Last night we held part 2 of our Photoshop and InDesign workshop - 1:1 tutorials. We partnered individuals with Adobe experts to work on specific projects relevant to their work.
When designing this course, we discussed goals at length. What was achievable in a relatively short timeframe (4 hours) for those with little or no software experience? What content would be most appropriate for this user group (young startups)? What activities would keep people engaged?
1. CONFIDENCE: It was important for us that participants felt increasingly comfortable using the software, so that at the end of the workshop they would continue to develop their skills. In Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, all participants recorded an increase in confidence, reaching as high as 70%.
2. IMPACT: We wanted to go beyond the theory and ensure participants could put it into practice - using their new found skills for live projects and future work.
3. EXPERIENCE: As a relative beginner, learning a new skill can be a little nerve wracking, especially when you're surrounded by experts. We hoped to create an environment where people felt able to ask questions, where they could make mistakes and learn from them. Ultimately we wanted it to be fun... a place to network. In fact, last night one of our lovely facilitators presented her new cereal brand startup, handing out samples and a link to her latest market research study.
On a scale of 0-10 we received a whopping average score of 9.5, with the Net Promoter Score calculated at +75. Such great feedback means our workshop responds to real needs within the nonprofit and startup community.
With a waiting list and increased interest from the Echo marketplace, we're hoping to host more workshops, including offering an 'intermediate' course for those wanting to test their skills.
If you're interested in getting to grips with these design tools, and would like us to run a workshop for your organisation or within your community, please drop us a line.


Re: tineye reverse image search. useful for copyright!!
this site NEVER worked for me properly.
Hence why I said doesn't always find it It is worth a try though as does sometimes work, depends on what the person has done with the image.
Well I just used it to search for an image and it found 51 matches, so can't not work all the time.
There is I think (an Israeli) company working with Getty images spamming people with legal requests. They do something like tineye but a lot more accurate.
I wonder how it works?


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Nacque a Mondovì, provincia di Cuneo, il 25 novembre 1916. Ancora studente liceale nel settembre 1935 si arruolò volontario nella Regia Aeronautica in qualità di aviere allievo sergente presso la Scuola di Rimini, passando alla Scuola di pilotaggio di Aviano nel marzo 1936. Promosso 1º aviere pilota e trasferito al 5º Stormo d'assalto nell'agosto stesso anno, un mese dopo otteneva la promozione a sergente. Nel marzo 1938 fu assegnato all'Aviazione Legionaria e mandato a combattere nella guerra di Spagna assegnato alla specialità caccia. Prese parte a numerose missioni belliche, e cadde in combattimento il 23 agosto 1938 sul cielo di Cartua, Corbera.  Fu insignito della medaglia d'oro al valor militare alla memoria.

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Hollywood Jade is ready for reality TV
Hollywood Jade is ready for reality TV superstardom as Canada's Drag Race's choreographer
The world is watching Drag Race Canada, in last week's episode we met choreographer Hollywood Jade, some for the first time. For comparison's sake, Jade is the Jamal Sims/Todrick Hall of the show and he's about to experience reality show stardom.
Jade has been in the spotlight many times before, working on projects like the movie-musical Hairspray (where he first met Jamal Sims), and dancing in music videos for Kelis, Jully Black and more. Now he's ready for the world to see him as a mentor.
Drag Race fans have seen the various teaching approaches of the show's famed choreographers. Todrick Hall psyches the queens out and Jamal Sims is warm, but Jade has his own method. "I'm definitely more of a stern father figure. I wanna see everybody win, but I also wanna challenge you and push you to execute as effectively as possible. Some queens I had to push beyond where they were comfortable, but I definitely don't believe I came off as a raging bitch. I hope not!" he says.
The contestants of Canada's Drag Race represent different parts of the country and styles of drag, but Jade says choreographing for them was manageable. "Everybody has different skill sets. Trying to streamline choreography to tailor to everybody can be somewhat challenging but everybody understood what was expected of them, and everybody showed up and put their best foot forward," Jade says.
Two episodes in, it's clear this is a special group of queens. Jade believes diversity is part of what makes this cast so strong. "There's such a wide variety of ethnicities and body types. With everything that's going on with the black lives revolution and the #metoo movement and everybody being so divided, I'm really hoping this show helps unify people," he says.
Jade is excited to be part of the story of Drag Race Canada and about the track of his choreography career. "I just wanna take the opportunity to thank everybody for all the love and all the support and the kind words and the affirmation that I am where I belong and I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing," he says.
Last week's episode teased this week's challenge, a girl group face-off with a stage show choreographed by Jade. Can the queens keep up? Canada's Drag Race airs Thursday nights at 8:00 pm EST on Crave, WOW Presents Plus and BBC3.
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Health Network International, Inc. was founded in late 1995. The principals formerly worked for Eli Lilly and Company with expertise in global health care, sales and marketing, general management, law and systems engineering. Below are brief biographical sketches for the principals of HNI.
Mr. Baumer has over thirty years experience with Eli Lilly and Company in a variety of marketing, sales, business development and general management responsibilities. He spent seventeen years abroad, living in five European and Latin American countries.
Mr. Neel has over twenty years experience with Eli Lilly and Company in a broad range of executive positions in general management, systems and finance. He spent eight years abroad, living in four European and Asian countries.


