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This section of the Camino Mozarabe runs from the Andalusian city of Cordoba, famous for the La Mezquita to Merida, the capital of the autonomous community of Extremadura. The starting point is Cordoba, which became the capital of the Islamic Emirate and was a hugely important centre of culture and learning in the Muslim golden age. The historic centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The walk comprises of trips down old Roman roads, going through beautiful Andalusian villages and important Roman settlements. The walk ends in the city of Merida and you will pass the Roman Circus which is just one of the UNESCO World Heritage sites. Here you will also find wonderful restaurants and tapas bars, where you can soak up the lively atmosphere of the city.
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You arrive in Cordoba.
Cerro Muriano
As you make your way out of Cordoba you will follow the route of the old Roman road which connected Cordoba with Ermita. The trail today climbs gradually all the way to your destination for today, Cerro Muriano.
Today you will start out along a wide valley and pass through the village of El Vacar. You will ass through low trees and fields on your way to the town of Villaharta.
Your journey today will see you meandering through Holm Oaks and low Mediterranean shrubs as you climb steadily to the plateau of Los Pedroches. You will finish your day by descending gradually to the town of Alcaracejos.
Soon after starting you will pass through the town of Villanueva del Duque before continuing through farmland and then the town of Fuente la Lancha. The way will take you across the Guadamatilla River before you reach Hinojosa del Duque.
Monterrubio de La Serena
You will continue through the isolated landscape of shrubs and oaks and across the Zujar River before passing the Ermita Virgen de la Alcantarilla. Your destination for today is the beautiful town of Monterrubio de la Serena.
Castuera
Today you will pass along a farm road through groves of Olive and citrus trees. Your day ends as reach the town of Castuera which sits at the edge of the plateau.
Campanario
This flat day on the Camino takes you along quiet farm roads. You will cross the River Guadalefra and alongside a railway line before reaching the town of Campanario.
Easy Walking Option: You can choose to split this walking day in two and stay overnight in Don Benito, between Campanario and Medellin.
Shortly after leaving Campanario you will pass the Neolithic site of La Mata and then the village of Magacela. The village sits at the foot of the imposing hill with a ruined castle on top. From here you will pass through the village of La Haba and alongside farmland which is more regulated than that seen previously on this Camino. You will finish in the town of Medellin which sits on the river Guadiana and was once an important Roman settlement.
Easy Walking Option: You can choose to split this walking day in two and stay in the town of Don Benito.
San Pedro de Merida
Leaving Medellin by way of the Roman bridge, the Camino passes through the town of Yelbes. You will travel through rich farmland and over the River Burdalo before passing the village of Torrefresneda on the way to San Pedro de Merida.
Your final day on the Camino Mozarabe will take you past the town of Trujillanos and alongside fields before you enter the town of Merida. As you enter the town you will pass the Roman Circus and aquaduct. Founded in 250 BC, Mérida with its Roman heritage, is more than just a UNESCO World Heritage site. Mérida has plenty to offer tourists who love to hop from tapas bars to wonderful restaurants soaking up the lively atmosphere of this wonderful city.
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We have hand-picked family-run hotels and guesthouses along the Camino for their character and warm hospitality. Up to 3-stars, you will be staying in the centre of town and close to your Camino trail.
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Seville Airport 133km: Take the bus from Seville Airport to the Seville city centre (every 30 minutes, taking 16 minutes). See www.tussam.es From here take the train to Cordoba (every 30 minutes, taking 42 minutes). See www.renfe.com
Malaga Airport 168km: Take the train from the airport to the centre of Malaga (every 20 minutes, taking 11 minutes). From here take the train to Cordoba (Every hour, taking 1h5mins). See www.renfe.com
Sevilla Airport 210km: To get to Seville you can take a direct bus from Merida. The bus operates 8 times/ day, approx. 2h30 journey time. See www.alsa.es. From Seville (Plaza de Armas) you can take the urban bus (line 'EA' every 30 mins) to the airport. See www.sevilla-airport.com for an overview and www.tussam.es for the timetable.
Lisbon Airport 275km: Take the bus from Merida to Lisbon city centre. See www.alsa.es. From here take the city bus (No. 5) or Aerobus (No. 9) to the airport.
All our trips include; Holiday Pack and maps, selected accommodation with private bathroom, 24/7 support during your trip and GPS data files.
OPTIONAL: You will also have the option to add or remove the Luggage transfers (one bag up to 20kg per person), dinners (where available), bike rental and airport transfers.
NOT INCLUDED: Flights, drinks, city tax, Travel Insurance (Recommended)
Accommodation: We aim to book you into each of the towns listed on the itinerary, however in case of low availability we may book you 2 nights in the same town with provided transfers. If you are booking Superior collection or Country cottages, your accommodation may be away from the route with included transfers. See http://caminoways.com/country-cottages for more details.

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New Delhi, Jun 3 dmanewsdesk: India registered a record jump of 8,909 novel coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 2,07,615 on Wednesday, while the toll rose to 5,815 with 217 more deaths, the Health Ministry said.
The number of active cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mounted 1,01,497 and 1,00,302 people have recovered, while one has migrated, it said.
Around 48.31 per cent of the patients have recovered so far, a ministry official said.
India is now the seventh among the worst-hit nations by the COVID-19 pandemic after the US, Brazil, Russia, the UK, Spain and Italy. The country has been registering more than 8,000 cases for the fourth consecutive day.
Of the 217 more deaths since Tuesday morning, 103 were in Maharashtra, 33 in Delhi, 29 in Gujarat, 13 in Tamil Nadu and 10 in West Bengal.
Six more people died from the pathogen in Madhya Pradesh, followed by five each in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, and four in Telangana,
There were two deaths each in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir, and one each in Kerala, Chandigarh, Ladakh, Punjab and Uttarakhand..
Of the total 5,815 fatalities, Maharashtra tops the list with 2,465 deaths followed by 1,092 in Gujarat and 556 in Delhi.
In Madhya Pradesh, 364 people have died so far, followed by 335 in West Bengal, 222 in Uttar Pradesh and 203 in Rajasthan.
Tamil Nadu has registered 197 deaths so far, while there have been 92 fatalities in Telangana and 64 in Andhra Pradesh.
Fifty-two people have succumbed to the infection in Karnataka, followed by 46 in Punjab, 33 in Jammu and Kashmir, and 24 in Bihar.
Haryana has registered 23 fatalities, while the toll in Kerala is 11. There have been seven deaths each in Odisha and Uttarakhand.
Five COVID-19 fatalities each have been reported from Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and Jharkhand, while four have died in Assam.
A person each have died due to the pandemic in Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh and Ladakh, according to the data.
More than 70 per cent of the deaths are due to comorbidities, it said.
The highest number of cases in the country are from Maharashtra with a tally of 72,300, followed by 24,586 in Tamil Nadu, 22,132 in Delhi and 17,617 in Gujarat.
