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Facial studio opening soon in Oregon District
Éclat Facial Studio is a new facial aesthetic salon in Downtown Dayton. CONTRIBUTED
By Kaitlin Schroeder
A new facial studio will open soon in downtown Dayton.
Éclat Facial Studio is owned by Karin Gaudin, who said the three bed studio will deliver 30 minute facials after it opens Oct. 20..
"What we're doing is creating a space for experiences, find beauty and imperfection on a different meaning of time, expectations, and purpose," Gaudin said. "We're taking the fluff out of the spa salon and delivering the same service in an open environment where you leave your clothes on, you listen to upbeat soundtracks, and then you can also expect to learn about your skin."
The shop is opening at 204 Wayne Ave., in the space in the The Wheelhouse building where Speakeasy Yoga used to operate.
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Éclat means to glow, shine, or sparkle in French, which speaks to what the studio aims to do.
They will have a scrub bar, where people can mix and match their own exfoliant and oil in a four ounce jar to take home a body scrub.
The studio will also have a retail shop selling the same skin care products used in the shop, which are the Farmhouse Fresh Skincare brand.
Gaudin is a nurse by trade and additionally has a master's degree in health care administration and certificate in public school nursing. But when she translated to the region from Toledo, she wanted to do something else besides work in the acute care setting.
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"I knew I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be my own boss, and be able to provide a different experience so clients don't have to spend $150 an hour and a half of their time to get great skincare," she said.
Gaudin said the studio has hired four licensed estheticians and the studio will be open every day. Hours are will be 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday.
She hopes the price point of $54 for a facial makes the studio more affordable and the time frame of a half hour makes it accessible.
Appointments are encouraged and will be able to be made at eclatfacialstudio.com
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Kaitlin Schroeder
Kaitlin Schroeder is a health care and business reporter with the Dayton Daily News. She covers the local hospitals, CareSource, public health, nursing homes, caregiving, and other related topics.


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Don't Look To The Skies: Flight Reviewed
Patrick Smith , February 2nd, 2013 11:01
Patrick Smith reviews Robert Zemeckis's aviation drama
The (wholly justified) praise heaped upon Steven Spielberg's Lincoln widely comments on the film's central preoccupation with the formalities, procedures and rituals of legal court proceedings. Robert Zemeckis's Flight is a film that sets itself up for a similarly fine tuned examination of contemporary legal machinations, though it ultimately trips over its own feet, becoming embroiled in an all too familiar addiction-conquering sub-plot, which is in turn hampered by major inconsistencies of tone and mood.
However, Zemeckis's return to live action film making (following a triptych of wholly sub-par motion capture works) is announced with a furiously fun and energetic opening thirty minutes. The film opens in a disheveled hotel room with pilot Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) righting his misdemeanors of the previous night with a line of coke. From the stylistic choices within this opening it is evident that Zemeckis has missed live action film making; he flashily (though somewhat mid 90's trope-ily) throws the camera into Washington's face as he hits the line (its overworked and overdone, but you can't help but enjoy it). Whitaker heads for the airport, guiding his SouthJet flight through heavy turbulence, mixing up a vodka orange and taking a well earned snooze as the plane sits atop the clouds. Disaster soon strikes however with a mechanical malfunction sending the plane into a steep dive. Whitaker instantaneously takes command and in fantastically implausible fashion turns the plane a full 180 degrees before guiding it into a crash landing, saving all but six passengers. Zemeckis's use of slow motion and lilting stedicam shots throughout the crash and its immediate aftermath gloriously fetishises every horrendous malfunction and moment of human turmoil. His focus here is less on individual plight but rather a wider focus on the spectacle of the crash itself, and it works horribly well.
Whitaker's awakening in hospital brings about one of the film's all too few moments of subtly nuanced anguish. Zemeckis stylistically shifts gears, using largely static and repeated set ups, in marked contrast to the frenzied opening- where he was perhaps a little too keen to stylistically mark his return to live action. The initial reassurances offered by Whitaker's union representative and Navy buddy Charlie Anderson (Bruce Greenwood) are undone by a subtle pan, which indicates that NTSB representatives are noting down every word spoken.
The shift in tone and style between the film's frenzied opening and the slow burning of Whitaker's awakening provides a solid frisson which, it quickly and disappointingly becomes apparent, Zemeckis cannot maintain. Two sequences that quickly follow this opening pair release almost all the tension the film has worked to wind up. The film introduces two characters, one parodic and trite the other interminably boring, both of whom are ultimately unwarranted and distracting. The first is John Goodman's cameo performance as Whitaker's drug buddy. Clearly he's there to show Whitaker's "zany" past, but it's perhaps the most tonally ill suited performance in any film of the past year. The second is Kelly Reilly's drug addicted Nicole, there to provide Whitaker with the impetus for the flattest and dullest journey towards sobriety and redemption seen on screens for a while.
What these two formulaic characters suck from the film is the potential for any significant screen time to be devoted to the legal push and pull surrounding Whitaker's court case. Don Cheadle as Whitaker's union defence attorney is terrifically blunt and practical. He quickly sets up the moral and ethical dilemmas of such large union court cases - personal responsibility and guilt versus collective punishment and fiscal loss. Sadly though we never see enough of him or of the court case.
Zemeckis's film has the potential to structure itself around some meaty ethical and legal dilemmas, but instead it formulaically crashes and burns. By the end there are no survivors.
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NBC Uses Trump Endorsement to Promote DNC Attacks on Romney
Published: 2/3/2012 4:53 PM ET
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Following Democratic National Committee talking points to the letter at the top of Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams saw Donald Trump's endorsement of Mitt Romney as an excuse to bash the Republican frontrunner: "New fallout from Mitt Romney's choice of words about the very poor, and tonight a new endorsement from a man who's catchphrase is 'You're fired.'"
In the report that followed, correspondent Peter Alexander gleefully touted Democrats smearing Romney in the wake of Trump's backing: "For Romney, the endorsement of a billionaire businessman with this as his signature line [clip of Trump saying "You're fired"] Gave Democrats new fodder for attacks on cable." A nasty sound bite followed from DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "They both like firing people and they've both made millions doing it."
