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Middle East News: World Press Roundup
The New York Times report on the struggle between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to move talks forward (1) while the Jerusalem Post reports on a conversation with Prime Minister Fayyad detailing his concerns that a peace deal in 2008 may be in peril (3). In a National Interest opinion Ted Galen Carpenter discusses what the thinks about sending NATO peacekeepers into the West Bank (5). A Yehudit Barsky opinion in the JTA examines Hezbollah's next move (8). In Haaretz, Barak Ravid reports on a possible declaration of independence in the even peace talks with Israel fail (11).
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For Palestinians, The Power Of Mass Non-violence Would Be Undeniable
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Guardian
by Jonathan Freedland - (Opinion)	February 20, 2008 - 6:45pm
Now that Fidel Castro has taken the carriage clock, international affairs has all too few fixed points of continuity. Her Majesty the Queen is still in place. The King of Thailand has been on the throne since 1946. Otherwise one has to turn to the Middle East for reassurance that some things never change. Fly-by-nights like Castro may come and go, but the Israel-Palestine conflict will, it seems, always be with us.
Jihadi Regime
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Times
by Walid Phares - (Opinion)	February 20, 2008 - 6:46pm
As Americans debate whhich presidential candidate is best to confront the jihadists or at least preempt their offensives worldwide, the latter almost seized a key African country for the forthcoming Darfur peace missions.
Fayad To 'post': 2008 Peace Deal In Peril
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post
by Tovah Lazaroff - February 20, 2008 - 6:48pm
If Israel and the Palestinians don't change their behavior faster in the West Bank, they will fail to finalize a peace agreement in 2008, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayad told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. He spoke with the Post briefly in the aftermath of a rare address to the annual Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which is meeting in Jerusalem this week. "There must be a greater focus. What we need to do is to pay close attention to the road map," said Fayad.
Inside Track: Nato's West Bank Nightmare
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National Interest
by Ted Galen Carpenter - (Opinion)	February 20, 2008 - 6:49pm
Washington is sending up a trial balloon about stationing NATO troops as peacekeepers on the West Bank. The Jerusalem Post reports that former NATO supreme commander General James Jones, now the Bush administration's special envoy to the Middle East, is floating the idea to various European countries.
Jordan Warns Israeli Practices Yeild To Extremism
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times
Jordan on Tuesday warned of Israeli measures that lead to exacerbating the living conditions in the Palestinian territories, describing these practices as a recipe for extremism. Israeli sieges and closures of roads contribute only to worsening the situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications Nasser Judeh told the opening session of a two-day seminar by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
Op-ed: Hezbollah Will Strike Back, Question Is Where And When
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
by Yehudit Barsky - (Opinion)	February 20, 2008 - 6:52pm
For many of his victims around the world, the recent car-bomb assassination of Imad Fayez Mughniyeh -- one of the world's most wanted terrorists for two decades -- has the ring of true justice. At least in the short term, the killing of Mughniyeh will have a deterrent effect and hamper Hezbollah's capability to carry out a revenge attack.
Construction Continuing In West Bank Settlements Despite Pm's Pledge
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Amoss Harel - February 20, 2008 - 6:53pm
A new neighborhood comprising 27 trailers is currently under construction at the settlement of Eli, north of Ramallah, even though Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed publicly after the Annapolis conference that any such building would cease. Even though some of the trailers are being set up on land privately owned by Palestinians, the authorities are taking no action. Similar unauthorized construction has taken place in the settlement of Maskiot in the northern Jordan Valley.
Netanyahu: Olmert Government Taking Measures To Cede Jerusalem
Likud leader and chairman of the opposition MK Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that the Olmert government is taking measures to divide Jerusalem, and urged the key Shas party to bolt the coalition and topple the government in order "to save Jerusalem." Netanyahu was reacting to ongoing wrangling between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over Olmert's assertion that the sides had agreed to defer discussions over the status of Jerusalem to a future final phase of negotiations.
Abbas Cool To Aide's Call For Kosovo-like Declaration Of Statehood
by Barak Ravid - February 20, 2008 - 6:55pm
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, responding to an aide's call on Wednesday for a unilateral declaration of statehood if peace talks with Israel continued to falter, ruled out taking any such step soon. "We will pursue negotiations in order to reach a peace agreement during 2008 that includes the settlement of all final status issues including Jerusalem," Abbas said in a statement.


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THE BREAKDOWN, STEVE SCOTT: 2021, when rugby blossomed out of the Covid darkness – well, mostly
By Steve Scott
December 29 2021, 12.46pm Updated: December 29 2021, 12.47pm
South Africa's captain Siya Kolisi.
Maybe it was because 2020 was so miserable that 2021 felt like a cathartic time in rugby.
But for three very notable contests in the middle of the year, the game was played everywhere with a freedom and verve as it emerged from the Covid bunker.
Comebacks and last minute scores (many well beyond the last minute) happened all over the place. There were more 'WOW' moments in 2021 than any season I can remember in 25 years covering the sport.
There's still reason to not be over-optimistic. Not least as the game finally confronts the early on-set dementia crisis caused, you have to believe, by an excess of physical contact we all feared might be doing our young men and women harm.
But it just felt like you saw players (of all sizes) running with freedom in space more than at any time in 20 years. It's a clear pointer to where our game's future lies, even if my team of the year almost make a point of bucking the trend…
Ah, the pleasure/pain principle. There is so much to admire about the present South African team, and also to deplore at the same time.
Their style of play is simply dreadful to watch at a time the game is opening out; a bludgeoning forward pack and endless box-kicks, forcing knock-ons and loose ball.
They're incredibly good at it. Virtually all their backs tries come from broken play counters of mis-fielded kicks. But that doesn't make it any better to watch for the neutral.
The three worst games I saw in the year, at any level, were the three Lions tests. Finn Russell's cameo in the third test only served to illustrate how dire the rest was.
The Boks won that series. They wrestled the All Blacks to a stalemate. In the final matches of a gruelling year, they probably should have beaten England.
They actually lost five tests in 2021 – Ireland had the best year by pure results – but you still feel the Boks were the most notable team.
To admire? Eben Etzebeth. Two class front rows. Lukhanyo Am, Damien De Allende, Makazone Mapimpi and of course Cheslin Kolbe. The class of Sila Kolisi. The sheer cussedness of 'this is how we play, deal with it'.
You just hope it's a different team next year.
Four games involving France – their Six Nations matches with Wales and Scotland, their third test in Australia and the epic against New Zealand, the last international of the year.
I have an inkling for the incredible Gallagher Premiership semi-final between Bristol and Harlequins. `Quins (having dumped their coach) changed the narrative of the season in the final few weeks. The result was the rise of Marcus Smith and after this free-scoring epic and another in the final against Exeter, the title.
But the winner has to be France-New Zealand. I don't see it as a changing of the guard; the ABs have simply picked a good time (midway through a World Cup cycle) to be relatively "struggling".
Really only a late intercept try made the final 40-25 scoreline look a bit lop-sided. I am confident, this, not the Lions tests, is the future of international rugby.
Scotland game of the year
1⃣9⃣8⃣3⃣: First win over England at Twickenham in 38 years.
1⃣9⃣9⃣9⃣: First win over France in Paris in 22 years.
🏴 Not a bad #GuinnessSixNations at all for Scotland. 👏 pic.twitter.com/085p1zGQh0
— Planet Rugby (@PlanetRugby) March 26, 2021
When Scotland last won at Twickenham, I was still in my teens. I was in my third year as The Courier's rugby correspondent when they last won in Paris. I despaired of seeing either happen again in my lifetime.
Wouldn't you know, they both came in the space of six weeks.
I think we have to give the nod to Paris as the greater achievement. Better opposition, massive resilience required with a rescheduled date at short notice, a depleted squad. And those final circumstances (see below).
Scotland would have lost that game at any time over the previous 20 years. Which gives one real hope – bolstered by the Wallabies game in November – that this current side are cut from a very different cloth.
Try of the year
Cheslin Kolbe showcased his sublime skills to finish off this brilliant Springbok try against the British & Irish Lions, one of 10 nominees for the 2021 SA Rugby Try of the Year award. https://t.co/8ZK0JkK6gE
— SA Rugby magazine (@SARugbymag) December 11, 2021
Cheslin Kolbe's crucial score in the third Lions test illustrated the Bok pain/pleasure principle in full; a contested box kick guddled, a swift counter, and the wing's brilliance. In terms of significance, it was probably the try of the year.
But the play of the year was Romain N'Tamack's counter from behind his own line against New Zealand.
It didn't result in a try but was just as pivotal as Kolbe's actual score. Ardie Savea killing the ball at the other end saved a score but cost the ABs a yellow card to their best player with the score at 27-25.
The sheer audacity reminded one of the legendary Philippe St-Andre try at Twickenham 30 years ago. Just because it didn't end in a score, doesn't detract from the memory.
Scotland try of the year
France 23 Scotland 27: Duhan van der Merwe's last-gasp try wins it for Scotland in Paris despite Finn Russell's red card
Even though Scotland score pretty freely these days, there's really no contest for this. 20 phases, deep into "red time" to win in France for the first time in 22 years. Duhan van der Merwe stepping inside two defenders to score (and to surpass Brian O'Driscoll's record of defenders beaten in a single Six Nations).
Even if Scotland revert to frustrating type in 2022, this will be a fond memory forever.
Pro team games of the year
It would be obvious to pick both sides' last European games, Edinburgh at Saracens and Glasgow over Exeter. I'll certainly take the Warriors win, a fulfilment of Danny Wilson's tenure, even if a lot of spoiled Glasgow fans simply refused to be convinced by their head coach.
For Edinburgh, however, I'll take their win over Scarlets at their debut at their new base, the DAM Health Stadium.
The win at Saracens was incredible, but this game in September felt properly transformative. A new coach in Mike Blair, a new home, and a new attitude.
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When I took over the running of Badego about two and a half years ago I had in my mind that the end goal was to put on some form of Design festival. I've always found it really bizarre Birmingham doesn't have one despite having so many festivals celebrating other parts of the creative community. Given the size of the city and the growth of the design industry as a whole I feel we're crying out for a celebration in the heart of the country.
Having seen the popularity of amazing events such as Glug continue to grow and public interest in arts go to a new level we felt it was time to start having the conversation about how and when a design festival for Birmingham could happen. We've brought together a really great group of people, some of whom are designers, some who are already putting on events like this in Birmingham and some who are doing both. We've had a couple of meetings so far and have a rough plan of what we want this festival to be and soon we're going to fully put our heads down and getting into the thick of planning. As the project expands so will the team and we'll be contacting more people to be a part of the organisation as the months progress.
We'll announce more details when we have them, for now you can head over to http://birminghamdesignfestival.org.uk and sign up to a mailing list and you can follow the twitter account @designfestbrum. If you'd be interested in getting involved send an email to hello@badego.org.uk and tell us more about yourself.