Rajasthan has 9,373 confirmed COVID-19 cases, followed 8,420 in Madhya Pradesh, 8,361 in Uttar Pradesh and 6,168 in West Bengal.
The coronavirus cases has gone up to 4,155 in Bihar, 3,898 in Andhra Pradesh, 3,796 in Karnataka and 2,891 in Telangana.
A total of 2,718 people have contracted COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir, followed by 2,652 in Haryana, 2,342 in Punjab and 2,245 in Odisha.
The number of infections in Assam rose to 1,513, while Kerala has 1,412 and Uttarakhand 1,043 cases.
Jharkhand has registered 712 infections, followed by 564 in Chhattisgarh, 468 in Tripura and 345 in Himachal Pradesh.
The COVID-19 tally in Chandigarh rose 301, while there are 89 cases in Manipur, 82 in Puducherry and 81 in Ladakh.
Goa has 79 coronavirus cases, followed by 49 in Nagaland and 33 in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Meghalaya has registered 27 infections, while Arunachal Pradesh has reported 22 and Mizoram 13 cases so far.
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The ministry said 7,123 cases were being reassigned to states, adding that the figures were being reconciled with the Indian Council of Medical Research.
Statewise distribution is subject to further verification and reconciliation, it added.
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Shelby Hicks' jumper with less than one second remaining capped off a second-half USC Upstate rally en route to a 58-57 victory Tuesday evening over the South Carolina State Lady Bulldogs at the Hodge Center.
The Spartans even their record at 3-3 overall while the Lady Bulldogs fall to 0-2 on the season.
Brittany Starling led all Upstate scorers with her first double-double of the season on 12 points and 13 rebounds. Brittany Clency provided a spark off the bench in the second half as she finished with 11 points on 5-of-10 shooting.
The basket by Hicks came after the Spartans had several chances in the final 30 seconds to put in the go-ahead field goal. Hicks recovered the rebound off Starling's missed jumper and took a quick shot from five feet out. The ball hit off the back of the rim and went through the basket with just three-tenths of a second left.
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Haiti hasn't changed much from three months ago. It is still gasping for air under the weight of pancaked buildings and blocks of concrete on top of already crushing poverty.
CBS News Anchor Katie Couric reports the city of Port-au-Prince is much livelier today. Vendors sell their wares on the traffic-choked streets. Everywhere you look, the buildings are in various states of destruction.
Eduardo Almeida is the head of the Inter American Development bank in Haiti -which is playing a major role in rebuilding efforts.
At the Presidential Palace, Couric asked, "why is it still standing, dilapidated, but still standing?"
"This disaster was one of the largest in the world," Almeida said. "Everybody's trying to reorganize, restructure it, in order to respond accordingly."
In Port-au-Prince infrastructure is an oxymoron. Buildings lie in ruins and rubble is everywhere. Recently, President Preval said it will take at least three years to remove all the debris and only after that he said, can Haiti begin to rebuild.
Almeida says one major problem is that there is no infrastructure in place to deal with the crumbling infrastructure.
"We don't have companies here. We don't have equipment here," he said.
Couric met Bob Berkebile when she arrived in Haiti. Berkebile's an architect involved the effort to rebuild New Orleans. He blames inadequate building codes for the scope of the devastation in Haiti.
"The critical issue now is get appropriate codes to be created and embraced by the government before all the reconstruction begins," Berkebile said.
There are places where the sound of hammers and drills penetrate the hot Caribbean air.
There are 47 temporary schools being built in a matter of weeks, so 65,000 children can continue their educations. The buildings will be replaced by permanent structures in two years. It is a bittersweet job. Two hundred high school students were killed on one site.
There are other pockets of hope, rising from the ashes. In the town of Leogane, an hour south of Port-au-Prince, a Haitian construction crew is building a new church around the surviving altar.
Further south, in the town of Grand Goave, young volunteers from an organization called "A Roof for my Country" are building what they call temporary homes.
But for Iloria, who has always lived in a shack - it's a dream house.
"This house is better than another shelter so when the rain starts and the wind comes, it's better to be in these kinds of houses," she said.
Ideally, planners would like more people to move into towns outside of Port-au-Prince - built for 500,000 - they're now bursting at the seams with 3 million.
They hope that tents on the outskirts of the city will encourage a mass exodus so rebuilding will be easier. The concept is called "decentralization." But getting people to move will require incentives: namely jobs - through tourism, building more garment and textile factories, and increasing agricultural exports like mangos - a plentiful but largely wasted resource.
While parts of Haiti resemble ancient Greece, rebuilding it will take a Herculean effort. This isn't just about rebuilding structures - it's about restructuring an entire society.
"Do you ever feel just, do you ever get demoralized and feel hopeless about this huge endeavor?" Couric asked.
"We don't have time to feel like depressed and disappointed," Eduardo Almeida replied. "We have to understand that each one of us, and each one of our institutions, are here to put a stone in the wall that's going to be built."


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Traveling at the Speed of Life
The tragedy on September 11, 2001 killed many and hurt many more. David Sylvester tried to make sense of that senseless moment by jumping on his bicycle and connecting with people. His message to the people he met across three continents was simple: "Find your bike." It translates to finding your passion and now, ten years later, after pedaling across deserts, down dirt roads and highways, and over the mountains of Africa, Asia, and North America, David spreads his inspirational message on the pages of this book. Whether relaying stories of tragedy or triumph David writes with a degree of honesty, humor and passion that will make you want to 'find your own bike' and go for a ride.
Traveling at the Speed of Life has been added to at least ten university and high school curriculums across the United States - among them Cal State Northridge, Yale and The Shipley School.
"David's passion and excitement for life is evident when you meet him. But upon reading about his worldwide tales of adventures on his bike, one can truly appreciate his compassion and understanding for those from all walks of life. Traveling at the Speed of Life reminds the reader that sometimes life's richest moments come from enjoying the journey, regardless of the destination."
— Kathryn G. Moore, ESQ (London)
"I've traveled many places and met many people, but rarely do I meet someone that gives off an aura of confidence, charisma and wisdom like David. His story is, not only inspiring, but provokes a "no bull-shit" caricature of who he is, a man all of us should be lucky enough to meet."
— Chris Fireoved (Paris, France)
"Traveling at the Speed of Life and the story of David Sylvester are so special because they are honest. They are real. Dave weaves surprising insights and earnest reflections into each adventure and bike journey, even when it is not pretty. That alone is inspiring, and that is what makes this book so inspiring. By the end, you wonder what you, yourself are waiting for? What is stopping you from making your dreams happen? And that to me, makes Dave worth knowing, and his story worth reading..."
