a lush cup with muted acids but lovely persimmon, rose, orange blossom, and cherry popsicle notes layered on a milkshake-like viscosity. I think this really speaks to the resilience of this type of coffee, and how you could manipulate your heat approach pretty dramatically and get different but excellent results just about no matter how you adjust. Happy roasting!
You can download the profile to your Ikawa Pro app here:
Roast 1: Crown Standard SR 1.0
Roast 2: Crown Maillard +30 SR 1.0
Roast 3: Crown 7m SR Low AF
Quest M3s Analysis by Candice Madison
I have to admit I love getting my hands on Kenyan coffee and Nyeri, to me, shouts its Kenyan roots from the hilltops of its iconic flavor profile. The hilltop in this case being provided by Mt Kenya, and the coffee being meticulously sorted, processed and sorted again by the Wakmata factory (processing station) on behalf of the Tekangu Farmers Cooperative Society.
The density, coupled with the moisture content, as well as the fact that 91% of the beans selected for green analysis of this AA sample were either 18 or 19 screen size, all indicated to me that the little Quest and I had a heavy, wet boulder to push up the hill of the roast curve. I knew there would be resistance to the roast process after the turning point, so planning accordingly, I decided to start my roast a little differently from my usual tack.
I chose my usual batch size of 150g for the Quest and a charge temperature of 360F. However, instead of dropping the beans in with 2 or 3 amps of power, I chose to start at 5amps, giving a little more heat to the beans before the turn than I usually do. I then turned the heat up to 11 amps, the maximum on this Quest dial at the turning point, before stepping down off the amperage to 9 amps at 250F, and 7 amps at 306F, just after the beans started to change color.
Floating through the Maillard stage, the beans started to rumble at about 386 degrees, and knowing that first crack was coming, I came off the heat completely. I do a 'u-turn' at first crack for beans I know will release a lot of moisture into the drum at first crack and can, if heat isn't judiciously applied, and has the potential to stall your roast.
This u-turn makes a u shape in the gas graph, hence the name. Just before first crack I will come off the heat completely, next I'll wait to hear the rolling pop of first crack, and then I will turn the heat up again to support the roast through the humidity of first crack. In this case, I waited to hear first crack roll, at around 392F, before turning the heat back up to 4 amps on the dial, I also turned the airflow up to 9 on the dial. I managed a respectable 1 minute 21 seconds of development and could barely wait until the next morning to cup.
And what way to start my morning, blackcurrant, dark purple plum juice, sweetened by butterscotch and notes of raisin lifted by the piquant acidity of lime zest and pink grapefruit, all delivered by a buttery, viscous body. A delicious, welcome reminder of a classic flavor profile that stays in fashion year after year.
Behmor Analysis by Evan Gilman
Unless otherwise noted, I follow a set standard of operations for all my Behmor roasts. Generally, I'll use the 1lb setting, manual mode (P5), full power, and high drum speed until crack. Read my original post and stats here.
The relatively high moisture content and large screen size of this coffee had me wanting to apply extra heat in the beginning of the roast, but the Behmor doesn't allow us to do that. So the next best idea was to make sure this coffee got nice and even development once it did pass the Maillard stage, so that it didn't rush through development too quickly.
I've found that roasting coffees with higher moisture content (11% and above) can really give some false indicators of when first crack starts, especially on the Behmor. This was the case here, when the coffee started making small puffing sounds around 9:30. These, to my ear, were clearly not cracks, but were an indicator that first crack would begin within the next minute or so. To that effect, I engaged P4 (75% power) at 10:10 to allow slow and even development through first crack.
Crack in proper began at 10:40; much to my delight, it was very loud and distinct with this dense, large bean coffee. I opened the door of the roaster to abate smoke just after the start of crack, and left it open for about 30 seconds while the coffee held its temperature. After 1:20 of development, I hit 'COOL' and the roast was concluded.
My initial tasting of this coffee did not truly impress me – perhaps full immersion isn't the most expressive method for brewing this coffee. I did get clean citric lime acidity, and sweet chocolate notes on tasting, but I didn't experience the complexity in flavors that I expected from smelling the green and the freshly roasted coffee.
Check out my brew notes below – I was able to find a sweet spot for this coffee when brewing! Not all coffees cup as well as they brew..
Brew Analysis by Evan Gilman
This is an example of a fantastically sensitive coffee. Upon my first brew, I believed that my roast was inadequate. I thought to myself "wow, you've really flattened this coffee out" not knowing whether it was because I 'baked' it or simply let it develop too long after first crack. But I was wrong!
My first brew followed my usual Chemex routine, trying to find a baseline for this coffee – and that's pretty much all I found. At a grind of 22 on the Baratza Virtuoso and pulse pours of 150g apiece, all that I noted in the cup was simple lime acidity and some cocoa. This coffee tasted flat! My extraction percentage was just below acceptable at 17.47%, so I decided to try something that's worked in the past: agitation during preinfusion and draw down.
I coarsened up the grind to 24 on the Virtuoso, and performed thorough agitation at preinfusion and during draw down after my final pour. The result was completely enlightening! The lime still came through, albeit in a much finer expression. Peach flavors blindsided me, and cranberry tartness lit up my cup. Crisp green grape and juicy cherry somehow both fit into the finish; and all this just with a little agitation and a coarser grind.
Honestly, I would drink this coffee all day. I would specifically recommend it as a single origin option for filter drip, because the control that method offers the brewer is what is going to really allow this coffee to shine. Definitely try agitation and pulling as much as you can from this coffee. While it isn't as easily soluble as some Kenyan coffees i've encountered, the effort is definitely worth your time.
Brew and chug with confidence!
400 coffee farmers organized around the Wakamata Factory
SL28, SL34, Ruiru 11, and Batian
Nyeri County, Kenya
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Volcanic loam
Fully washed after depulping and fermenting, then soaked in clean water before drying on raised beds
Mt. Kenya, at the helm of Kenya's Central Province, is the second tallest peak on the continent of Africa and a commanding natural presence. The mountain itself is a single point inside a vast and surreal thicket of ascending national forest and active game protection communities. The central counties of Kenya extend from the center of the national park, like six irregular pie slices, with their points meeting at the peak of the mountain. It is along the lower edge of these forests where, in wet, high elevation communities with mineral-rich soil (Mt. Kenya is a stratovolcano) many believe the best coffees in Kenya, often the world, are crafted. Nyeri county is perhaps the most well-known of these central counties. Kenya's coffee is dominated by a cooperative system of production, whose members vote on representation, marketing and milling contracts for their coffee, as well as profit allocation. It's not perfect, and in Kenya in particular the number of individual margins sliced off an export price before payment reaches the actual farms is many, leaving only a small percentage to support coffee growth itself, and most often this arrives many months after harvest. However, Kenya coffees are sold competitively by quality, which means well-endowed counties like Nyeri achieve very high average prices year after year, and the smallholders here with a few hundred trees at the most are widely considered to be middle class. The Wakamata processing station, or "factory", as they're known in Kenya, is one of four sites managed by the Tekangu Farmers' Cooperative Society (FCS), an umbrella organization that centralizes management and marketing relationships for their member factories. Kenya is of course known for some of the most meticulous at-scale processing that can be found anywhere in the world. Bright white parchment, nearly perfectly sorted by density and bulk conditioned at high elevations is the norm, and a matter of pride, even for generations of Kenyan processing managers who prefer drinking Kenya's tea (abundantly farmed in nearby Muranga and Kiambu counties) to its coffee. Ample ground and river water supply in Nyeri has historically allowed factories to wash, and wash, and soak, and wash their coffees again entirely with fresh, cold river water. Conservation is creeping into the discussion in certain places--understandably in the drier areas where water, due to climate change, cannot be as taken for granted—but for the most part Kenya continues to thoroughly wash and soak its coffees according to tradition. At Wakamata, cherry is hand-sorted for ripeness and floated for density before accepted and depulped each day. After the coffee is washed, it's soaked in fresh water to stop sugar fermentation and clean the parchment. The coffee is dried over a period of two weeks on raised beds, which are carefully constructed to ensure proper air circulation and temperature control for optimal drying. Their coffee this year is grapefruit-like, juicy in structure and with a refined sweet spice quality to the flavor balance. Tekangu FCS includes the Ngunguru, Karagoto and Tegu factories along with Wakamata. The Society's name is a port-manteau of the original three factories: Te-ka-ngu. Tekangu was founded in 1998 and retains its main office at the Kayu factory, 17 kilometers from Kangema town, in the Mathioya district of Muranga County. MJ
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One of the largest benefits of WordPress is that the content management system (CMS) remains an open-source project that relies on community contributions to ensure not just modernized code but the best contemporary user experience. However, how it's built may soon be changing.