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1 RNA Analysis
1.1 Native Purification and Analysis of Long RNAs
1.2 System-wide identification of RNA-binding proteins by interactome capture (Prot 63)
1.3 Cloning of small RNAs with 5' phosphate and 3' OH ends (Prot 40)
1.4 RNA-biotin based pulldown assays for the detection of siRNA targeted genomic regions and siRNA directed histone modifications (Prot 32)
1.5 RNA-chromatin immunoprecipitations (RNA-ChIP) in mammalian cells (Prot 28)
Native Purification and Analysis of Long RNAs
Isabel Chillón1, Marco Marcia1,4, Michal Legiewicz1, Fei Liu1, Srinivas Somarowthu1, Anna Marie Pyle1,2,3
The purification and analysis of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in vitro is a challenge, particularly if one wants to preserve elements of functional structure. Here, we describe a method for purifying lncRNAs that preserves the cotranscriptionally derived structure. The protocol avoids the misfolding that can occur during denaturation–renaturation protocols, thus facilitating the folding of long RNAs to a native-like state. This method is simple and does not require addition of tags to the RNA or the use of affinity columns. LncRNAs purified using this type of native purification protocol are amenable to biochemical and biophysical analysis. Here, we describe how to study lncRNA global compaction in the presence of divalent ions at equilibrium using sedimentation velocity analytical ultracentrifugation and analytical size-exclusion chromatography as well as how to use these uniform RNA species to determine robust lncRNA secondary structure maps by chemical probing techniques like selective 2′-hydroxyl acylation analyzed by primer extension and dimethyl sulfate probing.
1 Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA
3 Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
4 European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation, France
Corresponding author: Marco Marcia
Email feedback to: mmarcia@embl.fr
System-wide identification of RNA-binding proteins by interactome capture (Prot 63)
Alfredo Castello, Rastislav Horos, Claudia Strein, Bernd Fischer, Katrin Eichelbaum, Lars M. Steinmetz, Jeroen Krijgsveld, Matthias W. Hentze
mRNA interactome capture is a novel and unbiased technique to identify the active RBPs of cultured cells. Making use of in vivo UV-crosslinking of RBPs to polyadenylated RNAs, covalently bound proteins are captured with oligo(dT) magnetic beads. Following stringent washes, the mRNA interactome is determined by quantitative mass spectrometry. The protocol takes three working days for analysis of single proteins by western blot and about two weeks for the determination of complete cellular mRNA interactomes by mass spectrometry. The most important advantage of interactome capture over other in vitro and in silico approaches is that only RBPs bound to RNA in a physiological environment are identified. Applied to HeLa cells, interactome capture revealed hundreds of novel RBPs. Interactome capture can also be broadly used to define the mRNA interactome of different cell lines and to compare different biological states. […]
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Corresponding author: Alfredo Castello
Email feedback to: alfredo.castello@embl.d
Cloning of small RNAs with 5' phosphate and 3' OH ends (Prot 40)
Ericka Havecker
The following protocol describes a procedure for the purification and cloning of miRNAs and other small RNAs in the 20-30 nucleotide size range from plant tissue.
Baulcombe Lab (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge) , UK
RNA-biotin based pulldown assays for the detection of siRNA targeted genomic regions and siRNA directed histone modifications (Prot 32)
Kevin V. Morris
The recent discovery of RNA interference and in particular the observation that siRNAs can modulate gene expression at the level of transcription, i.e. small-interfering RNA (siRNA) directed transcriptional gene silencing (TGS) in Human cells (Matzke and Birchler 2005; Morris 2005) has illustrated the fact that RNA may be far more intricately involved in epigenetics than was previously assumed. To determine more clearly how siRNAs are interacting with the homologous genomic regions in the nucleus in human cell cultures we designed several RNA-biotin based pulldown assays which can be used alone or in combination with other known assays such as ChIP and Flag-tagged pulldown assays. Three protocols are explained in detail here. The first protocol is essentially a dual-pulldown assay employing Flag-tagged DNMT3A or antibody of choice for an endogenous protein and 5′ biotin linked antisense RNA, while the second protocol is a triple pulldown assay which essentially expands upon the dual pulldown to incorporate a third pulldown which is an iteration of the ChIP and is a pulldown for H3K27me3+. The third assay described here is the biotin-RNA pulldown of a low-copy RNA that spans the siRNA targeted promoter region. Data generated from this assay is currently in submission.
Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine
The Scripps Research Institute – 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA, 92037 , USA
RNA-chromatin immunoprecipitations (RNA-ChIP) in mammalian cells (Prot 28)
Bryan K. Sun & Jeannie T. Lee
RNA-protein interactions play important roles within the cell. Using a variation of the widely-used chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay, the potential association of cellular RNAs and candidate proteins can be evaluated in a process named "RNA-ChIP". This technique has been successfully used in mammalian cells, for example to examine the relationship of noncoding RNAs with histone proteins or to examine interactions between viral RNAs and proteins in the host mammalian cell. In RNA-ChIP, RNA-protein interactions are fixed by reversible chemical cross-linking with formaldehyde followed by immunoprecipitation with antibodies against the candidate protein(s). RNAs that are associated with the protein are detected by reverse transcriptase-PCR (RT-PCR). The following procedure was used to examine protein-RNA interactions in mouse embryonic stem cells, but can be modified for other cell types.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
MA, 02114, USA
Linear amplification of limiting amounts of RNA for gene expression studies (Prot 20)
RNAse A Treatment of Mouse Cells (Prot 10)


