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Triplemanía XVII was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the AAA promotion, which took place on June 13, 2009 at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the year an event was held under the Triplemanía chronology. Triplemanía XVII was the third Triplemanía event to take place in Mexico City, and the second to take place in Palacio de los Deportes, site of the previous Triplemanía XVI as well. The show drew close to 16.000 spectators, down from the previous years 19.000 spectators in the same venue. The Triplemanía set reduced the capacity of the arena compared to the previous year but it was not a complete sell out.

The show featured two main events, four undercard matches and one untelevised "dark match". The first of two main event matches was a singles match for the AAA Mega Championship, a match that saw challenger Dr. Wagner Jr. defeat the champion El Mesías to win the championship. The other main event was a special five on five Steel cage match where the storyline was the fight over control of AAA between Dorian Roldan and Konnan. Each side chose a team of five to represent them, with the winning team earning control of the company. On the night the team representing Roldan and AAA, El Hijo del Santo, La Parka, Vampiro, Octagón, and Jack Evans, defeated Konnan's team of Silver King, Chessman, Kenzo Suzuki, Electroshock, and Teddy Hart to return control of the promotion to Joaquin Roldan. Featured matches on the undercard included Alex Koslov defending the AAA Cruiserweight Championship against Extreme Tiger, Crazy Boy, and Alan Stone in a hardcore match, La Hermandad Extrema (Nicho El Millonario and Joe Líder) defending the AAA World Tag Team Championship against Latin Lover and Marco Corleone. Finally the show featured an eight-man and a six-man tag team match.

Production

Background
In early 1992 Antonio Peña was working as a booker and storyline writer for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Mexico's largest and the world's oldest wrestling promotion, and was frustrated by CMLL's very conservative approach to lucha libre. He joined forced with a number of younger, very talented wrestlers who felt like CMLL was not giving them the recognition they deserved and decided to split from CMLL to create Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, later simply known as "AAA" or Triple A. After making a deal with the Televisa television network AAA held their first show in April 1992. The following year Peña and AAA held their first Triplemanía event, building it into an annual event that would become AAA's Super Bowl event, similar to the WWE's WrestleMania being the biggest show of the year. The 2009 Triplemanía was the 17th year in a row AAA held a Triplemanía show and the 22nd overall show under the Triplemanía banner.

Storylines
The Triplemanía XVII show featured seventy professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or faces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

The most dominating storyline in AAA over the last number of years was the feud between the AAA loyalistst and Konnan's La Legión Extranjera ("The Foreign Legion"). The "war" between the two factions had been going on for several years with La Legión winning control of AAA at the 2008 Antonio Peña Memorial Show in a multi-man Steel cage elimination match victory over a team representing AAA. Since then the storyline developed as La Legión took control of the federation while Joaquin Roldan and Marisela Peña tried to regain control of it. In the spring of 2009 it was announced that the main event of Triplemanía XVII would be another steel cage elimination match between AAA and La Legión, with teams of five facing off. Over the following weeks AAA announced the match participants with Konnan's side being represented by Silver King, Electroshock, Chessman, Teddy Hart and Kenzo Suzuki. Team AAA would be represented by La Parka and Octagón, both of whom have represented AAA throughout the feud. They would be joined by Vampiro, former AAA Commissioner who resigned his position in order to wrestle against La Legión and by Jack Evans who had turned on La Legión in the months before Triplemanía XVII. AAA held off on announcing the last AAA representative for a while until they revealed that they had brought in El Hijo del Santo to be the team captain. Hijo del Santo had not worked for AAA in 14 years before the show, but was one of the key players in the early days of AAA and a legend in Mexico. Joaquin Roldan later announced that he had hired a special guest referee for the match, Cien Caras who had been feuding with Konnan when AAA was founded.

Dr. Wagner Jr. had made a surprise appearance at the 2009 Rey de Reyes show, making his debut after the main event where he challenged El Mesías for a shot at the AAA Mega Championship. Konnan tried to convince Dr. Wagner Jr. to join La Legión, even suspending him for two weeks so he could "make up his mind". In actuality this was done to cover up the fact that Dr. Wagner Jr. still had booking responsibilities to take care off before he could work for AAA full-time. In the lead up to Triplemanía XVII Dr. Wagner Jr. and El Mesías teamed up to wrestle against La Legión, showing unity and respect for each other. The Triplemanía XVII match would be their first match against each other.

Dr. Wagner Jr. was not the only wrestler to make a surprise debut at the 2009 Rey de Reyes. Marco Corleone had left Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), AAA's biggest rival, and made his surprising jump during the Rey de Reyes show. In the months after Rey de Reyes it was announced that Marco Corleone would team up with Latin Lover to challenge La Hermandad 187 (Nicho and Joe Líder) for the AAA World Tag Team Championship at Triplemanía XVII. While the two had never teamed up before they were paired up since they had similar ring characters as they were hansome, metro sexual men with a male-dancer character that appealed to the women in the audience.

In the spring of 2009 AAA decided to create the AAA Cruiserweight Championship and held a tournament to crown the first champion. The tournament final saw Alex Koslov defeat Extreme Tiger and Alan Stone to become the first ever champion. AAA announced that Koslov would defend the title in a four-way elimination hardcore match against Tiger, Alan Stone and Crazy Boy.

AAA originally announced that they had booked X-Pac against El Zorro for Triplemanía XVIII. Later on the match was changed to play off feud between El Zorro and Charly Manson that started when Manson returned from a serious injury and included a match at the 2009 Rey de Reyes. Manson would team up with X-Pac and Rocky Romero to take on El Zorro, Dark Ozz and Dark Escoria in a match where the captain of the losing team (Manson or Zorro) would receive ten lashes with a Kendo Stick from the winning team.

Triplemanía XVII was also scheduled to feature a Relevos Atómicos de locura match (Eight man madness" match), a match created by AAA founder Antonio Peña. The match features teams of aman, a woman, a Mini-Estrella and an Exotico and was centered around the long running storyline between real life husband and wife Billy Boy and Faby Apache. The storyline between the two reached back as far as 2005 where the two were paired up on screen. The storyline saw many twists and turns over the years and included Faby's father Gran Apache, sister Mari Apache as well as the couple's child Marvin. In the spring of 2010 Aero Star was written into the storyline as a new love interest for Faby Apache, Initially Billy Boy acted like he did not care as he himself had found a new love in Sexy Star. The Relevos de locura match was scheduled to have Billy Boy and Sexy Star team up with Mini-Estrella Mini Abismo Negro and Exotico Polvo de Estrellas while Faby Apache teamed up with El Elegido, Octagoncito and Pimpinela Escarlata.

Controversies
Several events leading up to TripeManía XVII put the participation of Jack Evans, Konnan and Silver King in question. The Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission had suspended both Evans and Konnan as a result of a backstage fight between the two and Juventud Guerrera and it looked like neither would be allowed to appear at the show. While AAA kept promoting Evans as a participant the plans to have Konnan wrestle in the main event were changed early on, giving him a less active role on the show in case the Commission suspended him. The suspension was lifted on both wrestlers in the weeks leading up to Triplemanía XVII.

Silver King had originally lost his mask in a Lucha de Apuestas match against El Hijo del Santo in 1987 and according to Lucha Libre regulations was not allowed to wear a mask as long as he wrestled as Silver King. In 2006 Silver King had remasked while working in Japan, which is not subject to Lucha rules, but continued to wear the mask when he returned to AAA in 2008. The Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission barred Silver King from wearing a mask when wrestling in Mexico City. Silver King continued to wear the mask when wrestling outside Mexico City, but would face a hefty fine and suspension if he wore his mask at Triplemanía XVII.

Production
AAA invested 4,000,000 Pesos in the production of Triplemanía XVII including a more elaborate set that the previous year's Triplemanía event. They used the equivalent of twelve trailers of production space to handle the taping of the event, the show was not broadcast on regular television but as a pay-per-view through Sky with a later special edition DVD release.

Event
The show began at 8:40 local time, starting with a Dark match that was only seen by the fans in attendance and not shown on the Pay-Per-View broadcast. The undefeated Los Psycho Circus (Psycho Clown, Killer Clown and Zombie Clown) faced off against Real Fuerza Aérea represented by Aero Star, Laredo Kid and Super Fly. Super Fly wore a mask that was a combination of his own mask and the mask his father wore when he wrestled as "El Seminarista" while Aero Star wore a mask that was a combination of his own and the mask of his mentor who had recently died, Abismo Negro. During the match Super Fly was thrown out of the ring with such force that he was removed from the ring on a stretcher, leaving Aero Star and Laredo Kid a man down. Los Psycho Circus size advantage proved too much for Aero Star and Laredo Kid as Killer Clown pinned Aero Star after just 2 minutes and 24 seconds of wrestling.