On September 14, 2017, however, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg announced a move away from React, largely prompted by a post by Facebook (the creators of React) announcing that React would be a licensed (and no longer an open-source) project going forward. React was a fundamental part of the latest rewrite of WordPress.com (a ground-up rewrite called Calypso), upcoming WordPress core updates, and the basis of the much-anticipated Project Gutenberg, which was entirely being written in React. Pivoting away from React now not only would fundamentally change the way WordPress core updates will be written in the future but also dramatically impact current projects, meaning that Project Gutenberg will now have to be completely rewritten using a different javascript library.
As the community began to speculate as to which library will be used going forward (Would it be Vue? Angular 2? Preact?), no less than two weeks later, Facebook took an about-face as they announced that React (along with Jest, Flow, and Immutable) would be re-licensed and available for use, after all. But is this a case of too little, too late, as WordPress developers around the world have already started to pivot away from React and embraces alternatives such as Preact, Polymer, or Vue?
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Teradata expands Hadoop support
Demand for the big data technology continues to be strong
Jaikumar Vijayan (Computerworld (US)) 28 June, 2013 10:18
Teradata's enterprise customers have a fresh set of options for integrating Hadoop into their environments.
The company this week rolled out a new "Teradata Portfolio for Hadoop," featuring a set of products, consulting services, training and support options for customers seeking to harness Hadoop for big data applications.
The portfolio incudes a pair of premium, fully integrated hardware and software appliances designed for businesses that want ready-to-run Hadoop platforms.
One of the appliances is the Teradata Appliance for Hadoop, which consists of a Teradata enterprise server bundled with a Hadoop distribution for Hortonworks. The system comes with Teradata's Aster SQL-MapReduce and Teradata Aster SQL-H technology for querying and analyzing massive sets of structured and unstructured data in Hadoop. The Hadoop appliance will start shipping in the fourth quarter of this year.
The other special-purpose appliance announced by Teradata this week is the Teradata Aster Big Analytics Appliance, an integrated hardware and software platform featuring Aster's analytic database, SQL-MapReduce and Hortonwork's Hadoop.
Both platforms are designed to help enterprises take advantage of Hadoop without having to worry about integration issues, the vendor says. The systems come fully integrated with high-speed connectors and data loaders for quickly moving data sets between Hadoop, Teradata and Aster environments.
In addition to the two bundled appliances, Teradata this week also announced a Teradata Commodity Offering for Hadoop and a Teradata Software Only option for Hadoop. Both are basically Hadoop software distributions for non-Teradata systems. They allow companies to run Hadoop on hardware platforms from other vendors, which Teradata will then support.
The announcements are part of a growing push by Teradata to position itself as a one-stop shop for enterprise Hadoop needs. The company this week expanded an existing partnership with Hortonworks, one of the largest distributors of the open source Apache Hadoop.
As part of the partnership, Teradata will resell and support Hortoworks' Hadoop Data Platform (HDP) 2.0 on multiple hardware platforms besides its own. For instance, under the company's Commodity Offering for Hadoop option, Teradata will support businesses running HDP 2.0 on commodity Dell servers.
Teradata's expanding Hadoop initiatives stem from the strong enterprise interest in the technology, a company spokesman said on Thursday. The goal is to help enterprises harness Hadoop and integrate it with their existing data management environments is as painless as fashion as possible, he said.
"We have talked with a lot of customers and there continues to be a lot of confusion," over what Hadoop can do and how it can be exploited, the spokesman said. "We are trying to get customers to come to terms with big data."
Teradata's moves are also a sign of the attention that traditional enterprise vendors are paying to Hadoop in recent years. Hadoop started off as Web-indexing technology used by the likes of Yahoo and Google, and is slowly emerging as the file system of choice for enterprise big data applications.
Enterprises have liked Hadoop for its ability to handle really massive volumes of structured and unstructured data in a more efficient manner than traditional relational database management systems.
Though the technology continues to be challenging to integrate and hard to use, interest in Hadoop remains strong, not just among enterprises but also among investors who see it as the next big thing in the data management space.
Just this week for instance, Hortonworks received $50 million in venture capital funding from several existing and new investors. The company is believed to have raised more than $70 million from investors so far.
Hortonwork rivals like Cloudera and MapR too have been attracting large sums from venture capitalists in recent months. The Wall Street Journal estimates that Cloudera has so far raised more than $140 million in venture funding, while MapR has received about $75 million.
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Prominent Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas, who has been instrumental in uncovering police torture and brutality, was held for about an hour today – raising the concern of netizens around the world. Among those held yesterday were blogger Sandmonkey, who was on his way to deliver medical aid to Tahrir Square.
His tweet "arrested by the army" was quickly picked by people left, right, and centre, throwing friends on the ground in a frenzy.
Abbas has since been released, but is flustered that he is being stopped "at every single checkpoint," because he and his friends are suspected of being foreigners. The Egyptian regime has upped its warfare against journalists, with a concentrated crackdown yesterday on political and human rights activists, and the international press, to leave protesters without a leadership on the one hand and muzzle the Press, on the other. Like all its plots so far, this plan has fired back too, and the mood was jubilant today as millions rallied all day calling for Mubarak to leave.
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With the signing of 20 year-old Togba Tarpeh, Georgie coach Corey Smith has just about completed his squad for the coming season. The left-winger comes to our club from NPL side Avondale, where the youngster played 6 matches in the star-studded side that included current Melbourne Victory players Elvis Kamsoba and Newcastle's Kaine Sheppard. In his time at Avondale Togba scored one goal against Port Melbourne.
Togba Tarpeh is a quiet type of a lad who likes to let his feet do the talking He has born in the West African country of Guinea and along with his family he left his country to settle in Australia in 2009. Like the majority of African lads he quickly involved himself in football in his new country.
It was while he was playing for South Melbourne the opportunity arose for him to join a football academy and he quickly headed for Ghana. In 2017 Togba was selected to represent the Ghana Football Academy on a tour of Sweden and Norway to play in the Gothia Cup, which is the largest organized Youth Football Tournament in the World.
He remained in Norway for 8 months and played for the youth side of Stomsgodset FC in the elite division of Nowegian football. On his return to Australia the youngster joined Avondale and this season his career starts afresh at Caroline Springs George Cross F.C. Togba (or Pogba as he is known by his mates) is looking forward to this new chapter with great enthusiasm and firmly believes his game will benefit in the future with the move to George Cross.