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ZZZZZZZ Day
Today is Z Day, the day on which Zeitgeist fans all over the world congregate to be paranoid, self-righteous, and misinformed together. I was going to do a slew of posts on how derivative, simplistic, naive, and fact-free(not to mention boring) Zeitgeist is, but I really don't feel like it at the moment. Let's face it, the folks who really, really dig Zeitgeist are pretty much beyond hope, anyway. So I'll just summarize my thoughts on the *film*:
Part I: In which Peter Joseph alienates the majority of his viewers by trying to convince them that Judaism and Christianity are just a retooling of ancient solar cults. Basically Brian Flemming's documentary The God Who Wasn't There blended with the "research" of Jordan Maxwell, the guy who says, "'Christ' means 'oil'. That's why we have Crisco", "98% of Judaism is worship of the planet Saturn", and "Zionism is a Teutonic/Germanic death cult."
Part II: This part promises to explore myth as sacred narrative. Maybe things are looking up for this film! But no. It's all about 9/11. Loose Change, only looser. Includes audio by Ted Gunderson, fer crying out loud. The guy who told Geraldo that 50,000 Americans are sacrificed by Satanists every year. The guy who says Osama bin Laden is really "Tim Osman". The guy who subscribes to the Sonny Bono assassination-by-tree theory. Jesus Christ. Oops, I mean Sun of God. Whatever.
Part III: Mangled information about central banking and the Federal Reserve, which Joseph expands on in Zeitgeist: Addendum. Nothing you can't get from Birchers or Ron Paul. If the Fed deliberately implodes the economy for shits and giggles, would someone please explain to me why Bernanke was sweating bullets on 60 Minutes tonight?
The banking stuff is capped off with some Aaron Russo footage about the illegality of income tax. I assume it's merely coincidence that the people who say income tax is unconstitutional are the same people who just happen to owe millions in back taxes…
Next up is a relatively sensible overview of false flag operations, war profiteering, divide and conquer strategies, etc. I'm not saying this part makes sense; I'm just saying it makes more sense than Ted Gunderson and Jordan Maxwell.
Zeitgeist: Addendum features the total B.S. of John Perkins, conman/author of Confessions of an A**hole Who Makes Stuff Up Economic Hit Man, as well as lots more ill-informed bitching about fractional reserve banking. But Addendum also features the point of Zeitgeist, the whole reason Joseph created this hot mess in the first place…
What does the Venus Project want us to do, exactly?
It was dreamed into existence in the mid '70s by a resident of Venus, Florida, inventor and futurist Jacque Fresco. He envisioned an end to poverty via the development of technology that will make more resources available to more people, as well as the replacement of our money-based economy with a resource-based economy.
It's quite similar to Buckminster Fuller's "ephemeralization", which won't work either.
Both Venus and ephemeralization seem to be based on the Smurf model of society. Baker Smurf will bake because he likes to bake, and will share his muffins with everyone freely. Papa Smurf will dispense wisdom because he's older and smarter than the other Smurfs. And Vanity Smurf will do everybody's hair because he's… well, I'll leave that one up to you to decide.
This will not work. Few farmers are going to produce free food for thousands of people out of the goodness of their hearts. In the Bible, farming was the very first curse that God placed upon man as punishment for his disobedience. I'm not saying this literally happened, but it does seem to embody an ancient and essential truth: Farming is really frickin' hard.
What we would end up with under Venus would be an agrarian society in which everyone would have to do their own subsistence farming, build their own homes, and barter frantically for all other essentials. Hardly "freedom from economic slavery".
Also, you can eliminate money, but you can never eliminate greed. The unscrupulous among us will find ways to exploit any non-monetary system we create.
Zeitgeist concludes with the words, "A choice right now between love and fear."
Hmm. What does that leave out?
Oh, right. As Donnie Darko would say, "THE ENTIRE SPECTRUM OF HUMAN EMOTION!!"
Happy Z Day, everybody.
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"Happy" Z day to you, too.
By a bit of a coincidence (though not by much, for reasons that are obvious), I ran into this article which includes in it a review of "Zeitgist" of some interest:http://www.utne.com/2008-01-01/Politics/Towers-of-Babble.aspxThe first 40 minutes explain in detail why Christianity is a sham and Jesus Christ is not the messiah. It's fairly well argued and revolves around commonly known facts: Many early religions had messianic stories involving virgin births, crucifixions, celebrations on December 25, and so on. The second part is devoted to 9/11 Truth, and it's probably the most clearly stated case I've seen, covering the "facts" concisely. The third part of Zeitgeist lost me entirely—it's a screed about how everything has always been a part of a master plan to create a New World Order, and the film's emotional climax involves a documentary filmmaker befriending a loose-lipped Rockefeller family member who blurts out the events of 9/11 . . . nearly one year before they happened!It's fascinating, this structure. First the film destroys the idea of God, and then, through the lens of 9/11, it introduces a sort of new Bizarro God. Instead of an omnipotent, omniscient being who loves you and has inspired a variety of organized religions, there is an omnipotent, omniscient organization of ruthless beings who hate you and want to take your rights away, if not throw you in a work camp forever. Zeitgeist is the film most Truthers mention online when they're new to the movement, and it believes in a magical fairyland dominated by evil villains. It's fiction, couched in a few facts.Incidentally, with regards to Webster Tarpley: Here's an interesting analysis of Webster Tarpley as defined as a purer form of Larouchism than Larouche:http://www.factnet.org/vbforum/showpost.php?p=376918&postcount=1067AND probably as good a reason that Webster Tarpley left that orbit as any:http://www.factnet.org/vbforum/showpost.php?p=361342&postcount=1087
I think the 9/11 portion of Zeitgeist is its weakest link; the "explosions" at the WTC (percussive sounds when planes hit buildings and the buildings suffer massive damage and collapse…wow, that's pretty anomalous!), the usual crap about Flights 77 and 93 "vaporizing", and a little racism for good measure. (Jordan Maxwell: "We are given to understand that an Arabic guy…up in the mountains, financed the most elaborate attack on this country.")I really don't know why Tarpley split with LaRouche (that press conference that wasn't a press conference is pretty much the norm with LaRouche, so I don't think that had anything to do with his departure, years later). I wonder sometimes if Tarpley only pretended to leave LaRouche's org, in order to recruit or set up his own "franchise." But now I'm getting paranoid, so I'll stop.


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Today, the BA announced an extension of the seal to be used by "supporters" of craft beer: retailers, distributors, state guilds, homebrew shops, festivals and other non-brewery industry members.
Along with the announcement, the BA also launched a new website featuring information about using the seal, stats about the seal's effectiveness in the marketplace, and a tool to quickly search if a specific brewery is a recognized craft brewery.
In a little over a year, more than 4,000 breweries, more than 85% of the craft segment, have adopted the independent seal. It was launched in June 2017 to help consumers differentiate beer that met the BA's definition of craft from other brands owned by Big Beer masquerading as craft. Less than a year after that, a second campaign was kicked off, That's Independence You're Tasting, featuring 30-second spots that aired on national television advocating for transparency into what's craft and what's crap.
Putting everything out on the table is important to the consumer. There's no benefit to hiding where their beer is coming from. This seal helps those who aren't yet in tune with craft beer. It informs them so they can make their own decisions. It signals a unity among craft brewers. And now, it can signal the unity among the entire industry.