Preliminary matches
The pay-per-view opened up with a match type created by AAA, a Relevos Atómicos de locura match (Spanish for "Eight-man madness match"). Relevos Atómicos de locura matches always feature teams composed of a male wrestler, a female wrestler, an Exotico wrestler and a Mini-Estrella facing off against each other. During the introductions the Exotico Polvo de Estrellas wore a robe and wig inspired by the Poison Ivy character from the Batman & Robin movie that featured a headdress that shot fireworks. The main story of the match focused on Billy Boy and Sexy Star's ongoing feud with Faby Apache. The match was not isolated to males wrestling against males or Mini-Estrellas wrestling against Mini-Estrellas as all eight combatants mixed it up during the match. Octagoncito almost pinned his rival Mini Abismo Negro on one occasion, narrowly avoiding defeat. Sexy Star tried to seduce El Elegido, hoping to keep him from hitting her. When Billy Boy entered the ring Sexy Star quickly pulled El Elegido's mask off and left the ring with it, this left him vulnerable for Billy Boy to pin him while he was trying to cover up his face. Following their victory Sexy Star and Billy Boy attacked Faby Apache, but were stopped by the return of Faby's sister Mari Apache who ran to the ring and saved her sister from a beating.

After the first match AAA held a brief tribute to honor AAA founder Antonio Peña who had died in 2007, long timer AAA wrestler Abismo Negro who had died in March, 2009 and Japanese wrestler and Mitsuharu Misawa who had died shortly before Triplemanía XVIII.

The second PPV match of the night carried the stipulation that the captain of the losing team (El Zorro or Charly Manson) would receive 10 lashes with a Singapore cane. The real development came after the match as the storyline of the 10 lashes received more attention than the preceding match. After nearly 20 minutes of wrestling X-Pac executed his X-Factor finishing move on El Zorro twice and then pinned him. Following the loss Zorro calmly removed his shirt and then knelt down to take his punishment. X-Pac and Rocky Romero delivered the first three strikes to the back of El Zorro who took the punishment without complaining. When Charly Manson returned to the ring wearing a Zorro style mask and mockingly offering El Zorro a paper rose El Zorro became enraged and started to fight back. He took the Singapore cane from Romero and began hitting his opponents, moments later Dark Ozz and Dark Escoria's team mates Dark Espiritu and Dark Cuervo ran to the ring, giving the rudo side a five on three advantage. El Zorro and the Black Family beat up all three members and successfully fought off Real Fuerza Aérea who came to the ring to make the save. In the closing minutes of the segment El Zorro confronted Marisel Peña who sat at ringside, Peña slapped El Zorro, a move that seemingly shocked El Zorro.

Semi-main event matches

Alex Koslov put his recently won AAA Cruiserweight Championship on the line in the third PPV match of the night as he wrestled against Extreme Tiger, Crazy Boy and Alan Stone in an Elimination hardcore match. The match saw the frequent use of both tables and ladders throughout the match, mixed in with steel chairs for good measure. Koslov's reign as the first AAA Cruiserweight champion ended after just over two weeks as he was the first man eliminated from the match, pinned by Alan Stone. With Koslov eliminated it was a guarantee that there would be a new champion by the end of the match. Alan Stone's inexperience in Hardcore matches caused him to be eliminated secondly, leaving Crazy Boy and Extreme Tiger, both of whom had a great deal of experience with hardcore matches. The final section of the match had several slow sections where one wrestler set up a table, a ladder or an elaborate chair set up while the other wrestler had to lay on the mat and pretend to be knocked down. At one point Crazy Boy very obviously pushed himself into position so that Extreme Tiger could execute a leap off the top rope onto him. In the final moments of the match saw Extreme Tiger leap out of the ring and splash Crazy Boy through a table. After taking a moment to recover Extreme Tiger was able to get back in the ring, only seconds before the referee counted Crazy Boy out. With the count out victory Extreme Tiger was declared the new AAA Cruiserweight champion.

The second title match of the night saw long time AAA World Tag Team Champions La Hermandad 187 (Nicho and Joe Líder) defend against Latin Lover and Marco Corleone, who were teaming together for the first time that night. La Hermandad expertly cut the ring in half, keeping Marco Corleone from tagging out so that they could wear him down. Corleone either came into the match with an existing injury or he bruised his thigh early in the match as he favored his right leg throughout most of the match. The crowd booed the supposed fan favorite Latin Lover every time he entered the ring to help out Corleone, which seemed to irritate him. The end came when rudo referee el Hijo del Tirantes tripped Marco Corleone as he was about to take his trademark leap out of the ring, allowing La Hermandad to pin Corleone, making their eight successful title defense in a row. Following the match Corleone and Latin Lover argued and left the ring separately.

Main events

The first of the double-main event of Triplemanía XVII was the AAA Mega Championship "dream match" as El Mesías defended the championship against Dr. Wagner Jr. While the crowd responded largely positively to El Mesías as he came to the ring the response to Dr. Wagner Jr. was overwhelmingly supportive, especially as Dr. Wagner Jr.'s ring gear and mask was patterned on the Mexican flag, invoking a feeling of national pride in the fans. The match started out cleanly with the two wrestlers exchanging moves and holds. The initial part of the match was centered around the respect each wrestler clearly had for the other. After a while El Mesías began wrestling a more rudo style, a bit rougher in the ring with more brawling than wrestling as a response to the crowd being mainly behind Dr. Wagner Jr. Once El Mesías began working as a rudo he took more control of the match, tearing Dr. Wagner Jr.'s mask open and later on drawing blood from the Doctor. Wagner responded in kind and before the match was over both wrestlers bled profusely from their foreheads. The match went almost 40 minutes in total and saw both competitors fight inside and outside of the ring in a very competitive, energetic match. El Mesías almost won the match when he slammed Dr. Wagner Jr. through a table on the outside of the ring, but the Doctor made a last second recovery and entered the ring before the count of 20. Dr. Wagner Jr. was finally able to capitalize on a mistake by El Mesías and executed not one, but two Wagner Drivers on El Mesías and pinned him. The crowd roared in approval as Dr. Wagner Jr. was announced as the new Mega Champion, especially when he struck his trademark kneeling pose in the middle of the ring.

The cage was quickly erected for the second main event and soon after Konnan's La Legión Extranjera came to the ring. Silver King wore his mask as he marched to the ring, apparently defying a ruling by the Mexican' boxing and wrestling commission. When he reached the cage he took his mask off to reveal that he had his entire head painted to look like his mask, thus avoiding any further legal trouble. El Hijo del Santo was the last wrestler to come out for the match, representing AAA for the first time in 14 years. La Legión gained the early advantage with their cheating tactics, which included handcuffing La Parka to the cage, both to immobilize him and to ensure that he would not be able to climb out of the cage. After more action Konnan appeared on the Jumbotron, Konnan revealed that he had the key to the handcuffs and that he was not coming near the ring, just to ensure that his team would win. After hearing Konnan's comments special referee Cien Caras went backstage to retrieve the key. Back in the ring Vampiro and Kenzo Suzuki were the first two wrestlers to climb out of the cage, leaving it a four on four match. Moments later Octágon left the cage as well giving Team AAA the advantage. During this time La Hermandad 187 came to ringside to stop anyone from the backstage area from coming to the ring, hired by La Legión to keep the numbers advantage throughout the match. Teddy Hart was the next wrestler to escape, leaving the cage only moments after Cien Caras returned to ringside with the key. La Hermandad tried to stop Caras, but he was able to hand the key to Joaquin Roldan who then freed La Parka. Chessman was the next wrestler to escape, which combined with Konnan coming to ringside meant that La Legión was able to outnumber the wrestlers outside the cage. As La Hermandad and Chessman fought with Octagón and Vampiro Jack Evans climbed up the cage and then leapt off the top with a spectacular somersault splash that knocked everyone down. Inside the ring El Hijo del Santo applied the Camel Clutch on Electroshock, but while Hijo del Santo had the hold locked in Konnan pulled out a fire extinguisher and sprayed white foam in Hijo del Santo's face. Electroshock quickly left the cage, taking advantage of Hijo del Santo being temporarily blinded. La Parka and Silver King fights each other while both try to escape the ring. At one point Konnan tries to climb up and help Silver King escape so his team can win the match but out comes El Zorro, wearing a black mask. Instead of helping out La Legión, Zorro turns on them, handing his kendo stick to Joaquin Roldan, who proceeds to hit Konnan with it. Meanwhile, inside the cage, La Parka takes care of Silver King, helps El Hijo del Santo up and climbs out of the cage. Silver King stops El Hijo del Santo from escaping the cage and the two start to trade punches at the top of the cage wall, ending with Silver King falling down to the mat and Santo climbing up and over the top to win the match for AAA. Following the match El Hijo del Santo hands the urn of Antonio Peña over to Joaquin Roldan and Marisela Peña as the representation of them regaining control of AAA.