Togba told us "My aim for the coming season is to be part of a team that has great team spirit and is united as one and to always give 100% and nothing less. I, along with my team-mates want to help build the team together and above all else make sure the coach is happy. It took one coach to give me the opportunity, now the hard work starts and it's up to me. I am pleased to be at such a club with high prestige and I'm excited to be part of the George Cross family".
Head Coach Corey Smith said "Togba has earned his spot through hard work, good attitude and commitment to be the best he can be. I'm proud to be able to offer him an opportunity but now it's up to him to prove his qualities. He has all the tools to make it at the top and both myself and our coaching group are excited to help him on his career journey".
We welcome Togba to C.S.G.C.F.C. and wish him a great and successful season and hope his time with us helps him reach his football ambitions.


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El Puig de la Guàrdia és una obra d'Orís (Osona) declarada bé cultural d'interès nacional.

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Fortalesa enfront del castell situat a l'actual turó conegut amb el nom de Puig Colomer. Segons la planimetria realitzada a començaments de segle per l'arquitecte J.M. Pericas, es podrien veure un seguit de murs que conformarien una estructura quadrangular, acompanyada d'un seguit de retalls a la roca o forats de pal. Aquesta guàrdia funcionaria com a guaita del castell d'Orís. Actualment només restarien els fonaments parcialment coberts per sediment i vegetació.

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Writer Abroad: Threaten to sue a newspaper and you threaten democracy. Here's why.
Threaten to sue a newspaper and you threaten democracy. Here's why.
Donald Trump's lawyers just threatened the New York Times.
As someone who has written for that paper and others as a freelancer, Writer Abroad has a problem with that.
As she's previously written, it's harder and harder to find real journalism these days. And there's a reason for that.
It's because thanks to cuts, most newspapers have a very limited staff. They don't have time to do investigative pieces—or the money to do them. Instead, they rely on freelancers to do, often times, a majority of their writing work. And guess what? Freelancers are more often than not, given horrible contracts.
Writer Abroad knows. She's gotten lots of them. Fought them all. And won a few clauses here and there.
Now think about Donald Trump.
If you were a journalist with a crappy newspaper contract, would you investigate him? Really, really investigate him?
Can it really be upheld under these circumstances?
Our papers used to be the way we could read about issues without spin. The way we could investigate those who want to run for the highest—and even the lowest offices. We should know who is going to represent us and that's why journalism is a big part of democracy. But if journalists are too legally and financially threatened to do their jobs, then we don't have journalism. And then we don't have democracy.
It didn't seem like it could get worse. Trashing religions, trashing immigrants, trashing women, the list goes on and on in this year's election. But when you threaten a newspaper, you are threatening a democracy that's already fragile. That's already mostly silenced thanks to a small elitist (and biased) group of media owners.
That's why the threatening of a newspaper is the scariest thing that's happened so far this election.
So if you do anything, writers, vote. While you still can.
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Boston Police report officers investigating gunfire on Brook Avenue around 3 a.m. were looking for a man witnesses spotted dashing into a house after the retorts when they shined their flashlights on 42 Brook Ave. - and spotted a man at a second-floor window duck down: Read more.
Murder scene. Photo by KMV.
Boston Police report a man was shot around 9:35 p.m. at 102 Brook Ave. KMV reports the man, believed to be in his 30s, was shot repeatedly as he sat in a car.
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President Obama presents new actions to fight drug overdose epidemic
By Daniel Contreras / Wednesday, 30 Mar 2016 12:25PM
Barack Obama announced Tuesday new actions to fight the prescription opioid abuse and heroin epidemic in the United States. The president's proposal intends to dedicate $1.1 billion in new funding to offer addiction treatment to Americans. Since 2000, the rate of deaths from opioids has increased 200%, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Facing the opioids overdose epidemic is a "priority" for the Obama's administration, said the White House in a press release published Tuesday. New measures plan to expand access to treatment, prevent overdose deaths and enhance prevention strategies all across the country.
Barack Obama announced Tuesday new actions to fight the prescription opioid abuse and heroin epidemic in the United States. Photo credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Several private and public institutions will collaborate with the proposal. The Department of Health and Human Services, alongside the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, are releasing $105 million to help improving drug overdose assistance in the country and treatment centers in several states, which will help almost 124,000 patients with substance use disorders.
"When you look at the staggering statistics in terms of lives lost, productivity impacted, cost to communities, costs to families, it has to be something that has to be right up there at the top of our radar screen," Obama told a town hall meeting at the National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit, according to Medscape.
He added that rates of deaths due to drug overdose have surpassed rates of deaths caused by transit accidents. According to a report published by the CDC, there were 47,000 drug overdose deaths in the country, in 2014.
Opioid overdose deaths: an increasing phenomenon in the United States with almost 50,000 deaths per year
Since 2000, the rate of deaths from drug overdoses has increased 137%, said the CDC. However, the numbers increase to 200% when only considering opioid overdoses deaths (opioid pain relievers and heroin).
"Opioid prescribing continues to fuel the epidemic", in 15 years, 1650,000 people have died in the country as a consequence overdoses related to prescription opioids such as methadone, oxycodone and hydrocodone.
It appears that treatment programs have lengthy waiting lists because there are not enough physicians in the country who are qualified to treat drug abuse. As a result, 4 out of 5 addicts (80 percent) cannot receive treatment, even if they want it, explained Medscape on Wednesday.
Even when several private and public institutions are releasing millions to prevent opioid overdose deaths, the Congress would still need to approve President Obama's proposal, to adjudge $1.1 billion to "to help every American with an opioid-use disorder who wants treatment get the help they need,".
Source: White House Press Release
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58,027 births were registered – 563 (1.0 per cent) fewer than in 2011.
54,937 deaths were registered – 1,276 (2.4 per cent) more than in 2011.
Deaths from cancer rose by 2.6 per cent to 15,864, deaths from ischaemic (coronary) heart disease fell by 1.2 per cent to 7,541, and there were 4,475 deaths from cerebrovascular disease (stroke), a drop of 2.6 per cent.
Alcohol-related deaths fell by 13 per cent to 1,080; there were 581 drug-related deaths, three fewer than in 2011; the estimated number of probable suicides fell; and deaths for which clostridium difficile was the underlying cause dropped from 70 to 60.
These are among the many figures for 2012 produced from registration records and published today by National Records of Scotland (NRS).
"In recent years, there have been more births than deaths in Scotland. This was still the case in 2012, but the gap has narrowed again, with a slight decline in the number of births and a slight increase in the number of deaths.
"Despite its decline over the last four years, the birth rate in 2012 remained high relative to the first half of the 2000s. In historical terms, however, these figures are low compared to previous 'baby boom' years - for example, averages of over 100,000 per year in the early 1960s and 110,000 in the early 1920s.
"Although deaths rose in 2012, they are not high in historical terms. From the mid-1940s to the mid-1990s, there tended to be between 60,000 and 65,000 deaths per year, and larger numbers before then. There is usually some year-to-year fluctuation. Scotland recorded its lowest-ever annual total (53,661) in 2011, so an increase in the number registered in 2012 was not unexpected.
"In historic terms, the number of marriages in 2012 was relatively low, compared with averages of over 40,000 marriages per year in the early 1960s."
There were 58,027 births registered in Scotland in 2012, 563 (1.0 per cent) fewer than in 2011. This is the fourth year that the number of births has fallen (following increases in each of the previous six years).