— Malini Sekhar, Independent Consultant (Philadelphia, PA)
"Traveling at the Speed of Life is a very personal journey of discovery: of self, of the world and the impact simple personal connections can make. Dave has an extra-ordinary determination and self-belief that has inspired many. His book contains some vivid and charming descriptions of the people he has met and the events that have made a great impact on his life."
— Catriona Kennedy (Edinburgh, Scotland)
"David is one of those rare individuals who truly stand out as the complete person: body, mind, and spirit. He is an inspiration for how he lives his life (to the fullest) and because of what he does for others. This book brings his story to a global audience."
— Kallan Resnick (Tokyo, Japan)
"Because of David's open heart and unwavering value of friendship, Traveling at the Speed of Life is an honest success. It is obvious that he has so much more of himself to give and I cannot wait to read what he will do next."
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Chart lining up Y-coordinate values (left) to block layers (right)(Not to scale).
Altitude is a measurement of vertical distance, or distance along the Y-axis.
Altitude is defined as "the height of anything above a given planetary reference plane, especially above sea level on earth."
In Minecraft, altitude is commonly expressed as the number of block layers above the bottom of the game environment, which is layer zero (0). For instance, sea level is recognized as block layer 62, and clouds appear at layer 127.
Altitude may also be expressed as the bottom face of the block layer, the bottom most of which is at Y-coordinate 0, or Y=0. Sea level would appear at Y=63, and cloud level would appear at Y=128. The player can press F3 to see the Y-coordinate of the top face of the block on which they are standing.
The top of the game environment is layer 255, and the top face of the highest block that can be placed is at Y=256. In the New Nintendo 3DS Edition, the top is instead at Y=128.
The maximum height the player can reach by flying is Y=2^52. The height where the player loses the ability to fall is Y=2^55. After this limit, the player can only move using a NBT Editor. The maximum height a player can reach is Y=2^1024. Beyond this limit, the game will read the player's Y altitude as 'infinity'. It is impossible for the player to turn at these heights.
The highest achievable height in Legacy Console Edition is Y=511 due to an invisible wall in the overworld and the nether. In the end, however, this limit is infinite. The height limit for building blocks is Y=256, similar to Java Edition. The height minimum is Y=2, as you cannot break the last bedrock layer, even in Creative Mode.
As of the current version, the maximum number that a player can teleport to is 4096.
In contrast, any player who falls below the altitude of Y=-64 will receive 4 ( ) damage every half second and eventually die, even in Creative mode and Spectator mode.
In Bedrock Edition, the player dies instantly if they fall below Y=-2, unless in creative mode. In creative mode, the player can only fall into Y=-40. The height limit for building blocks is Y=256.
Description: The graphs in this section need to be updated to the current version.
Features in the landscape of the Overworld are found at different altitudes, as shown in the graph below. There is also an interactive chart.
Note that these charts utilize the logarithmic scale, which means a slight difference in the Y-coordinate represents a large change in the relative frequency of a block type.
Looking at water, the amount at layer 62 (sea level) is obvious. Moving down, the amount quickly decreases at layers 56 and 48, the usual depth of river and ocean biomes, respectively.
There are corresponding peaks in the amount of clay beneath them.
Between layers 33 and 12, most water is falling down sub-ocean ravines, spreading out on the lava-filled bottom at layer 10 and producing most of the naturally-occurring obsidian.
Ores and gravel (not shown) usually occur as a fixed percentage of the amount of stone (also not shown), tapering off at the ends of their allowed generation range.
This is why coal and iron follow parallel tracks between layers 5 and 60.
The one exception is lapis lazuli ore, which has a linear progression up to a peak at layers 13-14.
See the following table for a textual description of resources by altitude and tools needed to gather them.
↑ The range in which the block can be found in the map used for the graph.
↑ Layers in which the resources tend to be most numerous.
↑ Redstone has the same layer and line-size statistics as Diamond, but is generated 8 times per chunk as opposed to 1.
Other naturally occurring features appear at different altitudes, but all of these features are random and will only appear in conjunction with another block and the proper environment.
Magma block Lava and water in ocean.
The altitude of the map was 64 blocks total. Players could build 32 blocks up or down from sea level.
Solid blocks can no longer be placed on layer 127. However, beds, signs, torches and other non-solid blocks can be placed on layer 127.
Entities are no longer invisible when above the build limit; instead, they turned black.
Notch, on his Twitter feed before the Adventure Update, posted a picture showing his experimentation with height limits and terrain generation up to 512, featuring a mountain much higher than normal mountains.
The player's view distance decreases in lower altitudes.
Previously, the sea level was at layer 64. Now, it is at layer 63. Players who have maps created before this update will find one-block-high "waterfalls" at the edges of the terrain previously generated when moving into new, post-Beta 1.8 terrain.
The height limit was doubled from 127 to 254, though structures did not yet generate above this layer.
The change in height was introduced along with the switch from the Region file format to the new Anvil file format.
Amplified world type added (attempts to use the full 255 height).
The height limit message will now appear on top of the hotbar, the place that the message "Press LSHIFT to dismount" will also appear when you're riding a mob.
The height limit was doubled from 127 to 255, with the exception of the nether and old world type.
Issues relating to "Altitude" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
The highest possible altitude the player can legitimately climb to is Y=256, although explosions and elytra launchers can blast the player far beyond this limit.
In The Nether, mushrooms can generate at Y=128, above the bedrock[Java Edition only].
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Not Even Cannibals And One Of The Deadliest Snakes Could Stop This First Ascent
In his "Forgotten First Ascents" series for Rock and Ice, Owen Clarke dug up cool climbs from the past and talked to the climbers who made them happen. This one: Malaria, Rhumsiki Tower, Cameroon, 2007.
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Massimo Faletti was battling up the third pitch of Malaria (7b+/5.12c A2) a 340-meter (1,115 foot) line on Rhumsiki Tower, a spire in the high desert of far northern Cameroon, Africa. His two teammates, Mario Cavagnini and David Rigotti, were on the belay ledge below. Suddenly, he heard yelling. "Hey Mass! We have to leave the belay!" Cavagnini called. "We have to leave, now!" Confused, Faletti looked down, trying to figure out what was going on, but the belay was out of sight.
Unknown to Faletti, a massive black mamba, one of the most venomous snakes in the world, was slithering onto the belay ledge from a crack. In a panic, his partners tied him off and bailed over the side of the ledge. Black mambas can move at 12 miles per hour in short bursts. Their bite, which releases a powerful neurotoxin, can kill in 20 minutes without an antivenin, and as little as two drops will kill an adult human. Luckily, the pair was able to give the snake a wide berth until it left. Fifteen minutes later they returned to the ledge, put Faletti back on belay, and he continued up Rhumsiki.