Aftermath
Following the loss in the main event Konnan was fired (in storyline terms) by Joaquin Roldan, disbanding La Legión Extranjera as a result. Konnan swore he would get revenge on AAA and that he would return with a "surprise". Konnan would eventually return, backed up by the reborn La Legión to fight against AAA. Triplemanía XVII turned out to be El Hijo del Santo's only match for AAA as the two sides could not come to terms over a long term agreement. Over the summer of 2009 Dr. Wagner Jr. had to contend with both the challenges of former champion El Mesías as well as new challenges from Cibernético. Cibernético had left AAA when Konnan took control of the promotion, vacating the Mega Championship in the process and only returned once Konnan was no longer in charge. Since he had not lost the title, but vacated it both he and El Mesías were given a chance to wrestle against Dr. Wagner Jr. at the 2009 Verano de Escandalo which Dr. Wagner Jr. won. The feud between Extreme Tiger and Alex Koslov continued beyond Triplemanía XVII and saw Koslov turn rudo as part of the storyline. Koslov became a two time Cruiserweight champion at Verano de Escandalo 2009.

Reception
Grita Radio reports stated that "In keeping with the general expectation, Triplemanía XVII was a great event, especially the production, some of the wrestling left a divided opinion". They also stated that the fans they polled while leaving the event gave the production a "10" out of 10 while the wrestling was rated a "7.5" out of 10. The match between Dr. Wagner Jr. and El Mesías was voted the Súper Luchas Magazine "Match of the year" for 2009.

Results

Four Way Elimination Hardcore match eliminations

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References

External links
Triplemanía XVII at LuchaLibreAAA.com

2009 in professional wrestling
Triplemanía
Events in Mexico City
2009 in Mexico
June 2009 events in Mexico

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Q: sysbase 0 workerprocess I'm trying to analyse the output of sp_sysmon , the problem is that the number of worker process is null
here is the query :
sp_sysmon begin_sample
go
select top 1000 * from BEVENTS
go
sp_sysmon end_sample, wpm

and this is the output :
 Worker Process Requests
   Total Requests                     0.0           0.0           0       n/a

 Worker Process Usage
   Total Used                         0.0           0.0           0       n/a
   Max Ever Used During Sample        0.0           0.0           0       n/a

 Memory Requests for Worker Processes
   Total Requests                     0.0           0.0           0       n/a

A: Having 0 Worker Process Requests in itself isn't a problem. But if you want to see them, run a dbcc checkstorage during the sp_sysmon run.

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Chillicothe police are seeking tips for a second robbery at HD Mart in a month.
CHILLICOTHE - The Chillicothe police are investigating a second aggravated robbery reported at the HD Mart on Western Avenue in a month.
The most recent robbery reported was about 9:15 a.m. Sunday. According to the police report, the clerk reported the man came in and wanted to buy a cigar and cigarettes but only had $1 so only sold him the cigar.
When the man mentioned he was cold, the clerk told police she felt sorry for him and offered him a free cup of coffee. The two chatted briefly and after he mentioned he was walking to work, she jokingly asked if he had any weapons.
At that point, she told police the man came to the counter and said he did then demanded she open both cash registers, according to the report. When she only opened one drawer, she alleged he threatened to shoot her if she didn't open the second cash register. When she told him to "go ahead and shoot," he ran out.
The clerk described the suspect as a white male, thin, about 5-foot-5, and wearing a dark gray "Subway" zip-up, hooded sweatshirt, and dark gray sweatpants.
Police have received about two dozen tips as of Tuesday morning and are still following up on those, said Capt. Ron Meyers. Police collected items at the store the suspect had touched, including a coffee stirrer and some change.
Police also are still investigating a Dec. 29 aggravated robbery at the HD Mart where the suspect had a box cutter.
Police have released few details on the aggravated robbery reported at 3:19 p.m. Dec. 29 at HD Mart at 129 Western Ave. Dispatcher comments on the one-line report released Thursday indicates the suspect had a box cutter and ran off toward Second Street.
Anonymous tips can be made to Southern Ohio Crime Stoppers by calling 740-773-TIPS or online at www.southernohiocrimestoppers.org. Tips reported to Crime Stoppers which result in an arrest may qualify for a cash reward.


When you're ill or your life is in danger, it's natural to feel gratitude towards those who aided your recovery or saved your life. But what do you do to show your gratitude?
One elderly woman from Nara Prefecture, Japan, felt so grateful to the ambulances who often help her, that she decided to donate a brand new ambulance to her local fire station. And it wasn't just any ambulance – this was a top-of-the-line model worth 2.7 million yen (over US$22,000)!
93-year-old Fukuko Kitamuro donated the state-of-the-art ambulance to the Yoshino Town fire department as a way of saying thanks for helping her in times she was sick or injured.
What makes this ambulance special is that it has a 2,600cc engine, four-wheel-drive capabilities, a larger interior than normal ambulances, and is equipped with ventilators and other devices which would allow paramedics to perform life-saving procedures while en route to the hospital.
We couldn't agree more. Thank you for your generosity, Ms. Kitamuro. You rock!