The average age of mothers has increased from 27.7 in 1992 to 29.7 in 2012. Similarly, the average age of fathers has increased from 30.3 in 1992 to 32.5 in 2012.
In 2012, 51.3 per cent of babies were born to unmarried couples, the highest percentage ever recorded. This figure has risen in most years since the start of the 1970s, and exceeded 10 per cent in 1979, 20 per cent in 1986, 30 per cent in 1992, 40 per cent in 1999 and 50 per cent in 2008.
Some 85 per cent of mothers who gave birth in Scotland in 2012 were born in the UK, including 76 per cent born in Scotland. Seven per cent of mothers had been born elsewhere in the European Union (EU), including four per cent from the countries which joined the EU in 2004 (such as Poland).
There were 30,534 marriages in Scotland in 2012, 1,399 (4.8 per cent) more than in 2011. This was the third consecutive annual increase in the number of marriages, which reached its highest level since 2005.
The average age at which people marry for the first time has increased by around two years in the last 10 years, to 32.9 years for men and 31.0 years for women.
Just over half of all marriages (51 per cent) were civil ceremonies, carried out by a registrar – compared with just under one-third (31 per cent) in 1971.
The largest number of religious marriages were carried out by Church of Scotland ministers (5,508, or 18 per cent of all marriages), with clergy from the Roman Catholic Church carrying out 1,827 marriages (6 per cent of the total). Celebrants from the Humanist Society of Scotland, authorised to carry out marriages since 2005, officiated at 3,052 marriages (10 per cent of the total).
In 2012 there were 574 civil partnerships – 257 male couples and 317 female couples - 20 more than during 2011.
54,937 deaths were registered in 2012 – 1,276 (2.4 per cent) more than in the previous year. However, despite that rise, it was the fourth lowest number of deaths recorded in over 150 years. The number of deaths registered in 2011 (53,661) was the lowest annual total ever recorded. The total registered in 2012 was lower than the figures for 2008 (which was 55,700) and for many earlier years, going back to before the start of civil registration in 1855.
cerebrovascular disease (stroke), which caused 4,475 deaths, 2.6 per cent fewer than in 2011 and 33 per cent fewer than in 2002.
Over the longer-term, the percentage of deaths caused by ischaemic (coronary) heart disease dropped from 29 per cent in 1980-1982 to 14 per cent in 2012, and the percentage due to cerebrovascular disease (stroke) fell from 14 per cent to eight percent. The percentage of deaths caused by cancer rose from 22 per cent to 29 per cent.
The number of alcohol-related deaths fell by 167 (13 per cent) to 1,080 in 2012, the lowest annual total since 1997. The figure of 1,546 in 2006 was the largest so far recorded: since then, the trend appears to have been downward, with some year-to-year fluctuations.
There were 581 drug-related deaths in 2012, three (0.5 per cent) fewer than in 2011. This was the second highest number ever recorded, and 199 (52 per cent) more than in 2002. So far, the long-term trend has been upward, although it could be argued that the annual number of deaths might be levelling off.
At the start of 2011, the statistical definition of probable suicides changed. In 2012, the estimated number fell, by 1 per cent to 762 (on the old basis) or by 7 per cent to 830 (on the new basis). Earlier years' data show that the estimated number of probable suicides may fluctuate from year to year, with the impression of a slight downward trend from almost 900 (on the old basis) at the start of the new century.
In 2012, there were 60 deaths for which clostridium difficile was the underlying cause, 10 fewer than in 2011. Including deaths for which clostridium difficile was a contributory factor, there was a total of 158 deaths for which clostridium difficile was mentioned on the death certificate, 11 fewer than in 2011. The Vital Events Reference Tables can be viewed in full on the NRS website.
Statistics and commentary on deaths from particular causes (accidental deaths, alcohol-related deaths, Clostridium Difficile deaths, drug-related deaths, hypothermia deaths, MRSA deaths and probable suicides) and on age-standardised death rates are available via links which can be found on the Vital Events - Deaths page on the NRS website.


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Zodiac (2007)
Directed by David Fincher
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, John Carroll Lynch, Chloe Sevigny, Elias Koteas, Dermot Mulroney, Donal Logue, Brian Cox, Adam Goldberg, James LeGros, Philip Baker Hall, Ione Skye, Clea DuVall, Ciara Hughes, Lee Norris, Charles Fleischer, Paul Schulze, Richmond Arquette, Bob Stephenson, John Lacy, Ed Setrakian, John Getz, John Terry, Candy Clark, June Raphael, Patrick Scott Lewis, Pell James, Charles Schneider, James Carraway, Tom Verica, Jimmi Simpson, Zach Grenier, John Mahoney, Matt Winston, Jules Bruff
Rated: (for violence, language, drug material and brief sexual images).
"Zodiac" is a departure for director David Fincher, he of such unremittingly dark and visually eye-popping thrillers as 1995's "Seven," 1999's "Fight Club," and 2002's "Panic Room." Less a sensationalized serial murder picture than a talk-heavy, scrupulously researched investigation procedural, the film delves into the frustrating decades-long hunt for the Zodiac, an enigmatic killer who terrorized the San Francisco area in the late 1960s and early '70s. Clocking in at a whopping, epic-sized 160 minutes, "Zodiac" shows some signs of choppy post-production editing; the first cut was allegedly an hour longer, and it shows, as characters abruptly drop in and out of the story and certain relationships remain undefined. Still, this is an absorbing, hugely ambitious, richly textured entertainment, and one of the better releases of a still-early year.
Based in part on the book by former San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Robert Graysmith, "Zodiac" primarily follows three real-life people whose lives were progressively haunted by the seemingly unsolvable mystery surrounding the identity of the self-proclaimed Zodiac Killer: hard-living newspaper reporter Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.), assigned to the story after the Zodiac began sending cryptic letters, warnings and codes to the San Francisco Chronicle; SFPD Inspector David Toschi (Mark Ruffalo), prime investigator on the case; and Robert Graysmith himself (Jake Gyllenhaal), a lowly cartoonist who becomes interested and later obsessed with finding out the truth long after the murders and letters subside. With only circumstantial evidence to go on, however, these three people's hope for resolution begins to dim as the years pass them by.
In what could almost be a companion piece to 1999's "Summer of Sam," Spike Lee's masterful exploration into the sweltering season of the Son of Sam killings in 1970s New York City, "Zodiac" is likewise a fascinating look at a particular time and place as it relates to the fear and paranoia of a madman on the loose. While the former film centered on fictional characters who just happened to be living in the area during the Son of Sam reign, director David Fincher zeroes in on those most closely related to the investigation into the Zodiac. Everyday citizens of the Bay area, as well as the families of the victims, are either shortchanged in the grand scheme of things or were the victims themselves of heavy cutting, but that's okay. "Zodiac" isn't so much about them, or the murders themselves, as it is about professional men swept up, encumbered and ultimately almost destroyed by their inability to piece the puzzle together in order to figure out whodunit.
Fincher's unusually low-key approach to the material works here, because the story he has set out to tell favors the human condition over slam-bang action sequences. The setpieces of the crimes are detailed as well (they all occur during the movie's first act), and the results are nothing short of chilling in their stark, straightforward brutality. The opening scene, in which a young couple are shot at a lover's lane on the Fourth of July, unforgettably jump-starts the story and is made all the more indelible by the brilliant use of the song "Hurdy Gurdy Man" by Donovan. The depiction of the masked Zodiac's stabbings of another couple picnicking alongside Napa County's Lake Berryessa is equally effective, with the lone sound of a nearby woodpecker minimalistically ratcheting up the tension. Finally, a scene in which a mother (Ione Skye) narrowly escapes with her baby from the clutches of a man who might or might not be the Zodiac is shiver-inducing.
