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Lifting the Veil on Early India
Krutika Haraniya
Ancient coins, pieces of metal embossed with designs and inscriptions are our windows to a lost world of ancient kingdoms and adventurous traders. Coins indicate economic power, political might, old connections and a lot more. They float, travel and circulate across geographies and stand the test of time, thus playing a crucial role in our understanding of the past.
In his book titled Coins, late Prof. P. L. Gupta, an eminent numismatics expert, explains how currency evolved. 'When people settled in localities and communities grew in size, the exchange of different products became a necessity. A common commodity was fixed as an intermediary in all transactions. The need for having a uniform measure eventually led to the use of metal for minting coins.'
Cowrie Shells |Wikimedia commons
Before the 6th century BCE, cowrie shells, barter of agricultural produce and animals were used for trade.
Map of the Mahajanapadas circa 500 BCE|Wikimedia Commons
With the formation of Janapadas (kingdoms) and Mahajanapadas (oligarchic republics) in Northern and Central India during the 6th century BCE, the earliest coins in India- the punch-marked coins came into existence. The rise of coins as currency was a result of a period of intense urban development and with it, trade. This created a need for a tradable commodity which was durable and could be universally accepted.
The existence of Indian punch-marked coins first came to light when a huge hoard of coins was discovered at the Bhir mound in Taxila in today's Pakistan in 1924. In all, there were as many as 1055 punch-marked coins that were found here. Several such discoveries, have been made across northern India, since then.
Excaveations at the Bhir mound in Pakistan| Wikimedia commons
Interestingly. coins were initially issued not by kings, but by traders and merchant guilds of different Janapadas or Republics . This is a clear indication of the influence that merchants enjoyed in society at the time. The coins they minted were used exclusively for trade.
Eventually however, kings started issuing punch-marked coins as well.
Every Janapada in this period, had its own distinctive coins. Unlike the coins we see today, these had no fixed shape and were found in different geometric shapes. It seems the shape of the coin was not important. Its weight was. So the coins were cut and clipped to adjust them according to specific weight standards.
Rectangular coin chipped from one side to adjust the weight | Coin India
The coins of the period stand out because they had some common features. They were stamped with different symbols only on one side, while the other side was left blank. The symbols on the coins included a cross section of geometric forms, animals and plant motifs and human figurines The symbols on these coins give us an insight into what life was like, in that period.
Coins of Magadha Janapada with rabbit, elephant (L) and wheel (R) |Wikimedia commons
It is interesting to note that these coins don't have any sort of writing on them. This is because the coins existed before any writing system was developed in India.
The coins of the 16 Janapadas varied, having one to four symbols. For example the coins of Kuntala and the Kuru(s) had only one symbol. However, coins of some Janapadas like Gandhara had one symbol but were punched twice.
Bend Bar coins of Gandhara Janapada with one symbol punched twice|Oswal Auctions
The coins with the standardized five symbols and weighing 3.4 grams, found in abundance throughout the country were first issued by the Magadha Janapada. Gradually, as the Mauryan Empire of Magadha expanded and annexed the different areas, they imposed their own version of the coins across the empire.
Coins of Magadha Janapada with 5 punches|Oswal Auctions
What is truly amazing is that the use of metal currency started around the same time, across the known world. Apart from India, metal coins were being used in the Kingdom of Lydia (today's Turkey) and China under the Qin dynasty. However, the coins do not bear any resemblance to each other.
Early coins of Lydia |Wikimedia Commons
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Saudi Arabia Committing Genocide in Yemen
By Press TV
Global Research, March 26, 2016
Press TV 25 March 2016
https://www.globalresearch.ca/saudi-arabia-committing-genocide-in-yemen/5516665
Yemen's Ansarullah movement leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, says Saudi Arabia is committing genocide against the Yemeni people as it continues with its deadly aggression against the impoverished nation.
The Saudi forces and its mercenaries have come to Yemen to wipe out a generation, Houthi said during a televised address on Friday, adding that they want to raze Yemen to the ground.
He said the Saudi regime has committed numerous crimes against the Yemenis.
The Saudi regime knows no limit in its massacre of women and children, he said, adding, however, that the Saudis are neglectful of the Yemeni popular will.
Houthi said the US and UK are helping Saudi Arabia in the aggression against Yemen.
This Saudi regime has neither respected the concept of neighborliness nor Islam, he added.
The Ansarullah leader said the Al Saud regime and its mercenaries fighting in Yemen are under the sway of the Saudi-Israeli-US axis.
Houhti further slammed the silence of the UN Security Council regarding the Saudi aggression, saying the body is providing security only for arrogant powers, saying the UN charters have not been drawn up for the oppressed and only serve bullying and dictatorial regimes.
It is shameful to remain silent vis-à-vis such crimes, the Ansarullah leader said, adding, however, that some countries have openly taken the side of the Yemeni people and provided any assistance they could to the nation.
A Yemeni boy runs past buildings that were damaged by air strikes carried out by Saudi Arabia on March 23, 2016 in the UNESCO-listed old city of Yemeni capital Sana'a. (AFP Photo)
The resistance shown by the Yemenis shows the legitimacy of the demands of the Yemeni people, Houthi said.
He said the main objective of the Saudi aggression is the destruction of the entire region so that the Zionist regime of Israel will turn into an unrivaled power in the region.
The Saudi crimes have overshadowed the Israeli atrocities against the Palestinians, the Ansarullah leader said.
Pointing to retaliatory attacks by the popular forces, Houthi said heavy and deadly blows have been inflicted on the Saudi military equipment.
The Yemenis do not have a great amount of military equipment, but we have been standing against the enemy, the Ansarullah leader said, adding that the Yemenis feel obliged to defend their principles.
The Saudis launched their aggression under the slogan of serving the Yemenis, however, we have seen how they have served the Yemenis with their missiles and destruction by killing women and children, Houthi said.
The Ansarullah leader said the enemies cannot and will not be able to reach their objectives because Yemenis of all walks of life will continue to stand by their national commitments.
"What we are seeing now is the result of our steadfastness," he said, adding, "The blood of our martyrs has struck heavy blows at the aggressive enemy."
Yemen has been under military attacks by Saudi Arabia since late March last year. At least 8,400 people, among them 2,236 children, have been killed so far and 16,015 others have sustained injuries.
Copyright © Press TV, Global Research, 2016