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CENTRAL AND NORTHERN EUROPE
BOES E MERDULES (Ottana)
The Boes and Merdules are two forms of traditional barbaric typical carnival in Ottana - Sardinia.,. The Boes wear on his face a mask made of wild pear tree that has the features of an ox (hence their name) are covered with the skins ofsheep and have a bunch of bells shoulder. The Merdules, properly "the guardians of the oxen," they too are covered in leather and wearing a mask of wild pear but has the features of the face of an older deformed. Represent the struggle between animal instinct and human reason, in fact, in the carnival performances Boe is chased, caught and whipped by Merdule, and together they give life to the imitation of furious fights. Often in the parades are accompanied disquieting figure de Sa Filonzana , a mask that represents an old, dressed in black busy spinning wool.
The wire is her life and she is ready to cut it with a pair of scissors in front of those who do not drink offering; so all are quick to invite the frugal and avoid unpleasant consequences.
Boes e Merdules
Caretos de Podence
CARETOS (de Podence)
The Careto tradition is a pre-historical Celtic religious ritual still practised in some regions of Portugal, namely in the villages of Podence (Macedo de Cavaleiros, Bragança District) and Lazarim (Lamego, Viseu District). It currently takes place during Carnival and is one of the oldest traditions being practiced in Portugal today. Caretos are masked young men dressed in suits made of yellow, red, black, blue and green fringe wool quilts, wearing brass, leather or wooden masks and rattles in their belts. Cartetos in the Carnival at Lazarim Shrove Tuesday and the prior Sunday are the days when the Caretos are most active. They appear in groups from every corner of the village running and shouting excitedly, frightening the people and "robbing" all the wineries.
The main target of these masquerade groups are single young girls, who make them climb to the top of walls and verandas. Scholars associate the Careto tradition with memories of magical practices related to agrarian fertility cults.
CUCURRUMACHO (Navalosa)
One of the most important historical carnivals in Ávila (Spain), is celebrated in the mountain village of Navalosa thanks to Cucurrumachos. The origin of these representations dates back to the pre-Christian period and to this day the customs have been passed on from generation to generation. A mysterious figure dressed in a heavy linen bag, wrapped in hand-worn rugs (pingueras) and fitted with bells. His face is hidden by a wooden mask covered with horsehair, overhead by the horns of the cattle or herd. The masked Cucurrumacho moves through the narrow streets throwing straw on the peasants. In addition to the aforementioned Cucurrumacho, the five future members dressed in the traditional costume of the mountain range will participate in the ritual as well as women and mothers responsible for the rejuvenation of all present. The ritual ends on the main square of Navalosa where all the gathered dances around the tall chariot top and where symbolic sacrifices are the heifers. No matter how accurate it is and where it originates from the ancient custom, no one is completely sure. Many are associated with ancient Celtic or similar pre-Christian Galician carnival habits.
Today is one of the most reputable carnivals in Castile and León.
Cucurrumacho
Harramachos (Navalacruz)
At the foothils of the Sierra de Gredos in the province of Avila, another lucky mask that was almost extinct. These are the Harramachos from Navalacruza, which are mostly divided into three types: those covered with oak bushes and leaves, those who use a hay bag and finally those covered with leather. It is impossible to determine the origin of that character and carnival with certainty, however, the animal appearance of harramacho seems to be related to the tradition of cattle breeding in that area. Harramachos, accompanied by other masked characters, usually goes out into the streets in the afternoon of the last Saturday of the carnival. "Maskaravila" (Masquerade) begins in the square, where the mayor welcomes all those present from the city hall's balconies. After all the characters and their roles are presented the show starts. Maskaravila has always been accompanied by traditional music and serigraph dances. The climax of the parade is a "Mayor" jump in the Chico River. After passing the test, "jump from childhood to maturity" everyone is excited about the success of the mayor, they return to party in the central square.
These monstrous beings give up their last "strokes" in the winter, before they disappear with the coming of spring.
HOMBRE DE MUSGO (Bejar)
Since 1397 the small town of Béjar, Spain, has held up an intriguing tradition with the festival of "Los Hombres de Musgo". The story goes that the Christian population in the reign of Alfonso VIII reconquered the town from the "Moros" by camouflaging themselves with moss. They then crawled through the surrounding landscape unseen by the lookouts on the city walls. When they finally arrived at the city gates their sudden, monstrous appearance completely surprised and overwhelmed the guards. They killed the lookouts and then expanded through the city, conquering it after a hard and bloody struggle.
Since then a pilgrimage was held, shortly after the feast of Corpus Christi. The procession of the Corpus has a remarkable historical significance in Béjar. There is evidence of its celebration since the Middle Ages . The most curious element of this religious event is the presence of men of moss, a small group of people who parade in it covered with moss, as the primitive Christian attackers. Throughout the Spanish geography you can find similar legends of men dressed in skins, branches, etc., referring to the primeval man.
But the peculiarity of Béjar is that only she has kept the tradition alive by recreating it along with the procession of Corpus Christi.
Hombre de mosgo (Bejar)
Hueso Zarramacadas
HUESO ZARRAMACADES (Mecerreyes)
The Carnival of Mecerreyes is one of the most traditional of Burgos region. A group of masked characters, the Alguaciles, push the spectators back by throwing ashes at them. The Carnavaladas or Zarramacadas wear costumes made from rags (Trapo ), string (Tras de cuerdas), moss (Musgo), jute (Colono ), feathers (Pluma), bone (Hueso).
LOS CARNEROS
Rams of Tigaday are the most representative manifestation of the traditional carnival of the island of El Hierro, one of the Canary Islands. In it, a group of young people dressed in sheepskins, with horns and bones of sheep's head or cattle are passing through the streets of Tigadia, in the municipality of La Frontera. The last Sunday and Tuesday of the carnival, attacking and blackmailing everyone on their way. This tradition has an undeniable connection with the typical island life of shepherds. In ancient times, those who came out as trained as rabbits in those days were real shepherds, usually from San Andrés, Isor or El Pinar, who moved to Valle del Golfo valley for grafting and cropping of grapevines in the winter. Nobody knows for sure when this original carnival custom appeared in Tigad although tradition almost disappeared after the Spanish Civil War.
Los Carneros was and still remains the most anomalous example that is being held today during carnival in the Canary Islands.
Los Diablos
DIABLOS (Luzon)
The image of the devil is deeply rooted in the mascarade culture of all over Europe. One of the variants appears in Luzon, Guadalajara, Spain. "Los Diablos" is a cult mask that is equally worn by both men and women. They are dressed in a wide black sleeveles blouse with and a skirt. In their mouth they have big white "teeth" made from pieces of beet. On their head which is covered with a black scarf they carry large bull horns that are attached to their body with black ropes. They have four large and noisy bells hanging on the wide band around their waist. The revealed parts of their body (face, neck and hands) are smeared with a mixture of oil and soot, which during the procession they use to "mark the faces" of all viewers, especially girls. This ancient custom causes a lot of running on the streets of Luzon in the afternoon when Devils and Mascaritas go out into the city and is one of the most spectacular moments of the carnival. In twilight, after the euphoria, costumed devils wander through the cold streets in a strange procession that looks a bit like a nightmare."Legend says that once a year, through a crack, so no one would know the devils let the wind of Mother Earth into the moor. The sound of cow bells announces the arrival of the bearer of the ancient mystery to the neighbors and strangers, and the mixture of soot and oil marks the faces of those caught. " The first memories of this festival have not been dated, but the tradition has been passed on from parent to child by word of mouth.
Today it is the feast of provincial tourist interest.
LOS SIDROS ili GUIRRIU (Valdesoto)
They hold them in the head melenes, a tall cone about two feet, covered with a skin of oveya sewn into funnel-shaped covering the face, chest and back falls to her waist. Said skin in the shape of the face is cut and the hole is covered with a red cloth, trimmed in blue with holes for eyes, nose and mouth. When on the road were with some wench, ducking his head, he touched her face with the tail raposu, by way of greeting. The Guirriu has in hand a pole of ablanu, about three meters long, at its lower end, ends in a metal reinforcement ended tip that nailed, it facilitates the jump. Sidru mission is jumping and ringing cowbells. For this moves forward with a little trot, achieving at the same time, moving with graceful swing long and loose hair melenes them. Making use of the pole gives great leaps: count reaching three meters high, and good Guirriu, when at the top, knows contoured to ring the bells. These jumps also possible to overcome obstacles from the path: sebes, barganales and portielles.
Los sidros
Mamuthones e Issohadores
MAMUTHONES E ISSOHADORES (Mamoiada)
The origin of mamuthones still remains controversial. According to a study by Marcello Madau lack of written sources testify to the presence of the Mamuthones in the distant past. According to the same study, however, oral testimonies attest that the Mamuthones are already popping up in ' the nineteenth century . Some argue that the ritual goes back to ' age nuragica, as a gesture of reverence for animals which they used to protect themselves from evil spirits or to propitiate the harvest. Among the hypotheses is also a celebration of the victory of the shepherds of Barbagia over the invading Saracens. Some scholars argue a link with . The facemask of Mamuthone is black and made of wood. It's secured to the face with leather straps and lined with a piece of feminine fashion. The body of Mamuthone is covered with black sheepskin ( mastruca ), with a series of bells on the back (carriga ).The Issohadore, however, wear a headdress called berritta, a white mask, red waistcoat ( curittu ), white shirt and trousers, gold buttons, a bandolier of bronze bells (sonajolos), shawl, woolen leggings in ( cartzas ) leather boots ('usinzu) and a rope ( so'a ).
Issohadores lead the procession and "dance" of the Mamuthones and using a lasso catch members of the audience which is believed to bring good fortune.
MOMOTXORRO (Altsasu)
The Momotxorro is a personage of unknown origin of the carnival of Alsasua: it is half man and half bull. The custom almost disappeared in the 1930s, and recovered in 1980, although this did not like the old people of the place, since the memory of these characters was linked to stories of pillaging, robbery and even sexual assaults. He is one of the characters of the Basque carnival with more violent and sexual load: he walks the streets with his sarde (the gallows) frightening and "assaulting" who is in his step, and entering the houses of others to "plunder" his interior . They wear horns and cover their faces with scarves or horse bristles. They wear a white shirt stained with blood, and sheepskin. They wear blue trousers, white socks and abarcas. They raise noise with cowbells sewn to the sheepskin or hung around the waist. Attack with the sarde. The character was recovered from the investigations of accordionist Enrike Zelaia, who interviewed the elders of the place. Since then, it has become increasingly popular. The dance of these characters in the Plaza de los Fueros has now become a sample of the people's identity. It is celebrated the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday to the sound of the Dance of the Momochorros (Momotxorroen dantza). On Tuesday of Carnival the Puska Biltza is realized (cuestación by the houses). After eating and drinking copiously with what was obtained in the "puska" and late afternoon, hundreds of momotxorros leave the pediment and fierce howling against all living or dead that lie ahead. After traveling several streets, at one point of the entourage, Juantramposo, Maskaritak, a goat and sorginak (witches) join the procession. The goat, raised in a trailer, provokes the females by teaching their attributes and all sorginak howl lewd, and thus generates a lustful and amusing scene that aesthetically and dynamically compensates the violent attitude of the momotxorros. After walking the streets of the village with the usual stops in several taverns, it ends in the town square, where everyone dances to the same are: the Momotxorroen dantza. After dancing, everyone masked with a covered face should remove the rag, in the case of the momotxorro the basket, giving the end of the dance and showing his face before all present.
The party continues with a gaupasa, night of revelry in Euskera.
Link video: Carnaval Rural Altsasua.mov
Momotxorro
OURS (Prats de Mollo)
The events, according to the legend, took place near the Col d'Ares, about 13 km from Prats de Mollo, at the foot of mont Falgas, Long ago, a young shepherdess fainted from shock when she stumbled upon a bear whilst tending her flock. The bear, actually the devil in disguise, took advantage of her swoon and spirited her away to the caves intending to seduce her and steal her virginity. The young damsel however, prayed to Notre Dame du Coral, nearby chapel overlooking the valley, to preserve her virtue, and the bear was unable to approach her. Every time he tried, he was repulsed, causing him to howl with frustration, and attracting the attention of woodcutters felling trees in the area. On the ninth day of her captivity, the 'jour de la Chandeleur, they again heard her cries and, pushing aside the heavy stone blocking the entrance, rescued the young shepherdess and returned her to her parents.