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Marques and Miya Houston Welcome Their First Child Together (Exclusive Photos)
BY Cassandra S
The Houston's have been holding on to a sweet secret! The married couple recently revealed that they've welcomed their first child together — a baby girl named Zara. Per Marques and Miya's interview with Us Weekly, who first broke the story, Zara arrived about a week ago on Thursday, December 2.
Wednesday was the first day the public learned about the couple's newest family addition. Prior to Us Weekly's drop, Marques and Miya kept their pregnancy out of the spotlight. Marques told the site that Miya chose their daughter's name because she felt "it was exotic." The new mama made the choice so their little one could have a memorable, yet not average name.
The Shade Room also got an opportunity to connect with the 'Sister, Sister' star. In addition to providing exclusive photos of the trio, Marques spoke lovingly of his parenting relationship with Miya.
"Parenting is so easy when you have such an incredible partner to share the duties with," Marques wrote via text. "We do everything as a team, and we make sure we take shifts so both of us get sleep lol."
As you may already know, the couple elevated from boyfriend-girlfriend status to engaged couple in March 2019. They met in 2018 during a Jehovah Witness convention, according to an Instagram post by Marques. Soon after, he popped the lifelong union question. In August 2020, they officially tied the knot.
But two months before walking down the aisle, Marques addressed unpleasant rumors about their dating history. In June 2020, online users began to drag Marques for allegedly dating Miya while she was underage, but he refuted that claim.
"Miya and I didn't start dating until she was an adult. We fell in love and got engaged in March of 2019," Marques said at the time. "My dad Michael loves her, and the people I am closest to love her as well. Most importantly we have Jehovah's blessing."
Following the release of Us Weekly's coverage, both Marques and Miya began sharing footage of Miya's former baby bump and Zara to Instagram.
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While speaking to TSR, the new daddy praised Miya for her mothering skills.
"Miya is a 21-year-old mother, but handles motherhood like she's been a mom forever, she's such a natural," Marques wrote.


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Australia's Council of Financial Regulators has released an Issues Paper [pdf] to review regulation of stored-value facilities and their role in retail payments.
The paper is a direct response to the 2018 inquiry by the Productivity Commission into Competition in the Australian Financial System which called for the Council of to review the regulatory framework for purchased payment facilities (PPFs), one type of stored value instrument felt to need regulation.
The Issues Paper notes that the kind of stored value cards envisaged under existing regulations never took off and that PayPal is the only current PPF provider regulated in Australia. But it also observes that such instruments are becoming common in other nations, represent innovation and therefore likely to appear in Australia.
Whether tiered regulation is appropriate, depending on value allowed by a stored-valued instrument or whether their issuers are effectively deposit-takers.
Another issue the Paper ponders is whether closed-loop stored-value systems like AliPay are effectively beyond the control of regulators, as currency never leaves the community. It also grazes on issues like potential for trans-national funds transfers made using stored-value instruments that operate in multiple currencies.


After careful analysis of survey data, polls, Presidential speeches, and responses from citizens, researchers have found that people who support Donald Trump lack basic compassion and empathy for their fellow human beings. What's interesting is that these studies have found that both Democrats and Republicans are allegedly equal when it comes to caring for others, but the subset of Trump supporters studied were the outliers, showing no compassion for anyone. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains the results.
An interesting new piece came out this week from a professor and researcher and lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh that laid out exactly how and why Trump supporters are so awful, and as it turns out, based on polling data, based on conversations with these people, based on tests given to these people and compared to their voting habits, people who support Donald Trump as a whole tend to lack compassion and empathy for their fellow human beings. That is what this paper has determined based on all of the empirical evidence available. Now, here's what I found interesting about this particular paper, first and foremost, is that a Democrats and Republicans, the average Democrat and the average Republican, uh, typically have about the same amount of compassion according to the data, you know, they both equally give charitably, you know, typically on average a donate their time to help the less fortunate and things like that.
However, the difference in the two, just Democrat and regular Republican, is that Democrats tend to let their compassion help dictate their political choices. Whereas Republicans, if their candidate does not specifically mentioned compassion, they're less likely to let their personal compassion influence their political choices. Differences, Trump supporters the die hard. Trump supporters do not have that compassion in their daily life that the typical Republican does. According to the paper they do not give charitably, they do not concern themselves with the welfare of others and they do not wish to see others less fortunate. Succeed. They have no compassion. They are true sociopath's. Now, the paper does not necessarily use that term, but I am going to use that term because it is accurate. They do not view or have any kind of sense of the emotions of others and if they do, they don't care about them.
Nothing matters outside of the person itself. That is true sociopathic tendencies among these diehard Donald Trump supporters. Now, none of this is surprising. I mean honestly, this is something I have been saying for over a decade at this point and that is that Republicans do not care about people and this paper does confirm that as well. Even the ones who do have compassion in their daily lives, they do not let that compassion influenced their policies or their political choices that people they vote for. So what good is compassion in your personal life? If you're going to go out and vote somebody who says, we're going to kick people off food stamps, we're going to cut social security. We're going to burn down this planet and everyone living on the coast is going to suddenly have to deal with an extra two to three feet of water in their living room. That's not compassion. You can't have compassion in one area of your life and not the other. You can't turn it off and on. Democrats don't according to the data, but Republicans do, but even those republicans who can turn it on and off are nowhere near as bad as the die hard Trump supporters who don't even have an ounce of compassion in them.