After playing a clip of a new DNC ad making the same point as Schultz, Alexander offered up a video montage of Romney's supposed gaffes during the campaign, declaring: "And it's not the first time Romney's gaffes have gotten him into trouble."
On Friday's Today, the Trump endorsement itself was treated as if it were a new Romney gaffe. Co-host Matt Lauer wondered: "What about the timing of this?...he stands next to a billionaire the day after he made this gaffe concerning the very poor. Couldn't the Romney campaign have called Donald Trump and said, 'Look, we appreciate the endorsement. Could we hold this off a little while and do this a few weeks down the road?'"
Meet the Press host David Gregory further criticized the Romney campaign's handling of the endorsement: "I just think that there was an aspect of this that was ham-handed. I think, you know, you had Mitt Romney saying, 'I've been successful, but Donald, not quite as successful as you.' I don't that really helps with the down-with-the-people tour over the next few weeks." Gregory added that Romney has "got to kind of work through this."
Turning to chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd, Lauer speculated on how soon Romney would run away from Trump: "Would you expect Mitt Romney to now take this endorsement and yet carefully, subtly, but immediately begin to distance himself from Donald Trump?"
Considering Trump is the star of one of NBC's long-running reality shows and a frequent guest on Today, it does not appear the network is eager to "distance" itself from the real estate mogul anytime soon.
Here is a full transcript of the February 2 Nightly News report:
7:00PM ET TEASE:
BRIAN WILLIAMS: New fallout from Mitt Romney's choice of words about the very poor, and tonight a new endorsement from a man who's catchphrase is "You're fired." We'll have all the news from the trail tonight.
7:04PM ET SEGMENT:
WILLIAMS: Now to the campaign trail today. Donald Trump found a way to thrust himself back into the spotlight, backing Mitt Romney, who was also pushing back against criticism that he is making too many verbal mistakes and it could hurt his candidacy. NBC's Peter Alexander on the trail tonight in Las Vegas. Peter, good evening.
PETER ALEXANDER: Brian, good evening to you. There was no better evidence that this campaign moved to the wild west than Donald Trump taking the stage today. He said he's had several meetings in recent months with Mitt Romney and said he was ultimately swayed by Romney's strong performance in recent debates. Ever the showman, Donald trump stepped into the spotlight today alongside mitt Romney.
DONALD TRUMP: It's my honor, real honor, and privilege to endorse Mitt Romney.
ALEXANDER: In an event that lasted barely five minutes, Romney himself seemed to acknowledge the sheer spectacle of it all.
MITT ROMNEY: There are some things that you just can't imagine happening in your life. Now, this is one of them.
ALEXANDER: The hype that was vintage Vegas came with plenty of confusion. Several media outlets initially reported Trump would back Newt Gingrich, who later was dismissive.
NEWT GINGRICH: The Donald is a force of his own.
ALEXANDER: For Romney, the endorsement of a billionaire businessman with this as his signature line-
TRUMP [NBC'S CELEBRITY APPRENTICE]: You're fired.
ALEXANDER: Gave Democrats new fodder for attacks on cable.
DEBBIE WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ: They both like firing people and they've both made millions doing it.
ALEXANDER: And, in this new web ad.
[CLIP OF DNC AD ON SCREEN]
Romney campaign officials insist the support of Trump, a Tea Party favorite, sends a message to the Party's grassroots. But today many conservatives are still scratching their heads after Romney's clumsy comments seeming to show indifference to the poor.
ROMNEY: I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.
PEGGY NOONAN [ON LAURA INGRAHAM RADIO SHOW]: Let me tell you what was wrong about it, it was almost martian-like in its remove from the concerns of regular people.
ALEXANDER: And it's not the first time Romney's gaffes have gotten him into trouble.
ROMNEY: Corporations are people, my friend.
ROMNEY: I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.
ROMNEY: There were times I wondered whether I was gonna get a pink slip.
ROMNEY: Ten thousand bucks? $10,000 Bet?
ALEXANDER: Gingrich today continued to target Romney's latest verbal fumble. Today Gingrich commented on Romney's latest verbal fumble.
GINGRICH: I believe that we should care about the very poor, unlike Governor Romney.
ALEXANDER: Tonight Romney is trying to put those inelegant comments behind him and turn a corner. He is refocusing on the central theme of his campaign, Brian, that his private sector experience makes him the best candidate to improve the American economy.
WILLIAMS: Just another day on the campaign trail. Peter Alexander from Las Vegas. Peter, thanks.
- Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center. Click here to follow Kyle Drennen on Twitter.
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[Jaakko]
It's funny, really, when
you think about it.
Here we are, we juggle millions
of pounds and euros a day and
never think about it twice,
but when it comes to personal
stuff, it's all barter.
I suppose.
I mean, Ginny could buy her own
mysterious tea, but she'd rather
get it from the secretaries.
[Ginny]
I don't want to buy my own.
But his point is, you
could afford to... you'd just
rather barter for it.
It's more that if I bought a
whole box of fruit teabags and
it turned out I didn't like
the flavour, I'd be stuck with
nineteen I didn't want.
It's as if we don't even
want to think about money.
Remember when we had to spread
the load on the transaction server,
and the only way we could fix
it was by inventing a currency?
Cowrie shells. How could I forget.
I still say that was a
stroke of genius, Nils.
It was just.... Money is
a state of mind, really.
It's valuta, not actual.
it... Hey, that
gives me an idea
for a scenario!
Valuta!
Jaakko, I owe you.
I'll take it in hunks
of smoked animal.
You take this role-playing
stuff seriously, don't you?
Well, of course.
It's not like money.
It's REAL.


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Q: How can we stop continuous event firing? I need to get an event when scroll reaches bottom of div and as per the below code I'm getting event for scroll reaches bottom, but the thing is that I'm getting more than one events and it is firing concurrently as long as scroll is in the bottom.
So is there any way to stop firing events continuously rather than firing events after processing the first event occured?
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    //Getting continuous event as far as scroll is in bottom

      if($('#divid')[0].scrollHeight - $('#divid').scrollTop() <= $('#divid').outerHeight())
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A: To fire an event handler once, at the the start or end of a series of continuous events, you could debounce them.
http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-throttle-debounce-plugin/
function start() {
    // code to run at start of event
}

function end() {
    // code to run at end of event
}

$(window).scroll($.debounce(250, true, start));
$(window).scroll($.debounce(250, false, start));

The first argument is the amount of milliseconds that should pass before it's deemed to be a separate event. The second argument determines whether the event handler should run at the start or at the end of the series of events.