The thwarted bear was furious, his enraged howling resounding throughout the valley.
PELIQUIEROS (Laza)
The mask is formed by a mask of wood, painted in bright colors, which extends in a sort of turban of metal with an animal motif ( lion , wolf , ox ) in the 1930s designs were used modernists , with bright colors and central figurative designs like animals (horses, bulls, dogs, deer, roosters, exotic birds), bodies astral (Sun, Moon, stars). Behind covering his head, wearing a skin, formerly of dog , bobcat , fox or wolf , now gazelle skin. This skin, called pelica in Galician, comes the Peliqueiro name given to it in Laza . The costume consists of a white shirt, tie and a short jacket of hanging fringed golden ranging tied with ribbons of three colors. A large belt red waist wrapped in holding the pants, perhaps the most difficult part of the suit. Above the belt goes belt, which hang cowbells.
The legs are covered with white stockings, black shoes and a whip in his hand round the typical figure of Laza Carnival.
Peliquieros
PULCINELLA (Castiglione Messer Marino)
Pulcinella is an ancient figure playing a fundamental role in the tradition of the Apennine Carnival, which is a central moment in the life of mountain and peasant people since the "carnival" was originally a moment of catharsis and regeneration after paralysis and the winter frost. In the typical carnival of mountain and Apennine areas, Pulcinella is a central character. The fact that he is white and has a pointed hat represents his origin as a depiction of a dead ancestor who was in the underworld and who returns with masks to separate the world of living from the dead. White was the color of the dead. The Pulcinella brought demonic figures from the underworld to fertilize the soil and then set them back to the underworld. Sometimes the puffins had black ash-coated faces, another element that marks the link with the underground world. The origin and the function of his rich pointed hat are said to be one of the most attractive archaic hats of magical figures.
The spiky hat indicates contact with life after death and is an instrument of connection to the other world. It is no coincidence, in fact, that all wizard and witch characters have such hats.
THURPOS (Orotelli)
Carnival of Orotelli is one of the warmest of the Carnival events in Sardinia. The Masque of the tradition is that of Thurpos (the lame): with faces painted black and dressed in long overcoats in coarse wool, they personify the protagonists of the daily life of the shepherd. The Thurpos Boes proceed paired as oxen under the yoke, and are guided by a goad third thurpu. The Thurpos sowers scatter bran along their journey. The thurpu Vrailarzu (the blacksmith) pretends to shoe Thurpos Boes. The carnival Tuesday Thurpos offer drinks to spectators and guide them in their final dances, which take place in the main town square.
Thurpos
Arbol de trapajones
Trapajones
Hombre-árbol, Hombre-panoja, Hombre-hojas.... (Silio) The "La Vijanera" festival takes place on the first Sunday of the year in the Spanish town of Silio in the province of Cantabria. During the celebration, hundreds of men from the scene take over seventy characters, each having their own clothes, function, symbols, etc. Besides the main protagonist of the "Zarramacos" festival, numerous phytomorphic masks include "Trapajones" These masks are made of natural elements such as moss, pepper, ivy, straw and chestnut trees. The Hombre-árbol is unimaginably a figure that along with other Trapajones completes a rich set of this unique festival .. In the opening part of the festival there is a bad mood outside the city limits. The other is criticized and ridiculed by the events of last year. In the third part there are two events: the birth of a new year and the killing of bears (a figure), a symbol of victory good against evil, and in favor of the new year
ZARRAMACOS (Silio)
Originally, La Vijanera was celebrated in the valleys of Iguña, Toranzo, Trasmiera, Campoo and Polaciones but now the only place in the region where it is just Silió. The first carnival of the year in Europe is a colorful masquerade involving approximately 60 characters (all male), la madama, el mancebo, los trapajones, el oso and su dueño, el pasiego, el caballero, la Pepa or Pepona, el médico, el domador, el húngaro, el viejo and la vieja, all dressed in a colorful and own function and symbolism. But the real stars of the festival are los zarramacos because of the importance of their role. These are people dressed in sheepskins and weevils hats in addition to carrying the face painted black that will ward off the evil spirits during the year that jingling bells that are tied to the body. Its mission is to expel these spirits of the town coming up to the limits, tradition that points to much more ancient probably from the Roman times.
Zarramacos
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Well known American golfer, Tiger Woods made a strong comeback after he won his first major in 11 years… his 15th in total.
It was indeed an inspiring comeback sporting story as he experienced downs and lows before achieving this.He had four back surgeries, thought he would never play again, was ranked 1,199th in the world, 11 years since his last Major and 14 years since last Masters.
It is believed to be the greatest comeback ever. It is astory that teaches people to never give up, even after a down fall,as long as you are persistent in whatever you do.
@realDonaldTrump Congratulations to @TigerWoods., a truly Great Champion!
@BarackObama Congratulations, Tiger! To come back and win the Masters after all the highs and lows is a testament to excellence, grit, and determination.
More bodies continue to be unearthed in the rubble left behind by Cyclone Idai in Ngangu with those missing their loved ones still hopeful they will recover them dead or alive.
Ruth Mwayengeni represents one of the many families whose lives were permanently altered by Cyclone Idai.
A week and a few days after the catastrophe in Ngangu, Mwayengeni has been able to recover two bodies of her family members.
"We managed to recover two bodies but I am still looking for the body of my seven-year-old daughter. I will not rest till I find her, she said.
This sad story is the case with many others in this area, where the residents say they are having to come across human body parts every day.
"Cyclone Idai makes us fear to stay in Ngangu. We are coming across body parts of deceased people while more bodies are being recovered each day," said one of the villagers.
Rita Daniels, Regina's mom who is also her fellow actress wrote in the comments section, "She is the pride of my youth! I hustled and prayed this day would come. But i always believed in you, i never doubted even for a second. My joy now is unbelievable! My fulfillment is complete! Thank you my love, my one and only!
At just 18 years old, Regina has shown the world that success is not age bound. These days, even young people are achieving great things that might take others several years.
Floods kill 126 people in SA, Malawi, Mozambique Mar 14, 2019 | International news | Reports say at least 126 people have been killed in Mozambique, Malawi and South Africa after heavy rains affected 843 000 people across southeast Africa, prompting calls for emergency aid.
At least 66 people have been killed in Mozambique, 56 in Malawi and four in South Africa following torrential rains that have triggered flash floods.
Mozambique cabinet spokeswoman Ana Comoana said the "government has decreed a red alert due to the continuing rains and the approach of the tropical cyclone Idai, expected to reach the country between Thursday and Friday".
In neighbouring Malawi, floods have left over 230 000 people without shelter and affected around 739 000 people, according to the United Nations.
More than 168 000 hectares of crops were destroyed, the government spokeswoman added.
According to reports, at least eight children have died and many more are feared trapped after a building containing a school collapsed in the Nigerian city of Lagos.
The school, which was on the top floor of the three-storey building in Ita Faji on Lagos Island, had more than 100 pupils, a rescue official told the BBC.
About 40 pupils were pulled out alive, the official said. Rescuers were frantically searching for more.
The collapsed building was a residential block containing a number of apartments as well as the school, residents and rescue officials at the scene told the BBC.
Emergency teams pulled several injured pupils from the rubble, but many worried parents at the scene were unable to find their children, while others went to a local hospital to look for theirs.
Georgina Rodriguez has showered praises on boyfriend, Cristiano Ronaldo after scoring a hattrick in the Champions League second leg match against Atletico Madrid. The hattrick which was scored by the Juventus forward, helped Juventus eliminate Atletico Madrid.
His girlfriend shared the footballer 's picture when he was still a kid, heaping praises on him.
The pic was captioned, "This 3-0 nobody steals it. You deserve it, not for the 3 goals of tonight. You deserve it for your dedication, for what you get at the club where you are. You are a trailer for your colleagues, coach and all those who admire and support you each day. Karma exists. God knows, God gives it to you ; because the world of football is yours. 💜💜💜We love you. Sore, Matthew, Eva, Alana, Georgina.
Following the current economic instability in Zimbabwe, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, has called upon Zimbabwe President, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa for dialogue.
Concerning the current economic crisis that Zimbabwe is facing he said he is calling his brother ED to urgent dialogue to solve politics and economics or else it would get worse.
Former Minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo's beef with Strive Masiyiwa seem to have heightened as the Professor has published a series of tweets containing unsettling allegations on Econet's Founder. What started as only an exchange of opinions has turned into a war of words.
2/24 #StriveMasiyiwa has escaped scrutiny, thanks to Zimbabwe's flawed public discourse which has never been about facts, truth or ideas but about "good guys" versus "bad guys"; presumed to be such by definition, not by deed. So Zimbabwe, sadly, has no culture of truth-telling!
4/24 Taking himself to be "the good guy of them all" & presuming his critics to be bad guys, #StriveMasiyiwa went berserk. For calling him out on his uncouth attack on @dewamavhinga, he smeared me with false & defamatory allegations, laced with epithets; best handled by lawyers!
5/24 The issue about #StriveMasiyiwa, as it is about anyone else, is not whether he's a good or bad guy but whether his deeds match his self-righteous claims. Is he the champion of human rights & democracy, that he claims to be? If he is, does that make him a God above criticism?
8/24 #StriveMasiywa's biggest lie is his claim that he's a champion of human rights & democracy. There's no known or respected institution in Zimbabwe dedicated to the promotion of human rights & democracy in the country created by or from #Masiyiwa's philanthropy. None!
9/25 #StriveMasiyiwa owned the #DailyNews, as a political investment to massage his political ambitions & not to promote democracy with a free & professional press. Edited by the ever reckless Geoff Nyarota, #Masiyiwa's #DailyNews distinguished itself by publishing falsehoods!
10/24 The difference between #Masiyiwa's #DailyNews run down by Nyarota & today's #DailyNews, is like that of day & night. The former was a political pamphlet & the latter is a newspaper. But this is a story for another time. Suffice to say #Masiyiwa is an enemy of press freedom!
12/24 #StriveMasiyiwa's fight with Mugabe did not originate from any concerns he had about lack of democracy & human rights in Zimbabwe but hail from a contractual dispute over a shoddy job that #Masiyiwa's Retrofit company did at the former President's rural home in Zvimba!
13/24 Recently #StriveMasiyiwa declared that Mnangagwa is "sincere", signalling his support for the Harare junta. He capped this by calling for the removal of Zidera sanctions. #Masiyiwa is fully entitled to his views, as is anyone else. But his views invite public questions!
16/26 When & how did #StriveMayisiwa start working with Mnangagwa to know he is "sincere"? Is it from their Zambian days? Or their IBDC days? Or their 2008 runoff days? Or their 2013 election days or their 2018 election days? Or is it all these days plus some more in between?
17/24 As former President Mugabe's right hand man until the 2017 coup, Mnangagwa abused his closeness to Mugabe to groom a cohort of political & business cronies for his ambitions. He went about this in a tribal, regional & Zambian way. A key product of this group is #Masiyiwa!
18/24 It's not by accident that #Econet was created by some up & coming businessmen around Mnangagwa, including #StriveMasiyiwa who later was alleged to have cheated the others out. While #Masiyiwa has supported the #MDC, his horse has always been a Mnangagwa led #ZanuPF faction!
19/24 That #StriveMasiyiwa did not support MDC's 2018 election campaign & that, after the stolen election he said Mnangagwa is "sincere"; testify to his longstanding support for Mnangagwa. In 2008, #Masiyiwa gave #ZanuPF USD45m to purchase grain used in the #Army-run runoff poll!
20/24 On the back of the 2008 runoff grain scheme, in 2013 Masiyiwa's #Econet joined Mbada Diamonds to give #ZanuPF some $60m to fund the organisation & conduct of the 2013 elections, outside treasury then run by @BitiTendai. Mnangagwa & Chinamasa were the instrumental hands!
21/24 In 2015 #StriveMasiyiwa's schemed with Patrick Chinamasa, then a staunch Mnangagwa ally, to get $30m from #Econet to pay salaries for civil servants through a dubious arrangement, whose backdrop was the longstanding relationship between #Masiyiwa and Mnangagwa!
22/24 The're many under cover dealings invloving #Masiyiwa & Mnangagwa's Army faction, since 2008 after a damning CIO report on #Econet, that almost got its license withdrwan only to be saved by monetary authorities, who cited many cases of #Masiyiwa's cooperation with #ZanuPF!
24/24 As a bondnote billionaire, #StriveMasiyiwa fancies himself as a big fish. But he's in a small pond. Hard currency millionaires in bigger ponds with lots of big fish don't behave like him. It's time the other founders of #Econet got the justice they have been long denied!
American television reality Kim Kardashian West and husband Kanye West are set to welcome baby number 4 via surrogate. The baby news were announced today (2 January 2019) through People reports.