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A Pagan Goes to the Wild Goose, Part One
July 5, 2011 September 23, 2019 Alison Leigh Lilly
Last month, I had the fantastic opportunity to attend the inaugural Wild Goose Festival down in central North Carolina, a gathering of progressive and emergent Christians interested in engaging with questions of social justice, peace, community, art and spirituality in a postmodern, multicultural world. I admit, as a Druid and a Pagan, I had my trepidations about attending a Christian festival — worries about what kinds of assumptions others would have about my own religious affiliation, anxieties about potential misunderstandings or miscommunications that could arise (although growing up Catholic and holding a degree in comparative religious studies, I'm reasonably well-versed in the unique ways Christians sometimes use language or make off-hand Biblical references) — but I resolved to set aside both my fears and my cynicism and attend the festival with as open a mind and as soft a heart as I could. I told myself that, if worse came to worst, I could always just imagine myself to be a curious and sympathetic anthropologist there to observe and take notes.
As usual, most of my anxieties were entirely unfounded. Yes, there were a few awkward references to how progressive Christians ought not to accuse other religious practitioners of "paganism," as though there weren't some of us who quite happily accept the Pagan name as a positive self-descriptor (it's like saying Christians ought not to accuse others of being Jewish, like that's a bad thing!). But besides these well-meaning if slightly uninformed remarks, the Wild Goose Festival provided a welcoming and safe atmosphere in which people of many different religious persuasions had a chance to dig more deeply into some truly challenging and controversial issues. (It also helped that my friend, author and speaker Carl McColman, seemed to get a particular joy out of introducing me and Jeff as "his Druid friends.")
As so often happens with events like this, I spent a lot more time listening than I did taking notes (and, alas, absolutely no time taking pictures!), and perhaps more time thinking than I did listening, which continues to be the biggest stumbling block of both my intellectual and spiritual life! In the days since returning home, I've spent a lot of time re-collecting my thoughts and experiences from those four days and carefully organizing and annotating what notes and journal entries I did manage to jot down, in the hopes of writing up some half-way-coherent reflection on the festival to share here. Most especially, I wanted to explore the importance and value of interfaith work at festivals like the Wild Goose by asking myself what Pagans and Christians have to teach each other. In the end, I decided to boil things down into three short lists of three (because, yes, I am a Druid — we are all about the triads).
3 Things Christians Can Learn from Pagans | 3 Things Pagans Can Learn from Christians
3 Things Pagans and Christians Can Work On Together
I think most of my readers here are of the Pagan persuasion, and I'm hoping at least some of them haven't gotten fed up with me because of the Christian-heavy focus of my recent posts. In order to appease those readers (hi there!), I thought I'd start out by talking about those things that I think Pagans really do well that we can offer as examples and challenges to Christians. If you're a Christian who found your way here link-surfing blog posts about the Wild Goose Festival (welcome!), I hope that this post can offer you some insight and perspective from an "ex-insider outsider." I have a feeling that some of you, even if you still walk a Christian path, can relate to that feeling of being on the fringe looking in. Finally, I really hope all of you will share your own thoughts and ideas and experiences, and that you'll stick around for Parts Two and Three (especially Part Three, which is maybe the most important of all of them). So, without any more introduction….
3 Things Christians Can Learn from Pagans
1. Pagans can share with Christians a deeper understanding of the role of nature, wilderness and wildness in the spiritual life.
It's hard to avoid thinking about nature when you spend four days camping out beneath the stars, sharing your space with trees, spiders, ticks, skin-baking sunlight and the occasional wandering chicken or guineafowl. The Wild Goose Festival opening ceremony welcomed the presence of the natural world, as participants were invited to bless each other with cool water and smear mud on each other as a reminder that "we are all connected to the earth, and we are connected to one another." Talks focusing on environmental justice, sustainability and organic gardening peppered the four-day schedule of events, where speakers explored the connections between the laws, cycles and lessons of nature, and the legacy of Christian theology and liturgy which has so often been dualistic and world-denying.
On Thursday and again on Saturday, Lakota/Sioux "recovering evangelical" Richard Twiss grappled with questions of balance and integration, sharing his own personal experiences of colonialism that left him feeling disconnected and alienated from the indigenous traditions and myths of his people. On Friday morning, Christine Sine gave a lovely talk about the spiritual lessons to be learned in the garden — celebrating the cycles of the seasons and expressing gratitude and trust in the fecundity of the earth — ideas that would not have been out of place at any Pagan gathering. Towards the end of her presentation, Sine returned to the familiar Christian Parable of the Seeds, connecting it to the metaphor of organic composting and lamenting that Christianity has too often lacked a "focus on the soil" in its theology and ritual. Others at the festival agreed, including Rabbi Or Rose, who said during the Saturday afternoon Interfaith Panel that the next biggest challenge facing interfaith dialogue is a focus on conservation efforts and environmental justice.
It's clear from much of the conversation at the Wild Goose Festival that Christians of all kinds and persuasions are seeking a renewed sense of spiritual connection to the natural world and the earth as our sacred home. Issues of environmental destruction and climate change weigh heavily on everyone's minds, but even simple, everyday relationship with the land is becoming increasingly important to many Christians as well. Yet I noticed that speakers and participants alike often seemed unsure of how to reestablish and nurture that connection. Though they were able to articulate their sense of disconnection or alienation, there were few suggestions for practical steps to cultivating a sacred relationship with nature, and often the contradictory or problematic aspects embedded in traditional Christian theology went unnoticed or unaddressed.
Here is an excellent opportunity for those belonging to Pagan and earth-centered spiritual traditions to engage Christians in conversation about the role of the natural world in the spiritual life, and to challenge some of the assumptions that lurk beneath the surface of Abrahamic monotheism. What does it mean when we take our relationship with the earth seriously as an expression of spirit and sacredness? What do mythological and theological concepts like the Garden of Eden and the Fall really say about the Christian view of humanity's place in the world, and how can Christians acknowledge, confront and, when necessary, challenge or change these views? How can a "universal" religion like Christianity ground itself more deeply in the seasonal expressions and experiences of the local landscape through its liturgy and ritual? Pagans have an important role to play in helping Christians answer these sorts of questions.
2. Pagans can remind Christians to view time as a cyclical dance, and not simply as a linear history.
Over the course of the festival, I attended several talks centered on the pressing question, "What next?" In a rapidly developing, globalizing world, Christianity is not immune to immense changes in community infrastructure and socio-political trends. Old institutions are falling by the wayside, shrugged off as archaic and irrelevant by younger generations even while more conservative believers "circle the wagons" and try to consolidate their power and influence. There is a sense among many liberal, progressive and emergent Christians that society is on the cutting edge of a whole new way of being in the world — and religion has to keep up, or risk becoming irrelevant.
In her Friday afternoon talk "What In This World Is Going On?", editor and author Phyllis Tickle outlined her theory of the "Great Emergence": that cultures stemming from, influenced by or colonized under latinized Christianity (that is, in short, most of what we call the First World) undergo a fundamental shift or transformation every 500 years. Later that evening, Doug Pagitt followed up with a discussion of the "Inventive Age" as the latest development in Western civilization (following the Agrarian, Industrial and Information Ages), and what such a shift means for people looking to build religious community over the next generation. On Saturday morning, founder and CEO of Patheos.com Leo Brunnick explored the approaching technological singularity and its role in shaping theological concepts in a presentation that one festival-goer described as "the most disturbing talk" he'd heard so far.
This linear approach to the "progress" of history was not limited solely to the developing trends of society, however. In his presentations on Friday and Saturday, Franciscan friar and contemplative Richard Rohr explored personal spiritual development through the first and second halves of life, citing Jung, the four life stages in Hindu culture, and Spiral Dynamics, among other concepts. In a spur-of-the-moment change to the program, the performance artist, philosopher and Christian "a/theist" Peter Rollins gave an impromptu lecture on his personal Christology, founded on theories of human development and individuation during the first few years of life. This focus on the linear nature of time is not at all surprising in a religion so grounded in a sacred sense of history, in which key historical persons and events act as the very vehicles of holy revelation. As Thomas Berry describes in his book, The Sacred Universe, Western religious traditions have often looked to the process of time as salvific, the expectation of a someday-future fruition or completion redeeming the necessarily fragmented and imperfect present moment.
By Saturday evening, however, the story of progress had begun to wear a little thin — something I'd anticipated to some extent in the days leading up to the festival. Doug Pagitt concluded his Friday evening talk by suggesting that, by and large, it would be later generations who would determine the shape of church community in the future, and perhaps the best we could do for now was to "get out of the way." Richard Rohr seemed to fall into a habit of praising the virtues of the "Second Half of Life" as a time when we have freed ourselves from the ego and are finally able to ask the deeper questions that, he asserted, we are simply incapable of asking in our 30s and 40s (though always with the Seinfeldian caveat, "not that there's anything wrong with that"). So here again the old Christian tension arises between belief in a redemptive future, and the restlessness and energy of an imperfect present.
In contrast to this focus on linear history, modern Pagan traditions look to an agricultural past that celebrates and consecrates time as an unending, cyclical dance through the seasons of the land and the ever-recurring stories of myth — as well as a modern scientific view that acknowledges human history as only a tiny fraction of the earth's lifespan, a mere blip in a cosmological timeline so much greater than our ability to conceive that it may as well be infinite. If progressive and emergent Christians focus a bit too much on the question, "What next?", Pagans can help balance this tendency with the equally important question, "What now?" (and maybe, every once in a while, with the question, "What, again?"). Certainly Christianity has its own ways of answering the question of how best to live in the present moment — contemplatives and mystics have engaged with that question for millennia — but it is far too easy to subsume that question into the more deeply rooted question of how what we do today can get us to the kind of future we want for tomorrow. Eastern traditions like Buddhism and Taoism have become increasingly popular in the West over the last century because they help to counterbalance this overly-linear focus. Modern Pagans have an opportunity to help Christians reconnect with their own Western roots in ancient, non-linear traditions, to remember the fullness of the present moment and to see it as a way of entering into relationship with wholeness and holiness.
3. Pagans can help Christians revive and restore a sense of enchantment and value in ritual and religious aesthetics.
Billed as a festival of "faith, justice, music and the arts," the Wild Goose Festival engaged openly with questions of spiritual aesthetics right from the beginning. More than two dozen musical performances were spread throughout the four-day schedule of events, while on-going creative writing and collage work invited festival-goers to contribute their own voices and visions to community works of art and inspiration in the Making Art tent. Children scampered about the festival grounds decorated with facepaint, and each evening after dark, night-owl campers gathered to watch ground-breaking films and documentaries engaging issues of peace, social justice, spirituality and community. "Sacred Space" rituals throughout the weekend incorporated song, performance art, body movement and breath, including a stunning ceremony led by Lilly Lewin and Martin Poole in which participants wove together a rainbow tapestry of yarn and shared stories, transforming a tree near the main stage area into a "burning bush" of tangled colored threads and prayers. The artistic creativity extended to festival-goers themselves, many of whom expressed their sense of personal style through clothing and accessories (even despite the heat!) or decorated their campsites with tapestries, flags and ribbons.
In light of this eager engagement with the creative spirit, it might seem that Pagans have little to teach Christians about the value of ritual and aesthetics. Yet despite the wide variety of artistic expression and participation going on at the festival, there remained a distinct disconnect, even a discomfort, regarding the role of aesthetics as expressed through the music, storytelling and ritual of the weekend, and the Christian theologies that informed many of the festival participants and speakers. As a friend pointed out to me (because otherwise I wouldn't have known), most of the bands and other musical performers were not known for being part of the "Christian music" genre, but were instead musicians who were Christian — an observation which led to a brief conversation about how overly-marketed and explicitly derivative "Christian music" tends to be in general. Kind-hearted jokes about the Catholic penchant for candles, incense and elaborate ceremonial outfits were not uncommon among presenters and festival-goers alike, and contemplative Catholics like Richard Rohr and Carl McColman were sometimes the quickest to point out during their talks and Q&A sessions how the "warm-fuzzy feeling" of aesthetically-pleasing ritual was not necessarily an indication of authentic religious experience and could even sometimes be a distraction from it.
One of the most overtly ambivalent responses to the question of sacred aesthetics and ritual that I witnessed came on Friday morning during Margot Starbuck's talk, "Barbie, Skin Lighteners & Shame-based Advertising – Faith and Justice Transforming Women's Body Image Obsessions." Discussing the regret she felt when her young daughter expressed an interest in dyeing her hair, Margot Starbuck explained how she took this desire as a sign that her daughter wasn't happy "just the way she was." Later, when an audience member asked her about the role of "church dress," she roundly declared that we should certainly rise above the antiquated obligation to wear anything other than our favorite jeans and most comfortable tee-shirt on Sunday, that we should attend religious services "just as we are." As a poet and artist, I found myself wondering what exactly it means to come "just as you are" for the self-consciously creative human animal, so enchanted with the activity of self-expression and symbolic communication. (And as a soon-to-be stepmom of three young girls — one who dreams of being a pretty-in-pink princess while the other two can't be bothered to wear matching socks — I found myself wondering if maybe Margot could rest a bit easier about her daughter's personal sense of style.)
This apparent unease with the role of ritual aesthetics is not surprising. A solid majority of festival-goers belonged to or at least had personal roots in Evangelical and Protestant Christianity, which has traditionally tried to distance itself from what it has long viewed as the ornately ritualistic, even pagan leanings of the Catholic Church. Yet today, in what Doug Pagitt calls the "Inventive Age," the creative urge is reasserting itself strongly among spiritual seekers, and this renewed sense of the power of aesthetics in ritual was everywhere evident at the Wild Goose — though, like the role of nature and environmentalism, that urge was often only haphazardly articulated. In this respect, Pagans have a great deal of insight to offer Christians about the process of integrating aesthetics and theology, and bringing both to bear on liturgy and ritual.
It was Ross Nichols — an early revivalist and arguably one of the most influential leaders of modern Druidry — who wrote that, "Ritual is poetry in the realm of acts." Pagans today, who face the task of crafting new and meaningful traditions out of dusty academic tomes and the inspiration of personal experimentation, have devoted much of their work to the exploration of how ritual not only expresses but actually (re)creates the shared mythologies and theologies of both individuals and communities. Participants at the Wild Goose Festival showed sure signs of a similar kind of creative grappling and reinvention, and I found myself frequently amused, and sometimes bemused, by the festival's aesthetic syncretism that seemed to draw (at times heavily) on familiarly pagan/Pagan sensibilities. (Not that Pagans have exclusive claim to drumming and intoxicated songs around campfires, or the ritual of decorating a central tree or pole with colorful, interwoven ribbons!) A more conscious conversation between Pagans and Christians about the role of ritual aesthetics can help Christians deepen their understanding of such creative activity, while navigating the murky waters of cultural appropriation and syncretism to discover how religious communities can express and embody their unique theologies in more integrated, authentic ways.
In my next post, I'll look at 3 Things Pagans Can Learn from Christians, exploring issues of service and social justice, community cohesion and support, and spiritual authenticity.
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When polls showed that Trump was ahead of Clinton, the dollar plunged, most major currencies rallied against the dollar. Since it was clear that Trump won the election, the dollar started rebounding, and recovered most of the intra-day loss as Trump made a speech to stabilize markets.
Markets still have concerns about the uncertainty for the US and global economic outlook, be aware that markets are likely to remain volatile for an extended period of time.
EURUSD has been oscillating in an uptrend channel since the end of October. The bullish momentum has strengthened as the dollar weakened, the upper band resistance of the channel was broken in early November. Yet the price retraced and fell below the lower band support of the channel, as the dollar rebounded.
The dramatic move of the US election night, resulting in EURUSD surging from intraday low of 1.0989 to intra-day high of 1.1298, more than 300 points. Yet it was followed by a deep retracement, recovered most of the previous gain.
The current price is trading above the near term significant support line at 1.1000, which is providing a strong support. The near term support zone is between 1.1000 – 1.1030. The price is likely to rebound when nearing the level.
The resistance level is at 1.1080, followed by 1.1100 and 1.1120.
The support line is at 1.1060, followed by 1.1030 and 1.1000.
Gold has turned bullish since mid-October after testing the downside uptrend line. It has seen a substantial gain in the first week of November due to the uncertainty of the US presidential election and risk-off reason.
Yet it retraced as FBI announced that no criminality in Clinton's email, after testing the resistance level at 1306.00.
We have seen substantial volatility in gold prices, as a result of the volatility from the dollar on the election night. Gold has formed a consolidation pattern, the near term price is likely to oscillate in this range.
The resistance level is at 1306.00, followed by 1310.00 and 1315.00.
The support line is at 1300.00, followed by 1295.00 and 1290.00.