In your case you could use the 'end' version to check the scroll position when the user stops scrolling.

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Ashridge House is a grand mansion in Hertfordshire, built in the 19th century. Adjoining the house is a large private set of formal gardens and tree planting.
Please be aware that unlike the adjoining Ashridge Estate, the house and gardens are NOT owned by the National Trust.
The house was built between 1808 and 1822 in a neo-Gothic style, including a crenellated central tower and a prominent chapel with tower and spire. Inside are a series of magnificent rooms. The Entrance hall has a hammerbeam roof. The Main Hall under the tower rises to 29m (70ft) and has impressive fan vaulting and a series of statues. The cantilevered staircase has a cast iron balustrade with brass handrail.
The Hoskins Room, with a blue and white theme, has fine plasterwork. The Ante Room has high ceilings and much woodwork including three pairs of English oak doors. The Lady Marion Alford Room has a fine ceiling with a painting depicting the goddess Aurora, and twin marble fireplaces based on those in the Doge's Palace, Venice. The Wyatt Room has oak paneling and an ornate plaster ceiling. The (former) Library has ebony bookcases with brass inlays in a Boulle style.
The Chapel, designed by James Wyatt, is a fine example of his work. It contains stained glass windows which are replicas of the original 16th century Bavarian stained glass. The originals were sold in 1928 for £27,000.
Under the Chapel is the Well House, which pre-dates the main house and contains a deep well sunk by the monks in the 13th century.
At least one of the outbuildings pre-dates the house, but the 'Old Stables' were built in 1817.
The house was built for the Egerton family, replacing an earlier house built on a monastic site. The house once belonged to Henry VIII and then Princess Elisabeth. The Egertons owned the house until 1849. Later owners the Brownlows sold it off in 1921. In later years it was a hospital, a Conservative Party training centre, a finishing school, and finally a management college and business school.
The gardens cover 77 hectares (190 acres) and include a formal Italian garden, and various other gardens and features as well as avenues of trees and open grassland. They are well worth a visit.
Visiting: The gardens are open on weekend and Bank Holiday afternoons during the summer, for a modest fee.
On a few dates in July and August, guided tours of the house and gardens are available. This is the only way of seeing inside the house. It is best to book by phone so you can ask what counts as a concession and what times the tours start, and whether you can go around the gardens on your own instead of paying for the garden tour (apparently not). Most visitors, it seems, book for both the house tour and the gardens tour that follows after complimentary refreshments.
Benington Lordship has seven acres of gardens which are opened to the public. There are several sections of formal garden at different levels, plus a large pond, and expanses of lawn.
The substantial house – Queen Anne with early twentieth century extension – is not open to the public. It features a striking attached folly in the form of a 'Norman' gateway and arched window. In the garden are the tumbled remains of a castle which once stood on the site.
The gardens are worth a visit if you are in the area. When there, do not neglect to visit the centre of the village containing a number of old cottages, and the church.
Teas are usually available in the village hall nearby.
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The Panacea Society was founded in 1919 by Mabel Barltrop, the widow of an English clergyman. The Society believed that she was a modern prophet and that a millennial event bringing in a thousand years of peace and happiness would soon occur. The members were inspired by the writings of Joanna Southcott, a prophetess living about 100 years earlier who predicted a messiah would begin the millennium in England.
The Society was best known some decades ago for its national advertising campaigns to open 'Joanna Southcott's Box'. The property at Bedford included accommodation for 24 bishops at a high-profile opening ceremony. The Bishops of England declined repeated requests to attend a three-day ceremony of box opening.
Another activity of the Society was the distribution of materials for making holy water – an universal panacea.
In the inter-war period there was an active community of Society members at Bedford taking part in religious services, but nowadays the main activities of the Society seem to be maintaining the Museum and administering a substantial portfolio of property and assets bequeathed to the Society by deceased members.
The Museum site, discreetly located in Victorian villas at the centre of Bedford near the Castle site, contains the Founder's house, the Bishops' accommodation, the Chapel and gardens.
The Founder's House has been arranged as it was in the 1930's, with much of the original furniture. The contents reflect late-Victorian and Edwardian fashions.
The larger building, Castleside, was intended to be used for the box-opening. Most rooms are now used as exhibition spaces, but a few are fitted out to represent their original functions: a sitting room, a bedroom, a bathroom, and the box-opening hall.
Chartwell was the country home of British prime minister and war leader Sir Winston Churchill.
The site of Chartwell was built on from the 16th century, but the present house originated in the Victorian period. It was a brick Victorian house of no architectural merit, but Churchill bought it for its position and the views. It was transformed and extended by the architect Philip Tilden in a vernacular style of the kind made popular by Lutyens. In 1938 it had 5 reception rooms, 19 bed and dressing rooms, 8 bathrooms, and was set in 80 acres of grounds.
A tour of the house takes well under an hour, and it has to be said that the main interest is the Churchill connection. Rooms are displayed as they were in Churchill's time, or contain exhibitions. Various rooms contain some of Churchill's books. He owned many thousands of books, and made a living as a writer and historian. His histories of Marlborough, and of the English Speaking Peoples, of the Second World War etc. are still worth reading today. Volumes of his work can be seen shelved around the house. Many of Churchill's own paintings are also on display. His art may not be to all tastes, but he was regarded as a serious artist. Below the principal ground floor is a lower floor that looks out onto the lakes. The kitchen on this level is preserved as it was in the 1930's.
The grounds are very extensive, and contain formal gardens, lakes, woods, a swimming pool, a walled garden with a wall part built by Churchill, and some cottages with Churchill's art studio.
Access is along narrow roads. The car park is of only moderate size, and when I visited on a March afternoon, it was full.
Ightham Mote (pronounced I-tam) is a medieval manor house that has survived for over 650 years in a valley in the Weald of Kent. It is entirely surrounded by a moat of running water, fed by a stream that traverses the gardens. The various owners were wealthy but not famed, and made modest changes to the house to adapt it to their needs and tastes. Much of the present outline of the house was in place by the 16th century. The house, with its cream stone and jumble of red-tiled roofs, sitting in a square moat, is very attractive.