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A Half a Century of Contribution
The Oxford Institute has reached the half-century mark in its scholarly work in service to Wesleyan and Methodist traditions. It is our desire to make the fruits of this work as widely available as possible. Accordingly, we provide this public access to the basic archives of the Institute.
Each Institute link below takes you to a page which gives details on the speakers and venue for that meeting, along with a link to a list of attendants.
• Starting in 1982 there are also details on Working Groups within each Institute, and indication of where Working Group papers have been published.
• Starting in 2002 there are links to some Working Group papers not published elsewhere.
1st Institute (1958)
2nd Institute (1962)
3rd Institute (1965)
4th Institute (1969)
10th Institute (1997)
A separate page summarizing all participants to-date, for comparative purposes, has been provided here (pdf).
There are online copies of OXFORDnotes, the occasional newsletter of the Institute, provided here.
Additional physical archives relating to the Institute are housed at the headquarters of the World Methodist Council in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, USA; and at the Wesley and Methodist Studies Centre, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England.


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No. 16 Hokies Slide Past Elon WLAX Phoenix 14-12
ELON, N.C. – After battling back from an early deficit and tied with 11:36 to play Saturday afternoon, March 24, Elon University women's lacrosse fell just short at Rudd Field in dropping a 14-12 decision to 16th-ranked Virginia Tech.
Trailing 11-9, Elon (1-8, 0-0 CAA) tallied twice in a span of 57 seconds to tie the game at 11-all with 11:36 to go. But down the stretch, Virginia Tech (9-3, 2-0 ACC) answered with a 3-0 run to make it a 14-11 advantage with 93 seconds left to seal the win.
The Hokies opened the afternoon on a 4-1 run in the first 12 minutes of action. After the opening stretch, though, Elon settled in and went on a 5-1 run of its own to take a 6-5 lead behind two goals from Abby Godfrey, two from Stephanie Thomson and one from Cami Lynch.
Square at 6-all at the break, Melissa Birdsell gave Elon a 7-6 lead shortly after halftime with her ninth strike of the year. The goal started a run in which the two sides traded tallies until the Hokies went on a 4-1 run to take the 11-9 lead with 13:32 to play.
Through Lynch and Maeve Cowley scored 57 seconds apart to tie the game at 11, Virginia Tech took control down the stretch to claim the win.
Godfrey, Lynch, Thomson and Asher all tallied two times to lead the Phoenix attack. Asher also picked up nine draw controls and has now gathered 19 over the course of the last two games, giving her the two highest marks in a contest in program history after collecting 10 last time out at Coastal Carolina. Cowley, Birdsell, Jacie Cooper and Kelsey Dupere all scored once to round out Elon's offense. Dupere also had two assists in her first game since Feb. 17 at Virginia, finishing with three points. Bridget Lamb had a team-best three caused turnovers and she, Dupere, Shannon Horan, Alexis Zadjura and Kira Oberle all picked up a team-leading two ground balls.
Paige Petty paced Virginia Tech with three goals and two assists for five points. Talyor Caskey also had three goals and an assist for four points. Tristan McGinley netted a pair of goals and had a team-best four draw controls while Kelly Glatthorn had three draw controls. Elena Ricci caused a team-best three turnovers while Glatthorn and Mary Claire Byrne finished with four ground balls.
-Thomson's pair of goals doubles her career total. She had scored twice – once in 2015 and once in 2016 – before tallying twice Saturday against the Hokies.
-Elon finished with a significant advantage in the draw circle, winning 18 of 28 draw controls. It's the second game in a row Elon has won the draw control battle after not doing so in any of its first seven outings.
-Virginia Tech goalie Meagh Graham made seven saves in the cage to help the Hokies to the win.
Elon will start its six-game CAA slate on Friday, April 6, with a 5 p.m. contest at Hofstra in Hempstead, N.Y. The Phoenix is looking to make its third-straight CAA Tournament appearance in May, which will be held in Harrisonburg, Va., from May 4-6.
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Carolina Acceleration High School Baseball Today in Guilford County:Saturday March 24 slate, at the County plate:WA now (9-0) after win over SWG
Elon Softball Rallies to Defeat Cougars in CAA Opener, 5-2