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In a day and age where craft beer, beer-and-food pairing, and IPAs of every ilk have become commonplace, particularly in San Diego County, it's easy to fall under the misconception that every ale and lager style are a cinch to marry with food. That makes Guerra's admission all the more refreshing. It also makes the fact that he managed to come through on a recent attempt at matching big flavors with a quartet of highly-hopped India pale ales all the more impressive, especially considering all four of those beers were combatants in the vaunted Alpha King Challenge.
Established in 1999, the Alpha King Challenge is an annual event that takes place in Denver in loose conjunction with the Great American Beef Festival. Drawing IPAs from across the country like a beery beacon, this competition seeks to identify the most delicious, balanced-yet-hop-heavy beer in the country. Professional brewers and beer writers comprise the judging panel, which has consistently singled out Guerra's partner-in-crime, brewer Thomas Peters, for his entries.
He took first place in the challenge in 2014 with his Citra-heavy, Mosaic-forward triple IPA, Pound Town. That beer earned third place honors the following year. The success of that beer is phenomenal on its own, but it's not the end of Peters' story where this IBU melee is concerned. In 2017, he took the top spot for the second time with a 100% Citra-hopped double IPA dubbed Thizz Is What It is.
In late September, with the 2018 Alpha King Challenge days away, Peters decided to rebrew Pound Town and Thizz Is What It Is, and put them on tap along with a pair of entries for this year's competition: a Simcoe-centric double IPA named Business Hippie (after a key member of Belching Beaver's administrative staff) and a hazy double IPA brewed with New Zealand hop varietals called The Annihilatrix.
Guerra says he is constantly wowed with the variety of styles and depth of flavors coming from his brewpub, and tips his hat to Peters, but had to put his thinking cap on when asked to develop a quartet of dishes to pair with each of the aforementioned Alpha King contenders. In doing so, he went with a number of different methods for standing up to, pairing up with, and occasionally contrasting or taming the boldness of the hop-borne flavors in the beers.
Guerra opted for another spice-driven dish for Business Hippie: Cuban-style mojo pork. "The dish started with the pineapple and tropical fruit notes from the beer," he says. "I went with sweet, but also spicy to hold up to the beer. Sweet and spicy go best with pork and goes hand-in-hand with tropical flavors, so mojo pork it was." That zesty pork was served atop fried plantains (tostones) and accompanied by a zingy pineapple relish.
For the remaining pair of double IPAs, Guerra chose to take the road less traveled, pairing them with desserts. While carrot cake is a well-known foil for IPAs, he instead centered his dishes around ingredients he believed matched the flavors of the beers.
Four similarly composed hop behemoths, one daunting mission, and four rather varied dishes prove that, while not the easiest thing in the world, pairing food with even the brawniest of IPAs can be done. And to help readers do just that from the comfort of their homes, Guerra has shared his recipes for pork mojo tostones and grapefruit buttercream blinis. Cheers to embracing a hearty challenge and a boatload of IBUs.
Place the pork shoulder in a non-reactive, airtight vessel. Combine the remaining ingredients and pour over the pork, making sure it is completely covered. Seal and refrigerate for 24 hours.
Remove the pork shoulder from the brine and pat dry. Place in a roasting pan lined with banana leaves. Pour the brine into the pan until the pork is half-covered. Cover the pork with more banana leaves, then cover the pan with aluminum foil. Place in the oven and roast until the pork is fork tender, about 3 hours.
To serve, arrange several tostones on a plate. Top each of the tostones with pork and pineapple relish and serve immediately.
Bring a pot of water to a boil. Insert plantains and boil until soft, about 20 minutes. Peel and slice into 1-inch thick rounds. Use the flat end of a meat mallet to flatten the round to ½-inch thickness. Set aside.
Heat the oil in a cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Place the plantain rounds into the skillet, 8 at a time, and fry until brown, about 3 minutes. Flip over the plantain to brown on the opposite side. Remove from the skillet and drain on a plate lined with paper towels. Season with salt and serve.
Thoroughly combine all the ingredients in a mixing bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 24 hours. Allow to reach room temperature before serving.
Beat the milk and eggs together until thoroughly incorporated. Whisk in the sugar, lemon juice, baking soda and salt. Add the flour, water and oil and whisk together. The batter will be runny. Let rest for 20 minutes.
Melt a ½ tablespoon of butter in a non-stick skillet over medium heat. Use a 2-ounce ladle to pour batter into the skillet. Cook until golden-brown, about 2 minutes on each side. Remove from heat and keep warm.
To serve, place a grapefruit round in the center of a dessert plate. Place a warm blini atop the grapefruit and top with a dollop of buttercream. Serve immediately.
Place the grapefruit juice in a saucepan over high heat. Bring to a boil and reduce to ½ cup. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.
Cream the cream cheese, butter and sugar together using an electric mixer. Add the zest and grapefruit juice reduction, and mix until all of the ingredients are completely incorporated.