If you've been anywhere near Pinterest in the past month or so, you may have noticed that quite a few people are pinning pictures of tulle skirts and/or expressions of their excitement over Pantone naming Emerald Green as the color of 2013. I can't say I'm disappointed in their choice of emerald green. It's a little more wearable for me than the vibrant orange of last year, though it is still, for me, not my first choice of color. Guinevere, however, is lately all about green. She's also been all over the Violette Field Threads Chloe pattern. A few months ago she saw that Audrey Hepburn-inspired photo of the dress and her excitement was such that her naturally squeaky little-girl voice went up to a pitch only the dog could hear. When the pattern went on sale on Black Friday, I went ahead and finally bought it (and two others). She is now ready and on-trend for 2013.
When we went to buy fabric, she had her eyes open for green. We looked at turquoise, purple, red, and a sunshiny yellow. She still chose green. Not just any green, the brightest, greenest, green she could find. The fabric is from the Hancock Fabrics BFF collection, so the colors were already matched for us. We bought crepe-back satin, polyester lining, chiffon, and tulle.
The pattern itself is quite easy. The fabric upped the ante on difficulty, partly from slipperiness, and partly from the sheer yardage involved in making the poofy skirt. One thing I really liked about the pattern is that the bodice is a straight front/back, no darts, no princess seams. Yes, it would look more tailored to have those details, but when dealing with slippery/puckery satin for someone with a 21″ bust and a 20″ waist, the overall look seems to be better without the extra seams. The skirt portion is multiple layers of gathered rectangles. The pattern itself is a multi-sized bodice and sash pieces with written directions for measuring out the skirt pieces. I made a 4T, and the fit is just about right. Not gaping at the underarms, but still has a little bit of room to grow (which is also the reason I made the skirt long). I bought the paper version of the pattern, but I would guess that the downloaded PDF version wouldn't be too overwhelming to put together since it is only the bodice/sash pieces. The paper version comes with a lovely printed full-color, glossy instruction booklet that reads very much like a blog tutorial with in-depth information on why some steps should be completed as written. There were a few quirks in the pattern that had me scratching my head, like why pieces to be placed on folds also had printed grainlines, but overall this is a lovely pattern.
The pattern leaves it to the maker's discretion how many buttons and what size to use. I had four of these pearly-looking ones in my stash, so four seemed to me to be the right number to use.
I could see a sewing newbie working with this pattern being worried about not having any guidelines for size/spacing of buttons, but it did make the bodice pattern less "busy" not to have multiple buttonhole markings covering the back center seam area.
I did deviate from the instructions a bit. It includes directions for a shorter and fuller skirt or a longer skirt with a ruffle. I made a longer full skirt with no ruffle. I also didn't use the exact fabrics recommended. The recommendation in the pattern is to use nylon chiffon that won't ravel, so the bottom doesn't need to be hemmed. I was using poly-chiffon, so there was plenty of potential for frayed edges. Since the skirt portions are gathered rectangles, it wasn't overwhelmingly difficult to do the narrow hem on the bottom, but it did add some extra time (and thread) to the dress-making process. I ended up using different finishing methods for the skirt side seams on each layer.
The innermost layer is a lightweight polyester lining fabric which was optional according to the pattern, but I didn't want to have to have her wear a slip. I sewed the side seam, then serged the edges together. The white doesn't show through, especially since the seam was already sewn with green. I don't keep green serger thread around. The bottom was turned up twice and stitched close to the edge.
The next skirt layer is poly-chiffon. It frayed extremely easily. I did a french seam, then turned up the bottom twice and again machine-hemmed.
The tulle doesn't fray, so I didn't hem it on the bottom. I did stitch the side seams twice, then trimmed close to the second line of stitching.
I made the tulle layers (two of them) a bit longer than the chiffon layer, which is just a hair longer than the lining layer.
With all those skirt layers, the inside could easily get messy. The bodice is fully-lined. I used the same crepe-back satin for the bodice lining that I used for the outer shell. If one really wanted to do so, it would be fairly easy to join the skirt to just the outer bodice, then slip-stitch the lining into place. I chose to treat the lining and bodice as one to sew the skirt to, then serged all the layers together. Even though in theory the serger thread would add bulk, sewing them together tightly actually seemed to cut down on the bulkiness of the waist seam. It also kept the insides looking tidy.
One last addition I made to the dress outside the pattern instructions. I was worried about the slippery satin sash staying tied. Not that I mind re-tying if needed, but I would mind very much if it fell off into a puddle. I made some thread belt loops at either side seam to hold the sash into the proper place, tied or not.
Overall, how easy was this pattern? I traced the pattern, cut it out, and sewed together all in one day (it helped that I had yesterday and today off work). I can't remember when was the last time I went start-to-finish on a project all on one day. It left me with time today to play with various color-schemes using internet-based photo-editing software. The saturated green of the dress really lends itself to showing up in otherwise mostly black and white photos.
This is the most frosting-y of frosting dresses. So, where is she going to wear it? Well, we are planning an evening at the ballet with the Aunties in February. Also Kindergarten graduation will be happening in the spring (assuming she doesn't outgrow it before then via one of her astounding growth spurts). Otherwise, she's young enough (and likes to wear pretty dresses enough) that I think this will be one of those dresses that she will reach for on any random Sunday…with a cardigan or sweater (maybe without the sash if she wears a sweater over it) during the winter.
I've had this dress planned for a while now, and probably could have waited until February to make it up, but really wanted to get it done in time to enter it into the Pattern Review December contest, the theme of which is sewing for children. If you're a pattern review member and you feel my work this time is worthy, please vote for me in January.
I end with the obligatory full-skirt twirling picture.


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The U.S. Department of Labor has about $1.8 million in grants available through the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations program
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The U.S. Department of Labor has about $1.8 million in grants available through the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations program, an initiative designed to recruit, train and retain women in high-skill occupations, such as advanced manufacturing, transportation, energy, construction and information technology. Applications are available at www.grants.gov.
Approximately four grants will be awarded to community development organizations. Services will include: the development of connections with pre-apprenticeship programs to prepare women for registered apprenticeship programs; orientations on creating a successful environment for women in apprenticeship; and support in the form of child care, transportation, support groups and other efforts to remove barriers to women succeeding in these industries.
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For a totally professional installation I tried finding the original connectors installed in the car, but Mazda only has the complete wiring harness and headlight actuators. An on-line junk-yard wanted $100 for the connectors.
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I originally tried using Radio Shack 6 position polarized connectors (274-226 & 274-236) but the headache of working in cramped quarters with no color coding and the additional soldering exceeded my desire. These connectors can be used, however I don't think it would be possible to make a "neat" unit.
The case listed (1"x2"x3") requires a little modifying for the relay to fit properly, and it's still a snug fit. If you're not experienced at soldering or plan to use crimp on connectors, you may want to try the 1"x2"x4" case RS P/N 270-1802. Listed at $2.29 the added cost to the project is only $.60, but I opted for the smaller case to save space.
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A: Not per se, since integrated Darlingtons usually have resistors that desaturate the transistors when turned off.

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Cast Linda appears in a "Theater Without Words" production of "The Flower and the Rain."
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There's no doubt that Serena Williams is one of the best tennis players of all time, and if I were to list all her various achievements and accolades, it would take a whole article.
However, over the course of the last year, Serena's become famous for more than just her performance on the court. Instead, she's started making headlines for shouting at umpires and her unconventional sartorial choices.
The jury's still out on whether arguing with the umpire in her 2018 US Open match against Naomi Osaka was wise, but it's fair to say that her outfits have proven to be something of a talking point in the world of tennis.
The trouble first started when Serena, in May 2018, wore a skin-tight catsuit at the 2018 French Open, which many people compared to a superhero outfit. The catsuit was banned by French Tennis Federation president Bernard Giudicelli, who stated: "It will no longer be accepted. One must respect the game and the place." In protest of this, Serena wore a tutu while playing against Magda Linette.
Serena has always maintained that she wears the catsuit to prevent blood clots in her legs, and yet that hasn't stopped officials from coming down hard on her for her wardrobe choices.
However, this week Serena clapped back at her critics at the Grand Slam at the Australian Open, by wearing a green lycra romper suit with, wait for it, hexagonal fishnet tights! Wow; that's a pretty cool look.
Fans of Serena's were pretty shaken by the get-up and took to social media to voice their enthusiasm for the ensemble. One person wrote "love that @serenawilliams is just so extra with her outfits. The Green Leotard kinda Romper Mini Catsuit is giving me Power Ranger vibes," while another added "Forget the catsuit. Check out Serena Williams' new romper."
In a recent profile which appeared in Allure magazine, the player stated: "There weren't a lot of role models for me to look up to [in the sport] and say, 'Wow, I want to look like this!'... I kind of had to be that role and be that person. Venus and I started out being successful, continued to be successful, and we were also unapologetically ourselves. We were not afraid to wear braids. We weren't afraid to be black in tennis. And that was different."
She added: "I think my mom instilled in us to be confident women, to really believe in ourselves, be proud of our heritage, our hair, and our bodies. That was something that was really important for her to teach us ... I'm feeling pretty good about my body. I worked hard at it in the past eight months to get back from the baby. It hasn't been easy. I'm not 21 anymore. But I did it slow and steady."
Personally, I don't think we should have a go at the champ for adding a bit of flair to her tennis gear. Keep at it, Serena!