Dear General Pacheco people we have started this wikiedit.org to publish all village details around the world. General Pacheco is a village located in the district of state. You are welcome to provide more information about General Pacheco. It can be under the following category.
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Lubya Village Museum – Galilee – Palestine متحف قرية لوبيه – الجليل – فلسطين
Museum online
مخطوطة لوبيه
مخطوطة لوبيه Lubya manus. in Arabic 1& 2 &3
Lubya photos 144 update
Ilan Pappe's intro. critique to Lubya's book
Lubya manus dec.2019
Comments on Lubya book at infomedia
Comment by lecturer Carsten Nørby Sørensen
Resisting Oblivion-Canada's periodical on refugees
Another doc. film on Lubya-Village under Forest
video of South African Jews apology to Lubyans
CNN report on Lubya's apology event on 1st.of may
Heidi Grunebaum: acknowledging the Nakba
Other sites to Lubya: عربي-عبري-انجليزي
Dr. Hatim's Necrophobia
Gideon Levy writing in Haaretz on Lubya event
CV Main Publications-pdf-2020
CV-in Danish
Articles in Danish
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Kvoter er vejen frem for kvinder
Det tilslørede Arabien
Arabiske kultur mellem modernitet og utopi
Murens demografi, fra Herzl til Herzlya
Hvad vil Palæstinensere
Kernen til Palæstina katastrof
Lektørudtalelse om Lubya bogen: Carsten Nørby Sørensen
Tiderneskifter om Bogen
My Article on "Oral History's credibility, role and functionality from the Arab Islamic tradition to modern historiography"; in recent book "A new Critical Approach to the History of Palestine", Routledge, London, 2019, PP 125-140.
My Article "Religion and Memory in exile: Character, Function and Role in Identity Construction , Lubyans in Denmark; a case study" in book "Diaspora & Identity- the case of Palestine"- Diyar Publisher, 2017, PP107-120.
Lubya-a microcosm of 600 other Palestinian demolished villages
Summary of project Palestine History & Heritage
lecture in Bethlehem: Dar al-Kalima College-Memory's landscape revisited
On alRahib book: The bible through Palestinian eyes
South Africa & Palestine at Exeter Univ.
on Suad Amiry's novel:Sharon & my mother in law
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Impressions on South Africa Visit
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Lubya's Massacre in 1939-among others- Ofer Aderet-Haaretz 13.6.2020
(Although I mentioned this piece of info in Lubya book for two decades ago, but it is interesting to be mentioned in this article on Haganah's 100th anniversary:
Assassinations, Terror Attacks and Even Castration – the Hidden Actions of Israel's Pre-state Militia
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the formation of the forerunner of the Israeli army. While the Haganah boasts of its heroic acts and looks down on similar right-wing groups, its history also includes dark operations it would prefer not to mention
The Semiramis Hotel bombing in Jerusalem's Katamon neighborhood by the Haganah's Moriah battalion, January 1948.
Ofer Aderet
"The memory of what was done in Lubya, like the memory of all the other abominable acts that preceded it, will forever disgrace its destructive perpetrators."
These scathing words were published in the Labor movement daily Davar 81 years ago. A few weeks earlier, in the summer of 1939, members of the Haganah – the underground, pre-independence army of Mandatory Palestine's Jews, founded by the movement's members – had murdered two men and a woman, and injured a young girl and a toddler. All of them were innocent Arabs from the village of Lubya in the Lower Galilee, shot dead at home in the dead of night.
The murders, described as a revenge attack for the killing of a Jew by villagers in Lubya, was carried out by members of the Haganah's special ops unit. Each man who took part in the mission has a place of honor in the local history books: The most senior was Yigal Allon, who later headed the Palmach (the Haganah's elite strike force), and became an Israel Defense Forces general and education and foreign minister.
The operation's organizer was Nahum Shadmi, a senior Haganah member and a future IDF colonel and president of a military appeals tribunal, as well as a Mapai Party activist (Mapai was the forerunner of the Labor Party). His son Issachar was commander of the Border Police brigade whose members committed the 1956 massacre in the Arab town of Kafr Qasem.
This month marks the centenary since the founding of the Haganah. Its pre-1948 actions included assisting with illegal Jewish migration to British Mandatory Palestine; covert overnight construction of new settlements (the "Tower and Stockade" operations); dispatching operatives – such as Hannah Szenes – into Nazi-occupied Europe or commandos to Vichy-controlled Lebanon; as well as other heroic feats that have become part of this country's legacy.
But there is another aspect to the Haganah that will not feature prominently in the centenary celebrations, and which is not well known to the public or part of the high school curriculum. This aspect has been excluded from museums, parades, and the official and state-sanctioned history books. It shows that the hallowed "purity of arms" concept was interpreted very loosely by the organization that gave birth to the IDF.
The bombing of the British ship Patria on November 25, 1940.
"Now, after 100 years, it's time to talk about these chapters as well," says Peleg Levy, a documentarian who has interviewed hundreds of veterans over the last decade – including members of right-wing and left-wing underground organizations – as part of a project documenting Israel's history. They told him about assassinations, reprisals and terror attacks attributed to the Haganah. Among the wider public, such operations are normally only associated with the right-wing Irgun and Lehi organizations. Any mention of those names evokes the King David Hotel bombing in Jerusalem in 1946 and the Deir Yassin massacre two years later.
The Sex Worker Who Spied for Israel's Pre-state Militia
Intelligence Documents Reveal What Ben-Gurion Learned on the Eve of Declaring Israel's Independence
He Laid the Foundation for Israel's Army. His Story Was Kept Secret – Until His Diary Turned Up
"If there's a Lehi conference in which they don't talk about the assassination of Folke Bernadotte [the Swedish diplomat murdered by Lehi members in 1948], people will complain. If the Irgun holds one in which they don't talk about the King David Hotel operation, people will jump on them. So why do they allow the Haganah to write its history without talking about similar things their people perpetrated?" Levy asks.
Later in our conversation, he notes that the Labor movement called members of these two underground groups "terrorists," while taking pride in the "purity" of the Haganah organization's actions and stressing that their methods were different.
Despite this, the Haganah has a list of blemishes to its name, ones that former members would be only too happy to expunge from memory. They never took responsibility for most of these operations, making do with some general condemnation or blaming rogue elements in the organization. This is how the murder in Lubya was described in Davar. The paper said, without noting the identity of the perpetrators, that this act was "a horrific murder, attesting to the perpetrators' loss of any ability to distinguish [innocents] and their lack of any human sensitivity. These shots, which killed elderly people, women and a baby, show that we are on a dark slope, sliding toward an abyss."
'Nest of killers'
Nine years later, in January 1948, Haganah members were involved in an operation that, over 70 years on, appears never to have been thoroughly investigated.
Young recruits at a Haganah training camp in the 1940s.Credit: From the Haganah archive
It's unlikely that most people reading this will have heard of the Semiramis Hotel bombing in Jerusalem's Katamon neighborhood by the Haganah's Moriah battalion. This may be due to the fact that it occurred at the height of the War of Independence, which was marked by many violent acts. However, it's probable that the writers of Haganah history deliberately chose to minimize any mention of this incident – as many right-wingers believe.
The blast was meant to hit the headquarters of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, commander of the Arab militias fighting Jewish forces in the Jerusalem area. A squad of Haganah soldiers gained entrance to the hotel's basement and placed explosives there before detonating them. Husayni was not in the building, but dozens of Arab civilians were. The exact number of dead and injured is unknown to this day. According to one report, 26 people were killed and a further 60 injured.
Most of the dead were from the Christian Abu Suawan family, including women and children, as well as the Spanish vice-consul to Jerusalem, who was living in the hotel. Davar reported the incident the next day and, like before, did not provide its readers with the full picture. "The Haganah blew up Arab militia headquarters in Jerusalem," the headline read. "This was one of the nests of killers in Jerusalem," the paper declared.
Another building was blown up by the Haganah some two years earlier, in February 1946. This was part of a Palmach operation targeting British police stations across the country. Three British women and a child were killed in the explosion. "Over the years, Haganah leaders and the pre-state Jewish community accused us of being irresponsible in carrying out such attacks and yet here, Haganah members were the first to hit British women," wrote Natan Yellin-Mor, a Lehi leader who later became a peace activist.
A popular song among Palmach members in those days talked about "castrating Mohammed." This referred to an Arab from the town of Beisan – now Beit She'an – who was suspected of trying to rape a kibbutz member. Due to a rise in the number of Jewish women being raped by Arabs at the time, "the Palmach decided to retaliate according to the biblical injunction to chop off a thief's hand – or, in this case, the organ used to commit the crime; in other words, to castrate him," Mossad member Gamliel Cohen wrote years later, in a book describing the first undercover operations in which Jews dressed up as Arabs.
The official website of the Palmach describes the castration incident as one of "the exceptions, an extremely cruel one," committed by its members in those years. This operation was initiated by Allon and carried out by Yohai Ben-Nun (a future naval commander), Amos Horev (a future IDF general and president of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology) and Yaakov Cohen (later a member of all three intelligence agencies). "The instructions were that the castrated man should remain alive, walking around with his injuries in order to deter others," the Palmach website explains. The team was briefed by a doctor in Afula on how to perform this "operation."
Yitzhak Sadeh, left, the founder of the Palmach (the Haganah's elite strike force), is seen in this file photo taken in 1948 next to Yigal Allon, who later headed the Palmach.Credit: Teqoah
"From the perspective of the people who had decided on this, the preparations reflected the intention to implement it while applying a humane approach," the Palmach website stresses. The three men found the suspect at home, dragged him to an open area and castrated him. "This operation had a riveting effect, resonating throughout the Beit She'an Valley and terrorizing the local Arabs," writes Cohen in a book published by the Defense Ministry.
Sacrifices in the name of immigration
The 80th anniversary of one of the most lethal events in the history of the Zionist movement will be marked in six months' time: the bombing of the British ship Patria on November 25, 1940 – an incident that also failed to lead to any expressions of remorse by the Haganah, even though its members were the perpetrators. The plan was to prevent the expulsion of some 2,000 illegal immigrants, who the British were deporting from Haifa to a detention camp in Mauritius. However, the damage wrought by the blast was so immense that the ship sank along with some 250 passengers.
Instead of relating to the affair as a tragedy that warranted the investigation of its perpetrators, the Labor movement insisted on turning it into a symbol, its victims turned into martyrs sacrificed on the altar of defending the homeland, with no note of who was actually responsible for their deaths.
Berl Katznelson, the ideological leader of the labor movement, wrote the next day to Shaul Avigur, one of the Haganah's leaders: "Know that the day of the Patria sinking is for us like the day of [the 1920 fall of] Tel-Hai," thus trying to assign to the event foundational national status. He added that the Patria operation was "the biggest Zionist action in recent times." Yitzhak Tabenkin, among the leaders of the Kibbutz Movement, called the victims "heroic unknown soldiers."
Eliyahu Golomb, the undeclared head of the Haganah, also spoke about the incident in the same vein. "For me, the day of the Patria is not a black day, nor the blackest day," he said. "These were sacrifices made in the name of immigration, for our right to immigrate. These victims were not without meaning."
Young Haganah recruits training at the beach in 1941.Credit: From the Haganah archive
The massacre committed by members of the Palmach's Third Battalion in the village of Ein al-Zeitun, near Safed, was also ultimately glossed over. Today, every history buff in Israel knows about the April 1948 massacre in Deir Yassin, carried out by right-wing underground members. But few have heard about the one a month later by underground members of a left-wing organization. They conquered the village and imprisoned dozens of Arab combatants. Two days later, on May 1, they executed them with their hands bound.
Historian Yoav Gelber writes in his book about the 1948 war that the eagerness of the left to hurl accusations at Irgun and Lehi members while highlighting the Deir Yassin affair stems from their uneasiness over the participation of Palmach commanders and soldiers in similar actions, such as the murder of dozens of prisoners in Ein al-Zeitun.
In 1939, the Jewish Agency's political department issued a "Thou shall not murder" decree, signed by the most senior spiritual leaders of the age, in which they warned against Jews killing Jews. The decree was aimed at the Irgun organization, which had murdered Jews it deemed "traitors." But these leaders ignored the fact that the Haganah also executed Jews and non-Jews who it identified as traitors and informants, says Gili Haskin, a tour guide who wrote a Ph.D. thesis about the "purity of arms" concept in those days.
Haskin wrote in an article that the executions carried out by the Irgun and Lehi groups were overt and publicized, whereas the ones carried out by the Haganah were surreptitious, performed by special ops teams.
'No clean hands'
The first Jew to be executed by the Haganah was Baruch Weinschell, who was accused of giving the British information about illegal immigration. He was killed in October 1940, in Haifa. Oscar Opler, a kibbutznik from the Lower Galilee, was also executed. He was a British informant who had revealed the location of hidden weapons and was subsequently condemned to death by the Haganah. Moshe Savtani was exposed as an informant and shot in the stairwell of his house by the Haganah. He died of his wounds in hospital. Yitzhak Sharansky from Tel Aviv, Baruch Manfeld from Haifa and Walter Strauss and others also fell victim to internal assassinations by Haganah members.
Young Haganah recruits performing combat training in the 1940s. The organization's belief in "purity of arms" wasn't always so squeaky-clean. Credit: From the Haganah archive
Such operations continued right up to the establishment of the state. At the end of March 1947, Mordechai Berger, who worked in the Mandatory police's traffic division, was murdered in the street after being suspected of divulging information about the Haganah to the British. "The assailants gagged him and hit him over the head with clubs. Berger fell bleeding," wrote Prof. Yehuda Lapidot, an Irgun member who later researched the history of Mandatory Palestine.
"None of the organizations emerges with clean hands from this dark matter," Haskin wrote. He added that the fingers of right-wing organization members were lighter on the trigger, but emphasized the role of Haganah members in assassinating Jews.
In this context, one cannot ignore the first political murder of a Jew in Mandatory Palestine. The victim was Jacob de Haan, a strange character and proud poet who became ultra-Orthodox and an anti-Zionist, talking with Arabs about the possibility of revoking the Balfour Declaration. Haganah member Avraham Tehomi and other associates were believed to be behind de Haan's assassination on a Jerusalem street in June 1924.
British officials were also targeted by the Haganah, although most assassinations of Mandate officials were perpetrated by Irgun and Lehi members. The most famous was the assassination of Lord Moyne, the British minister of state in the Middle East. He was shot to death in Cairo by Lehi members in November 1944. The Haganah, meanwhile, killed British officer William Bruce, who was shot in Jerusalem at the end of Simchat Torah, in October 1946. "A British inspector was murdered last night while walking alone in Jerusalem, wearing civilian clothes," Haaretz reported the next day.
Exceptionally for those days, the perpetrators were members of the Palmach: the Haganah's commando force had been set up in 1941, cooperating with the British in its early years. The murder was in response to Bruce's abuse of Palmach prisoners in a British prison a few months earlier.
Peleg Levy's documentary project included an interview from 2010 with the commander of that operation, Aharon Spector. He told Modi Snir and Levy that he had followed Bruce with the intent of punishing him. "I waited for him, he sensed he was a target," he recounted. The assassination was preceded by a trial by a special Palmach court, which sentenced Bruce to death. According to Spector, the order came from Yigal Allon.
"Privately, people didn't worry about telling these stories, while the collective they belonged to did not relish talking about it," Levy says.
Yisrael Medad from the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem investigated the incident as part of a lecture series he holds on the "purity of arms" topic. "This incident is amusing," he says, referring to a flyer the Palmach published after the murder. "They needed to explain that they were unlike those terrorists from Irgun and Lehi – but that in practice they needed to do the same thing," he says.
Jews and Arabs
Toppling racist statues-Cultural debate is reopened
Thanks George Floyd
Nations, when they start to be nations for a few centuries ago, agreed always upon symbols, flags, statues, parks, forests…to be their symbols, their heroes/heroines, and in a word their proudness. Even though they were empires before, as the British, Danish or French, very few dare to question the meaning of those symbols, especially the statues that were raised in different corners of their empires, and later nations. Post George eight minutes forty-six seconds a wave of demonstrations walk the streets of hundreds of cities around the world, reminding us of the movement that flourished in what is known as the Arab spring in all the Arab world. Although the main slogan, rightfully, was Black Lives Matter, young people from all races, religions, and nationalities walked together marching the streets, culminated in the slogan: "topple the racists," toppling of statues that represent the era of the slave trade in the past four centuries. Africans shipped to America, through many European companies- mainly British. The list of those named by protestors is too long. Recently, Nancy Pelosi decided to move the statues of 13 of them from the congress halls. Already demonstrators drove few statues to the water of the harbor in Bristol city: such as Edward Colston. The man who compared Palestinians with dogs Winston Churchill's statue was sprayed with graffiti as racist.: "He asked rhetorically before the Peel Commission "Why is there injustice done if people come in and make a livelihood for more and make the desert into palm groves and orange groves?", believing in the myth of making the desert green!!: "I do not admit that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger, though he may have lain there for a very long time I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been to those people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race or at any rate a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place. I do not admit it. I do not think the Red Indians had any right to say, 'American continent belongs to us and we are not going to have any of these European settlers coming in here'. They had not the right, nor had they the power". He continued summarising his views before the Peel Commission bluntly: "It is a question of which civilization you prefer." At one point he explicitly told his Secretary of State for India, Leo Amery that he "hated Indians" and considered them "a beastly people with a beastly religion"!!!
Among others, as well, is Christopher Columbus' statue, whom we were credited with discovering "the new world", the Americas, in the 15th century…as if the Americas did not exist before, and did not have inhabitants. The same lie arrived in Palestine a century ago, to discover the promised land and make the desert green, as if Palestine was empty of its people and awaiting the new colonizers to enrich it! In 1897 a Rabai delegate reported to the rabbis of Vienna on the prospects for a Jewish state in Palestine: "the bride is beautiful, but she is married to another man". Native Americans protested many times the honoring of this discoverer who stood as a symbol of the genocide of their ancestors, where millions, an estimate of 20 million, were killed as a result of this "discovery", but their shouts ended up in total silence, ignoring even to respond to their petitions. King Leopold 11 (1865-1909), under whose absolute rule of Congo- now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an estimated 10-15 million Africans died. Hands of men, women, and children were amputated when they did not come at the precise time or did not deliver the amount of rubber assigned to them. "Exterminate all the brutes" was the slogan of Kurtz in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". As usual, experts who are always from the colonizing power, question marked the numbers, saying that there wasn't enough evidence.
Had there been no camera to register the 8:46 seconds of the killing of George Floyd, the experts and prosecutors of the police will come with the same excuse: no evidence, no documentation…and in many cases accusing the victim of violence and resisting the arrest by force. In the same week of George's killing, a Palestinian with special needs was shot dead by four bullets in Jerusalem, while he was on his way to his school. Without the detailed report of an Israeli journalist Gideon Levy in Haaretz newspaper, and the interviews he did with Iyad's carer, with the parents, and with the people who knew the 32 years old Iyad Hallaq. There was no camera in place, as with other hundreds of similar cases. After 72 years, the denial politic is still mainstream, although an abundance of material is in place
Europeans, and especially those who were colonial powers, including Denmark where I live, must face its past with braveness and recognize their dark past. This is a daring step that clears the educational curriculum and the heavy consciousness of the crimes committed and build a new generation's identity that is not biased. Identity concept is a moving phenomenon, that always gets richer when it is more open towards the past. Without a critical approach to our past, neither our present nor our future will be bright as we think. Many thanks to George's memory, which leads to questioning the past of hundreds of racist figures worldwide, who were wrongly glorified and praised as symbols of nationality. "Culture & Imperialism" 1993, of Edward Said would help little bit those who want to put this phenomenon of cultural struggle, including nowadays toppling statues as I think, in its historical-cultural context. The main pivotal question is who wrote history, and who can judge the credibility of its discourse other than the people themselves from all races, religions, ethnicities and nationalities- versus the elite who mostly falsify the narrative to comfort those in power. Those marginalized and oppressed people- mainly blacks, women, colonized- do have the right to be heard and to put their narrative in real human history.
The 99th anniversary of Tulsa/Oklahoma massacre in 1 June1921: Racism more dangerous than Corona
June 1, 2020 mahmoud	Leave a comment
george-floyd last minutes video (NY Times)
8 minutes & 46 seconds to murder George Floyd were enough to inflame worldwide protests against injustices and Racism, not only against the Blacks, but other minorities persecuted around the world. Today is the 99th anniversary of Tulsa massacre where around 300 blacks were massacred, and 1200 homes were burned by Whites. George was lucky to have witnesses and cameras that register his brutal murder. Blacks soldiers in WW1 won't give help them immunity from racial discrimination and subsequent raids from the Whites. Even after a century, the burial place of the dead bodies was not identified. Documents and archival material of the massacre disappeared. Criminals in power everywhere try always to hide their crimes. Only a few who survived the massacre were lucky to testify and recount their horrible moments before their last breath. "I can¨t breathe" was the only last word we heard from Floyed. How essential for researchers to register what happened to Palestinian survivors after almost 70 massacres – before, during, and in the aftermath of Nakba (disaster) in 1948- through "Oral History" documentation: a weapon of the marginal and oppressed. Our common enemy as human beings is RACISM whether we are Blacks, Palestinians, Kurds, Armenians, European Jews, Muslim Rohingyas or Tutsis in Rwanda.
Documents, films, cultural articles, books on demolished Lubya village: history, identity and culture of Lubya village in Galilee, Palestine.
mahmoud on Lubya book in 9 languages – French.Italian.Portugese.German.Polish.Dutch.Spanish.English.Danish كتاب "لوبيه – قريه فلسطينيه في الجليل – سمفونيه لا تنسى" مترجم الان الى9 لغات عالميه : الفرنسية البرتغالية الألمانية الهولندية البولونيه الأسبانية الإيطالية .
mahmoud on Lubya Village – ارض الآباء – لوبيه
Ph.d Mahmoud Issa- Independent Researcher
Copenhagen University
mahmoud.issa123@gmail.com