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Chiprovtsi Monastery
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Chiprovtsi Monastery (Bulgarian: Чипровски манастир, Chiprovski manastir) is a Bulgarian Orthodox monastery 5 kilometres northeast of the town of Chiprovtsi in Montana Province in northwestern Bulgaria. It belongs to the diocese of Vidin and lies in the valley of the Ogosta river.
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OSMAN PAZVANTOGLU`S MOSQUE
The mosque is a massive stone building with strongly oriental architecture. The entrance is formed up as an open gallery. The prayer saloon is huge and decorated with lathing ceiling, where there is a wood-carving rosette.
OSMAN PAZVANTOGLU
Zaječar - The Suvodol Monastery
Suvodol monastery is located at the south-east edge of the municipality of Zajecar, in the area of the village Selacka. The monastery was built on the plateau cut in the mountain Manastirska Glama and it is dedicated to the Nativity of the Holy Theotokos. It is among the oldest endowments in Serbia and it is being connected to Knez Lazar (according to the testimony of the Episcopate Melentije who presents this information as an old legend).
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Suvodol
The Monastery of St Peter and St Paul-Grlishte
In vicinity of village Grlište, on the coast of Grlište lake is situated monastery of St Peter and St Paul. It is 14 km far away from Zaječar.
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The Monastery of St Nicholas
The village Planinica is situated on the 18th km of the highway Pirot - Sukovo – border between Serbai and Bulgaria, and in it is located monastery of St Nicholas. Monastery has small dimensions. It has trefoil ground plan dating from the 16th century, and it was painted in 1606.


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NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP Satellite Analyzes Saharan Dust Aerosol Blanket
by NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center June 30, 2020 June 30, 2020
June 30, 2020 – NASA uses satellites and other resources to track aerosol particles made of desert dust, smoke, and volcanic ash. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard Suomi NPP provided a visible image while the Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS) Nadir-Mapper (NM) instrument aboard the Suomi-NPP satellite provided absorbing aerosol index values. The OMPS index indicates the presence of light absorbing aerosol particles (ultraviolet (UV)-absorbing particles in the air) such as desert dust. The absorbing aerosol index is related to both the thickness and height of the aerosol layer.
This image is a composite of the OMPS aerosol index and the VIIRS visible image both from NASA/NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite on June 24. The image shows the dust plume moved over the Yucatan Peninsula and up through the Gulf of Mexico. Credits: NASA/NOAA, Colin Seftor
The Absorbing Aerosol Index is useful for identifying and tracking the long-range transport of volcanic ash from volcanic eruptions, smoke from wildfires or biomass burning events and dust from desert dust storms. These aerosol particles can even be tracked over clouds and areas covered by snow and ice.
Colin Seftor, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., created imagery from the Suomi NPP OMPS absorbing aerosol index and visible imagery from the VIIRS instrument He said that on June 23 and 24 the dust plume had moved completely over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, up through the Gulf of Mexico and into southern Texas. "At that point, the situation becomes more complicated because the absorbing aerosol index signal seen further north into Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, etc., is probably a mix of dust and smoke from the numerous fires burning in the southwest U.S. You can also see that the dust traveled over Central America and out into the Eastern Pacific Ocean."
On June 25, an animation that combined OMPS aerosol index and VIIRS visible imagery from NASA/NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite was created at NASA Goddard showing the movement the Saharan dust cloud from June 15 to 25, 2020,. The animation showed the dust plume streamed from Africa's west coast over the Atlantic into the Caribbean Sea and up through the Gulf of Mexico over some of the Gulf states.
Aerosol particles absorb and scatter incoming sunlight, which reduces visibility and increases the optical depth. Aerosol particles have an effect on human health, weather and the climate. Aerosol particles are produced from many events including human activities such as pollution from factories and natural processes such as smoke from fires, dust from dust storms, sea salt from breaking waves, and volcanic ash from volcanoes. Aerosol particles compromise human health when inhaled by people with asthma or other respiratory illnesses. Aerosol particles also affect weather and climate by cooling or warming the earth as well as enhancing or preventing cloud formation.
On June 18, NASA's Earth Observatory noted the thickest parts of the plume appeared to stretch about 2,500 kilometers (1,500 miles) across the Atlantic Ocean. By June 24, the plume extended over 5,000 miles.
Dust from Africa can affect air quality as far away as North and South America if it is mixed down to ground level. But dust can also play an important ecological role, such as, fertilizing soils in the Amazon and building beaches in the Caribbean. The dry, warm, and windy conditions associated with Saharan Air Layer outbreaks from Africa can also suppress the formation and intensification of tropical cyclones.
"While Saharan dust transport across the ocean to the Americas is not uncommon, the size and strength of this particular event is quite unusual," Seftor said. "Also, if you look off the coast of Africa you can see yet another large cloud coming off the continent, continuing to feed the long chain of dust traveling across the Atlantic."