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In this article, I will be discussing an actual CAT reading comprehension passage in detail. This passage is from CAT 2017.
Understanding where you are in the world is a basic survival skill, which is why we, like most species come hard-wired with specialized brain areas to create cognitive maps of our surroundings. Where humans are unique, though, with the possible exception of honeybees, is that we try to communicate this understanding the world with others. We have along history of doing this by drawing maps – the earliest version yet discovered were scrawled on cave walls 14,000 years ago. Human cultures have been drawing them on stone tablets, papyrus, paper and now computer screens ever since.
Given that each culture has a very different idea of who, or what, they should look up to it's perhaps not surprising that there is very little consistency in which way early maps pointed. In ancient Egyptian times the top of the world was east, the position of sunrise. Early Islamic maps favoured south at the top because most of the early Muslim cultures were north of Mecca, so they imagined looking up (south) towards it. Christian maps from the same era (called Mappa Mundi) put east at the top, towards the Garden of Eden and with Jerusalem in the centre.
The first paragraph can be summarised as: maps have historical importance in a human context and have been referred to as a survival skill in fact (your exaggerated mental note would say: Perfect! This is absolutely correct. Let's say I got lost at an alien place without a map. I would be in so much trouble).
The second paragraph tells us what the point of the passage is, that the direction north had not been mentioned on the maps till the last few hundred years. Also, there is a general propensity to not have north or west demarcated because one indicates darkness and the other indicates sunset.
The third paragraph talks about the north direction in Chinese maps and how it was not exactly because it would have been useful from the context of map making. It was more to please the emperor who used to look in the south direction because of the flow of the wind.
The fourth paragraph talks about the various cultures. Egyptian – East – Sunrise, Islamic – South – Mecca and Christian – East – Garden of Eden.
The fifth paragraph talks about how it would be wrong to attribute true north to Columbus and Magellan. They travelled by following the north star but when they made their map, east would be on top following the Christian beliefs of that time.
Q1. Which one of the following best describes what the passage is trying to do?
Before we look at the options, we have figured it out that the passage discusses the 'top of the world' in terms of maps from the perspective of multiple cultures and discusses the possible explanations behind north being denoted at the top in modern maps. If we look at the options now, we can see that option A talks questioning an explanation. While there is indeed a statement in the last paragraph that talks about questioning the conflict between following the north star and plotting the map, it is not the central idea of the passage. Also, the passage does not question 'an' explanation. If anything, it compares the various explanations. Option B talks about correcting a misconception in the passage. This is indeed the assumption that the maps have pointed north since a long time. So, it is on the right lines. The 'tempting to put it down to European explorers…' bit also touches upon the misconception. Option C talks about a critique to 'a' map making methodology. Again, it is not about one specific methodology but a short insight into the cultural and geographical interpretations of the top of the world. Option D talks about myths. However random the explanations in the passage sound, they cannot exactly be called myths. So, D is wrong. Option B is the best option that fits in this situation. This was indeed a tough one but the presence of articles in a couple of options and the literal meaning of the word myth could have saved a good candidate.
Fairly straightforward. Option A has been explicitly mentioned in the passage. Option B is the reason why the Chinese put north at the top and so, it violates the condition given in the question. So, option B is the correct option. Options C and D have been mentioned in the passage as a reason why east, west and south were more preferred to the north.
They did it because they wanted to show respect to the emperor. The emperor looked southwards because the winds originated from there. Whenever you have two options that are linked to the answer, always go for the one that has an immediate relation to what has been asked in the question. So, the Chinese put north on the top because they wanted to show respect to the emperor. Option B is correct in this case.
According to the last paragraph, Magellan and Columbus used the north star to pursue their direction but made the maps keeping east at the top. Option C fits best in this case.
Q5. Which one of the following about the northern orientation of modern maps is asserted in the passage?
The passage clearly mentions in the last paragraph that however 'tempting' it would be to attribute it to Magellan and Columbus, it would not be true. So, the biggest contributory factor hasn't been mentioned in the passage. Option D would work best in this case.
If we refer to our notes, we can see that early Egyptian maps had east on the top because it indicated sunrise. The early Islamic and Christian maps were driven more by their culture while the early Chinese maps had north on the top because the emperor faced south. Although it had a relation to winds flowing northward, it was not the immediate reason behind designing the map in the said manner. Option A would be correct in this case.
I used a smartphone GPS to find my way through the cobblestoned maze of Geneva's Old Town, in search of a handmade machine that changed the world more than any other invention. Near a 13th-century cathedral in this Swiss city on the shores of a lovely lake, I found what I was looking for: a Gutenberg printing press. "This was the Internet of its day — at least as influential as the iPhone," said Gabriel de Montmollin, the director of the Museum of the Reformation, toying with the replica of Johann Gutenberg's great invention.
[Before the invention of the printing press] it used to take four monks up to a year to produce a single book. With the advance in movable type in 15th-century Europe, one press could crank out 3,000 pages a day. Before long, average people could travel to places that used to be unknown to them — with maps! Medical information passed more freely and quickly, diminishing the sway of quacks… The printing press offered the prospect that tyrants would never be able to kill a book or suppress an idea. Gutenberg's brainchild broke the monopoly that clerics had on scripture. And later, stirred by pamphlets from a version of that same press, the American colonies rose up against a king and gave birth to a nation.
The hope of the iPhone, and the Internet in general, was that it would free people in closed societies. But the failure of the Arab Spring, and the continued suppression of ideas in North Korea, China and Iran, has not borne that out… The iPhone is still young. It has certainly been "one of the most important, world-changing and successful products in history, "as Apple CEO Tim Cook said. But I'm not sure if the world changed for the better with the iPhone — as it did with the printing press — or merely, changed.
The first paragraph talks about how the printing press was similar to the internet of today.
The second paragraph talks about the various ways in which life became easier post invention of the printing press. The popular ones discussed are religion, travel, medicine and fighting oppression.
The third paragraph talks about a parallel drawn between the printing press and today's iPhone. Loss of creativity, patience, trolling and narcissism. Generally, there is a bit of negativity surrounding the today's technological advancement compared to how it was earlier.
The fourth paragraph is a continuation of the third paragraph and puts forth the apprehension that the author has with regard to the revolutionary prowess of the iPhone.
The fifth paragraph talks about how the claim that physical books would vanish post the launch of the iPhone is not exactly something that can be taken on face value.
The sixth paragraph talks about how personal freedom in closed societies is difficult to achieve with the examples of how censorship has suppressed freedom. There is a bit of wordplay at the end as to if the change has just been there or has it done any good.
Q1. The printing press has been likened to the Internet for which one of the following reasons?
If we look at the summary of the third paragraph, it is apparent that the author compares two technological leaps and arrives at the conclusion that the iPhone/internet might not necessarily be the technological breakthrough that the printing press was. Option A is correct in this regard and talks about the spread of information. Option B is overtly broad and talks about the technology part of it. Whereas, the passage dedicates an entire paragraph to showcase the spread of knowledge and awareness when it comes to the printing press. We need to understand that there could be a lot of new and revolutionary technologies at a single point in time and that one invention cannot possibly represent it all. So, option B loses out on this count. Option C focuses only on reading and not on the other aspects. Option D is again restricted to literature and pamphlets and so, will not be the best option. Option A is the best fit in this regard.
This one is fairly straightforward. The first option talks about political enlightenment which refers to the American and French revolutions. The second option has been mentioned explicitly in the passage. The third option is also correct as is apparent from the example of the monks. The fourth one is related to the invention of the iPhone and not to that of the printing press. Option D would be the correct choice in this context.
Q3. Steve Jobs predicted which one of the following with the introduction of the iPhone?
This is again a part of our summary and talks explicitly about printed books going out of demand. Option C is an apt restatement of this fact. And although all the other options talk about books/reading, they are slightly off in terms of being factual. Option A incorrectly describes the switch from the internet to the iPhone whereas both of them are in fact, linked. Option B talks about only historical classics whereas Steve Jobs had an opinion on general reading and not specific genres. Option D is not what Steve Jobs professed and is a fact that the author refers to.
Q4. "I'm still waiting to see if the iPhone can do what the printing press did for religion and democracy." The author uses which one of the following to indicate his uncertainty?
With regard to religion, the printing press broke the monopoly of the clerics and allowed free flow of information that was not available earlier. In case of democracy, the American revolution has been mentioned in the passage. This talks about people freeing themselves of oppression because of the penetration of knowledge. As we can observe from our summary of the sixth paragraph, the suppression still exists thereby limiting the spread of knowledge and communication. Option C expresses it best. Option A is out of context as the rise in religious groups has not been touched upon anywhere in the passage. Option B is indeed a fact that is referred to in the passage but it has got no consequence in terms of religion or democracy. Option D is a general observation and is not specific to religion or democracy.
Option A is out of scope of the passage and while a fragment of it has been mentioned in the passage (usage of maps), it does not connect the two things. Option B is on target and speaks about how propagation of ideas was achieved through the printing press. Option C talks only about religion whereas the unrest was due to oppression of said communities by powerful leaders and kings. Option D talks about strategies and opinions and while it is true, the key words that we can see in the passage are 'enlightened', 'tyrants', 'opened more minds' and 'stirred'. Option D indicates that people had no access to strategy but the passage speaks more about a lack of knowledge of the idea of freedom. So, option B seems more appropriate in this context. Slightly difficult but the options are designed in such a manner that option B talks about the spread of awareness whereas option D talks about the next step once that awareness was reached.