If one stands in the central courtyard and looks around, it may look as if the house is of one piece and date, but in fact it is the product of six centuries. The earliest parts of the house date from the 1330s while other parts were built or altered at times from the Tudor to Jacobean to Victorian. The last owner bought the house in the 1950s and some rooms are presented with the decor of this period.
The house suffered sales of its entire contents on more than one occasion, and is presently furnished with furniture appropriate to the periods in which the rooms are presented.
Above the house to the north is a lawn and informal grounds, while to the west are a formal garden and some cottages on the site of the former stable block.
From 1990 to 2004 the house underwent a major programme of conservation during which much of the roof and timber-framed rooms were dismantled, and rotted and infested parts of the timbers cut out and replaced with new wood, before the whole was reassembled, so that the house now looks the same as before, but no longer crumbling. Hence most of the lath and plasterwork in the house is modern. On the other hand, without these repairs and also the repairs carried out in the Victorian period, parts of the house would have eventually fallen down. The conservation programme cost around £11 million.
Ightham Mote is well worth a visit, as it has some fine interiors and is one of the best moated medieval houses in the country.
Note that the approach to the house is along narrow roads.
The Bedford museum and art gallery opened in mid-2013 after a major refurbishment and extension, and has been re-branded as the Higgins. The galleries, upstairs and downstairs, are extensive, and a full tour takes several hours. Galleries include art, local archaeology, local industries, ethnographic collections, natural history, Arts and Crafts movement furniture and artefacts, temporary exhibitions and, the prize of the collection, the Burges Room, containing painted furniture by the Victorian designer.
The museum buildings incorporate the original Victorian mansion built for Bedford industrialists the Higgins family, but having had various parts demolished or knocked through over the decades to adapt the buildings for museum use, the mansion has lost much of its original character. Furniture and contents typical of the period have been placed in the principal rooms.
If the purpose of your visit is to see the Burges Room, it is advisable to ask for directions. A number of important pieces of painted furniture, some from Burges' last residence, the Tower House, are placed around the walls of an artificially lit space. The adjoining spaces and galleries contain the museum's collections of Arts & Crafts furniture and artefacts from the Victorian and Edwardian period.
A visit is recommended, especially if you are interested in high Victoriana and the Arts & Crafts movement.
If you need a refreshment break during your visit, the Higgins Pantry with waitress service is available next to the entrance.
The Higgins is in the centre of the town, within walking distance of Bedford & Bedford St Johns railway stations. Parking in the area is restricted, and could be difficult on a Saturday, when the weekly Bedford auction is held nearby.
One's first impression of Knole is that it's big. The frontage is very long, and is exceeded by the depth, and there are seven courtyards. On the approach one can also see part of the massive wall of Lord Sackville's walled garden.
Passing through the arched main entrance, one enters the Green Court, with some fine frontages. Visitor reception and the garden are to the right. Note that after checking in (or paying) at the visitor reception, one is expected to present one's ticket at the garden entrance (if open) and at the Great Hall.
It's worth making the effort to come on a Tuesday, when Lord Sackville's walled garden is open. The walled garden is the size of a municipal park and features trees rather than flowerbeds in a variety of differing areas. It wraps around two sides of the house, (SW & SE) and these exteriors can not be seen from outside the garden. (Actually when I visited, the south end of the house was wrapped in scaffolding and plastic, and not visible anyway.) The wider park (huge) is rather bare and brown by comparison.
Be aware that the interior of the house is unheated and draughty, so if you visit on a chilly, breezy spring day, dress as for outdoors, as it will be as cold as the park! The old 'Estate Office' is the only visitor room that is properly heated.
If you have time, walk around the outside towards the tea-room to look at the north exterior and peer into the Stable Court (private).
Knole is a healthy 1.5 mile walk from Sevenoaks railway station, mostly uphill. Parking at the house is £4 (NT members free).
Chicheley Hall is an early Georgian mansion built in 1719-23. It was owned for centuries by the Chester family, some of whom are buried in the nearby churchyard. From 1954-2009 it was owned by the Beatty family, Earl Beatty being the son of the famous WWI admiral. It is now owned by The Royal Society, who have spent many millions of pounds on renovating the Hall and turning it into a conference centre.
I remember visiting the house when it was open in the 1980's and seeing some Beatty memorabilia, but no Beatty relics now remain in the house. The 'uneven floors and creaking corridors' are also in the past. In Sept 2012 I was able to visit the Hall via a guided tour as part of the national Heritage Open Days event.
Outside the approach front is the most impressive view of the house, followed by the lake front, while the garden and service fronts are more utilitarian. There are two service wings now used for guest bedrooms, the north wing being linked by a curving corridor.
According to the Chicheley Hall website, non-corporate visitors can visit the Hall by arrangement and have a cream tea etc. You should contact them for details.
The estate has 75 acres of land, which includes several acres of pleasant gardens around the house.
The timber-framed Courthouse dates from the 15th century, and was used for legal meetings of the three manors into which the surrounding farmlands were divided, and later for other purposes. In the 1890's it was derelict and under threat of demolition when it became the second property acquired by the nascent National Trust. For a time one of the radical founders of the trust used it for residential workshops for poor boys from the cities, to broaden their minds and foster comradeship between boys and men. After a dispute, the building was re-dedicated to more conventional use, and today the ground floor is let out as accommodation and the upper floor houses a village exhibition.
In the 1980's the building was (again) refurbished to remove some of the heavy brick infill from the walls and replace the brick with lightweight synthetic panels.
The Courthouse is worth a visit if you are in the region, to see the exterior and the interior, and the exhibition. For no obvious reason, the Courthouse is only open for three days a week in season, plus bank Holidays. Visitors are advised to phone to check availability before travelling a long distance. Allow time to stroll around the village and see many other timber-framed buildings which look as old as the Courthouse.


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El Kasari es un río de Estonia occidental que desemboca en la bahía de Matsalu que es parte de Väinameri.

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August 2014 is a special month to ALIAS HOSMAN DJATIMAN. He was always strong since he could go sea fishing at 13 years old. He never thought that he would have liver cancer. "I never smoke nor drink alcohol,no other unhealthy habit. I have no idea why I got this disease" he said.