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An abhorrent post, but proverbial Folau death penalty a step too far
Folau controversy
Darren Kane
Sports Columnist
To start, might it be useful to contrast Israel Folau's conduct — in publishing his own summary of 1 Corinthians 6: 9-10 – against the myriad high crimes and felonies which don't secure you a lifetime ban from professional sport in Australia, Great Britain and elsewhere?
So, what did Folau NOT do? Well, he didn't lay the boot into his heavily pregnant wife's stomach, while she lay on the floor, cowering in the foetal position. Nor did he pick up his ex-girlfriend and hurl her into a garage door at 2am following an epic bender. Folau didn't kick the livin' bejesus out of an unconscious man lying in the gutter, outside a nightclub.
Context: How does Folau's conduct stack up when compared to the acts of some other professional sportsmen? Credit:Jonathan Carroll
Folau hasn't intentionally smashed an opponent's jaw to smithereens, in a pre-meditated on-field incident. He didn't gouge at an opponent player's eyes, with all the fervour of a nine-year-old excising the last skerrick of ice cream from a four-litre tub. Not once has Folau reckoned upon sticking his index finger up opponents' bums as being a red-hot, stealthy defensive strategy.
Folau hasn't been caught on an iPhone, pants around his ankles and frolicking in the company of an unsuspecting mutt. Indeed, neither has he orchestrated the running of an illegal dog-fighting ring; possessed implements used to give electric shocks to thoroughbreds; or done anything else to raise the ire of the RSPCA.
Not even on one occasion has Folau been accused either of unlawfully distributing intimate videos without the consent of those filmed, or of mistreating women in any other way. Never has Folau been caught drink-driving; not even after having a 13-hour break from the schooners and thinking he'd be under 0.05. Folau hasn't been charged with any crime.
Folau hasn't racially abused his opponents; hectored at them as "monkeys". He hasn't sledged opponents as being "gypsy boys" who should contemplate retreating to their caravan homes.
Folau hasn't manhandled referees, assaulted teammates and bashed them to a pulp, or stolen money from his fellow players' wallets while they weren't looking. Israel hasn't been caught on video, bragging about his adoration of the "Bondi marching powder"; never once has he tested positive to using prohibited substances either in or out of competition.
Folau's never placed bets on opposition teams to win, or lose. Folau hasn't been caught red-handed, in the throes of orchestrated sports cheating, or scheming to rig the system. He hasn't even chewed on "blood capsules" at the crucial point of a pivotal game, to stop time. Folau isn't accused of standing over young and impressionable teammates; compelling them to dope, cheat, go to church or do anything else, with the threat of being expelled from the team if they refused.
Now had Folau done any of those things, then maybe he'd be assured of World Cup selection. Because with maybe one or two exceptions, the professional athletes who actually did do these things weren't banned from their sport for life.
Instead, what Folau has done — the totality of his conduct — has been to publish material on his social media channels that's been deemed as offensive and a high-level breach of Rugby Australia's code of conduct. Keep this simple: Folau published some excerpts from Bible passages and his summaries of them. That's as grave as it gets.
Rugby Australia's Professional Players' Code of Conduct requires much of the players. That of itself is unsurprising; RA would be entirely incapable of paying seven-figure salaries of its senior players — Folau included — unless the governing body had its sponsors and broadcast partners pouring millions into the game.
Those sponsors and broadcasters depend on people being interested in rugby. If those who "consume" the professional sport suddenly stopped watching it on television; stopped making a positive association with Qantas, because it plasters its brand all over the Wallabies; and stopped turning up in stadiums at matches, it'd take about three minutes for an investment in rugby to become an exquisitely bad idea.
RA's Code of Conduct requires that players not act in a way which brings Rugby Australia, the sport of rugby, or that player him or herself into disrepute or discredit. It's that case which is put against Folau.
Folau leaving his Code of Conduct hearing this week. Credit:AAP
If a breach is alleged against a player, the Code caters for a tribunal process, and confers on that tribunal complete jurisdiction to determine that a proven breach of the Code is graded low, medium or high in objective seriousness. Many factors are to be taken into account in arriving at such a determination including whether the conduct was intentional; whether the consequences of the conduct were reasonably foreseeable; and whether the conduct has actually caused reputational damage to RA, the sport or the player.
The tribunal then has the necessary power to impose sanctions including cautions, reprimands, fines, suspensions and pretty much any other penalty which might be appropriate in the circumstances.
Last Tuesday night, of course, RA announced its tribunal had decided Folau was guilty of a high-level breach of the Code. That same panel must now determine the appropriate sanction to be imposed.
The inescapable conclusion is that RA wants its independent tribunal to make the recommendation that Folau's four-year playing contract be terminated, with Folau to receive no salary or financial benefit thereafter. Breathlessly, the governing body announced last month that it would itself take this exact same course, before it realised there was a process which first needed to be followed.
That tribunal, as distinct from RA, could though determine that a very different penalty should be imposed. For example, a monetary fine, a suspension and some serious work in the community might fit a fair bit better than the proverbial dumping of Folau on the nearest street corner.
So, given how utterly fascinating and apparently polarising this whole Folau case is, and has been to this juncture, ask yourself one question - is it really fair, balanced, reasonable and proportionate that Folau's contract be guillotined?
Folau is what, 30 years old? He's been in the rugby league/AFL/rugby union system for nigh on forever; he's played in those three codes professionally since he was a teenager. It'd be more likely than not that Folau has a limited array of transferable skills that he can usefully deploy outside of a professional sporting environment. Playing professional sport represents the meridian of Folau's earning capacity.
On this litmus test alone, termination of his employment seems unjustifiably harsh bordering on malicious, even if RA is able to prove the legality of that final outcome. For if Folau's contract is terminated then make no mistake: it is the equivalent of a lifetime ban from his chosen sport. All for publishing material consistent with his religious beliefs.
Let me be clear: my view is that the message in what Folau published is abhorrent. The circulation of such material from someone in Folau's position of influence is really quite dangerous in that it'll be seen, interpreted and ruminated upon by thousands of our fellow citizens still trying to figure themselves out.
But it's also my opinion that it would be wickedly harsh, unreasonable and completely out of step with the values that we hold dear in Australia to sack Folau; to terminate his four-year, multi-million-dollar employment contract. Folau has done nothing more than publish either Bible passages or his interpretations of them.
Should RA properly be entitled to terminate Folau's contract because he had the temerity to post some material which is either written verbatim in, or which is a summary of, a passage of the Good Book? The same Bible, which remains the foundation text of so many of rugby's private school bastions in Australia — St Joseph's, Hunters Hill; St Ignatius, Riverview?
Yep, that's a malevolent, ridiculous and perverse outcome – regardless of what you think about Folau's beliefs and actions.
Israel Folau
Rugby Australia
Darren Kane is a sports columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald.