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Throughout the process, kids are introduced to how and why crystals form. They even get a Crystal Scientist Achievement Badge Sticker to wear once the hands-on tasks are done.
Paper towel, scissors, water and a spoon.
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Netflix may give Jericho a new lease on post-apocalyptic life!
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Our favorite post-apocalyptic TV series Jericho could be back... again. The last time Jericho graced the small screen was in 2008, but now sources are whispering that Netflix has reached out to CBS, in hopes of bringing it back.
After just one year CBS canned the show centered around a band of survivors of a nuclear attack. But thanks to an insanely loyal fanbase, and their amazing peanut mail-in, Jericho came back. Sadly the reprieve was only short-lived.
But now, according to TV Guide, Netflix has noticed the show's online popularity, and the company is currently in the process of trying to revive the series for Netflix.
This is not the first time we've heard of the return of Jericho — a few years back there was almost a deal with Comcast to bring back the series, but all those efforts crumbled. But maybe Netflix has the wherewithal to relaunch the show — assuming the cast would still be open to continuing their roles, many years later. We're cautiously optimistic, but wouldn't it be great to get Jericho back?


All right, so we didn't have any romance articles or Valentines Day specials. But you know what? We don't mind being a day late when it comes to the subject of love. That's right, for everyone who thought gaming couldn't be romantic there's a top 5 list for the most romantic moments in gaming.
TheGameReviews has recently put together the Top 5 Most Romantic Moments in Gaming, complete with videos. Yes, there are video trailers of these romance scenes, just to help put readers in the mood.
You can check out the entire list by clicking on the link in the above paragraph. I'm not going to give each moment away, but I will reveal that the games containing the romantic scenes are: Prince of Persia, Grim Fandango, Shadow of the Colossus, ICO and Final Fantasy X.
For more gaming news, information and updates, be sure to stay tuned in with Blend Games.


Last ten days were vacation time for me.
he second one was a close family affair-marriage of daughter of my younger sister. With full family in attendance including my 91 year old bed ridden father (Babuji) , I could not have asked for more.
And the last stop was pure vacation-with my wife and elder son at at another five star resort (Radisson) in South Goa (sponsored and fully paid for by our two sons). It was pure fun and relaxation.
Could I have asked for more.Definitely not.
But there was something amiss during the entire period of merriment, relaxation and bonding with family and friends.
What went wrong- something that a normal human being will find difficult to fathom-my bipolar rage and the collateral damage that it brought.
My rage started right before we boarded the Volvo bus at Railway Officers Enclave Chanakyapuri, New Delhi for Jaipur- and the victim naturally was my wife- whose sole fault was, she was trying to wake me up as the bus was supposed to leave precisely at 6 A.M. My verbal assaults to my wife were uncalled for and uncivil. My anger was without provocation and uncontrolled. It was truly boundary-less.
Normally, I accept mistakes fast. And I render apology for what ever it is worth-at least to my wife. Even though i know, often my rage is unpardonable and collateral damage of the same to my wife is humongous.
But this time i was i unrepentant. It continued to visit me infrequently at Jaipur and on return air journey Jaipur-Delhi-Patna. What was to be a pure Jaipur stay of enjoyment was one of fractured, more bitter and less sweet rendezvous for my wife.
My worst behavior was reserved after coming out of Patna airport.
Unprovoked I started shouting at the driver who had come to pick us up. His fault was he was not carrying placard of my name (almost all drivers do not carry at Patna), even though he was continuous in touch with me on mobile. I became more furious as he took few extra minutes to locate me (he had never seen me in past). My shouting continued even after he touched feet of mine and my wife to acknowledge his fault which was not really a fault.
It took quite an effort from my wife to calm me down.
And I thought it was end of it. Little did i know that the calm was temporary lull before another storm.
Another hour went by. Suddenly I shouted at my mother. She is 86 year old. Her fault was she was not replying to calls from my father whose voice in any case is slurred. It did not even occur to me that my mother is 80-90% deaf and there was no way she could have heard feeble voice of my father.
I shouted at my mother more than once.
Eventually I was controlled by my elder son- if nothing else his towering figure-well built 5 feet 10 inches made me cool down -but again temporarily.
Another hour passed- and my rage returned with more venom this time. The hapless victim again was the cab driver. His sole fault was asking till what time i needed his service. Simple answer could have been to give a time. But volcano in my mind erupted how dare he could ask the question. It was his duty to be there till I wanted.
I straight way declared- the driver mad.
Truth was I was behaving mad.
And unrepentant i gave marching order to the driver and another vehicle with more pliant driver was made to report for my duty.
The episodes with my mother and driver were reported by my elder son to my wife.
When she tried to make me see reason- it was her turn to get unabashed bashing.
Flip-flop continued. Till we reached Goa. My rage was now on and now off. Mostly on. Problem with the rage was there was no auto off switch. Once it got ignited it was mostly on auto pilot till i was controlled by my wife or elder son.
Three days at Goa were better. except for the first day-some carry over from earlier days was there.
At Goa it was total rest. Lazy days. Nights full of time. Sleeping at appointed hour. Waking up later than normal. it was pure relaxing.
And I left Goa today for Delhi. It was Vistara flight. Again there was repeat my shouting at some one breaking the security queue at airport. I was stopped by my wife before scene turned ugly. But worst was still to come. And totally unprovoked- victim this time was air hostess. She was trained to be polite. I am still wondering why did i shout at her. Mere look at the vegetarian meal. It had mushroom mutter in the money. My anger was why Vistara was serving mushroom to me, second time in four days. Poor girl. How was she supposed to know I do not take mushroom. For that matter how did even airlines know. Shen she tried to placate me, i got angrier- almost ready to do Tandav-Nritya. Attempt of my wife to calm me down was futile.
Then suddenly i felt full of shame. It did not happen intrinsically.
The passenger next to my seat had asked for a diet coke. Air hostess took a while to bring it. And apologized for the delay. The passenger's reaction was you are so sweet. Till then i had not realized, my co-passenger was a celebrity. An upcoming young singer -Rahul Vaidya. He was coming to delhi for a concert. All air-hostesses knew him by name. Still he was so simple and humble.
I started looking for cover for my misbehavior.
Then suddenly out of thin air the same air-hostess returned with a different meal for me. She had taken my diatribe in stride.
She was a true professional.
I could just mumble- thank you.
Then it dawned on me- enough is enough -I called the air hostess. And rendered proper apology to her.
With that ended the story. Almost. Till it happened again.
I have been reflecting on the week that was. Any one can get angry- for reasons real or imagined. I am no exception.
But what was so special this time. I know "uncontrolled anger and rage are colonial cousins in Bipolar Disorder, the illness i suffer from. I know rage is defining trait of hypo-mania and mania. Rage is also common in rapid cyclers and in mixed states (where both mania and depression are present concurrently). I also know there are also phases of Depression known as -agitated Depression where rage is not rare.
But I also know. Occasional rage and anger apart, I have reasonably controlled my anger. I have learnt my own form of meditation to calm my mind. I often plot my mood. If I shout at some one in office, i render apology immediately. And these are few and far between. More often sufferers of my rage are near and dear ones but there too frequency and intensity has lessened over years with practice.
Then what happened last one week. Moreover as I have been in remission for long.
Well Bipolar Rage has no reason. It arrives when you expect least and its collateral damage is truly heavy.
Still there has to be reason.
For evening out my moods it is ensured by my wife, that I take medicines and go to bed by ten pm- it is my curfew time to keep me well. And I almost follows my wife's commandments.
But it is almost. Not always.
My professional life- of a Management Consultant- means one of tight deadlines of deliverable. My health requirements is to sleep at ten PM. My work requirement often is night out. This time just before heading for Jaipur, it was work continuously for 72 hours without sleep.
Lack of sleep in itself both a cause and effect of mania. But I am not in mania either.
So what happened. I take two main medication- one mood stabilizer and another atypical-anti-psychotic. My mood stabilizer has calming effect. But anti-psychotic some thing quite different. The moment I take it, I go to sleep with fifteen minutes for next ten hours. And then also I have to be woken up. So only way I can work for 72 hours is that for three nights I do not take the prescribed medication. Plus side is, if I do not take this particular medicine I just will not get sleep.
And this time work pressure was so intense, there was total non conformity with medication- including my life saver -mood stabilizer.
The obvious result was return of extreme irritation, unprovoked anger and rage.
Back to my wife's close watch, I returned back to prescribed medication.
But the rage has done its damage.
Question is have i learnt the lesson.
I will know as and when i am able to control -the unprovoked anger next time.
But hopefully I have learnt the lesson.
Till then I count the debris left over by the Bipolar Rage.
Problem is how do you tell others it is not you.