Purely by chance ALIAS HOSMAN DJATIMAN found himself got liver cancer during a routine physical examination in Malaysia in August 2014. He was told that there was 2-3cm tumor in his liver and suggested for operation but he refused. "I was afraid to have operation although the tumor was not big and still at the early stage" he said. Unaware of cancer, ALIAS HOSMAN DJATIMAN thought in his cognition that operation equaled death. He planned to consider for a while to decide which treatment should be adopted, but the unceasing expanding of tumor stopped him and pushed him to make a decision soon. According to the checkup, tumor became 5cm in October and 7cm in December and it turned to stage IV "primary liver cancer with multiple liver metastases".
When he was anxious to choose hospital to undergo treatment, his friend's suggestion enlightened him. His friend has a relative who was also a cancer patient received good treatment effect in Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou. He decided to accept friend's suggestion and went to Guangzhou for the treatment. "The other reason why I chose this hospital was that I had joined in a seminar which was given by an oncologist of this hospital. His patience and professional knowledge impressed me and offered me trust" ALIAS HOSMAN DJATIMAN said with smile when he explained the reasons why he chose Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou.
On December 9, 2014, ALIAS HOSMAN DJATIMAN came to Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou for the third visit accompanied by his son. This time, Dr. Hu Ying told him that the tumors completely disappeared. He didn't need treatment any more except routine inspection .
ALIAS HOSMAN DJATIMAN was quite excited talking about treatment course: he received two sessions of interventional therapy, one cryotherapy and one radioactive seed implantation totally during hospitalization. "Differs from general anesthesia during surgery, interventional therapy applies local anesthesia. Doctors continually comforted me to ease my tension during the therapy. When the anticancer drugs were injected through catheter, I just felt a little cold, no other pain during the whole session. The therapy finished after half an hour, and there was only 1-2cm wound left. I could eat normally without vomit or nausea, it was amazing. Afterward I didn't feel worry when undergoing cryotherapy and radioactive seed implantation" ALIAS HOSMAN DJATIMAN described his feeling of undergoing minimally invasive treatments.
According to Dr. Hu Ying who was the attending doctor of ALIAS HOSMAN DJATIMAN, arterial interventional therapy is a treatment that applies drugs, radioactive substance or other physical therapy agent into local tumor directly under certain assistant methods, with simple operation and less trauma, to relieve symptoms and ease patients' suffering. Radioactive particle can give off γ-ray to kill tumor cells continuously after inserted into the tumor. Its destructive power to cancer cell is several times higher than external radiation or intravenous administration, but it won't damage nearby normal tissues since its radiation range is short within a radius of tumor invasion. Cryotherapy can inject Argon and Helium separately into tumor through cryoprobe, making ultra-low temperature and high temperature to freeze and ablate tumor. At the same time, it won' t cause harm to normal tissue. This minimally invasive individualized treatment plan based on his physical condition was the key factor that ALIAS HOSMAN DJATIMAN could recover soon.
Mentioned of ALIAS HOSMAN DJATIMAN's attitude during treatment, he said he believes his choice and he trusts doctor and technique, also holding a positive mind is the primary premise to fight against cancer. "I trust Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou more after receiving minimally invasive individualized treatments " said ALIAS HOSMAN DJATIMAN happily after the interview.


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(ANSA) - Rome, November 29 - Calling a straight person gay is not an insult anymore, Italy's top court ruled Tuesday. The Cassation Court said that in today's historical context, the term "homosexual" has not kept "an intrinsically offensive meaning as, perhaps, might have been considered in the not-so-distant past". The court said the term has come into current use and relates to an individual's sexual preferences, taking on a "neutral character" which means it cannot harm anyone's reputation, even when it is directed at a heterosexual person. Sentences from the Cassation Court, Italy's highest court of appeal, set legal precedent.


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Tales of Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes
Most people have heard of the Celts–the elusive, ancient tribal people who resided in present-day England, Ireland, Scotland and France. Paradoxically characterized as both barbaric and innocent, the Celts appeal to the modern world as a symbol of a bygone era, a world destroyed by the ambition of empire and the spread of Christianity throughout Western Europe. Despite the pervasive cultural and literary influence of the Celts, shockingly little is known of their way of life and beliefs, because very few records of their stories exist. In this book, for the first time, Philip Freeman brings together the best stories of Celtic mythology.
Everyone today knows about the gods and heroes of the ancient Greeks, such as Zeus, Hera, and Hercules, but how many people have heard of the Gaulish god Lugus or the magical Welsh queen Rhiannon or the great Irish warrior Cú Chulainn? We still thrill to the story of the Trojan War, but the epic battles of the Irish Táin Bó Cuailgne are known only to a few. And yet those who have read the stories of Celtic myth and legend-among them writers like J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis-have been deeply moved and influenced by these amazing tales, for there is nothing in the world quite like them. In these stories a mysterious and invisible realm of gods and spirits exists alongside and sometimes crosses over into our own human world; fierce women warriors battle with kings and heroes, and even the rules of time and space can be suspended. Captured in vivid prose these shadowy figures-gods, goddesses, and heroes-come to life for the modern reader.
"Philip Freeman's book is a delight. This spirited retelling of the famous stories of the Celtic west serves as a brilliant introduction to the beliefs and values of the pagan and early Christian communities of Ireland and Wales. I can think of no better way to begin to explore the culture of the early Irish and Welsh." –Barry Cunliffe, author of Britain Begins
"Philip Freeman brings to life the tales the ancient Celts told to each other, and what tales they were! Filled with passion, rage, bravery, and adventure, these stories are as exciting today as they were on the dark nights of the distant past. Heroes, heroines, gods and goddesses come to life in Philip Freeman's brilliant re-telling of these little-known but unforgettable stories." –Terry Golway, author of The Irish in America
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Nelson Mandela's Death: The condolences of President F.W. de Klerk
It was with the greatest sadness that I have learned of the death of Nelson Mandela. My wife Elita and I would like to convey our deepest condolences to his wife, Graça Machel, the Mandela family and their friends, to the ANC and indeed to the entire South African nation.
South Africa has lost one of its founding fathers and one of its greatest sons.