Other than these fleeting steps into horror territory, "Zodiac" is very much an expositional drama that journeys in-depth into an investigation that drags on for over a decade before threatening to go cold for good. First and foremost an actors' film, the ensemble cast is uniformly superlative. Jake Gyllenhaal's (2005's "Brokeback Mountain") rock-solid portrayal of Robert Graysmith is the one the viewer latches onto the most, as his career and home life with wife Melanie (Chloë Sevigny) and three children suffer at the expense of a fixation over the Zodiac case. Graysmith eventually went on to pen two successful books on the subject, but his personal story is a sad one that shows what he had to, at least temporarily, sacrifice.
Mark Ruffalo (2006's "All the King's Men") is quietly compelling in the role of police detective David Toschi, the toll the case takes on him staying a largely interior one. And as self-destructive reporter Paul Avery, Robert Downey Jr. (2006's "A Scanner Darkly") mesmerizingly layers his role with a buoyant personality masking the emotional wounds and feelings of regret underneath. Further mention should go to John Carroll Lynch (2004's "Catch That Kid"), excellent as number-one suspect Arthur Leigh Allen, and Chloë Sevigny (2003's "Shattered Glass"), doing a lot with little as Robert's neglected wife Melanie.
Deliberately paced but tantalizingly immersive for every second, "Zodiac" earns the right to slowly simmer as all avenues of the story and investigation pull the viewer in. Kudos, too, to director David Fincher's and screenwriter James Vanderbilt's (2003's "Basic") devotion to historical accuracy; they don't simply throw in exploitation or excess to pep things up, trusting that the facts can often be more intriguing than fiction. In turn, suspense arrives not from violence or cheap jump-scares, but from the nagging notion that these horrible crimes may never be solved, leaving the perpetrator a free man who has managed to elude authorities with the same ease as getting out of bed in the morning. Truth be told, "Zodiac" is so riveting and rife with further material left untapped that keeping its initial three-hour-plus length probably wouldn't have been such a horrible idea at all.


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Arab American Toledo police officer Anthony Dia
Arab American police officer shot and killed, suspect found dead in Ohio
Posted: Saturday 07.04.2020 7:00 pm Revised: Friday 07.10.2020 7:00 pm Hassan Abbas COMMUNITY, Crime, U.S.A
TOLEDO, OHIO — A Toledo Police Officer, Anthony Hussein Dia, was shot and killed shortly after midnight on July 4, the Toledo Police Department said in a press release.
Dia, 26, responded to a call regarding an intoxicated male, 57-year-old Edward Henry, walking around the parking lot of a Home Depot on Alexis Road in Toledo. According to police, once on the scene, Dia approached Henry to check on him. Witnesses told police that they saw Henry turn around and fire a round from a handgun, striking Dia.
Toledo Police Officer Anthony Hussein Dia, 26, with his two children
Responding officers arrived on scene and transported Dia to a local hospital, where he died as a result of his injuries. Police say Dia was wearing his department-issued body armor.
57-year-old Edward Henry shot Dia in the parking lot of a Home Depot
Additional officers arrived at the scene of the shooting and set up a perimeter looking for the shooter. Witnesses stated that they had observed Henry flee into a wooded area. A drone and a K-9 unit provided assistance with the search.
During the course of the investigation, officers heard a gunshot coming from the wooded area. At approximately 3:15 a.m., Toledo Police officers located Henry, deceased from an apparent gunshot wound to the head. Witnesses confirmed that he was the one who had shot Dia earlier.
"Today is a sad day for the city of Toledo, it's a sad day for the Toledo Police Department and most importantly it's a sad day for the family, friends, loved ones and fellow officers of Ofc. Anthony Dia, who paid the ultimate sacrifice in protecting his city tonight," said Toledo Police Chief George Kral.
More information will be released at a news conference scheduled for Monday, July 6. Exact time and location is being determined. Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz told AP News he was at Toledo Hospital where Dia was taken after the shooting.
"I will never forget the sight of Officer Dia being wheeled out of the hospital on a gurney, his body wrapped in an American flag, flanked by about 30 Toledo police officers, saluting and weeping," the mayor said.
Information on funeral and memorial services appears at the end of this article.
Dia had been a Toledo police officer for two years
A devout Muslim and member of Toledo's Arab community
Dia was part of a large but spread-out Arab American community in the Toledo area. His father, Younes, is Lebanese American and has many relatives in Dearborn. Dia's second cousin Charles Scheib, also a Toledo resident, told The Arab American News that the late officer was a devout Muslim and was devoted to his Islamic and Arabic heritage.
"This was a random, senseless act," said Scheib, who works in the real estate industry in Ohio. "Everyone that knew Anthony knew he was a good, kind-hearted man. He was a devoted Muslim, prayed five time a day, a big follower of the Ahl al-Bayt. His beliefs played a role in his service to his community."
(Anthony) would always tell me, treat people like Imam Ali would treat people. He had a great heart and an infectious smile — cousin Charles Scheib
Dia joined the Toledo Police Department on July 27, 2018. He is the 31st Toledo Police officer to be killed while on duty. Dia leaves behind wife, Jayme, and two children, 8- and 6-years old.
"He would always tell me, treat people like Imam Ali would treat people," Scheib said. "He had a great heart and an infectious smile."
Dia with his wife, Jayme, and two children
Anthony Dia's family has requested that indoor services be limited to family, first responders and faith community members. The service will live-streamed, details of which are forthcoming.
Funeral and memorial services for Dia will be held at the John F. Savage Arena in Toledo at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, July 7. Family arrives at 8:30 a.m. The arena, also known as "Savage Hall", is located at 2025 North Douglas Road in the University of Toledo campus.
Burial procession will leave the arena at 12 p.m. and head towards the Toledo Memorial Cemetery on 6382 Monroe Street, in Sylvania, Ohio.
Dia was a member of the Imam Ali Mosque located at 6961 Whiteford Center Road, in Lambertville, Michigan. A GoFundMe has been set up to help Dia's family at this time: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tpd-officer-anthony-dia-support-amp-updates
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Valérie FavreVisions24.10.2009 - 07.02.2010
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Photos © Stefano Schroeter
Curated by Peter Fischer
Valérie Favre has assembled a bizarre troupe of she-bunnies, little girls, so-called 'idiots', cockroaches seen under a magnifying glass, Füssli's three witches, an actual Secret Service for the Queen (the title of one of her pictures), to develop enigmatic stories in her mostly large-format paintings. 'Basically,' the artist said recently, 'I keep writing the same novel.'
It plays out between deserted car parks and Grimm-like fairy-tale forests, and moves along the ridge that separates the big emotions from the latent absurdity of the world, always aware of the abyss of everyday madness.
Valérie Favre's serial working method testifies to the significance of the media of literature, theatre and film to her work and, along with the violent painting, to an intense engagement with her subject-matter. After a career in theatre and film in Paris, including some time in the circle around Jean-Luc Godard, the artist, born in French-speaking Switzerland in 1959, found her way back to painting. She did so as the consequence of a deliberate act of transformation from interpreter to author. Since 1998 the artist has lived and worked in Berlin.
This first comprehensive exhibition by Valérie Favre includes over 100 paintings, some of them large-format, from the past 15 years, and also includes a number of drawings as well as an object. This is also her first appearance in a Swiss museum.