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Rhumsiki Tower sits on Cameroon's border with Nigeria, in the volcanic Mandara Mountains. There were two other routes on the tower when Faletti and his team arrived: a French route to the right of Malaria, and a South African-American one (a 5.12d put up in 1999 by Mark Synnott, Greg Child, Ed February, and Andy Deklerk) on the left. Unlike the two other lines which were fully bolted, Malaria was established ground up on traditional gear, save for some bolts backing up the belays and a single aid move over a crux roof. Faletti first heard about Rhumsiki from a filmmaker friend, Marco Prati, who was interested in shooting a documentary in Cameroon. When Prati showed Faletti pictures of the tower, he was hooked. If Prati would help him document an ascent of the tower, he said, he would come to Cameroon and help him with the rest of his documentary.
Rhumsiki Tower can be seen in the distance. Photo: Courtesy of Massimo Faletti.
But access to Rhumsiki wasn't that simple. The team traveled by local bus and train to reach the far north, and were stopped on four separate occasions by "policemen" wielding Kalashnikov rifles. "It was a dodgy, dodgy trip," said Faletti, laughing. "They had no identification. It was just a man with a rifle, he told you to get on the ground with your face in the dirt. You had to pay to get out." Each of these "arrests" cost them €30, but Faletti felt no ill will. "They only want money because they need it," he said. "We, the white people, were the worst problem for Africa. We stole lots of things in the African land for years, so the people are pissed off. I can understand this anger."
Literal highway robbery was far from the only hazard the team encountered in Cameroon. Faletti was allergic to the antimalarial medicine he was taking, and at one stage in the trip his legs began to blister swelled up like balloons. "We go to this local priest," Faletti told me, "for some medicine and help. This priest says we must be careful to travel, because last week a van disappeared on the road here. He says every year a few vans disappear. He says there is a cannibal tribe. This tribe… they catch the van and take the people back to their village, then they eat the people in this village."
A local Cameroonian man reading signs in a pot of crabs and stones. Photo: Courtesy of Massimo Faletti.
Upon safely reaching Rhumsiki, the first thing the Italians did was visit the nearby village to ask the leader for his blessing. This went smoothly. "We offered him something to drink, we asked him, and he said it was no problem," said Faletti. Next, they went to consult the local crab sorcerers. These medicine men, who live outside the village, predict the future using a combination of crabs, bones, and stones. "I don't have much religion myself, but it's important to respect the local religion wherever you go," said Faletti. "You can't walk with shorts into a mosque, stuff like that. You respect the culture of where you are, so we asked the crab sorcerers about what would happen on the tower." The sorcerers placed the crabs in a pot with bones and stones, and the crabs moved the them. After a minute or so, the sorcerer took the crabs out and read the prediction based on the placement of the bones and stones. "They looked at this preview and told us we could climb the tower," Faletti said. "So we did."
The team hauled their gear to the base of the climb, set up camp and began working their way up. Conditions were "a real tragedy," as Faletti put it. The sun was so brutal on Rhumsiki that the team could only climb between 4:00 am and 10:00 am. By 11:00 am each day, the temperatures on the wall reached a blistering 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit).
Along with the black mamba, the team encountered vultures. At one point, a large owl flew out of the crack and into Faletti's face as he was 10 meters run out above his last piece of protection. He held on, but was angry with himself. "I get pissed off at myself when this happens, because it means I disturbed the nature," Faletti said.
Faletti described the crux pitch as a 7a (5.11d) crack leading into a 7b+ (5.12c) roof. "From there you have an undercling, and you must jump out and up to a small edge outside the roof," he said. He attempted a wild all-points off dyno to the edge—two feet above the lip of the roof— several times, but when he couldn't stick it he put in a piton and aided through it. He believes the pitch could go free at 7c (5.12d) or harder,
On the sharp end during the first ascent of Malaria.Photo: Courtesy of Massimo Faletti.
All told, Malaria went down in three days. David Rigotti only climbed with the team for the first three pitches, then left with Marco Prati to work on the documentary. Faletti led every pitch on Rhumsiki, as his other partner, Mario Cavagnini, was mostly a sport climber.
Even after they climbed the tower, the team wasn't out of the woods. Shortly after finishing the climb, Cavagnini fell ill with malaria, battling a 105-degree fever. He recovered, and his experience became the inspiration for the route's name.
"If you are an alpinist like me… when I go on these trips it is my vacation. I don't have sponsors giving me money," said Faletti. "Maybe some boots or clothes sometimes, but that is it," he said. "It is not a job, it is my vacation. So I think it is even more important to bring knowledge of the natural world when we come, and bring a positive impact. So we study the local culture before we come, the customs. We stay out of the village and camp, we keep everything clean, bury our shit, pack out our trash. This is most important," he said. "You must respect the local people. It is their country."
Owen Clarke is a climber and writer who enjoys Southern sandstone and fresh fish tacos. He is afraid of heights. Follow him on Instagram at @opops13.
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House Approves Flag-Burning Amendment
James Joyner · Wednesday, June 22, 2005 · 11 comments
Once again, the House has passed an amendment to the Constitution to ban freedom of expression in the form of burning the American flag. (Unless done to show respect for a frayed, old flag–in which case it's encouraged.)
House Approves Flag-Burning Amendment (AP)
The House on Wednesday approved a constitutional amendment that would give Congress the power to ban desecration of the American flag, a measure that for the first time stands a chance of passing the Senate as well. By a 286-130 vote — eight more than needed — House members approved the amendment after a debate over whether such a ban would uphold or run afoul of the Constitution's free-speech protections. Approval of two-thirds of the lawmakers present was required to send the bill on to the Senate, where activists on both sides say it stands the best chance of passage in years. If the amendment is approved in that chamber by a two-thirds vote, it would then move to the states for ratification.
Supporters said the measure reflected patriotism that deepened after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and they accused detractors of being out of touch with public sentiment. "Ask the men and women who stood on top of the (World) Trade Center," said Rep. Randy (Duke) Cunningham, R-Calif. "Ask them and they will tell you: pass this amendment." But Rep. Jerrold Nadler (news, bio, voting record), D-N.Y., said, "If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents."
The measure was designed to overturn a 1989 decision by the Supreme Court, which ruled 5-4 that flag burning was a protected free-speech right. That ruling threw out a 1968 federal statute and flag-protection laws in 48 states. The law was a response to anti-Vietnam war protesters setting fire to the American flag at their demonstrations.
The proposed one-line amendment to the Constitution reads, "The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States." For the language to be added to the Constitution, it must be approved not only by two-thirds of each chamber but also by 38 states within seven years.
Each time the proposed amendment has come to the House floor, it has reached the required two-thirds majority. But the measure has always died in the Senate, falling short of the 67 votes needed. The last time the Senate took up the amendment was in 2000, when it failed 63-37. But last year's elections gave Republicans a four-seat pickup in the Senate, and now proponents and critics alike say the amendment stands within a vote or two of reaching the two-thirds requirement in that chamber. By most counts, 65 current senators have voted for or said they intend to support the amendment, two shy of the crucial tally. More than a quarter of current senators were not members of that chamber during the last vote.