I first met Nelson Mandela on 13 December 1989, a few months after I became president. We did not discuss any substantive issues and spent most of the time sizing one another up. We both reached the conclusion that we would be able to do business with one another.
At my next meeting with him, on 9 February 1990, we discussed his imminent release, scheduled for 11 February. He was initially taken aback and insisted that the release would have to be delayed to give the ANC time to make the necessary arrangements. I said that that would not be possible but, in a spirit of compromise, agreed that he would be able to choose the place of his release.
He chose Cape Town.
In the years that followed, it was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim Constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994. Although we were political opponents – and although our relationship was often stormy – we were always able to come together at critical moments to resolve the many crises that arose during the negotiation process.
One such moment was the assassination of Chris Hani on 10 April 1993 when Nelson Mandela was able to use his great moral authority to call for calm and to ensure that the negotiations were not derailed.
In the concession speech that I made after the ANC's victory in our first non-racial election on 27 April 1994, I congratulated Mr Mandela on the role that he had played during the negotiations:
"Mr Mandela will soon assume the highest office in the land with all the awesome responsibility which it bears. He will have to exercise this great responsibility in a balanced manner which will assure South Africans from all our communities that he has all their interests at heart. I am confident that this will be his intention.
Mr Mandela has walked a long road, and now stands at the top of the hill. A traveller would sit and admire the view. But the man of destiny knows that beyond this hill lies another and another. The journey is never complete. As he contemplates the next hill, I hold out my hand to Mr Mandela – in friendship and in co-operation."
During his presidency, Mr Mandela did indeed use his great responsibility to assure South Africans from all our communities that he had all their interests at heart. He made a unique contribution not only to the establishment of our constitutional democracy but also to the cause of national reconciliation and nation-building.
Even in his well-deserved retirement he continued to be a force for reconciliation and social justice – not only in South Africa, but throughout the world. In later years, when we had both retired from the hurly-burly of political life, my wife Elita and I became friends with Nelson Mandela and his wife Graça Machel.
Nelson Mandela's courage, charm and commitment to reconciliation and to the Constitution, were an inspiration not only for South Africans but for the whole world. I believe that his example will live on and that it will continue to inspire all South Africans to achieve his vision of non-racialism, justice, human dignity and equality for all.
Tata, we shall miss you – but know that your spirit and example will always be there to guide us to the vision of a better and more just South Africa.
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Clinician Biographical Information Perry A. Ralenkotter has been director of bands at Sunman-Dearborn Middle School, since 1991. His bands have received "With Distinction" ratings, as well as being invited to perform at the IMEA convention. As a Yamaha Clinician and frequent guest conductor, he works with school systems on recruiting/retention and fosters support for the arts. He also teaches at the Stephen Foster Summer Music Camp in Kentucky and has been featured twice as SBO's, "50 directors who make a difference." Darren Webb is director of bands at Lawrenceburg Community Schools. He is well known for turning around struggling music programs and achieving historical results in school systems of every socioeconomic demographic. Webb often serves as a guest conductor and clinician.


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Jean-Luc Mothu, Executive Chef at Resort Barrière Deauville
Jean-Luc Mothu, Executive Chef at Resort Barrière Deauville, is responsible for bringing the French art of living into the Barrière kitchens.
Redesigning the restaurant menus, developing new products and instilling his teams with a creative dynamic, Jean-Luc Mothu, Executive Chef at Resort Barrière Deauville, is responsible for bringing the French art of living into the Barrière's kitchens. It is an absorbing and stimulating role that he is proud to assume on a daily basis.
After completing a double training programme in cookery and pastry making, Jean-Luc Mothu wandered from Michelin-starred restaurants to renowned patisseries and caterers until landing the role of Chef at La Samaritaine. He was put in charge of the entire restaurant division, before becoming Executive Chef of the catering department and kitchens of a small hotel group in Reims. He then went on to work for Parisian caterer Raynier Marchetti. Jean-Luc Mothu joined Barrière in 2011 in time for the G8, where he was in charge of the presidential dinner. This was the start of a dream career for a man who became Executive Chef at Resort Barrière Deauville two years later.
"I work for the Barrière's catering service, Traiteur Barrière. I am in charge of product development and guiding and coaching the teams in the region. I also create menu concepts for the other establishments. As far as the restaurants are concerned, I am based in Deauville at the three hotels, the casino and the two golf courses. I also set up a research and development kitchen, in which my teams and I try out new products and menus on a daily basis and take photos to create cooking books."
The qualities of an Executive Chef
"You have to be passionate about your job because you spend a lot of time doing it. You must be curious, a good teacher and well-organised. Enthusiasm and creativity are also essential qualities."
"Believe in your plans. If they are good, there is no reason they won't succeed."
My career at Barrière
"I love the diversity of my tasks and I am lucky to work at a site such as Deauville. Be it reinvented Croque-monsieurs or turbot with truffle-infused sauce, between gastronomic dishes, brasserie fare and snack meals, I am constantly reinventing something."
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'Car-chase TV': The Legitimisation of Police Work?
Deane, James (2016) 'Car-chase TV': The Legitimisation of Police Work? Doctoral thesis, University of Central Lancashire.
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'Car chase TV' has become a staple of U.K. television schedules over the past two decades. Conveyed in a plethora of observational documentaries (ob-docs), mediated images of police vehicular pursuits (PVPs) are packaged as entertainment products. However, the rise of PVPs as a ubiquitous entertainment spectacle has taken place against a backdrop of concern around a steep rise in the human cost of PVPs emanating from police oversight bodies and widely reported in the national press.
This research investigates whether car chase TV tends to legitimise the police, their work, and specifically the problematic practice of PVP. Historical analysis is used to map the developing concern around PVPs from 1900 through to 2011. The thesis then presents the findings of a thematic analysis carried out on an archive of ob-doc 'car-chase TV' programmes broadcast in the UK between 1993 and 2011.
This analysis indicated that such programmes do tend to legitimise the police, police work and PVPs in particular. It also showed that the challenge to the legitimacy of PVPs expressed in official reports, the print media and elsewhere largely failed to permeate the mediated construction of PVPs in the 'car-chase TV' programmes broadcast on the commercial television networks, but did produce a limited response in the programmes broadcast on the BBC television network, a response which tended to (re)legitimise PVPs in the face of these concerns.