Miles played for Indiana in 2014-15, a season in which Pacers all-star forward Paul George managed just six April appearances after suffering a gruesome right leg injury the previous August — during a scrimmage with the United States national team. George suffered compound fractures to his right tibia and fibula.
Miles saw how much work George put in to get back to the dominant player he was – now with the Oklahoma City Thunder, George is among the NBA's top 10 scorers — and that process reminds him of what Raptors teammate Kawhi Leonard is going through now.
Leonard played just nine games with the San Antonio Spurs last season because of a right quad injury. The work it took to get from there to here — Leonard is averaging 27.6 points a game, fifth-best in the league — puts the Raptors' "load management" regimen for their star forward in perspective.
Leonard didn't practise with the team on Monday — a "scheduled maintenance checkup," said Raptors head coach Nick Nurse — and eight of the 12 games he's missed this season have been attributed to the need for rest.
Leonard sat out back-to-back games in November because of a sore left ankle, and again on consecutive nights in December because of a bruised right hip. It wasn't until last week — home dates against the Phoenix Suns on Thursday and Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday — that he had missed consecutive games when healthy.
Most of the enforced time off has coincided with the Raptors' nine back-to-backs to date. He has yet to play on consecutive days this season, usually sitting out the second. That points to another break for Leonard — whose longest stretch of games played this season is nine — when the Raptors visit the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday, after hosting the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night.
The club has just two back-to-backs remaining after this week's Kings-Pacers double: March 10 and 11 (road dates with the Miami Heat and Cleveland Cavaliers); March 17 and 18 (in Detroit, then home to the New York Knicks).
In the midst of a gruelling NBA season, one or two games off might not be enough to deal with any physical problems, Miles said. Mentally, though, it can pay significant dividends.
The logic doesn't only apply to Leonard, added Raptor Danny Green.
The 31-year-old Green, who has missed just two games this season, couldn't help but slip in a few good-natured jabs at his longtime teammate, four years his junior.