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Film Review: Fantastic Beasts – The Crimes of Grindelwald
November 19, 2018 October 19, 2019 M.T.Wilson @ The Last Book on the LeftLeave a comment
Fantastic Beasts – The Crimes of Grindelwald
Director: David Yates
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterson, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Zoë Kravitz
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Watched in: 2D
Rating: 4/5 stars
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is the anticipated sequel 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Following the events of the first film, Credence is looking for his birth family in Paris, and Albus Dumbledore sends Newt Scamander to find him. Meanwhile, dark wizard Grindelwald is also seeking Credence.
Having loved the first film in this spin-off series, I couldn't wait to see The Crimes of Grindelwald. While I absolutely loved the film and was not disappointed, I can't help but feel it could have been even better.
This film takes places primarily in Paris, and falls short on the high standard set by the setting of New York in the first film. 20s New York really came to life in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but the sequel took surprisingly little advantage of the potential Paris had to be an equally dynamic setting. There were a couple of moments where I got a sense the characters were in France, but for much of it they could have been just about anywhere. Since the first film set such a high standard, I couldn't help but be disappointed that the filmmakers didn't utilise the Parisian setting more.
There are a lot of plot strands in this film, and I feel like I need to watch it again to completely grasp everything that happened. There are many new characters, a lot of new backstory to get your head around, and some surprising twists that throw up more questions than answers. At times the plot felt a little meandering, without an obvious end goal beyond finding Credence. This film, which we must remember is part of a whole being only the second in the series, seemed to set up a lot for the future films.


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Syria's Christians Forced to Flee Increasing Persecution
A Special Report by ICC
07/10/2013 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern)–Syrian Christians have suffered increasing persecution since the outbreak of civil war in the country. Christians are targeted by the government, opposition forces and radical Islamists –making it necessary for them to flee their homeland.
Congressman Chris Smith, chairman of the House congressional panel overseeing global human rights issues, warned that religious minorities in Syria were being killed or persecuted at an alarming rate. "The Assad government was guilty of serious human rights violations, including the summary imprisonment and execution of political opponents. But relations between the various religious groups were generally not violent. That civil co-existence has ended with the war," he said.
The Christians of Aleppo have been particularly hard hit by the fighting, as the city is currently one of the major battlefields of the civil war. It is estimated that between 20,000 and 30,000 Christians have fled Aleppo as a result of the fighting, with more than a third of the city destroyed by the war, according to the latest Vulnerability Assessment report on Syria's Christians by Open Door's World Watch Monitor (WWM).
The abduction of two bishops from Aleppo, on April 22, has added to the widespread fear among Syrian Christians that they will be deliberately targeted by Islamist extremists and criminals in front-line areas such as Aleppo and Damascus. The two men were highly regarded for their humanitarian work and were considered to be "politically neutral" in the conflict.
Caught in Crossfire
Syrian Christian leaders assert that more than 1,000 Syrian Christians have been killed in the fighting and more than 400,000 internally displaced or made refugees in the country's neighboring countries. They also claim that more than 40 Christian churches, orphanages, and medical centers were destroyed or damaged as a result of the conflict, according to the WWM report.
Christians are "caught in the crossfire of the strife between government and opposition forces and suffer violence from both parties," writes Dennis Pastoor, coordinator of the report. Although the violence was not found to be restricted to Christians, affecting everyone, the fact remains that Christians were found to be "soft targets, particularly vulnerable" to some things, including hostility in refugee camps, targeting by radical Islamists and criminals, and confiscation of land.
Christian women are especially vulnerable to sexual abuse, while Christian men are facing pressure from both sides to join the battle. Christians are scared to engage in public displays of worship, while proportionally more Christian refugees are leaving Syria than any other religious or ethnic group, according to the WWM report.
A report sent to Aid to the Church in Need, written by a priest, describes the situation in the city of Homs, Syria's third largest city which has been devastated conflict. A car bomb left 11 people dead, five of whom were his parishioners. An earlier explosion took the life of a 10-year-old Catholic boy and injured three other children.
"There are many different problems which are being faced by Christians who are living in Homs," said the priest in his report, "from being caught up in the conflict, to the shortage of supplies which is causing major deprivation among the families out there."
Deliberate Attacks
Even though the Assad regime was oppressive, it managed to regulate cordial relations between religious communities. But with the ongoing civil war, Islamist radicals have thrown off all restraint and have aggressively begun to target Christians for persecution.
Dr John Eibner, chief executive of Christian Solidarity International, said the deaths of Christians did not appear to be collateral damage but the result of deliberate attacks. "Victims recounted to me details of the religious cleansing of Christian neighbourhoods in Homs and Qasair by armed jihadis who threatened them with death and the destruction of their property if they did not leave their home," he said, as reported by Christian Today.
With Christian persecution ensuing in the midst of the ongoing civil war, fears are peaking over the future of Syria if the government is overthrown by opposition forces dominated by Islamists, a scenario that is most likely to occur.
International Christian Concern's Middle East Regional Manager, Todd Daniels, says, "While many Christians have denounced the violence of President al-Assad, the increasing extremism and Islamic militancy of the opposition forces may ultimately prove an even worse option. ICC expresses continued support and prayers for our Syrian brothers and sisters who are in the midst of very dangerous times."
No matter what the outcome of the war, there is no visible scenario that guarantees a better future for Christians in Syria. "Christians face the prospect of never being able to return to their homes and businesses or of returning to a civil order that is less pluralistic and accepting of minority rights than before the war," says Nicolas Heras, political commentator who provided his analysis on the WWM report.
In a situation that appears to be worsening by the day, Syria's Christians need a praying Church and an intentional political initiative from the West, to salvage a better future for all Syrians, despite the odds against it.
You are free to disseminate this news story. We request that you reference ICC (International Christian Concern) and include our web address, www.persecution.org. ICC is a Washington-DC based human rights organization that exists to help persecuted Christians worldwide. ICC provides Awareness, Advocacy, and Assistance to the worldwide persecuted Church. For additional information or for an interview, contact ICC at 800-422-5441.