The research found that there has been an historical decline in the visibility of PVPs presented in the television programmes contained in the archive, due to various possible factors.
This research is significant in that it examines a hitherto under-developed area of criminal justice research and contributes a unique historical perspective on the issue of PVP. It makes a novel contribution to the literature on the legitimisation of the police in the mediated sphere of television.
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Police; Media; Car-chase; Pursuit; Critical Criminology; Legitimacy; Police Camera Action; Police Interceptors; Road Wars; Traffic Cops; Police Stop!; X-Cars; Thematic Analysis;
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Curses, Foiled Again
Police chasing a stolen car in Port St. Lucie, Fla., said that the car came to a sudden halt after it collided with an alligator. "It's pretty unimaginable that police officers would be at this point in time looking for these suspects," Detective Keith Boham said after driver Calvin Rodriguez and two others in the car were arrested, "and that an alligator unfortunately just happens to cross the road and assist us in catching these criminals." (West Palm Beach's WPTV-TV)
Can Anything Else Go Wrong?
After recalling 2.6 million of its most popular vehicles to replace a defective switch linked to 13 deaths, General Motors apologized to families of the accident victims for sending recall notices to have the defective switches replaced after their deaths. What's more, federal regulators said they believe GM's death toll is too low. Federal crash data reveal that at least 74 people died in GM cars in accidents similar to those with defective switches. (Reuters)
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Police responding to a disturbance at a home in Lufkin, Texas, accused a woman of slapping her sister-in-law in the face with a catfish. (Tyler's KETK-TV)
A woman who discovered a small fire in the rear of her family's home in Louisville, Ky., grabbed the dog's water bowl to douse the blaze. Instead, the fire quickly spread, fire and rescue Major Rob Millner said, because the woman's 3-year-old daughter had mistakenly filled the water bowl with gasoline. Crews needed an hour to extinguish the fire, which had spread to a neighbor's house. (Louisville's WAVE-TV)
Thailand's National Council for Peace and Order, the military junta that took charge on May 22, embarked on a campaign to restore happiness by cleaning litter from the site of anti-coup demonstrations, holding free band concerts, and offering free haircuts and dessert. "Thai people, like me, have probably not been happy for nine years," Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, the army chief who led the coup, said in a national address, "but since May 22, there is happiness." NCPO official Col. Winthai Suwaree added that the military's continuing crackdown on dissidents is necessary because "they affect the NCPO's mission to return happiness to the country." (Thailand's Samui Times)
Gray Power
When Russell Cooper, 77, was unable to withdraw $130 at a bank in Boynton Beach, Fla., because a "consistent lack of funds" had caused the bank to close his account, police said Cooper became "increasingly agitated" and used his walker to shuffle over to the branch manager's desk. He pulled out a pocketknife and demanded to be escorted to a teller. After getting his money, Cooper told the manager he was taking him hostage and forced him outside. By now, police had arrived, but Cooper refused to surrender and had to be subdued with a Taser. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
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Unclear on the Concept
British police reported receiving an emergency call from a Birmingham woman complaining about the way a vendor put sprinkles on her ice cream. "He put bits on one side and none on the other," she said. "He's refusing to give me my money back and saying I've got to take it like that." (BBC News)
Surprise Ending
Shortly after his 1993 Chrysler New Yorker was stolen, Derk West of Boonville, Ind., got a call from a 72-year-old man who bought the car for $300. The price had made him suspicious that the deal was too good to be true, so he looked up West, whose name the car thief had used to transfer the car's title. West met with the older man, who West said "was out $300, and he was really upset." After evaluating the situation, West told him he could keep the car. "He needed it worse than I did," West said. Meanwhile, police identified Donald Grisby, 46, as the suspect who stole the car and sold it because he signed the receipt with his own name and Social Security number. (Evansville's WFIE-TV)
Intending to help students relax and de-stress before final exams at St. Louis' Washington University, a petting zoo brought several animals, including a 2-month-old bear cub, to campus for students to cuddle. The cub promptly bit and scratched at least 18 students. University officials then informed the injured students that they would need rabies shots. Ultimately, health officials determined the bear didn't have rabies, sparing the students the painful shots. (Reuters)
First-Amendment Follies
Seham Jaber told police that a masked man wearing gloves forced his way into her apartment in Albuquerque, N.M., and began punching her in the face while shouting anti-Muslim insults. He then ransacked the home, and when he found the family's citizenship papers, tore them up in front of her. "The irony is the individual thought the family was Muslim," Officer Simon Drobik said, "and they're actually refugees from Iraq who are Catholic" and fled that country because terrorists there attacked them for their religion. (Albuquerque's KRQE-TV)
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Hours after graduating high school in Catersville, Ga., Chance Werner, 18, drowned while tied to a shopping cart. Investigators said his friends were taking turns sitting in a shopping cart tied to a pole on a dock at Lake Allatoona. Others pushed the cart off the dock, flinging the occupant into the lake, then used the rope to pull the shopping cart out of the water. Werner tied the rope to his belt loop instead of the pole, however, so that when he hit the water, the weight of the cart pulled him to the bottom of the lake. Melissa Cummings of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources called the drowning a tragedy and pointed out that kids playing with ropes and heavy objects is "an accident waiting to happen." (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Wang Bang
While attempting to holster his .45-caliber pistol at a gas station in Macon, Ga., a man shot himself in the groin area. Authorities reported that when he took off his pants to check the wound, he saw that he had "shot himself in the penis and that the bullet exited out of his buttocks." (Macon's WMAZ-TV)
Vacation at Bernie's
The European Court of Justice ruled that a German man's widow was due payment for the man's 140.5 days of accrued vacation because "the unintended occurrence of the worker's death must not retroactively lead to a total loss of the entitlement to paid annual leave." (Associated Press)
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Review – Hopsin Brings Along Some Local Talent to Cervantes
Josh Cowden June 27, 2016 Music
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Cervantes had a packed show this past Thursday when Hopsin came through the building for a headlining show. Along for the night were a host of local talented emcees that represent the growing rap scene in Colorado. Openers for the night included Dassaro, Diivine, RimeS and Reason the Citizen — all riding a growing local buzz and helping put Denver hip-hop on the map.