The Senate is expected to consider the measure after the July 4th holiday.
While I have nothing but contempt for Americans who show their displeasure with U.S. public policy by burning the American flag, amending the Constitution to prohibit this activity is absurd. It's a cheap political stunt but one that does nothing to make the country stronger or safer. If enacted, however, it would make it slightly less free.
Update (1659): Steven Taylor adds,
[A]mendments to the Constitution that limit the government are fine, and indeed, my favorite kind. Amendments designed to limit the actions of citizens that are otherwise unharmful to other citizens, strikes me as a bad idea.
Quite so. Indeed, the only such amendment passed was the 18th, which instituted Prohibition on the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages. It didn't work out so well.
carpeicthus says:
Wednesday, 22 June 2005 at 15:49
That about sums it up.
McGehee says:
I still don't know what political expression flag-burning represents. It's inarticulate emotion, nothing more, and certainly isn't persuasive.
If what somebody has to say can't be expressed more effectively by means other than burning the flag, maybe it isn't worth saying. I really don't see what harm this amendment would do to free speech — even if there were a chance in hell of it ever being ratified.
Kevin: The mere fact that people want to pass laws against it–let alone amend the Constitution–seems to demonstrate how powerful this form of symbolic speech is.
hln says:
Can we amend the constitution to ban amendments based on emotion?
Editor - 201k.com says:
Can we amend the constitution to ban insulting moms and apple pie, too?
Herb Ely says:
The lawyers will make money on this. Someone will step forth claiming that "de-secrate" means "to remove from the sacred." the lawyers will go to court claiming that congress has implicitly created the flag as a sacred symbol. I've suggested a scenario on my blog. Remember Norman Augustine said that people win bull fights but lawyers win people fights.
Anderson says:
Based on Rehnquist's dissent in Texas v. Johnson, the last SCOTUS flag-burnin' case, I think his answer would be "yes." Read it; it's a hoot.
Lt bell says:
another bush assault on freedom -free speach-
and america itself –
burning a flag is meaningless banning the burning
is UnAmerican-
If only the christian could understand real democracy
As I have been saying often lately…aren't there more important things for our exalted elected officials to be doing? How many hours were wasted on this issue?
I would personally like to slap anyone who burns the flag but they have the right to do it and that is that; but honestly is it worth the effort?
How about fixing that mess in Iraq or fixing our borders.
LJD says:
Thursday, 23 June 2005 at 09:07
How about charging the offender with arson, or burning without a permit?
Or we can issue a mandate for all flag burners to be beaten to a pulp by veterans.
Chris Dickson says:
Thursday, 7 July 2005 at 16:34
Radio Talk Show Hosts Hold Gannett Newspaper Burning Ceremony
Radio Talk Show hosts Chris Dickson and Ron Chappell of "The Dickson/Chappell Report" are meeting at the Vietnam Memorial in Richmond, Indiana on July 9, 2005 to have a ceremonial burning of a "USA Today" newspaper in response to Gannett editor's promises to burn American flag if Burning Amendment passes.
The top editor at a newspaper owned by Gannett, which publishes USA Today, promised in a Sunday column to burn an American flag if the Senate passes an anti-flag burning amendment. Linda Grist Cunningham, Executive Editor of the Rockford Register Star in Illinois, pledged: "If the U.S. Senate follows its silly siblings in the House of Representatives and votes for a ban on burning the American flag, I'm going to burn one. It never occurred to me to burn a flag — except in some flag-retiring ceremony — but just the idea that Congress has nothing better to do than spend time on this nutty issue makes we want to burn one." She also displayed her disgust with critics of Senator Dick Durbin, complaining that people "with an ax to grind" took "a couple of lines out of context."


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Outstanding Young Woman Engineers of the Year honoured at IET awards ceremony
Image credit: The IET
Published Friday, December 6, 2019
The IET has announced the winners of the Young Woman Engineers of the Year Awards.
The Young Woman Engineers of the Year Awards celebrate women working in engineering; the IET hopes that they will create role models and challenge the stale perception of engineering as a career for men in hard hats and overalls. According to Engineering UK, just 12 per cent of people working in engineering and technical occupations are women.
The IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year is 28-year-old Ying Wan Loh, a manufacturing engineer for Rolls-Royce. After completing her postgraduate degree at the University of Cambridge, Ying co-founded a tech start-up which has grown rapidly.
"I am so honoured to receive this award. I have a great team and support system behind me and this is an amazing feeling," Ying said. "This award isn't just about me, it's about all the outstanding women changing the world through engineering. The IET gives female engineers a voice to be heard and I want to use this platform to raise the profile of women in STEM and capture the imagination of young girls everywhere, showing them that they too can be an engineer."
The IET Mary George Memorial Prize for Apprentices was awarded to 21-year-old Samantha Magowan, an applications engineer for Dale Power Solutions, who works with customers to find solutions to their requirements. The Women's Engineering Society Award was given to Dr. Claire Lucas, 33, an associate professor of systems and Information engineering, who is also responsible for teaching in systems, biomedical and general engineering.
The IET has also introduced the Gender Diversity Ambassador Award, which recognises an engineer's work towards gender equality in the industry. The award was given to Wing Commander Glynis Dean, who led the Royal Air Force Youth and Diversity Team from 2008 to 2018.
The winners were announced at a glitzy ceremony held at Savoy Place, the IET"s flagship building in central London.
All winners and finalists will play an ambassadorial role for engineering and technology in the coming months.
Jo Foster, the IET's equality, diversity, and inclusion manager, commented: "I'd like to congratulate our fantastic winners and highly commended recipients of this year's awards. They are inspirational and a real credit to the engineering profession and will play a huge part in altering the perception of what a career in engineering and technology can look like.
"It's vital we champion engineering careers to the next generation – it's a diverse, creative and exciting career, which offers the opportunity to do something life- or even world-changing."
Chris Skidmore, the minister for universities, science, research and innovation, commented: "It is crucial that we recognise the importance of this industry in advancing society and economic growth. Boosting engineering is a top priority for the government and it is events like this that are helping to transform our agenda on this topic."
Helen Wollaston, CEO of WISE, the campaign for greater gender balance in STEM said: "It's always great to see women succeeding in what have traditionally male-dominated roles. Women like these are working on the science, technology and engineering that is changing the world. We are pleased to be working with the IET to share stories of positive role models like these to support greater diversity and ultimately give more women these opportunities."
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Archives|New White House Estimate Lifts Drug Benefit Cost to $720 Billion
New White House Estimate Lifts Drug Benefit Cost to $720 Billion
By ROBERT PEAR FEB. 9, 2005
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 - The Bush administration offered a new estimate of the cost of the Medicare drug benefit on Tuesday, saying it would cost $720 billion in the next 10 years.