It will create some interesting challenges for the colleges and universities but also potentially for the students as they try to navigate this dual relationship of student and employee.
How do you even negotiate a contract when your constituency is being turned over continuously?
Heaven knows what impact it's going to have, given what is already extraordinarily high tuition at these schools.


Tambor also said he thought that the sexual harassment accusations came about from trans people who disliked his being a cisgender actor in a trans role.
These Jeffery Tambor sexual harassment allegations are especially salient considering the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found 47% of transgender people are sexually assaulted at some point in their lifetime. Tambor is also the first media figure publicly accused of sexual harassment in the #MeToo era who is set to make a comeback — in an upcoming acting gig for Netflix's fifth season of the sitcom Arrested Development.
What do you think of Alexandra Billings' take on the Jeffery Tambor sexual harassment claims? Sound off in the comments.


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Der Trughabicht (Accipiter imitator) ist ein Greifvogel aus der Gattung der Habichte und Sperber (Accipiter).

Er kommt auf den Bougainville- und Salomoninseln auf Choiseul und Santa Isabel vor.

Der Lebensraum umfasst tropischen oder subtropischen feuchten Tief- und Bergwald, auch Sekundärwald bis 1000 m Höhe.

Der Artzusatz kommt von .

Merkmale
Dieser Vogel ist 28 bis 33 cm groß, das Männchen wiegt etwa 208, das Weibchen zwischen 200 und 291 g, die Flügelspannweite beträgt 53 bis 63 cm. Dieser mittelgroße Habicht unterscheidet sich in der dunklen Morphe mit seiner schwarz gefiederten Brust leicht vom Elsterhabicht (Accipiter albogularis), in der hellen Morphe durch tintenschwarzen Glanz der Oberseite, weniger glänzende Unterseite und schiefergrauen Unterseiten von Flügeln und Schwanz.
Der Schnabel ist auf der Oberseite schwarz, auf der Unterseite stahlblau bis grau mit einer gelben Basis. Die Iris ist braun bis rotbraun, die Wachshaut orange bis gelb, die Beine sind blass orange-gelb.
Jungvögel haben eine braune Oberseite mit blassen Flecken auf dem Scheitel sowie eine zart rotbraun gebänderte Unterseite, Schnabel und Wachshaut sind gelb, die Beine blassgelb.

Die Art ist monotypisch.

Stimme
Der Ruf wird als lautes hohes, raues, wiederholt im Fluge wiederholtes "reo" beschrieben.

Lebensweise
Über die Nahrung und das Brutverhalten ist nichts Genaues bekannt.

Gefährdungssituation
Die Art gilt als gefährdet (Vulnerable) durch Habitatverlust.

Literatur
 E. Hartert: Accipiter eichhorni imitator. In: Novitates Zoologicae (British Museum Natural History), Bd. 33, S. 37, 1926, Biodiversity Library

Weblinks

 Birdlife
 eBird
 Xeno-canto
 Oiseaux.net
 Macaulay Library Multimedia

Einzelnachweise

Habichte und Sperber


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NASA's Kepler helps Iowa State's Kawaler, astronomers update census of sun-like stars
Posted Apr 7, 2011
AMES, Iowa - NASA's Kepler Mission has detected changes in brightness in 500 sun-like stars, giving astronomers a much better idea about the nature and evolution of the stars.
Prior to Kepler's launch in March 2009, astronomers had identified the changes in brightness, or oscillations, of about 25 stars similar to our sun in size, age, composition and location within the Milky Way galaxy.
The discoveries are reported in a paper, "Ensemble Asteroseismology of Solar-Type Stars with the NASA Kepler Mission," in the April 8 issue of the journal Science. The lead author of the paper is Bill Chaplin of the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.
The paper says Kepler is a big boost to asteroseismology, the study of stars by observations of their natural oscillations. Those oscillations provide clues about star basics such as mass, radius and age as well as clues about the internal structure of stars.
"This helps us understand more about the formation of stars and how they evolve," said Steve Kawaler, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astronomy, a co-author of the paper and a leader of the Kepler Asteroseismic Investigation. "These new observations allow us to measure the detailed properties of stars at an accuracy that wasn't possible before."
The Kepler spacecraft is orbiting the sun carrying a photometer, or light meter, to measure changes in star brightness. The photometer includes a telescope 37 inches in diameter connected to a 95 megapixel CCD camera. The instrument is continually pointed at the Cygnus-Lyra region of the Milky Way. It is expected to continuously observe about 170,000 stars for at least three and a half years.
Kepler's primary job is to use tiny variations in the brightness of the stars within its view to find earth-like planets that might be able to support life.
The Kepler Asteroseismic Investigation is using Kepler data to study different kinds of stars. The investigation is led by a four-member steering committee: Kawaler, Chair Ron Gilliland of the Space Telescope Science Institute based in Baltimore, Jorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard and Hans Kjeldsen, both of Aarhus University in Denmark.
Kepler has provided astronomers with so much new information, the Science paper says they're "entering a golden era for stellar physics."
Data from 500 sun-like stars gives astronomers a much better understanding of the stars, their properties and their evolution. It also gives astronomers data to test their theories, models and predictions about the stars and the galaxy. And it gives astronomers enough data to make meaningful statistical studies of the stars.
"But this is just the start of things," Kawaler said. "This is a first broad-brush analysis of the data we've seen. This is a preview of this new tool and the kind of detailed census that we'll be able to do."
Among the projects to come, according to the Science paper, are studies to determine the ages of all these sun-like stars and studies of the host stars of the earth-like planets discovered by Kepler.
Steve Kawaler, Physics and Astronomy, 515-294-9728, sdk@iastate.edu
Steve Kawaler
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Steve Kawaler, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astronomy, a co-author of the Science paper and a leader of the Kepler Asteroseismic Investigation


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Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) posted a tweet a few days ago, congratulating http://to./ for launching the shortest URL shortener, and breaking every URL matching regex. I was wondering how the heck does this work?