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Kiyooka Takayuki (japanisch 清岡 卓行, geboren 9. Juni 1922 in Dalian, China; gestorben 3. Juni 2006 in Tokio, Japan) war ein japanischer Schriftsteller und Dichter.

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Kiyooka Takayuki absolvierte in Dalian die Mittel—und Oberschule und studierte dann an der Universität Tokio Französische Literaturwissenschaft während die Eltern in Dalian die Niederlage im Pazifikkrieg erlebten. Nachdem er für die "Japan Baseball League" (日本野球連盟) gearbeitet und Französisch an der Hōsei-Universität unterrichtet hatte, begann er zu schreiben.

Er publizierte in den Zeitschriften "Gendai hyōron" (現代評論) – "Kritik in der Gegenwart", "Konnichi" (今日) – "Heute" und "Gendai shi" (現代詩) – "Poetik heute". Zusammen mit Ōoka Makoto, Yoshioka Minoru (吉岡実; 1919–1990), Iijima Kōichi (飯島 耕一; 1930–2013) und Iwata Hiroshi (岩田宏; 1932–3014) gab er die Privatzeitschrift "Wani" (鰐) – "Krokodil" heraus. Sein erster Gedichtband "Kotta Honoo" (氷った焔) – "Gefrorene Flamme" aus dem Jahr 1959 besang die Frau, die zu seiner Ehefrau wurde.

Zu Kiyookas wichtigsten Gedichtbänden gehören "Nichijō" (日常) – "Alltag" 1962, "Shiki no suketchi" (四季のスケッチ) – "Die vier Jahreszeiten in Skizzen" 1966, "Katai me" (固い芽) – "Harte Knospen" 1975 und "Pari no gogatsu ni" (パリの五月に) – "Im Paris des Mai" 1991. In dem Magazin "Gendaishi bunko" (現代詩文庫) publizierte er "Kiyooka Takayuki shishū" (清岡卓行詩集) und zwei Folgesammlungen unter demselben Titel. 1969 schrieb er den Roman "Asa no kanashimi" (朝の悲しみ), mit dem er der Trauer um seine verstorbene Frau Ausdruck verlieh. Im gleichen Jahr veröffentlichte er den Roman "Akashia no Dairen" (アカシアの大連) – "Acacias Dalian", für den er mit dem 62. Akutagawa-Preis ausgezeichnet wurde.

Andere Romane sind "Frūto to ōboe" (フルートとオーボエ) – "Flöte und Oboe" 1971, "Umi to hitomi" (海の瞳) 1971, dessen Hauptfigur Haraguchi Tōzō (原口 統三, 1927–46) ein jüngerer dichterisch begabter Mitschüler ist, der im Zweiten Weltkrieg bei eine Bombenangriff ums Leben kam. "Hana no sōutsu" (花の躁鬱) – "Manie einer Blume" 1973 ist ein biografischer Roman, " Shirei Denka " (詩礼伝家) – "Dichterischer Dank, Familienerbstück" 1975 ist dem Lehrer und Dichter Atō Hakumi (阿藤 伯海; 1894–1965) gewidmet. "Dairen kokeishū" (大連小景集) – "Dalian, eine kleine Bildersammlung" 1983stellte er zusammen, nachdem er Dalian seit mehr als 30 Jahren nach der Rückführung wieder besucht hatte. Es ist eine Sammlung von Erzählungen, die die Geschichte des modernen Japan von hinten darstellt, obwohl es wie eine persönliche Erinnerungsreise aussieht. 1999 erhielt Kiyooka den 52. Noma-Literaturpreis für "Moronie no hana ga itta" (マロニエの花が言った) – "Das sagten die Blüten der Rosskastanie" aus dem gleichen Jahr 1983. Für "Geijutsu-tekina akushu " (芸術的な握手) – "Künstlerischer Händedruck " (1978) erhielt er den 30. Yomiuri-Literaturpreis in der Gruppe Reiseberichte, für "Fushigina kagami no mise" (不思議な鏡の店) – "Mysteriöser Spiegelladen " dann 1989 den 41. in der Gruppe Lyrik.

Zu Kiyookas Literaturkritiken gehören "Te no hengen" (手の変幻変) – "Die Illusion der Hand" (1966), "Jojō no zensen" (抒情の前線) – "Frontlinie der Lyrik" 1970, "Hagiwara Sakutarō "Nekomachi" shiron " (萩原朔太郎「猫町」私論) – "Hagiwara Sakutarōs "Katzenstadt" eine private Ansicht" 1974 usw. Zu den übersetzten Gedichten gehört (ランボー詩集) – "Rimbaud Gedichtsammlung" 1968. Als Baseball-Enthusiast bekannt, regte er den "Preis für einen starken Baseballschlag" (猛打賞, Mōda-shō) an, als er Organisator der Spielpläne der Central League war. Er war Mitglied der Japanische Akademie der Künste.

Literatur
 S. Noma (Hrsg.): Kiyooka Takayuki. In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X, S. 798.

Weblinks
 Biographien Kiyooka Takayuki in der Kotobank, japanisch

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I'm starting to feel like I'm setting myself up to be a contrarian of the library world. I recently posted to Facebook "Librarians have no business teaching IT courses." While I think that's mostly true, I'm worried that people will get the impression that all I can say is no. How do I get to yes when I'm feeling jaded about librarianship?


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University of Law warns Brexit could seriously damage UK's LGBT+ rights
Britain's University of Law warns LGBT+ people will be more vulnerable to abuse or discrimination after Brexit.
The UK is still under EU law until the end of the transition period on 31 December this year.
However, after that, British politicians can start to undermine European laws which have been instrumental in giving LGBT+ people vital rights.
The University of Law's fresh warning echoes two reports GSN commissioned during the Brexit process.
Written by leading human rights lawyers and academics, our Brexit reports explained how the EU acted as a kind of insurance policy against a British government undermining LGBT+ protections.
Now Matthew Tomlinson, dean of the Leeds Campus at UK-wide The University of Law, says Brexit 'could cause serious problems for the rights of the LGBT+ community'.
Moreover he adds: 'I hope the UK Government provides clarity to the community on what laws are in place to protect their rights post-Brexit. This will understandably be a huge worry at this time.'
Brexit removes guarantees on LGBT+ rights
Tomlinson explains that the EU has pushed many LGBT+ rights improvements onto the UK. Most significant of all is the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, which legally protects LGBT+ people against discrimination.
Article 21 of the Charter outlaws discrimination for many reasons, including race, religion and disability. Vitally, it includes sexual orientation and gender.
Furthermore, while Britain is part of the EU, it has to obey this charter. That prevents homophobic British politicians from undermining LGBT+ and other rights. However, that will no longer be the case on 1 January 2021.
Last year, GSN and the campaign for a People's Vote on Brexit researched Brexit-supporting Members of Parliament. Our damning report revealed that most of them do not support LGBT+ rights.
Now Tomlinson says: 'The Charter is the highest level of law in the EU. Article 21 legally protects the LGBT+ community from discrimination based on sex or sexual orientation.
'However, this will cease to exist in UK law once Britain leaves the EU, which is a worrying thought.
'Taking away the Charter makes members of the LGBT+ community vulnerable to abuse or discrimination, purely based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.'
Gradual erosion of rights
Tomlinson says this won't happen overnight. However, he warns politicians could gradually start to replace the rights the Charter give LGBT+ UK citizens:
"The UK Government will have free reign to make their own legislation after Brexit. Current laws protecting the community could sadly be compromised.
'In the government's Brexit Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB), there is also a clause that allows British Courts to overturn rulings by the European Court of Justice. In a worst-case scenario, this could cause serious problems for the rights of the LGBT+ community.'
To explain how this happens, he uses the example of a European Court of Justice ruling in 1996. The case is called P v S and Cornwall County Council:
'This landmark case took place after a trans woman was dismissed from her job after telling her employers she was undergoing gender reassignment, which led to the prohibiting of discrimination against transgender people in employment or education.'
But the WAB allows British courts to reopen that ruling. And they may rule against trans rights. This, Tomlinson warns, could undermine 'the fundamental rights of the entire trans community'.
Moreover, he says the UK Parliament could pass new laws that counteract older laws, like the Equality Act:
'As a new law is a more recent act of parliament, it would take precedence, which could cause more problems for the community.'
Europe gave Britain many LGBT+ rights
Meanwhile he adds that many of the rights LGBT+ people enjoy in Britain only exist because of the EU:
'To understand more about what LGBT+ laws will look like after Brexit, we must look at where the majority of them have come from.
'Interestingly, before the passing of the Equality Act in 2010, which legally protects people against discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation, race or gender, the majority of LGBT+ rights in the UK came from EU Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
'The past has shown that the UK is somewhat behind the rest of Europe when it comes to passing LGBT+ laws.
'As recently as 1997, there were no laws protecting LGBT+ people in the UK.
'Although same-sex marriage was legalised in the UK in 2013 and came into force in 2014, this was still many years behind other European countries, including The Netherlands (2001), Belgium (2003), Spain (2005), Sweden (2009) and Portugal (2010).'
GSN's Brexit warnings
GSN was the first LGBT+ organization in the UK to highlight these dangers to the public. But many others followed, including lawyers, academics and even Britain's House of Lords.
Meanwhile polling found that the LGBT+ public wanted a People's Vote. Moreover the polls showed 71% of LGBT+ voters would have chosen to remain in the EU if the UK had a second referendum.
GSN also worked with People's Vote to mobilize people for protest marches in London calling for a second referendum. The marches were among the biggest protests the UK has ever seen.