The author seems to be pretty disappointed with the tall claims of the new technology and feels that it hasn't shown and significant impact on the society yet. There is practically no advantage that the author has elaborated in the passage and so, option A can be counted out. Option B is spot on with our initial assessment and so, can be considered. Option C talks about the pace which is not the main conclusion of the passage. Even the printing press changed society rapidly but that didn't lead to loss of creativity and general lack of awareness that disappoints the author when it comes to new technology. Option D says the opposite of what has been mentioned in the passage regarding daydreaming. The author says that daydreaming has become a lost art which implies the lack of it. So, option B would be the best pick in this scenario.
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I have been to.... Prague
Along with the club games day, another seasonal outing was a long weekend in Prague after New Year (I wasn't due back at work until the 6th Jan). I was fairly unfamiliar with the history of the city, apart from highlights from the Thirty Years War (the Defenstration of Prague and the Battle of White Mountain) and all that unpleasantness in 1938 and 1968.
This s the Powder Tower, part of the old city defences built by Charles IV on the northeastern side of the inner city. The walls are now rows of shops and the old moat is a boulevard.
The Old Town Hall, which features an amazing astonomical clock which is around 600 years old.
A memorial to Jan Hus, of Hussite Wars fame. Also an inspiration to Erasmus and to a greater extent Martin Luther (the original one, not the 1960s one).
The Powder Tower again, with some traffic to give an idea of its size.
The boulevard which was old moat leads down the Charles Bridge on the south side. This was also built by Charles IV, by which time the Old Town had been supplemented by the 'New Town' outside the old defences. The New Town was built in the 1400s...
Like Berlin, Prague has a museum dedicated to the years of communist rule. This one occupied a similar size as the DDR museum in Berlin.
I think the caption rather says it all.
I was rather taken with this cheery Russian accordian player.
Czech volunteers crossing the Charles Bridge.
There was a posing spot with Stalin and Lenin. How could I resist? Power to the People!
And an interesting display about Chernobyl. The VI Lenin Nuclear Power Station isn't that far from Prague, as radiation clouds blow.
A moderately high rated radiation dosimeter. This one goes up to 3,500 things (I guess rads not sieverts).
There were examples of typical shops, workshops and this school room.
The museum was OK, but not as good as the Berlin one, far too wordy.
The Old City of Prague is nestled in a curve of the Vlatava river, a reasonable defensive position which meant the walls didn't have to be as long. On the other side of the river is a big hill, which is naturally a much better place to put the castle. Here it is looming on the horizon. It overlooks the Charles Bridge.
The 'castle' is pretty grand, more a collection of huge palaces as it was the capital of Hapsburg Empire for quite a long time. Now that was something I didn't know.
Ceremonial guards armed with very shiny SKS carbines. Soldiers with camo uniforms and AKs can be seen lurking in the background. It was very, very cold so the fur hat and coat were a good idea.
Prince Schwarzenberg Palace. This housed both the Barque art collection and was the temporary home of the Renaissance art collection.
This is one of the Medici's, Cosimo I think.
One of the numerous Breugal winter scenes.
Tucked away in a corner was this Byzantine painting (it looked like it was painted on wood). Amazingly it dates from the second century, I think it is the oldest modern style painting I've ever seen.
St Vitus Cathedral. This is a vast building and dominates the skyline of the city.
One thing I was very excited to discover close to our AirBnB was a musuem to the Czech paratroopers who assassinated Reinhard Heydrich in 1942.
There is a plaque outside, bullet holes still in evidence.
The paras made their final stand in this Church after being betrayed to the SS. The museum is in the basement and crypt.
The basement museum has lots of photos, background information and various artefacts.
I was particularly taken with the jump helmet and this useful piece of parachute as a colour reference.
There is loads of information about the operation, they jumped from this Halifax. The map shows the Luftwaffe plot óf the flight route. Although this museum is also quite wordy, it works much better than the Museum of Communism as it is so much smaller and more intimate.
The six Czechs who fought at the church.
The aftermath of the gun battle at the Church. The paras mainly committed suicide rather than be taken prisoner
Heydrichs car after been partly demolished by an anti-tank grenade. He died of wounds later, a very unpleasant person and good riddance. The Germans inflicted appalling atrocities on the Czech population in reprisal and it has become a symbol of Czech resistance to occupation.
I've not really done the museum justice, it really was excellent and very moving. It is also free, with voluntary donations.
On a more cheery note,I was pleased to find that the Czech diet is similar to the Hungarian one, mainly meat and beer. Here is a healthy eating option, yes there really are one or two vegetables amongst the pile of meat and beans.
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Labels: Eastern Front, Real life, WW2
Club Christmas Games Day
Traditionally the Sheffield Wargames Society has an extended meeting over the Christmas period. This year it was on the 27th December. I went along after lunch and found a number of games running.
There was this rather grand 28mm Napoleonic game.
I'm not quite sure who the Lancers are. Spanish maybe?
There was another Napoleonic game, this time at the other end of the scale being a big 6mm bash.
I was intrigued by the basing as it is very similar to Twilight of the Sun King with each unit represented by two bases (allowing Line, Column and Square to be easily represented).
We mainly played Nicks 'Bush Horizon' which is a fictional modernish game covering Warring factions in an unnamed region. The game works as a mini campaign with a series of small battles as part of a larger set of operations. Note the circular table!
Within each campaign segment, players allocated their forces across a range of objectives. If the force ratios looked OK, then the battles were fought on the tabletop.
In this scenario the baddies are defending an urban area, mainly with infantry.
My chaps tried to envelop the defenders. Light armour and SP guns on the flanks, infantry in the centre.
My armed jeeps sped around this very pretty water tower.
Later on there was a much bigger battle! Masses of infantry, with some armour support.
More armed jeeps speeding the other way.
Nicks vast collection of stuff to make the force selections from.
Although I'd brought some things to play, in the end we just played this for most of the afternoon. A very pleasant way of spending the gap between Christmas and New Year.
Labels: 28mm, 6mm, Modern, Napoleonic, Sheffield Wargames Society
Sollum, 1940
Tim produced another 54mm WW2 game, this time using the WW2 version of 'Fistful of Lead', which I was keen to try out. For this adventure we were off to North Africa and the heady days of 1940 and Operation Compass. Tim has taken the scenario from the relevant Skirmish Campaigns book (I'm a big fan of those). Jerry, Gary and myself were the wicked Italians, while John was the British (the Welsh Guards no less).
The battlefield, a line of sand dunes lies in front of Sollum and the Egyptian border. View from Libya (west).
The plucky Brits, a rifle section and small HQ element (officer and a Tommy Gun toting Sergeant). These are Airfix 8th Army figures.
The somewhat larger Italian force, three rifle sections and an HQ. Figures from a range of manufacturers and very nice indeed. I was particularly taken with the barechested LMG gunner.
Our chaps had to capture the Stucco building rapidly and ideally get off the far edge rapidly, encircling the British. Our setup are was behind the convenient sand dunes. Deploying in a long line seemed like a good idea as speed was of the essence. Garys section and mine, I was also apparently in command.
Jerrys guys lurking.
And off over the dunes we went, a mixture of walking, creeping and lying down. Sadly the crest of the dunes revealed the British in very unsporting trenches and even worse, barbed wire and minefields across some of the front. Some of our chaps were wounded or pinned by defensive fire, but in the main the British fire was fairly ineffective.
Our return fire went rather better, the LMGs managed to hit one of the dug in riflemen. I rather like the FFoL activation system, you are dealt as many card as active soldiers and the cards activate in value/suit order, but you choose who gets which card an some of the cards have special abilities (like +1 shooting or automatic reloads). So there is a degree of friction, coupled with some tactical decision making, which enlivens what would otherwise be the dull dice throwing contest so typical of skirmish games.
Even better, one of our riflemen managed to get the Bren gunner. That was lucky. At this end of the line, the dunes were very close to the British trenches, so our rifles were well within effective range.
Things got a bit sticky in the centre and some of our men went down.
But LMG fire managed to pin a lot of the enemy (the yellow markers). By this time the Sergeant had put in appearance, blazing away with his Thompson. He was christened Sergeant Bass (fans of the 'The Defence of Bowler Bridge' will be familiar with the character). At close range, the Tommy Gun was quite scary, especially as we were quite bunched up.
Jerry pushed cautiously up to the wire. One of his men was pinned.
My LMG team. They had done loads of damage as I'd made good use of the activation cards, '2' cards let you roll two dice for each attack and pick the best, which meant they'd been able to blaze away with little chance of a low ammo result. The downside of 2 cards, is they activate a lot later than all the picture cards etc.
Jerry was through the wire, covered by LMG fire! The arm waving Italian Sergeant led the way. A very heroic figure.
Less heroic was the British office who chose this moment to skedaddle, are we sure these are proper Guardsmen? Sergeant Bass grimly hung on however.
Garys riflemen pushe dinto the British trencehs, supported by the LMG team. The platoon CO led bravely from the rear (well, he's only got a pistol, but does give a rally bonus to troops in LOS within 12").
As the Italians closed in on the stucco building, Sergeant Bass made a run for it too, and the British officer was pinned and wounded in a hail of bullets.
Meanwhile Jerrys section took the other British trenches, covered by my LMG.
Sergeant Bass heroically fought off his attackers in close combat, but was wounded in the process.
Jerrys soldiers cleared the remaining buildings and the game was clearly up for the British as they'd only got a couple of men away while the Italians had captured the town and still had the required 12 soldiers left to exit the far edge.
The situation at the end of the game. A decisive Italian victory, which in the Skirmish Campaigns system will give the Italians an advantage in the next battle.
Well, that was a load of fun and worked really well. It seemed to move much faster than the black powder version, possibly because there was a lot less reloading. In hindsight I wonder if the British would have been better wiring/mining the closer sand-dunes and putting the Bren out to cover the much bigger open space at the far end. In any event they were very unlucky to lose their Bren team early on, and the carnage wreaked by the Tommy Gun wield NCO indicates how things could have gone for the Italians. Good stuff!
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Labels: 54mm, British, Desert, Fistful of Lead, Italian, WW2
St Vith, The Fortified Goose Egg
Roco 15cm Panzerwerfer 42 auf SWS
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Roco 3.7cm Flak auf SWS