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Kurkela (även: Kuusjoki kyrkoby, ) är en tätort () i Salo stad (kommun) i landskapet Egentliga Finland i Finland. Fram till 2009 var Kurkela centralorten för Kuusjoki kommun. Vid tätortsavgränsningen den 31 december 2021 hade Kuusjoki kyrkoby 512 invånare och omfattade en landareal av 1,87 kvadratkilometer.

I Kurkela finns bland annat Kuusjoki kyrka.

Referenser

Tätorter i Finland
Salo


Hervé joined the Equitas team as an Education Specialist in the Fall of 2015. Currently, he is working mostly on the West Africa program. He has 10 years of experience in designing and delivery of training in human rights and inter-culturalism, training of trainers as well as community mobilization. Hervé has an M.A. in Human Development and International Cooperation from Florence University (Italy) and long-term experience on issues such as global citizenship and the different aspects of social and economic rights.


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Reba McEntire Coming to Van Andel Arena May 9
Country Icon Reba McEntire Coming to Van Andel Arena May 9
Tickets Go on Sale Friday, November 22 at Noon
Grand Rapids —Country icon Reba McEntire is coming to Grand Rapids for a performance at on Saturday, May 9, 2020 at 7:00 PM.
Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, November 22 at 12:00 PM. Tickets will be available at the Van Andel Arena and DeVos Place box offices and online at Ticketmaster.com. See Ticketmaster.com for all current pricing and availability.
Country icon, Reba McEntire will hit the road in 2020!
On Tuesday morning (November 12) McEntire shared on social media news about her upcoming headlining tour. The country singer will kick off the trek at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana on March 20 and will run through May 9 with a final show at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Currently, McEntire plans to stop in 12 cities around the country.
"I'm so excited to get back out on the road in 2020 and visit some places I haven't been to in a while!" McEntire writes.
Tickets for select dates will go on sale Friday, November 22. Check out McEntire's website for further tour details.
On Wednesday night, McEntire will co-host for the 53rd CMA Awards alongside Carrie Underwood and Dolly Parton. She's also expected to take the stage for a "historic, not-to-be-missed" opening performance alongside other female country icons.
Tune in to ABC on Wednesday, November 13 at 8 p.m. ET to watch the CMA Awards live from Nashville's Bridgestone Arena.
Reba McEntire's 2020 Tour Dates:
March 20 -- Evansville, Ind. @ Ford Center
March 21 -- Huntsville, Ala. @ Von Braun Center Arena
March 26 -- Pittsburgh, Pa. @ PPG Paints Arena
March 28 -- Toledo, Ohio @ Huntington Center
April 24 -- Rosemont, Ill. @ Allstate Arena
April 25 -- Green Bay, Wisc. @ Resch Center
April 26 -- Sioux Falls, S.D. @ Denny Sanford Premier Center
May 1 -- Biloxi, Miss. @ Mississippi Coast Coliseum
May 2 -- Duluth, Ga. @ Infinite Energy Center
May 7 -- St. Paul, Minn. @ Xcel Energy Center
May 8 -- Peoria, Ill. @ Peoria Civic Center
May 9 -- Grand Rapids, Mich. @ Van Andel Arena