That is much more than the $400 billion Congress assumed when it passed legislation creating the benefit in late 2003.
But administration officials said the numbers were not comparable. The original estimate was for the years 2004 to 2013. The new estimate covers the period from 2006, when the drug benefit becomes available, to 2015.
The higher figure, which provides the first glimpse of the true cost of the drug benefit, could touch off a political uproar in Congress, where conservative Republicans were already expressing alarm about the costs of Medicare, including the drug benefit.
In a recent interview, the new chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, said he wanted to "put the brakes on the growth of entitlements" and take a close look at the new Medicare law.
"Since it was sold as a $400 billion program, that's what we should keep it at," Mr. Gregg said.
Representative Rahm Emanuel, Democrat of Illinois, asked about the issue on Tuesday when Treasury Secretary John W. Snow was testifying before the Ways and Means Committee. Mr. Snow said he did not have detailed figures at hand.
Dr. Mark B. McClellan, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said later that the drug benefit would cost $720 billion from 2006 to 2015.
Passage of the Medicare bill was a major political achievement for President Bush and the Republican leaders of Congress. It squeaked through the House by a vote of 220 to 215, and it would probably not have been approved in its current form if lawmakers had thought the cost would exceed a half-trillion dollars.
Mr. Emanuel said: "The new cost estimate destroys the credibility of the Bush administration. Officials were so far off in estimating the cost of the Medicare law. Why should we believe what they say about the financial problems of Social Security?"
Representative Pete Stark of California, the senior Democrat on the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, said: "I told you so. We can't trust numbers provided by administration officials. They'll say anything to get a bill passed. And if the new drug benefit costs more, the extra money goes to their friends in the pharmaceutical industry, not to senior citizens."
Mr. Stark said the higher cost estimate showed that Congress should allow the secretary of health and human services to negotiate with drug manufacturers to secure lower prices for Medicare beneficiaries. The law forbids such negotiations. But Tommy G. Thompson, the former secretary of health and human services, said he wished Congress had given him the power to negotiate.
When the Medicare bill was passed, the Congressional Budget Office said the cost would not exceed $400 billion over 10 years. In a letter to The New York Times published on Nov. 20, 2003, Thomas A. Scully, who was then the Medicare administrator, wrote, "We are spending $400 billion."
Just two months later, in January 2004, the White House said the cost, for the same 10-year period, would be $534 billion.
Dr. McClellan said Tuesday that "there has been no significant change in the cost of the drug benefit" for the years 2006 to 2013. But, he said, the new estimate covers two additional years, 2014 and 2015, when Medicare enrollment will be larger and drug prices will be higher. In 2015 alone, he said, Medicare will spend well over $100 billion on the drug benefit.
Assumptions about the cost of the Medicare drug benefit were included in the budget that Mr. Bush unveiled on Monday. A table in one volume of the budget, titled "Analytical Perspectives," shows the drug benefit as costing $345 billion from 2005 to 2010.
Lawmakers said they were shocked to see that number because it was close to the $400 billion figure they had previously been given as the price tag for a full decade. Estimates prepared by the chief Medicare actuary show that the spending for the prescription drug benefit will total $1.2 trillion from 2006 to 2015, before taking account of income that will offset some of that cost.
Dr. McClellan tried to reconcile the numbers on Tuesday night. He said the $345 billion figure and the $1.2 trillion showed "gross costs" and did not reflect the premiums that would be paid by Medicare beneficiaries, compulsory contributions by states or savings to Medicaid that would result from the new law.
Several members of Congress cited the latest cost estimates as a reason Medicare should not pay for Viagra and other "lifestyle drugs." Medicare officials said last week that the new benefit would pay for Viagra, Levitra and similar drugs when they were needed to treat erectile dysfunction.
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Congress grills CMS over fate of ACA's remaining co-ops
Bob Herman
The CMS is closely monitoring the finances of eight of the remaining 11 not-for-profit co-ops created by the Affordable Care Act. House Republicans used the uncertain fate of the insurers as a punching bag for the law during a hearing Thursday.
The House's Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Health Care, Benefits and Administrative Rules heard testimony about the co-op program, which saw 12 of its 23 insurers shut their doors as of Dec. 31. Republicans absorbed most of the time with questions and didn't hesitate to throw in political jabs at the law that is universally despised by the party.
Republican lawmakers, who have not voted on or proposed an alternative to the ACA, were concerned the remaining co-ops would close and thereby waste taxpayer money. The CMS issued approximately $2.5 billion in loans to the startup insurers, which amounts to a nominal percentage of the overall HHS budget.
Some Republicans said the loans are "propping up Obamacare" when there's no certainty the remaining insurers will be solvent in the future.
"We're in a hole here. Why are we still digging?" Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) said.
Eight co-ops are operating under corrective action or enhanced oversight plans, Dr. Mandy Cohen, the CMS' chief operating office, told the House Thursday. That means the CMS has identified potential problems with operations of those co-ops, but it doesn't necessarily indicate they immediately face bankruptcy or closure.
The CMS is trying to recoup the federal loans from the co-ops that have collapsed, Cohen said. She also said it's too soon to determine how the remaining co-ops will fare this year, since they are still analyzing their enrollment figures from the 2016 open enrollment.
"They're small businesses, and they're still getting their foothold on this business," Cohen said.
Experts and analysts have said the ACA's co-ops faced multiple barriers to success being new entrants to health insurance. They had to build networks of hospitals and doctors from scratch while competing with large carriers with well-known brands and more financial resources. They also faced several political hurdles, including severe restrictions on their loans, reduced initial funding and major stonewalling from Congress.
Compounding those problems last year were two risk-stabilization programs created by the ACA. Co-ops and other insurers had expected to receive money from the temporary risk corridors program, but the Republican-led Congress required that risk corridor funding be budget-neutral. Consequently, the CMS paid out only 12.6% of expected payouts last year, which the failed co-ops blamed for their demise. One co-ops, however, has filed a class action lawsuit against the government to get those payments, according to a lawsuit first reported by the Portland Tribune.
Further, co-ops and other newer insurers unexpectedly had to pay money under the risk-adjustment program. Insurers with higher amounts of low-cost, healthy enrollees pay into the program to help out others that have high-cost, sicker members.
Even though co-ops had many extremely sick people sign up for their coverage, several had to pay into the risk-adjustment program because they didn't have a lot of claims data to show the health status of their enrollees. Their membership essentially looked healthier than it actually was because many diagnoses hadn't been captured yet.
Al Redmer Jr., Maryland's insurance commissioner and former CEO of insurer Coventry Health Care of Delaware, told Congress that Maryland's co-op has been successful. Evergreen Health Cooperative, which has 36,000 members, is expected to turn a profit this year.
But he said challenges like the flawed risk-adjustment program and lack of risk corridors funding would handcuff any small business that is trying to get off the ground.