Political will is half the battle: Low- and middle-income countries can do well at addressing the risk factors for NCDs, despite their lack of financial resources.
NCDs are influenced many factors: Addressing NCD risk factors for young people will require governments to look at the entire environment that a young person lives in.
Multi-sector approaches to NCDs work best: Efforts to confront NCDs in the adolescent population are most effective when they are embedded in a broad-based public health programme.
Policymaking should include young people: Young people need to have a seat at the policy table, and to be actively involved in establishing programmes and campaigns that will be directed at their peers.
The argument for focusing attention on young people when it comes to addressing the burden of NCDs is strong. Globally, 41 million people die from NCDs per year; 15 million of these deaths are premature which means that they occur between the ages of 30 and 701. Around 70% of these premature deaths are associated with behaviours that began in childhood2. Considering this evidence, it has been suggested that a sustained focus on interventions with the 10-24 age group delivers a "triple dividend": benefitting young people during their adolescent years; setting them up to have healthier adult lives; and increasing the likelihood that their children – our future generations – will be healthier.


Pisa is one of the Italy city. It is located at the longitude of 10.4 and latitude of 43.7. Olbia is another Italy city located at the longitude of 9.5 and latitude of 40.9 . The total distance between Pisa to Olbia is 319 KM (kilometers) and 18.88 meters. Pisa is located nearly north side to Olbia.


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Happy first birthday to the Alliston Centre, Home of the Growth Hub
Flavoursome Party!
Growth Hub Oct 2019
Business people from Cirencester and beyond gathered to celebrate a successful first year of the Alliston Centre – home to the Growth Hub and Farm491, which are dedicated to nurturing business enterprises.
Local food and drink producers provided a wonderful array of refreshments, while guests mingled and networked at the centre, by the Royal Agricultural University, which first opened its doors in July 2018.
Verity Payne, Centre Manager for Farm491, which supports agritech businesses, said the first year had exceeded expectations. More than 250 businesses have been helped so far by Farm 491 and have collectively attracted £16million in investment.
Yesim Nicholson, Manager of the Growth Hub, which supports Gloucestershire-based businesses, said many at the celebration had been present at the launch last year.
She said: "It's been a very successful and busy first year, and we would like to thank everybody who has supported us and especially thank all the local food and drink producers who have come along today."
Great time at the growth hub!
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Parents are always looking for no-cost and stress-free activities to do with our children. Does such a thing actually exist in the city of Boston? Believe it or not, YES something like that does exist - and it's an excellent opportunity in so many ways. On Saturday, September 17th, First Teacher held its 3rd annual Fall Fun Fair at the St. Patrick's Church in Roxbury, MA.
I watched as the extraordinary women of my life appeared at my doorstep to celebrate the upcoming birth of our second baby boy. Checkbooks in tow, they were determined to hear about this non-profit I was so keen on. As we sat around the coffee table, my sisters from all parts of my life listened intently as Dinah explained First Teacher. By the end, they were bursting with questions for the parent leaders. Curiosity and excitement for First Teacher filled the room.
On June 9th, in our office on Blue Hill Ave, seventy people gathered and connected through an intricate network and celebrated the momentum of our thriving First Teacher movement. We ate, drank, and connections were made across all lines.


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AWS launches region in Ohio
Amazon's AWS cloud computing service today announced launched a region in Ohio. The aptly-named "US East (Ohio) Region" brings Amazon's total region count to 14. The region will feature three separate availability zones for increased fault tolerance. AWS now offers 38 availability zones across its data centers.
Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels noted in today's announcement that this means AWS now runs two regions that mainly serve the U.S. East Coast (the other being in Virginia). Because these two East Coast regions are so close — and essentially serve the same user base — AWS won't charge its users for moving data between them. The idea here is to give users more options to create a highly available infrastructure that is more geographically diverse than using a single region while still being close enough to serve all users on the East Coast. Despite being split into different availability zones, a single region could still be hit by a natural disaster that takes all of these zones out at the same time, after all.
The new region will offer all of AWS's core services like EC2, S3, RDS and the AWS Marketplace.
"We strive to place customer feedback first in our considerations for where to open new regions," Vogels writes. "The Ohio Region is no different. Now customers who have been requesting a second US East region have more infrastructure options for running workloads, storing files, running analytics, and managing databases."
Amazon previously invested in an Ohio wind farm, too. This 100 megawatt farm is currently under construction and will likely go online in May 2017. The company will use at least some of the energy produced there to power its Ohio region.


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RKBFC is een voormalige Nederlandse amateurvoetbalclub uit Maastricht in de wijk Bosscherveld. De club werd opgericht op 1 mei 1945 en de thuiswedstrijden werden op "sportpark Boschpoort" gespeeld. Het eerste elftal van de club speelde in 2012/13 nog in de vijfde klasse van het KNVB district Zuid-II waaruit het degradeerde. Het seizoen daarop besloot de club niet meer deel te nemen aan de competitie. De club werd in augustus 2013 door de gemeente verbannen doordat ze volgens de gemeente waren overgenomen door een motorclub. Kort hierna hield de club op met bestaan.