Larie Writes of My Heart Speaks is hosting a giveaway on her blog. Head on over for your chance to win two of our CAUSE Handcrafted Soaps!
Thank you, Larie, for showcasing this initiative!
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Prof. Şeref Naci Engin
Born in Erzurum in 1964, Şeref Naci Engin received his BA degree from Yildiz Technical University, Electrical Engineering Department in 1985. He was appointed as a Research Assistant in 1987 in the same department. He completed his military service as a Quality Control Engineer at MKE Institution for one year in 1989-1990 on behalf of the Ministry of National Defense. He attended one year of practical training in the field of Automatic Flight Control Systems in Spain in 1991-1992, as a researcher of the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries of Turkey. He did his PhD in the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at University of Hertfordshire between 1994 and 1998, and his post-doctoral research in the System Dynamics and NN Research Group in Mechanical Engineering at Brunel University between 1999 and 2000 in England. In 2000, he started to work as a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yildiz Technical University.
He left the university in 2009 and worked as a Chief Researcher at TUBITAK Marmara Research Center, Energy Institute between 2009 and 2012. He was appointed as the General Manager for the Yildiz Technopark in 2012 and continued until the end of 2014. He is the founding director of the Technology Transfer Office of Yildiz Technopark. He returned to the University in 2014 and became a lecturer in the Control and Automation Engineering Department, Faculty of Electrical and Electronics at Yildiz Technical University. He has been the Head of the Department since May 2016.
Prof. Engin who has publications in the areas of system modeling, data analytics ad control theory is one of the co-founders of YEO Technology Energy and Industry Co. and one of the founding partners of Erik Technology Laboratories Co., a software development and consultancy startup company in Yildiz Technopark.
He is married with one son.


1921 Tequila Reposado is produced from 100% Blue Weber estate grown agave. Double distilled in stainless steel pot stills with copper coils. It is filtered twice through state of the art gravitational filtration system and aged for 6 months in new American oak barrels.
Toasted honey color, invoking the shine of the most precious metal, luminous transparency, with elegant descending legs (tears).
Sweet and gentle plum aroma, a result of its resting period in the perfect synchronization of the Tequila with the delicately charred wood of the barrels.
Impressionable character from the very first taste, possessing a smooth, fruity flavor, moderate sweetness, delicate white oak finish, with a subtle note of hazelnut.
Silky and warm sensation that caresses the tongue.


I honestly and truly have no idea where to start. The characters? The world building? The flowing dialogue? The imagery in every detail? Yes readers, this is one of those books, which means it will be one of those reviews. So sit back and relax… this may take a while. *sigh*I honestly can't remember the last time that not only a book, but the characters within that book grabbed me the way this one did. There's no other way to describe them but real. Zoe was a character I could relate to from the beginning. There was nothing fake about her. She was totally sincere in everything she did and I loved her for that. She was feisty and may not have always stood up for herself, but she had no problem standing up for both people and causes she believed in. Then there was Gavin… beautiful, broken Gavin. He was totally ready to sacrifice everything for those he loved. He was rough around the edges but just as strong when it came to defending others as Zoe. Together these two were prefect. There was just the tiny little matter of them only being together in their dreams… literally.So, Gavin and Zoe were the main characters, but the supporting cast was not only strong, but just as important to the story. The crew that supported Zoe, especially her best friend Adriene, were great. I loved Adreine's wit, her brassiness and her obvious love for Zoe. As best friends go, she was, well, the best. Gavin had his band mates, but we didn't get to know them very well. The main friend that we met of Gavin's was Yileen. But he was way more than that. He was his mentor, his protector and one of the few people he trusted totally. I loved Yileen. He was wise and he had more than a few tricks up his sleeve. Then there were the bad guys and no one was badder than Scarlet. She is the kind of character that you not only love to hate but a character that you wish would go up in flames. (And yes, I do realize how truly ironic that statement was…) Sinnder is also among the bad guys, but the jury's still out on him as far as I'm concerned. I think that there is much more to his character and I'm sure we will find out what secrets he's hiding as the Trilogy progresses.Did I mention that the world building was a phenomenal part of Inhale? It's complicated, intricate, beautiful and amazing. Yep, that pretty much sums it up. I love the concept of the Dreaming. I found out after I finished the book that there is a glossary of terms in the back. When you pick up Inhale… and you MUST pick up this book… don't be afraid to glance at the back to find the glossary. I had no problem following the terms and mythology but it might be easier with the background that the glossary provides.So basically, there you have it. Inhale was so much more than I expected and then some. The writing was almost lyrical and the story had me totally enamored from the first chapter. The world building was amazing and the romance was hot. There were tears, laughs and a fair amount of anger thrown in for good measure. You might even learn something about whales, which was an added bonus. Having said all that, Inhale is also not a book for the faint of heart. The warning that comes with this one is for real so pay attention to it. Kendall Grey held nothing back, which I found amazing but some readers may not.The next book in the trilogy is Exhale and I will be picking it up soon. I am now totally hooked and even though Inhale didn't end in a true cliff hanger, there is definitely much more to come and I can't wait to see where these characters are headed next.


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Vysoká je vesnice, část městyse Hustopeče nad Bečvou v okrese Přerov. Nachází se asi 2,5 km na sever od Hustopečí nad Bečvou. V roce 2009 zde bylo evidováno 62 adres. V roce 2001 zde trvale žilo 233 obyvatel.

Vysoká leží v katastrálním území Vysoká u Hustopečí nad Bečvou o rozloze 4,68 km2. Východně od vsi se v něm nachází Porubská brána, nejnižší přirozené sedlo na rozvodí mezi Odrou a Bečvou (potažmo Dunajem).

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Vesnice v okrese Přerov
Hustopeče nad Bečvou
Sídla v Podbeskydské pahorkatině


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Eric Dickerson took noble issue and somehow made NFL look like good guy
Charles RobinsonNFL columnist
September 20, 2018, 1:59 AM UTC
Eric Dickerson is doing OK, but he's not crazy rich.
Apparently, the NFL should help compensate for that. Why? Because the onetime All-Pro running back was a great player. A Hall of Famer. A touchstone in league history. So he wants a $300,000 a year stipend for himself and all other Hall of Famers. For life. And maybe in death, too.
As messages go, this one is a total mess and extremely unflattering for the players it aims to represent.
But this is what Dickerson has been sharing with the world the past few days. First in a letter to the league, the Hall of Fame and the union, signed by a handful of living Hall of Famers and the wife of deceased NFL star Reggie White. It's a message that feels awkward and mixed – on one hand, banging a drum for necessary health care coverage for players but on the other hand, adding some self-enrichment for players who already earned top-end NFL salaries during their eras. All while threatening to hold out of future Hall of Fame activities if some kind of agreement isn't reached.
Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson is leading a group of former players seeking increased compensation from the league. (AP)
It's hard to see this as anything less than a legitimate need (health care) married to an awkward reach for the NFL's gravy train of new money. And you can bet it's why some Hall of Famers are trying to subtly distance themselves from parts of the effort. Already, guys like Kurt Warner and Jerry Rice said their names shouldn't have been on the initial letter, while very delicately supporting the health care aspect of the pursuit.
It's not hard to understand this point. When a Hall of Fame player says, "Guys in the NFL should have their health taken care of later in life," it's a noble message. But when a Hall of Fame player essentially says "the NFL has a ton of new money and we laid this foundation," then throws out a $300,000 salary-for-life suggestion, that cheapens the message. It feels sour, arbitrary and unrealistic. Why $300,000 per year? Why not $50,000? Does the NFL owe Hall of Fame players alimony? Should the league be required to keep players and their families in the style they were accustomed to when the playing checks were rolling in?
How should the NFL feel about paying O.J. Simpson $300,000 a year for the rest of his life? Or Joe Namath, who is unquestionably fortunate that his drunkenly inappropriate, nationally televised "I just wanna kiss you" moment didn't happen today, when he would have been eviscerated for it.
After dissecting the letter and multiple statements made by Dickerson, this feels more like a ham-handed mistake that badly needed more thought and a better spokesperson. Nobody wants to hear Dickerson talk about how former players aren't rich and how the NFL today is practically printing money. Especially when Dickerson made good money in his career – both in salary and endorsements – and was free to grow it or lose it as he saw fit.
It's also worth noting Dickerson was one of the biggest stars to cross the picket lines during the 1987 strike, an act that ultimately helped undermine a union effort to achieve better health care and benefits for players. Another star who scuttled that strike? Lawrence Taylor, who was also on the letter threatening to boycott Hall of Fame activities.
When Dickerson had to put his paychecks on the line in 1987, he folded and abandoned lesser players who didn't have the star power to push for better benefits. That's not a great look for anyone arguing for a paycheck for life for the NFL elites – while simultaneously attaching that message to health care for all.
I'm trying to tread lightly here because there is no denying the NFL is overflowing with cash. And the last thing anyone in the world needs is someone strapping on a cape for team owners or the league commissioner, who all make absurd sums of money on an annual basis. Particularly when there are so many things to loathe in the NFL – concussions; domestic violence; officiating; rules; the Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid sagas; or any multitude of embarrassing issues involving the billionaires who are at the controls.
But as much as the league has problems, I don't know that its success means it owes living Hall of Fame players and the families of the deceased players $300,000 a year for eternity – a sum that would total nearly $100 million per year and become more expensive with each new class. Simply having health care for players for the remainder of their lives would already be an astronomical expense for the NFL. But at the very least, that can be seen as the cost of doing business in a violent sport that didn't always make players aware of the dangers they faced. And it would be on top of the NFL's in-progress concussion settlement, which is expected to exceed $1 billion in claims paid in the next several years.
And when Dickerson talks about how every Hall of Famer deserves a $300,000 a year "stipend" forever, it's hard to square that with the growing list of recent Hall of Famers who have earned tens of millions (and some more than $100 million or more) during their careers. Consider that the Manning brothers – Peyton and Eli – will eventually go into the Hall having earned roughly $500 million in salary. Does it make sense that they should be included in this? Of course not.
Dickerson and his Hall of Fame fraternity were a unique and irreplaceable part of the NFL. And they are part of an NFL brotherhood that deserves to have its health needs met as the declining years close in. But there's no denying that being part of a special Hall of Fame fraternity opened doors, built houses, bought cars and paid bills, generally providing a comfortable life and ample opportunity for most of those who achieved the game's highest honor.
Many didn't get a piece of the cable network money. Some missed out on the fantasy sports boom that drove NFL popularity to new heights. Others will never see a dime of lucrative gambling platforms that are sure to create rivers of new money in the coming decades. But industries change. Paychecks grow. And some of the richest gravy trains are missed by guys who simply arrived and departed too early.
Dickerson and many Hall of Famers are in that class. But that doesn't mean they didn't have opportunity. And it doesn't mean the NFL owes them a $300,000 paycheck for life. Trying to reach for that now through a legitimate health care need is cheap, messy and self-entitled. And frankly, it's not worthy of the Hall of Fame fraternity it aims to represent.
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Howitzers [MA-04] - $4.00 : Grenadier Productions,, Home of Liberators!
3 howitzers. Each howitzer is 3 pieces, 2 wheels and the howitzer & carriage. Use these howitzers as 5.5" howitzers or Howitzers for both Patriot and Royalist armies.