"We are setting up carriers around the country to fail," Redmer added in written testimony. He suggested that the government exempt "new and fast-growing plans," like co-ops, from risk adjustment for the first three to five years, or limit risk-adjustment payments to 2% of the plan's premium revenue.
The CMS said almost three-quarters of consumers in shuttered co-ops moved to a new marketplace plan in 2016. Affected co-op enrollees still have until Feb. 28 to sign up for a plan due to a special enrollment period.


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In the police station, a balance of both chaos and order is beautifully woven in. Open cupboards flowing with archival files frame seamlessly with the muted tones of the door frames and stained glass, while still allowing the density of the desert light to punctuate the space.
How Netflix's Thar, shot in Rajasthan, brings alive the conflicting worlds of its characters
Beyond the generic visuals of sand dunes and women carrying water pots, AD explores how the team of Thar peeled back the romanticization to show us a noir-tinted Rajasthan inhabited by our most primal instincts.
Images courtesy Netflix
It's a memory that often comes back to Raj Singh Chaudhary, the writer and director of Thar: a woman avenging the death of her husband by charging head first with an axe towards his killers, her face covered in ghunghat. In a different world, this would be wild but romantic imagery—your lover fights for you despite knowing that the odds are all stacked against her. In Rajasthan, it takes on a complicated, darker hue.
The village was discovered after almost two years of scoping through Rajasthan.
A sense of endless continuity and mundaneness is evident in the villagers, and yet it is eerie in their own right—a space stuck in time. While every wall was punctuated with drying grass, bullet holes, and soot-laced corners, they were yet all alive in their own right.
The character of Fatima Sana Shaikh is perhaps one of the most conflicted in the film—in an unhappy marriage, yet acutely self-aware of her needs, and with an ambition to pursue what she truly desires. Her space reflects the same: limited, claustrophobic but pockmarked with little corners of light.
He explains that the visuals had to reflect the violence and harshness of the land. To signify what the characters are going through, the dingy locations reflect their interiors. So, the interiors of Chetna's (Fatima Sana Shaikh) house are claustrophobic, because she is in an unhappy marriage. Or, the vast shots of the desert convey the loneliness of the central character, too.
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Many visual motifs symbolize both geographical changes in the landscape and the interior worlds of the characters. A commonly repeated visual is of a buffalo carcass that keeps appearing throughout the movie–signifying the passage of time.
In Thar, set in the 1980s, an outsider, Siddharth Kumar (Harshvardhan Kapoor) appears in Munabao, a remote Rajasthani village situated in the Thar desert near the Pakistan border and constantly on edge—not necessarily because of its politically fraught geography but because of the many secrets that float across open country. The village itself is brimming with mysteries: strange killings, the gradually decaying corpse of a buffalo that mirrors the passage of time, bandits making their way up the dunes, and women who will prioritize their lives above everything else. At the intersection of it all is inspector Surekha Singh (Anil Kapoor)—trying to make sense of the invisible demons assailing Munabao and those of his own mind.
The house of the character of inspector Surekha Singh, played by Anil Kapoor, is perhaps the most layered of all the sets. The location of slow-burning dialogues also acts as a perfect visual foil for Kapoor's character and the inner turmoil he is dealing with. In the night scenes, it is not drenched with light, but the subdued texture is underlined with a lone electric bulb or a crackling table lamp.
Despite the inaccessibility of the space, the abandoned ruins appealed to them. In real, only monkeys inhabit it. Only walls existed, everything else had to be created because the protagonist first enters this space.
In the past, production designer Khan has derived inspiration from Peruvian-born painter Boris Vallejo's works that blend everything from realism, hyperbole and exaggeration.
With Thar, Khan drew all the sketches with watercolour and moved away from the ultra-fantastical works of Vallejo. There was no scope to make any changes because watercolour paintings cannot be modified. And yet, they managed to retain a sense of transparency that was needed for Thar. Once the sketches were done, it was all a matter of blocking and hiding, composing the frame around pirouetting shadows as most of the scenes were shot at night and on location, away from the stodgy Mumbai studios.
The director-writer adds that the locations—from a dilapidated village in western Rajasthan to a gritty dhabha built from scratch—themselves had an innate eeriness to them. In most cases, bats hung about in strange orientations. In the real town of Rajgarh, off Ajmer, the team went up a hill and chanced upon a dilapidated, abandoned fort that became the lodestar of the film. It needed no altercations and ended up mirroring the essence of the story: ageing, stuck in time, unmoving, and a carrier of endless stories. In the director's imagination, the Indian noir element in Thar was the product of being raised on a steady diet of Western noir films, and then coming back to the ancestral village of Rajasthan where it all came together beautifully.
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The colours of Rajasthan, around the desert landscape, are highly muted. So, a contrast had to be achieved between the desert and the crushing village, the characters on the edge and volatile killings, and working only with a limited number of colours: carmine, red, shades of teal and grey.
According to production designer Wasiq Khan—who has previously worked on films like Gangs of Wasseypur, Dabangg, Black Friday and RamLeela—it was all about drawing a thin line between the wild west and a believable world. Rajasthan has been shot on film to death, he adds, and Thar had the burden of achieving that fine balance between realism and a fantastical world.
Khan's team would travel to the dilapidated fort in Rajgarh mentioned by the director, every day for two hours, to add a sense of decay to the already decaying walls. Could time be unstuck again? Was there a way the violence in the minds of the characters would further accentuate everything from that village, the fort, the open-faced dhaba, and those claustrophobic rooms? Khan wanted to escape the "tourism-waala Rajasthan" so that he could move beyond the jaded, tedious visuals that nearly all have been saturated with.
The dhaba appears in the initial sequences and introduces the temper of all the important characters. Khan did not want the dhaba to be laced with doom, so he preferred an open-faced design dotted with small antiques: flower pots, a statue of the Nataraja, biscuit boxes.
The dhaba was built around the Kishangarh area in Rajasthan which is famous for marble manufacturing.
The idea to have an open-faced dhaba was to ensure that the scale of the place was retained—to ensure that audiences could understand this was not some random erected set in Mumbai.
For the director, his memories of coming across the nomadic tribes of Rajasthan who were migrants from Pakistan were channelized in the design of the village and its supporting structures—where the violence faced by these nomadic tribes could be reflected in the quiet chaos of the spaces too.
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Thar is streaming exclusively on Netflix.
A film written and directed by Raj Singh Chaudhary; produced by Anil Kapoor, Harshvardhan Kapoor, and Anil Kapoor Film and Communication Network (AKFC); starring Anil Kapoor, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Harshvardhan Kapoor, Satish Kaushik, Mukti Mohan and Jitendra Joshi; dialogues by Raj Singh Chaudhary and Anurag Kashyap; music by Ajay Jayanthi; cinematography by Shreya Dev Dube; production design by Wasiq Khan; art direction by Disha Dey; costume design by Priyanka Agarwal.