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Q: MVC WebGrid - GetSelectUrl(), GetSelectLink(), and GetContainerUpdateScript() examples? Can anyone show examples of WebGridRow.GetSelectUrl(), WebGridRow.GetSelectLink() and WebGrid.GetContainerUpdateScript() and when to use each? Really had a hard time finding anything on these (anywhere).
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A: i'm using mvc4, only used the WebGrid.GetContainerUpdateScript(string) .
it's to generate a javascript line, can be used at client-side scripting to reload the webgrid through ajax.
the string param is the server api/url
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MISSION & OBJECTIVE
Now in its 28th year, The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching local culture and raising consciousness of film as an art form. It presents quality American Independent, Spanish and Latin American, European, World and Documentary cinema within the beautiful setting of downtown Santa Barbara, a perfect backdrop and premier tourist destination in its own right. SBIFF will continue to build its acquisitions program with Traction Media, which highlights films for some of the world's most viable distribution companies. SBIFF is also committed to educating our youth through the "10-10-10" youth filmmakers project and the unique "Field Trip to the Movies" program. With a projected audience of over 70,000, The Festival will screen more than 200 films over an eleven day period. SBIFF attracts an affluent, local, national and international consumer base, while maintaining strong ties with the entertainment industry in Los Angeles.
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) is an eleven day event held in the seaside resort city of Santa Barbara, California (90 minutes north of Los Angeles). SBIFF is proud to present a diverse slate of more than 200 films to over 70,000 film enthusiasts. Our audience is a unique combination of film industry professionals, local, regional and International attendees, and a large student population.
In addition to showcasing a diverse spectrum of films, tributes and galas. SBIFF also offers seminars with industry professionals including Directors, Screenwriters, Producers and Women's Panels, as well as provocative Q&A sessions with a diverse selection of filmmakers.
SBIFF has established itself as one of the premier international film festivals and we look forward to building on that success in 2013 and creating opportunities for participants to network with some of the world's leading independent distributors and filmmakers. In addition to expanding our slate each year to highlight emerging genres, styles and regions, SBIFF is growing our free educational and community outreach programs with the "10-10-10" youth filmmakers project, "Field Trip to the Movies" and "Applebox" which cumulatively served over 12,000 students and families during our last festival. Please visit our Website for more information on these and other SBIFF programs. http://www.sbfilmfestival.org
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Each tape for projection must be labeled with name, filmmaker, Contact info, Running time and aspect ratio (4*3 or 16*9)
FILM ENTRY RULES
The accepted exhibition formats for our festival are :
35 mm – Optical, Dolby A, Dolby Digital only
Digibeta – 29.97 fps, Stereo
Sony HDCam – Sony HD cam only 23.98 fps and 59.94 fps, Audio is STEREO only
NOTE: These formats may vary depending on the category. Please check the submissions guidelines or contact programming@sbfilmfestival.org
All films must be in NTSC format. PAL is not accepted. It is the filmmakers responsibility to convert PAL to NTSC.
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-Entry fee is non-refundable.
-For preview purposes, DVD (NTSC only) is preferred.
-DVDs MUST BE CLEARLY labeled on the spine with film title.
-Please do not send press kits with your screener unless requested.
-DVDs will not be returned.
-Films/videos that have received national U.S. network television (including cable) or theatrical release prior to Festival are not eligible.
-No music videos or commercials.
-More than one entry may be submitted. Each entry must be accompanied by its own online entry and entry fee.
-If your film is selected, original format prints will be due at the Festival offices no later than January 13th, 2012.
-The filmmaker will assume shipping costs of materials and print to SBIFF.
-Please DO NOT send in a press kit until AFTER you have received notification from SBFF.
-Upon acceptance, Filmmakers must agree to send no less than two high resolution digital screen shots to be used at the SBIFF's discretion. Film posters will not be accepted.
-If your film is selected, you will be asked to provide: digital stills from the film; press materials; video trailer and digitized trailer for website (if available); posters and flyers.
-Titles produced in languages other than English must have legible English subtitles.
-Not all invited films officially selected will be eligible for competition.
-The selection committees' and juries' decisions are final.
-If selected, filmmaker gives SBIFF permission to audio-describe film for the sight-impaired.
-Title of work, WAB ID #, and name of entrant must be on all mailing containers and mailing labels, video boxes, photographs, videocassettes, film containers, cans, reels, and film leaders. Video boxes, film reels and cans must be numbered (1 of 2, 2 of 2, etc.).
-If paying by check, the check MUST include the film title and WAB ID #
-Import declaration statements: all non-U.S. entries must be sent via air mail registered with the declaration:
A) for 35mm films: "Free entry claimed under #724.10 (960.55) U.S. Tariff Act. To be returned following the Festival."
B) for videotapes: "Free entry claimed under #724.12 (960.60) U.S. Tariff Act. To be returned following the Festival." Entrants must assume all responsibility for clearing films and videotapes through U.S. and/or foreign customs officials.
-SBIFF reserves the right to make any necessary changes in regulations or Festival scheduling.
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Xbox Scorpio Teaser leaked ahead of the announcement at E3 2017
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By Rajesh V	 On Jun 7, 2017
In the last few hours, it has been leaked on the web (voluntarily or otherwise) three teaser trailer for the presentation of Xbox Scorpio, the new console of Microsoft to be unveiled at E3 2017 at June 11.
Microsoft will unveil its Xbox Scorpio to the public in less than a week, which leaves still a little time to Microsoft to make some teaser related to the new machine as well as to last minute leaks.
Now, Xbox Scorpio teaser trailer had been leaked on the web, the new Microsoft console that will be presented at E3 2017. In fact, there are three teaser trailer.
The video in question, of short-term, leverage the feelings that players can try playing what the Redmond company describes as "The most powerful console in the world."
The video promoting Microsoft's Xbox Scorpio has recently appeared on multiple YouTube channels. This video, which shows a woman playing Xbox, is accompanied by the slogan "Feel True Power".
Leaving the vision of the video, we remind you that you can follow the presentation of Xbox Scorpio, as well as all the other conferences of the Los Angeles fair, on our website GameTransfers.com.
About Xbox Scorpio, did you know that Phil Spencer recently said that the console's goal will be to "impress gamers"? Given these statements and the aforementioned slogan "Feel True Power" it seems that Microsoft feels to have a winner in its hands. What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.
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Cardinal Frederic Etsou was laid to rest today in the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Kinshasa. Today's ceremony marked the final moments of a week-long emotional commemoration of only the second post-colonial prelate of the Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Anvil Mining Limited (TSX, ASX: AVM) ("Anvil") is pleased to announce it has entered into an agreement to acquire an additional 15% interest in the mining rights for the Kinsevere-Nambulwa copper-cobalt deposits located 27km north of Lubumbashi, the provincial capital of the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ("DRC").
The international community should continue its support for the new government in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to help it overcome serious security and political challenges, the International Crisis Group (ICG), a Brussels-based think-tank, said on Wednesday.
Recovery efforts have been suspended near the town of Tshikapa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, following a cave-in at a pit mine Friday. Local officials in Western Kasai province say at least 13 people digging for diamonds were killed.


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Das Dorf Wangjiawan () ist ein Dorf in der Großgemeinde Fenxiang () des Stadtbezirks Yiling () der bezirksfreien Stadt Yichang () in der Provinz Hubei.

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Boeing's 787 takes flight
The much anticipated--and delayed--maiden voyage of Dreamliner has finally taken place.
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At long last, Boeing's 787 takes flight (photos)
It's up, up and away.
After years of planning--and several delays--Boeing's 787 is finally doing what it is supposed to do--fly.
Boeing first rolled out the 787, also known as the Dreamliner, at an event in July 2007 and the jet was supposed to make its maiden voyage last year. A machinists' strike and other problems, however, had led to several delays.
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After the first successful Risk Management Summit of 2015 we are currently busy organizing our second inspiring summit for 2016. We are delighted to inform you that the event will be hosted by Deloitte in their new office at the Gustav Mahlerlaan 2970, 1081 LA Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The world is changing rapidly due to technology, geo political developments and demographic shifts in our society. These are just some of the triggers of swift change in the business world to which we must respond. In order to help you in this change, we have composed an inspiring program around the theme of "The changing role of the operational risk manager in a changing world". We have some influential subject matter experts lined up to enlighten you in this theme.
Please save this date in your diary. Feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you feel would be interested in Operational Risk Management. The invitation of the event will be forwarded after confirmation of the speakers.


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Sue Perkins (born September 22, 1969 in East Dulwich, London) is a British television presenter, actress, and writer.
Perkins is best known for presenting comedy items alongside Mel Giedroyc where they hosted a lunchtime show on Channel 4 called Light Lunch, and an early evening version, Late Lunch. The two met whilst students at Cambridge, Sue being a student of New Hall, and were both members of the famous comedy club Footlights.
Perkins has also been a presenter on Channel 4's RI:SE and appeared in Celebrity Big Brother during 2002 in aid of a number of charities. She is currently a team captain on ITV's Win, Lose or Draw Late and chair of BBC Radio 4's The 99p Challenge. She is currently a panel member of Radio 4's The News Quiz.
Perkins is also reluctantly openly lesbian since ex girlfriend Rhona Cameron outed her during her [Cameron's] stint on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, shown on ITV in 2002.
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