Infinity Blade on the iPhone looks damn good. And as of Thursday, anyone will be able to make a game for the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad will be able to make a game using the same graphics technology.
The iOS version of the Unreal Development Kit will be free to download some time this Thursday according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal. The Unreal tech, which, like Infinity Blade, is made by Epic Games, is a variation of the same graphics programs made for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 titles, from Gears of War to Mass Effect to Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.
This is no surprise, really. This is how Epic works. The company is at least as much a graphics technology maker as it is a game development powerhouse. Epic creates graphics engines and licenses them to other companies which can then build their games using Epic's tools. Traditionally we've seen Epic get the most of their engines for their own games. In fact, Epic's games have been showpieces for Unreal tech. Gears of War and Gears of War 2 each showed off iterations of Unreal Engine 3. Infinity Blade shows off the power of Epic's tech on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices.
Those who want to make games for the iOS version of Epic's graphics technology will be able to get it for free but will "have to pay a $99 licensing fee and 25% royalties after the first $5000 in sales," according to the journal.
The most formidable rival to Epic's iPhone graphics engine is the one powering Rage HD. That game was crafted by a team lead by id Software's Doom co-creator John Carmack. Outside developers won't be able to use that technology, though. Carmack told Kotaku recently that his parent company, Zenimax, is not interested in licensing the technology to outsiders.
The release of the Unreal Engine for console game produced a flood of games running, for better and worse, a similar graphical style as Gears of War in recent years. We'll see soon whether we got a lot of Infinity Blade lookalikes. It wouldn't be such a bad thing, right?


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UGANDA RIPS BIG FROM UK.
Home/UGANDA SAFARI NEWS/UGANDA RIPS BIG FROM UK.
It is just a year since the Uganda Tourism Board contracted Kamageo African destination Marketing to launch the country's first ever campaign to increase the number of tourists from the Queen's Land. The United Kingdom has an overwhelmingly high number of outbound tourists that amounts to over 35,000 people annually. The board saw need to outsource so as to tap into the wide market and a year down the road. The initiative is yielding results.
In just less than a week, Uganda received tremendous coverage in the UK worth £1,125,000 across various media. It all started when out of the blue, a gorilla appeared at the Trafalgar Square. The animatronic gorilla named Bakwate excited many folks in London as it moved around socialized and acted like a gorilla. It left many yearning for a Uganda gorilla safari and we sure that the excitement must have broken tour websites in Uganda with enquiries on how to see gorillas in Uganda.
The gorilla also made another major appearance at Destination Travel show and Uganda lit up the social media and its stands were buzzing. With the euphoria already, those who had missed its sight at the square rushed to the show to get to know all about it and take that precious selfie picture to confirm. Many were fascinated of the fact that they could experience more like this by just taking a tour to Uganda have booking a gorilla habituation venture. For the first time, all talk on top news agencies and shows like Sky News, Good Morning Britain, Sky News online, Evening Standard, Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Times, Independent, Daily Express, MSN, AOL, BT wasn't all Donald Trump or Brexit. Uganda took over the waves with various people showcasing and reviewing the sight of the gorilla and how much they would love to see the endangered species.
This is just the latest element of the marketing campaign. Earlier Kamageo launched a sponsorship ad with Nat Geo Wild TV last year at every break and that advocated for rather than enjoy wildlife on TV why not take on the venture for yourself. While at the expo, tour agencies like Titan Travel saw their 2018 Great Apes of Uganda Holiday Package sold out.
We can only continue to nod our heads at the work of Kamageo and all Uganda tourism stakeholders at large for all great strides taken to promote Gorilla tours to Uganda. Gorilla excursions to Uganda are described as the best experiences in travel on can ever have. The creatures have 98% similar DNA as humans and more than half are found in the Pearl of Africa. Gifted with bird species, the big five, various other wildlife, flora and rich culture, the interest and journey into Uganda is just at kicking off
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Midweek Tip Sheet, 5th March 2019 | Football Betting Tips | Football Advisor
Midweek Tip Sheet
The following are our best football betting tips from the selected fixtures in the English Premier League, The Championship and across Europes Major leagues, and League Cups covering matches taking place between the 5th to the 7th March 2019
Championship | Derby vs Wigan
Derby will still be reeling from their hammering at the hands of Aston Villa on Saturday. Four first half goals resigned Lampard's side to a damaging defeat in their bid for promotion, with John Terry left smiling in the other dugout. The Rams sit in seventh, three points off of the playoff spots, with Wigan hovering safely above the relegation spots. Despite being unbeaten in their last five matches, the Latics have drawn four of them; goals continue to prove their biggest Achilles hell in this league. Derby's current form is terrible, however, they have looked fairly solid at Pride Park this campaign.
Derby to win @ 1.85
Champions League | Dortmund vs Tottenham
Spurs arrive to the Dortmund wall with a 3-0 lead from their heroic night inside Wembley Stadium. Dortmund have nothing to lose and should come out swinging from the opening bell. Their recent form has seen them win just one of their last five league matches, with Bayern chasing them down. Tottenham have this reputation of becoming "Spursey" when the pressure is on. I expect Dortmund to win this match, but can a 3-0 lead really be overturned? Unlikely. Tottenham scoring would force the home side to score five times.
Dortmund to win and both teams to score @ 3.40
Champions League | Real Madrid vs Ajax
Two defeats in four days to your biggest rivals is enough to stir any side. That was Madrid's reality over the weekend as they fell 3-0 and 1-0 to Barcelona, both at the Bernabeu. The Champions League, however, shows Los Blancos at their fearless best. The hosts carry a 2-1 advantage into Tuesday's match, but will be without their ever-present capitano Sergio Ramos. The admission that he gained a yellow card on purpose in the first leg underlines his competitive personality as Real skipper, but it also shows they are taking the Dutch side lightly. Ajax need to score two minimum; Nacho is expected to replace Ramos, so it isn't inconceivable…
Both teams to score @ 1.44
Football League Trophy | Bristol Rovers vs Sunderland
This EFL Trophy semi-final may be between two League One sides, however, the gulf in form is undeniable. Rovers sit in the relegation spots with just nine league wins in 34 attempts; the Black Cats are third having lost just twice all season, knocking on the door of the automatic spots. The winner faces Portsmouth for a chance of some early silverware, however, survival and promotion, respectively, will be deemed more important by both. Sunderland have won both league fixtures this season scoring twice in each. A similar result is expected, with the visitors winning at a canter.
Sunderland to win @ 2.30
Champions League | Porto vs Roma
Since their opening leg meeting – in which Roma took a slender 2-1 victory – Porto have gone through the domestic gears. Comfortable wins were followed by a 2-1 home loss to Benfica this past weekend, with Wednesday second leg crucial for their season. A 1-0 win will be enough for the Portuguese outfit, against a Roma side bruised after a weekend derby drubbing by Lazio. Porto have won 15 of their previous 17 home matches with Roma struggling on the road.
Porto to win @ 2.05
UEFA Europa League | Chelsea vs Dynamo Kiev
Sarri seems to be learning his lesson. After being ridiculed by Chelsea's home fans in their FA Cup loss to Man United, Chelsea have put in brave and exciting performances in against the likes of City, Spurs and Fulham. The Europa League is of great importance for the Blues, with Sarri still chasing a managerial title. The home side will want to take a big step towards the quarters in this first leg with a comfortable win. Kiev have won just two of their last six away matches – no teams near the quality of Chelsea.