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Kabir Khan's 83 recreates India's Cricket World Cup victory through its attention to detail
AD steps inside the sets of Kabir Khan's 83—where Ranveer Singh plays the former Indian skipper Kapil Dev—to witness what went into bringing alive the most iconic moment in India's sporting history.
By Anita Horam
Rocket Boys: A deep dive into the series' sets that brought its world alive
From period interiors recreated in studios and heritage properties, down to details like radios, typewriters, and scientific equipment, AD explores what went into creating the life and times of Vikram Sarabhai and Homi J. Bhabha
Photography by SonyLIV
How the sets of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Gangubai Kathiawadi recreate 1950s' and '60s' Bombay
As AD looks into the art and sets of Gangubai Kathiawadi, we get an insight into Bhansali's own personal, childhood experiences of space and architecture, and how it informs his cinematic vision.
This bungalow in Ajmer reminds you of old forts in Rajasthan
Designed by ARGO Design Lab, this villa is a dual typology building comprising a doctor's clinic and a private residence.


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Christina Christodoulou-Todea ()  o publicistă și traducătoare română.

A studiat la Facultatea de Filologie a Universității din București, secția Limbă și Literatură Engleză, absolvind în 1961. După absolvire a obținut Diploma în Applied Languages și TEFL (Teaching of English as a Foreign Language) de la Universitatea din Essex cu o bursă oferită de Commonwealth (1976). Sosită în 1963 în Cipru, în urma căsătoriei cu profesorul Ch. Christodoulou, Christina se numără printre primii români stabiliți în această țară după proclamarea independenței statului.

A fost profesoară și subdirectoare la liceele din Cipru, unde a predat limba engleză (1963-1989).

În 1989, în urma unui transfer la Serviciile Culturale ale Ministerului Educației și Culturii, preia revista culturală "Cyprus Today", al cărei redactor-șef rămâne până la pensionare (2000). Între 2002-2010, în baza unui nu contract de colaborare cu Ministerul Educației și Culturii, asigură în continuare conducerea revistei, distribuită diasporei cipriote de Biroul de Informație Publică al Ciprului. Semnătura sa se regăsește în sutele de articole de istorie, literatură, arheologie și artă cipriotă apărute în această publicație.

În 1995 înființează Alianța Românilor din Cipru, prima asociație de solidaritate a acestora cu scopul de a promova spiritualitatea românească. În cadrul acestei instituții a organizat numeroase conferințe, seri literare dedicate unor personalități din cultura românească și festivități care marchează sărbători tradiționale românești. În 2004, cu sprijinul Ambasadei României din Cipru, înființează prima școală românească din diasporă, cu secții în principalele orașe din această țară.

A tradus din limba greacă în limba română Istoria Ciprului de Katia Hadjidemetriou (2004, 2011) și romanele Ascensiunea lui Stylianou de Yannis Katsouris (în colab., 1999), Devoratoarea Iubire de Patrie a lui P.F.K. (2001) de Pannos Ioannidis, Magadalena, Magda, Maggie... (2011) de Elli Paionidou și nuvela Ayia Nappa - pe două nivele (1997) de C. Hadjipappas. A transpus din română în greacă piesa de teatru Unde-i revolverul? de Gábor Görgey (pusă în scenă la Nicosia de Mircea Cornișteanu).

A fost decorată cu Ordinul "Meritul Cultural" în grad de Ofițer categoria F – "Promovarea culturii", la 23 februarie 2018

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Celia (telenovela)
List of Rave Master characters
Celia, is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Fox Telecolombia for RCN Televisión and Telemundo. Is based on the life of Latin American singer Celia Cruz.
"Celia" tells the story and musical legacy of a woman who began her career in the midst of the Cuban Revolution, during a time when a female singer had no stage. This lady creates a revolution after imposing respect for women in popular music; she breaks the barriers of racism, she takes over the world with her powerful voice and her appealing style, becoming the universal icon of Latinos Worldwide.
Jeimy Osorio as Young Celia Cruz
Aymeé Nuviola as Celia Cruz
Modesto Lacén as Young Pedro Knight
Willy Denton as Pedro Knight
Carolina Gaitán as Young Lola Calvo
Abel Rodríguez as Eliécer Calvo
Margoth Velásquez as Ollita Alfonso
Aida Bossa as Noris Alfonso
Luciano D'Alessandro as Young Alberto Blanco
Jonathan Islas as Young Mario Agüero
Brenda Hanst as Ana Alfonso
José Narváez as René Neira
Alberto Pujol as Rogelio Martínez
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Celia is a given name for females of Latin origin, as well as a nickname for Cecilia, Celeste, or Celestina. The name is often derived from the Roman family name Caelius, thought to originate in the Latin caelum ("heaven"). Celia was popular in British pastoral literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, stemming from Shakespeare's use in the play As You Like It. Celia is also the name of the main character in the series Celia's Journey, by Melissa Gunther.
Names with similar meanings in other languages
Kūlani ("heavenly", Hawaiian)
Silke (German)
Célia (French)
Celia (Polish)
Ουρανία ("heavens", Greek, pronounced "urania")
Cèlia (Catalan)
Celia (Spanish, Galician)
Célia (Portuguese)
People with the name
Celia Adler, actress
Celia Barlow, politician
Celia Birtwell, textile designer
Celia Corres, field hockey player
Celia Cruz, singer
Celia Dropkin, poet
Celia W. Dugger, journalism
Celia Farber, journalism
Celia Fiennes, travel writer
Celia Franca, founder of National Ballet of Canada
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The Rave Master manga and anime series features an extensive cast of characters created by Hiro Mashima. The series takes place in a fictional universe that exists as a parallel world where vast numbers of humans as well as species known as sentenoids and demonoids fight using weapons, magic and evil artifacts known as Dark Bring (Shadow Stone in the anime's English dub). One of the most primary users of the artifact known as Dark Bring is an evil terrorist organization known as Demon Card (Shadow Guard in the anime's English dub) which plans to use it to take over the world and bring it into darkness.
The main character Haru Glory, is chosen by the holy artifact known as Rave to wield the Ten Powers and go on a quest with the strange dog like creature known as Plue to find the other four remaining Rave stones and put an end to the usage of Dark Bring and bring peace to the world. In his travel, fate brings him to ally himself with a girl that lost her memories and believes she is named Elie and is unaware that she has a strong involvement with the Rave stones. Together on their quest, they gain allies known as the Rave Warriors which consist of the thief that can manipulate silver known as Hamrio Musica, a cartographer which is the strange blue creature known as Griffon Kato, Let Dahaka and Julia who are both martial artists and members of a species from the mystic realm known as the Dragon Race, Ruby, a rich penguin-like sentenoid, and Belnika, a kind sorceress.
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