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Every member of the Arsenal Supporters' Trust shares in ownership of Arsenal Football Club.
The Arsenal Supporters' Trust is registered as an Industrial and Provident Society. This means we are a mutual company, owned equally by all of our members. Each member has one vote in the Trust's elections and decisions we make about how to use our shareholding.


Ang Thong is a small province located on the bank of the Chao Phraya River having an area of 968 square kilometers. It is a low basin of sandy soil having much rain during the rainy season. Ang Thong is only 108 kilometers along the Asian Highway from Bangkok. It is administratively divided into seven Amphoes: MuangAngThong, Chaiyo, Pa Mok, Pho Thong, Sawaengha, Wiset Chai Chan and Samko.
Wat ChaiyoWorawihan This monastery, located 18 kilometers from Amphoe Muang, houses Phra Maha Phuttha Phim which is in the attitude of meditation. It was built by Somdet Phra Phutthachan (To Phrom Rangsi) of Wat Rakhang during the reign of King Rama IV. This Buddha image is highly respected by inhabitants of Ang Thong Province and the neighbouring provinces especially for those who collect small Buddha images. They have the in depth knowledge that the amulets called "Somdet Wat Chaiyo" are very popular and very difficult to be located.
Reclining Buddha of Wat Khun InthapramunThis 50 meters reclining Buddha is housed in Wat Khun Inthapramun, Amphoe Pho Thong, 11 kilometers from the township. The monastery is located in the open air of the rice fields having no roof due to the Wihan housing the image being in ruins. In front of this image lies a statue of a man who, according to the legend, is Khun Inthapramun, a revenue officer who secretly took away the official money to enlarge the original 40 meters construction of the image. When the king heard about that and interrogated him where from he obtained the money he did not answer and was whipped to death, thus originating the name of this monastery as Wat Khun Inthapramun.
Wat Pho Thong This monastery is located in Amphoe Pho Thong, nine kilometers from the Amphoe Office. Here Prince Uthumphon (Khun Luang Ha Wat) resided during his second monkhoodperiod. He caused the construction of a place of interest,e.g.,Kham Yat Hall as his residential compartment. Amphoe Pho Thong is famed for the beautiful craftsmanship in inventing the wicker-ware items of special Dok Phikun design which are usually bought by the tourist as souvenirs.
Wat Phra Phuttha Saiyat Pa Mok This monastery is a royal grade monastery (Wora Wihan) located at Amphoe Pa Mok,18 kilometers from Amphoe Muang. There is a very old Reclining Buddha image which is 22.58 meters long. It is found in the royal record that King Naresuan also stopped over to convene his troops and pay homage to this Reclining Buddha prior to leading the army to fight King Maha Uparacha of Burma.
Ban Bang Phae Drum Making Village This village is located in the vicinity of Amphoe Pa Mok and accessible by the road passing the Municipality Office which is parallel to the Yang Mani Irrigation Canal, after which one enters the village situated on the bank of the Chao Phraya River. Drums produced in this village vary the small souvenir size to the very large temple size.
Wat Sa Kaeo This monastery, originally named Wat Sa Kae and built in 1699, is located 15 kilometers from Ayutthaya along Highway 309 (AyutthayaAng Thong route) with a left turn into the monastery. Wat Sa Kaeo partly serves as an orphanage for a large number of children. Also situated within the precincts of the monastery is "Samakkhi-samakhan," a cloth weaving project under royal demand under the Ministry of Industry. Many kinds of cloth are woven here such as cotton, long simple skirt, loincloth, etc.
Ban Bang Sadet Miniature Doll Centre under the Royal Patronage of Her Majesty the Queen. This is a small village where people manage to improve their standard of living by making miniature dolls as an additional occupation under the royal patronage of Her Majesty the Queen. The Dolls are on display at the sermon hall of Wat Tha Sutthawat and also available at Chitralada shops.


Republicans revealed the final version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Friday.
According to an analysis by the Tax Foundation, the bill would boost US GDP by 1.7% over the long term and add $448 billion to the federal deficit.
While the report showed that the bill is "pro-growth," it falls short of Republican promises on growth and the deficit.
Congress is expected to pass the final version of the gigantic Republican tax overhaul by Wednesday, in a mad dash to get the bill on President Donald Trump's desk before Christmas.
While the bill was only released Friday, leaving little time to break down the impact of the legislation, the conservative-leaning Tax Foundation did release their initial analysis of the economic growth impact of the bill on Monday.
According to the Tax Foundation's model, which is generally considered aggressive in its assumptions about economic growth, the conference committee's version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) would boost GDP by 1.7% over the long run. In the short term, the model found that the bill will boost the GDP growth rate to 2.45% in 2018 from the current projection of 2.01%.
While the economic boost estimated by the Tax Foundation's model is significant, it still falls well short of a series of Republican promises.
Based on analyses by Trump administration economists and other Republican economists, GOP leaders said that the tax bill could increase GDP by 3% to 5% over a ten year period. Additionally, the GDP growth boost would still fall short of the president's promised 3% annual growth.
Nicole Kaeding, one of the economists at the Tax Foundation, tweeted after the release of the report that the lower growth projection is mainly due to adjustments in the final bill that would make certain tax benefits for businesses less generous than in previous iteration of the TCJA, such as changes to how businesses can expense structures.
Given the muted growth effects, the revenue effects also end up falling short of the GOP's promise that the TCJA would pay for itself.
The model estimated that the increased economic growth would boost federal revenue by roughly $600 billion over a 10-year window, which would mean the plan wold still substantially increase the federal deficit.
"Overall, the plan would decrease federal revenues by $1.47 trillion on a static basis and by $448 billion on a dynamic basis, due to the aforementioned $600 billion in dynamic revenue reflow, expiration of multiple provisions, and the addition of the revenue generated from the functional repeal of the individual mandate," the report said.
So while the Tax Foundation finds the TCJA to be "pro-growth," it still satisfies neither the economic boost nor the debt promises made by the Trump administration and Republicans.