Chelsea -2 handicap @ 3.20
UEFA Europa League | Rennes vs Arsenal
Rennes sit tenth in Ligue 1, however, their recent form has been impressive. A 3-1 away win against Real Betis was followed by holding Marseille to a 1-1 draw; they are certainly capable of causing a shock against Arsenal in their home leg. The Gunners performed well in their North London derby on Saturday, unlucky not to escape with all three points after a missed penalty in the last minute. Arsenal performed well in the group stage without conceding. This one looks low scoring.
Under 2.5 goals @ 1.90
UEFA Europa League | Napoli vs Salzburg
Napoli are considered one of the favourites for the Europa League this season. The Serie A outfit are in promising form despite their loss to Juventus on Sunday evening. Ancelotti will deem it crucial to take a lead to Salzburg next Thursday; this will be emphasized by the Austrian side's poor away form. They've lost two of their last three on the road, so will be concentrating on damage limitation this Thursday. Napoli should get the win, but it may not be emphatic.
Napoli to win @ 1.50
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I saw Dannel Malloy with Chris Matthews. He was very strong. Gave me chills when he said the first thing he thought of was Rabin. True. The closest analogy.
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The white book
Han, Kang, 1970- author.
Children -- Death -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of the blank page and snowy Warsaw. THE WHITE BOOK becomes a meditation on the color white, as well as a fictional journey inspired by an older sister who died in her mother's arms, a few hours old. The narrator grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, an event she colors in stark white--breast milk, swaddling bands, the baby's rice cake-colored skin--and, from here, visits all that glows in her memory: from a white dog to sugar cubes. As the writer reckons with the enormity of her sister's death, Han Kang's trademark frank and chilling prose is softened by retrospection, introspection, and a deep sense of resilience and love. THE WHITE BOOK--ultimately a letter from Kang to her sister--offers powerful philosophy and personal psychology on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction.
Book FICTION HAN 1 1
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize
From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white
While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of the blank page and snowy Warsaw. THE WHITE BOOK becomes a meditation on the color white, as well as a fictional journey inspired by an older sister who died in her mother's arms, a few hours old. The narrator grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, an event she colors in stark white--breast milk, swaddling bands, the baby's rice cake-colored skin--and, from here, visits all that glows in her memory: from a white dog to sugar cubes.
As the writer reckons with the enormity of her sister's death, Han Kang's trademark frank and chilling prose is softened by retrospection, introspection, and a deep sense of resilience and love. THE WHITE BOOK--ultimately a letter from Kang to her sister--offers powerful philosophy and personal psychology on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction.
Han Kang was born on November 27, 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. She teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. She is an author. Her novels in English include The Vegetarian and Convalescence. Her works published in Korea include A Convict's Love, Mongolian Mark, Fruits of My Woman, The Black Deer, Your Cold Hand, Breath Fighting, and Greek Lessons. She has received several awards including the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, the Korean Literature Novel Award, and the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian.
Far from a traditional novel in its presentation, the engrossing latest from Man Booker International winner Han (The Vegetarian) fills spare pages with sometimes poetic meditations on the possibilities of a life unlived. After traveling to Warsaw from South Korea and renting an apartment, Han's unnamed narrator remembers the story of her parents' first child, a girl who died shortly after birth. The narrator investigates her own grief regarding this child to conjure a possible alternate timeline wherein the baby lived. The narrator looks through the eyes of this new person, wandering the foreign city, observing the snowy season developing around her, and using objects like "Sleet," "Salt," and "Sugar cubes" as titles to anchor each section. The narrator crafts an entire life for this lost sister before turning her considerations inward, asking if she would have been conceived if the child had survived. Han breaks her narrative into three parts, "I," "She," and "All Whiteness," and throughout writes with attention to the whiteness of the page. The second section, in particular, is wintery in presentation, with small blocks of black text floating atop swaths of blankness. Though thin on conventional narrative, the novel resonates as a prayer for the departed, and only gains power upon rereading. (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
*Starred Review* Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize, the latest from South Korean author Kang (Human Acts, 2017) is a grieving woman's rumination on things that are white, in titled fragments. The unnamed narrator moves to a different country for the winter and mourns the girl her mother gave birth to before her, an infant that died only a few hours after birth. In White City, she passes through a town that had been obliterated by Nazis for attempting to fight back. In Ashes, she meditates on the mysterious calm of death and the struggle of life, the highs and lows only the living experience. In Salt, she realizes that in life, one has the power to heal, preserve, and endure. And in Your Eyes, the narrator contemplates how her sister's death allowed her to live if the infant had survived, she would have never been born. Through these beautifully crafted snapshots, Kang uses language to attempt to transcend the different stages of grief and pain. She explores the dichotomies of black and white, life and death, and the pristine and tragic symbolism that runs between them. Kang's masterful voice is captivating and nothing short of brilliant.--Emily Park Copyright 2018 Booklist
New York Review of Books Review
MAMA'S LAST HUG: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves, by Frans de Waal. (Norton, $27.95.) De Waal argues that we make a grave mistake when we pretend that only humans think, feel and know, and cites neurochemical studies to conclude that feelings like love, anger and joy are widespread throughout the animal kingdom. THE WHITE BOOK, by Han Kang. Translated by Deborah Smith. (Hogarth, $20.) In this latest novel from the author of "The Vegetarian," a Korean writer wanders the city of Warsaw, haunted by her family's losses - and by her country's inability to mourn its own. THE BORDER, by Don Winslow. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $28.99.) The final volume of Winslow's monumental trilogy about the Mexican drug cartels and the American dealers, fixers and addicts who keep the trade flourishing. Whether good, bad or altogether hopeless, his characters are full of life and hard to forget. THE SOURCE OF SELF-REGARD: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations, by Toni Morrison. (Knopf, $28.95.) Spanning four decades of Morrison's illustrious career, this collection includes a stirring eulogy to James Baldwin, a prayer for the victims of 9/11 and insights into "Beloved" and her other novels. DEATH IS HARD WORK, by Khaled Khalifa. Translated by Leri Price. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) Khalifa's fifth novel about siblings reunited by their father's death during Syria's current war, wrestles with themes of societal demise and rejuvenation on a tableau every bit as haunted by violence as the swamps and redclay roads of Faulkner's South. SAY NOTHING: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe. (Doubleday, $28.95.) Part history, part true crime, Keefe's book uses the abduction and murder of a Belfast mother to illuminate the bitter conflict known as the Troubles. THE HEAVENS, by Sandra Newman. (Grove, $26.) This novel, which explores notions of time travel, romance and mental stability, features a heroine who comes to believe she lives simultaneously in Elizabethan England and 21st-century New York, with events in one period affecting life in the other. EMPIRES OF THE WEAK: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order, by J. C. Sharman. (Princeton, $27.95.) Taking in 1,000 years of history, Sharman makes the provocative case that European supremacy is a mere blip in mankind's narrative, which is in fact dominated by Asia. ON THE COME UP, by Angie Thomas. (Balzer + Bray, $18.99; ages 12 and up.) Set in the same neighborhood as "The Hate U Give," Thomas's riveting follow-up introduces an aspiring rapper. The full reviews of these and other recent books are on the web: nytimes.com/books