Summer is officially here! For a while it felt like it was never going to arrive but the high temperatures, cute sandals and short dresses have marked its presence. I'm personally excited about doing fun outdoor activities around the city, including going to the beach. Here's a quick post on my picks for WHAT TO WEAR: AT THE BEACH.


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MAN SUPPORT VEHICLES READY FOR SERVICE
June 2007, MAN ERF UK declared that the first batch of MAN Support Vehicles (SV) ready for service.
The announcement signals MAN ERF's considerable achievement in its commitment to have completed vehicles ready in line with the MoD's In Service schedule. Over the next five years, over 7,000 vehicles of various specification will be delivered to the British Armed Forces, comprising six, nine and 15 tonne payload cargo vehicles in 4×4, 6×6 and 8×8 axle configurations respectively, along with 7,000 litre Unit Support Tankers on 6×6 chassis and Recovery Vehicles on 8×8 chassis.
Many MoD stakeholders took part in the final validation process, most notably the Regular Army Assistance Table (RAAT) troops from the user community, all co-ordinated by the Combat Service Support Trials and Development Unit (CSS TDU).
The main line team of subcontract companies includes:
Marshall SV
As a first tier member of MAN ERF's contract partners, Marshall is responsible for the manufacture and integration of cargo bodies for the MAN ERF Support Vehicle fleet. The size of the task is such that it will underpin Marshall's manufacturing and body design base for the next decade.
Fluid Transfer International Limited
MAN ERF's Support Vehicle contract includes the requirement for some 311 Unit Support Tankers with a 7,000-litre capacity and a comprehensive fuel dispensing system. Fluid Transfer is responsible for the design and integration of the complete top-hamper system onto the MAN chassis. These are scheduled to replace the ageing Army UBRE units over the next three to four years, and will provide a more versatile ground-fuel provision platform. With a comprehensive after sales support team Fluid Transfer are able to offer service and maintenance of equipment and vehicles on site, in addition to meter calibration services. Factory based comprehensive overhaul and refurbishment of equipment to include complete re-chassising of vehicles by a dedicated team of skilled technicians provides extended operational equipment life.
Using a combination of in-house designed equipment and high-quality bought-in components (which incorporate specific EKA design requirements) the latest EKA recovery system SuperCompact is being supplied to MAN ERF as part of the major Support Vehicle programme for the UK MoD. The SuperCompact, is the third generation of EKA Recovery systems to be supplied to the UK MoD and is fully integrated with the MAN SX45 8×8 military chassis. MAN and EKA teams have worked closely throughout this project to produce a powerful and competent combination of recovery vehicle for the British Army of today ? and for the future.
Andover Trailers
Andover's involvement in MAN ERF's Support Vehicle contract includes the supply of 69 bespoke- three-axle turntable drawbar trailers, designed for equipment recovery operations. Each trailer has a gross weight of 30 tonnes, enabling a payload in excess of 20 tonnes. The delivery is to coincide with MAN ERF's February 2008 Recovery Vehicle In-Service Date.
Quorum Logistic Support
Quorum, the Telford-based specialist Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) Consultancy is responsible for the complete ILS programme to ensure the vehicles, whilst meeting the design performance specifications, also satisfy operational availability, and the objectives of life cycle costs optimisation.
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Кимильте́й — село в Зиминском районе Иркутской области. Административный центр Кимильтейского муниципального образования.

География
Расположено в 27 км к северу от города Зима, на реке Кимильтей (левый приток Оки), на федеральной автомагистрали  «Сибирь».

Происхождение названия
Существует легенда, согласно которой название села происходит от имён братьев-бурят Кима и Тея, которые пасли стада в этой местности. Согласно этой легенде проезжавшие мимо спрашивали: «Чья это земля? Кима иль Тея?» Однако, эта легенда не имеет ничего общего с действительностью. У бурят даже нет имён Ким и Тей. В бурятском языке нет буквы к как таковой, она встречается только в заимствованных словах. Имя, сходное по звучанию с именем Тей, существует, это имя Тэхэ (переводится как «козёл»), однако тэй в монгольских языках — это, как правило, суффикс, часто встречающийся в топонимах. Также существует сходное по звучанию слово туй, которое некоторые лингвисты переводят с бурятского как «приток».

Вероятнее всего, село названо по реке Кимильтей, на которой стоит. Название же реки может происходить от бурятского хэмэл — «искусственный». Можно предположить, что когда-то река спрямлялась или вовсе возникла в результате вскапывания земли в хозяйственных целях, что очень маловероятно. Возможно, когда-то в окрестностях села стояло какое-то древнее (искусственное) сооружение. Также данное название может иметь эвенкийское происхождение, например от хамалды — «шаманить» или тюркское (с корнем хем —  «река»).

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