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Slavic Review
Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2017, pp. vi-vii
The Evolution of Executive-Legislative Relations in Russia since 1993
Thomas F. Remington
Boris El'tsin's abrupt departure from the presidency on New Year's Eve 1999 began a new phase in Russia's postcommunist political development. With the presidency no longer occupied by the author of the constitution, the question arises whether his successor will consider himself more bound by the constitutional arrangements in place since 1993, or less. Rather than to speculate on Vladimir Putin's political personality, this paper will instead examine the record of president-parliament relations since 1993 for indications concerning whether Russia's institutions have begun to settle into those of a consolidated constitutional democracy.
Aleksandr Sumarokov's Elegit liubovnye and the Development of Verse Narrative in the Eighteenth Century: Toward a History of the Russian Lyric Sequence
Ronald Vroon
Most studies of the lyric sequence (or "cycle," as it is most commonly referred to in the Russian critical tradition) situate its origins in the Romantic period, and its period of greatest flowering in the Silver Age. More and more frequently, however, scholars have come to question this assumption, suggesting that the phenomenon has its roots in the eighteenth century, perhaps even earlier. This claim would appear, at first glance, to be suspect. The aesthetics of neoclassicism did not encourage— indeed, to the best of our knowledge, did not even recognize—the production of lyric sequences. Russian poets of the eighteenth century have nothing to say about them, nor are they acknowledged as such by readers or critics.
Sexual Transcendence in Tsvetaeva's Poems to Pasternak
Alyssa W. Dinega
Mutuality, do not create impediments for the Castalian stream! Unity in distance: a more intense reality, lying beyond what the eye can see.
In both Marina Tsvetaeva's poetry and her life, sexuality plays an intensely ambiguous role; she vacillates between the belief that the body is merely a "wall" hiding the soul, and the contradictory belief that sexual intimacy is the necessary vehicle to spiritual transcendence. Tsvetaeva's personal sexual adventurousness is by now a well-known fact of her biography; yet this fact is not simply a result of the poet's rebellious nature but is, rather, evidence of a profound philosophical inquiry into the very nature of sex and sexuality that she sustained throughout the course of her life and her writing. Sex is the idiom in which she writes transcendence of her own limiting subjectivity, via an exit into the radical alterity represented by the figure of the beloved.
What Should Russia Be? Patriotism and Political Economy in the Thought of N. S. Mordvinov
Susan P. McCaffray
A key moment in the evolution of modern European states was the halfcentury or so that straddles the year 1800. Confronted by commercial and colonial expansion across the seas and the steppes, as well as by the fiscal consequences of two long world wars (1756-63 and 1792-1815), monarchy and ministers increasingly viewed the state as a great engine for mobilizing "economic" resources. This period marks the culmination of what Paul Kennedy calls the European "financial revolution," which was generated primarily by war. "If the difference between the financial burdens of the age of Philip II and that of Napoleon was one of degree, it still was remarkable enough," Kennedy observes. The stresses of generating income in such quantities changed individual states as well as the international economy.
Diktat and Dialogue in Stalinist Culture: Staging Patriotic Historical Opera in Soviet Ukraine, 1936-1954
Serhy Yekelchyk
Decades ago, a highly readable émigré memoir aptly labeled Stalinist cultural policy the "taming of the arts." Reinforcing the dominant totalitarian paradigm according to which Soviet society was the passive object of an all-powerful state, this catchy image became popular in the Cold War west. During the 1970s, the "revisionist" generation of western scholars began questioning the orthodox view of Stalinist culture. For example, Vera Dunham suggested that the middle-class values apparent in the literature of mature Stalinism might reflect a "Big Deal" between the bureaucracy and the cultural tastes of the new Soviet "middle class," while Sheila Fitzpatrick maintained that even in the heyday of Stalinism, some prominent intellectuals held positions of "cultural authority," enabling them to influence the course of cultural life.
Language Politics in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: The Crisis over the Future of Serbian
Robert D. Greenberg
The status of the Serbian standard language in the years since the breakup of Yugoslavia has been controversial. Serbian linguists were ill prepared for the demise of the unified Serbo-Croatian language in 1991 and found themselves scrambling to create a new linguistic order. While die Croatian linguists in socialist Yugoslavia had long advocated a separate literary language called Croatian, rather than Croato-Serbian, the Serbs had continued to insist on the joint language and readily accepted the term Serbo-Croatian. With the disintegration of Yugoslavia, the Serbs finally had to recognize that given Croatian and Bosnian-Muslim linguistic separatism, a joint literary language was no longer possible. In this paper, I examine the consequences of the breakup of Serbo-Croatian for Serbs in the Yugoslav successor states, especially in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). I discuss the emergence of three ideologically opposed factions of Serbian linguists. The debate among Serbian linguists has been heated and acrimonious, reflecting broader political struggles within the FRY. I suggest that politically motivated turmoil in Serbian linguistic circles has put the New Serbian on a chaotic, unstable, and unpredictable path into the future.
Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of Socialism and the State. By Valerie Bunce. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiii, 206 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $54.95, hard bound. $19.95, paper.
Thomas A. Baylis
Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe. By Vladimir Tismaneanu. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xi, 216 pp. Notes. Index. $29.95, hard bound.
Liah Greenfeld
The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989. Ed. Sabrina P. Ramet. Post-Communist Cultural Studies. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. viii, 383 pp. Notes. Index. Figures. Tables. $65.00, hard bound. $22.50, paper.
Paul G. Lewis
Britain and Central Europe, 1918-1933. By Gábor Bátonyi. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. iii, 240 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00, hard bound.
Anna M. Cienciala
Social Costs of Transformation to a Market Economy in Post-Socialist Countries. By Jan Adam. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xiii, 212 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. $69.95, hard bound.
Alfred Steinherr
The Garden and the Workshop: Disseminating Cultural History in East-Central Europe: In Memoriam Péter Hanák. Ed. Marius Turda. Budapest: Central European University and Europa Institut, 1998. 322 pp. Notes. Bibliography of Petér Hanák. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Paper.
Lee Congdon
Modern Art in Eastern Europe: From the Baltic to the Balkans, ca. 1890-1939. By S. A. Mansbach. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv, 384 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Plates. Figures. Maps. $65.00, hard bound.
Alla Rosenfeld
Schtetl an der Sihl: Einwanderung, Leben und Alltag der Ostjuden in Zürich 1880-1939. By Karin Huser Bugmann. Veröffentlichungen des Archivs für Zeitgeschichte des Instituts für Geschichte der Eth Zürich, vol. 2. Zürich: Chronos Verlag, 1998. 303 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Photographs. Figures. DM 58.00, hard bound.
Klaus Hoedl
Science under Socialism: East Germany in Comparative Perspective. Ed. Kristie Macrakis and Dieter Hoffmann. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. xiv, 380 pp. Notes. Index. Figures. Table. $55.00, hard bound.
Raymond Bentley
Dilemmas of Transition: The Hungarian Experience. Ed. Aurel Braun and Zoltan Barany. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. x, 350 pp. Notes. Index. Figures. Tables. $69.00, hard bound. $27.95, paper.
Patrick H. O'neil
Generacija u protestu: Sociološki portret učesnika Studentskog protesta 96/97 na Beogradskom univerzitetu. By Anðelka Milić and Lilijana Čičkarić. Belgrade: Institut za sociološka istraživanja Filozofskog fakulteta, 1998. 333 pp. Appendix. Tables. Bibliography. Paper.
Eric D. Gordy
Albania at War, 1939-1945. By Bernd J. Fischer. Central European Studies. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1999. xiii, 327 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Maps. $15.00, paper.
Richard Crampton
The New Macedonian Question. Ed. James Pettifer. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xxxvi, 311 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology. Index. Maps. $69.95, hard bound.
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Auto Driver Makes The Ultimate Sacrifice, Loses His Life While Saving A Drowning Mother & Baby
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Tragedy struck when 30-year-old autorickshaw driver Pawan Shah dived into a canal to save the life of a woman and her child. He succeeded in his attempt to save their lives but lost his own in the process.
Source: Firstpost Hindi
According to the Times of India, the tragic incident happened when Pawan was returning after dropping off a passenger on Saturday when he saw a woman with a baby in her arms standing on the edge of a bridge on the Meethapur Canal.
Source: News18
When the woman jumped into the canal with the child, Pawan followed suit without a second thought in an attempt to save their lives. He even shouted and called for help.
Source: RCEM Learning
Three men heard his voice and formed a human chain to pull them out of the water. They managed to pull the woman and the baby out of the water.
Source: Deshgujarat
But when they went to rescue Pawan, it was too late as a strong current had taken him away.
The three men, Rajveer, Jamil and Sanjeev then informed Jaitpur police station and cops arrived with a search party. But even after 4 days of searching, his body could not be recovered.
During the inquiry, the police found out that the woman had tried to commit suicide after a fight with her husband.
Source: NDTV
The cops also informed the Times of India that Pawan's name will be recommended for the 'Jiwan Raksha' bravery award.


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