White, not black, is the color of mourning in Han's home country of South Korea, as well as other parts of Asia. This latest from Han, whose The Vegetarian was the 2016 Man Booker International Prize winner, is a meditative exploration of the limitless meanings of white-from blankness, erasure, and death to newness, purity, and possibility. Han further condenses her signature brevity, eschewing narrative prose for lists, verses, even fragments. The sparse story that emerges is a writer's journey to an unnamed city (geographical hints include Nazis, destruction, resistance, and rebirth), where she recalls and reimagines an older sister she never knew, her mother's premature first child, who died within hours of birth. Using white objects as connecting leitmotifs, she shifts between time and place, between documenting city explorations and remembering her childhood into adulthood (because she lived). Never far away is her lost sister, her primary companion, whom she exhorts, "Don't die. Live"-at least on the page-even as she realizes that her sister's survival would have erased her own existence. VERDICT With eloquence and grace, Han breathes life into loss and fills the emptiness with this new work, a Man Booker International short-lister fluidly Anglophoned by Han's three-time collaborator Smith. [See Prepub Alert, 8/13/18.]-Terry Hong, Smithsonian BookDragon, Washington, DC © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
1 I In the spring, when I decided to write about white things, the first thing I did was make a list. Swaddling bands Newborn gown Salt Snow Ice Moon Rice Waves Yulan White bird "Laughing whitely" Blank paper White dog White hair Shroud With each item I wrote down, a ripple of agitation ran through me. I felt that yes, I needed to write this book and that the process of writing it would be transformative, would itself transform into something like white ointment applied to a swelling, like gauze laid over a wound. Something I needed. But then, a few days later, running my eyes over that list again, I wondered what meaning might lie in this task, in peering into the heart of these words. If I sift those words through myself, sentences will shiver out, like the strange, sad shriek the bow draws from a metal string. Could I let myself hide between these sentences, veiled with white gauze? This was difficult to answer, so I left the list as it was and put off anything more. I came abroad in August, to this country I'd never visited before, got a short-term lease on an apartment in its capital, and learned to draw out my days in these strange environs. One night almost two months later, when the season's chill was just beginning to bite, a migraine set in, viciously familiar. I washed down some pills with warm water and realized (quite calmly) that hiding would be impossible. Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness. The migraines that began when I was twelve or thirteen swoop down without warning, bringing with them agonizing stomach cramps that stop daily life in its tracks. Even the smallest task is left suspended as I concentrate on simply enduring the pain, sensing time's discrete drops as razor-sharp gemstones, grazing my fingertips. One deep breath drawn in and this new moment of life takes shape as distinctly as a bead of blood. Even once I have stepped back into the flow, one day melding seamlessly into another, that sensation remains ever there in that spot, waiting, breath held. Each moment is a leap forward from the brink of an invisible cliff, where time's keen edges are constantly renewed. We lift our foot from the solid ground of all our life lived thus far and take that perilous step out into the empty air. Not because we can claim any particular courage, but because there is no other way. Now, in this moment, I feel that vertiginous thrill course through me. As I step recklessly into time I have not yet lived, into this book I have not yet written. Door This was something that happened a long time ago. Before signing the contract for the lease, I went to look at the apartment again. Its metal door had once been white, but that brightness had faded over time. It was a mess when I saw it, paint flaking off in patches to reveal the rust beneath. And if that had been all, I would have remembered it as nothing more than a scruffy old door. But there was also the way its number, 301, had been inscribed. Someone--perhaps another in a long line of temporary occupants--had used some sharp implement, maybe a drill bit, to scratch the number into the door's surface. I could make out each individual stroke: 3, itself three hand spans high; 0, smaller, yet gone over several times, a fierce scrawl that attracted attention. Finally, 1, a long, deep-gouged line, taut with the effort of its making. Along this collection of straight and curved wounds rust had spread, a vestige of violence, like long-dried bloodstains, hardened, reddish-black. I hold nothing dear. Not the place where I live, not the door I pass through every day, not even, damn it, my life. Those numbers were glaring at me, clenching their teeth shut tight. That was the apartment I wanted that winter, the apartment where I'd chosen to spin out my days. As soon as I'd unpacked, I bought a can of white paint and a good-size paintbrush. Neither the kitchen nor the bedroom had been repapered, and their walls were spotted with stains large and small. These dark splotches were especially conspicuous around any electrical switches. I wore pale gray tracksuit pants and an old white sweater, so the splatters wouldn't show up too badly. Even before I'd started to paint, I was unconcerned with achieving a neat, even finish. It would be enough, I reasoned, just to paint over the stains--surely white splotches are better than dirty ones? I swept my brush over the large patches on the ceiling where the rain must have seeped through at one time, watching gray disappear beneath white. I gave the sink's grubby bowl a wipe with a washcloth before painting it that same bright white, never mind that its pedestal was brown. Finally, I stepped out into the corridor to paint the front door. With each swish of the brush over the scar-laced surface, its imperfections were erased. Those deep-gouged numbers disappeared, those rusted bloodstains vanished. I went back inside the apartment to take a break and get warm, and when I came back out an hour later I saw that the paint had run. It looked untidy, probably because I was using a brush rather than a roller. After painting an extra coat over the top so the streaks were less visible, I went back inside to wait. Another hour went by before I shuffled out in my slippers. Snow had begun to scatter down. Outside, the alley had darkened; the streetlights were not yet on. Paint can in one hand, brush in the other, I stood unmoving, a dumb witness to the snowflakes' slow descent, like hundreds of feathers feathering down. Swaddling bands Swaddling bands white as snow are wound around the newborn baby. The womb will have been such a snug fit, so the nurse binds the body tight, to mitigate the shock of its abrupt projection into limitlessness. Person who begins only now to breathe, a first filling-up of the lungs. Person who does not know who they are, where they are, what has just begun. The most helpless of all young animals, more defenseless even than a newborn chick. The woman, pale from blood loss, looks at the crying child. Flustered, she takes its swaddled self into her arms. Person to whom the cure of this crying is as yet unknown. Who has been, until mere moments ago, in the throes of such astonishing agony. Unexpectedly, the child quiets itself. It will be because of some smell. Or that the two are still connected. Two black unseeing eyes are turned toward the woman's face--drawn in the direction of her voice. Not knowing what has been set in motion, these two are still connected. In a silence shot through with the smell of blood. When what lies between two bodies is the white of swaddling bands. Newborn gown My mother's first child died, I was told, less than two hours into life. I was told that she was a girl, with a face as white as a crescent-moon rice cake. Though she was very small, two months premature, her features were clearly defined. I can never forget, my mother told me, the moment she opened her two black eyes and turned them toward my face. At the time, my parents were living in an isolated house, in the countryside near the elementary school where my father taught. My mother's due date was still far off, so she was completely unprepared when, one morning, her water broke. There was no one around. The village's sole telephone was in a tiny shop by the bus stop--twenty minutes away. My father wouldn't be back from work for another six hours. It was early winter, the first frost of the year. My twenty-two-year-old mother crawled into the kitchen and boiled some water to sterilize a pair of scissors. Fumbling in her sewing box, she found some white cloth that would do for a newborn's gown. Gripped by contractions and terribly afraid, she plied her needle as tears started down. She finished the tiny gown, found a thin quilt to use as swaddling bands, and gritted her teeth as the pain returned, quicker and more intense each time. Eventually, she gave birth. Still alone, she cut the umbilical cord. She dressed the bloodied little body in the gown she'd just made, and held the whimpering scrap in her arms. For God's sake don't die, she muttered in a thin voice, over and over like a mantra. After an hour had passed, the baby's tight-sealed eyelids abruptly unseamed. As my mother's eyes met those of her child, her lips twitched again. For God's sake don't die. Around an hour later, the baby was dead. They lay there on the kitchen floor, my mother on her side with the dead baby clutched to her chest, feeling the cold gradually enter into the flesh, sinking through to the bone. No more crying. Excerpted from The White Book by Han Kang All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.