Dassaro started the night out and got the crowd warmed up. The venue continued to fill in through the back while Dassaro kept the front of the crowd engaged within the set. Songs included "The Rise" and "The Fall," which was assisted by the aid of the lovely female voice of Emma, whom Dassaro introduced to the stage. The set ended with a much more energetic track in which Dassaaro requested the crowd start a mosh pit as the chorus suggested.
Next out was Diviine, a local emcee who represents Greely Colorado. After warming the crowd up with a few radio hits, Diviine launched into his set with an energetic stage presence. Feeding into the lively energy of the room, Diviine's set consisted of a lot of bass heavy tracks and an engaging of the crowd. Between beach balls flying through the air and Diviine jumping from one side of the stage to the other, the set definitely left the crowd entertained.
RimeS hit the stage next and was welcomed with lots of local love. After a dope couple tracks to introduce himself to the crowd, RimeS let his DJ throw on a few radio bangers that turned the crowd into a frenzy. Accompanied by his hype-man Black Buddha, the set was very high in energy and only helped in building the raising excitement for headliner Hopsin. Before leaving the sage RimeS displayed some fantastic stage presence as he commanded a very loud "Take Him On Tour" chant for Hopsin to hear backstage.
Last out for the local artist showcase was Reason the Citizen—a very talented emcee originally hailing from San Diego, but who recently transplanted to Denver. Reason started with an emphatic opening verse that thoroughly impressed the crowd. The rapid fire flow and clever wordplay continued throughout the set and left many fans in the crowd going "woah" after many of the punchlines. Highlights from the set included "Unlikely" and "Airplane Mode," but also included some other great tracks from this rising artist's growing discography.
Reason The Citizen
As 11 p.m. rolled around, the increasing chants for Hopsin were finally answered and the headlining act was set to hit the stage. Getting straight to the business, Hop dropped "Bout the Business" as the very first song and addressed the situation with Funk Volume directly. He stated, "I'm not the crazy one in this situation and thank you to everyone who has supported me since day one." Hop was impressed with the amount of support that showed up and he gave thanks to the amount of love he continues to receiving, even in the darkest of times. The set included a mix of some old and some new, with highlights being tracks like "Kill Her," "I Need Help" and "Crown Me."
Hopsin
One of the coolest parts of the whole night was when Hop invited any super fan that knew all of his lyrics, to come up on stage with and perform in front of the entire crowd. A brave fan named Evan volunteered and handled the pressure like a champ, delivering a stellar performance of "Rip Your Heart Out" right alongside Hopsin himself. That being just the tip of the iceberg, Evan then got to crowd surf with Hop, promising that he wouldn't sue if he got hurt. "Trampoline" dropped and the two dove in. The crowd went insane and Evan surely got a night he will probably never forget.
Hopsin and a fan
Hopsin ended the night with the two most anticipated songs of all. A powerful performance of "Ill Mind of Hopsin 7" and the final blow to Dame and Funk Volume —"Ill Mind of Hopsin 8," which addresses the breakup of Funk Volume in detail. It was a great performance and Hop definitely felt the huge fan base that we have here in Colorado and the love we give to artists. Undercover Prodigy is his new label and Hopsin seems more motivated than ever. With the promise of lots of new music coming this year, fans are extremely excited to see what the future holds for Hopsin and the team he chooses to build with.
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Most Latin American countries have at one time or another been ruled by army officers who graduated from the US Army School of the Americas, which from 1946 until 1983 operated from the former Fort Gulick. Now the facility is being converted to more peaceful uses, and the odds are good that a new generation of Latin American leaders will get to know the place.
dubbed by the company the "Niña," opened on March 11. It offers 70 rooms of "Royal Service" for an upscale business clientele, and all the computers, meeting rooms and other facilities needed to finalize the details of major international business transactions. As expected, the first guests mostly came to negotiate deals in the Colon Free Zone.
The "Pinta," a building with 20 family-oriented apartments, and the "Santa Maria," the former army school's and present hotel complex's centerpiece, will be finished and open for business over the next few months. All construction and rehabilitation work will be complete by November.
On the floor of the Santa Maria's lobby, there's a new logo with the points of a compass and the designation "Terra de la Pax," land of peace in the Catalan language that's the Melia chain founder Damián Barceló's native tongue. Directly above, a stained glass skylight dubbed "La Rosa de los Vientos" brightens the building's conversion to peaceful purposes.
The complex is situated on a peninsula in Gatun Lake and features great jungle views. Looking inside, there is a tasteful mixture of Spanish-style arches, Italian stucco walls that look very much like marble, inlays of tiles from Chitre, Guatemalan mahogany furniture and paneling and Mayan-style frescoes.
Outside, this is a lakefront resort, but the main swimming hole is a huge multi-level pool, without a doubt the best in Colon province. Melia also has plans to turn Fort Sherman's Devil's Beach into the saltwater option for hotel guests only.
The Melia Panama Canal will be a laid-back place for entrepreneurs to consider their next Free Zone transactions during the week, and from which upscale traveling families can base their discoveries of Panama's many attractions on the weekends. It will not be a loud partying place for the masses. As the resort's Elias Menacho put it, "quality standards for Melia hotels are very high."


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Name: Daniela Olszewska
Born: Wroclaw, Poland
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Olszewska resides in Chicago, Illinois.
Daniela Olszewska is president of the board of directors of Switchback Books located in Chicago, Illinois. She also serves as an Associate Poetry Editor of ''Another Chicago Magazine'' and has formerly edited for ''Black Warrior Review'' and ''Columbia Poetry Review''. Currently an Adjunct Professor at Truman College, Olszewska has taught composition, literature, and creative writing at various state schools, community colleges and at maximum security correctional facilities. Olszewska was born in Poland. She earned a Bachelor's in Creative Writing at Columbia College in Chicago and received her MFA from the University of Alabama. She now resides in Chicago, Illinois.
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Fort Scott, Schools
U234 Starts Summer Sesson Today
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Dalaina Smith, USD 234's Director of Academics. Submitted photo.
The pandemic and the loss of class time in 2020, spurred the decision of the USD 234 school administration to provide a summer session this year.
"Following the loss of classroom time in the Spring of 2020, USD 234 recognized the need for additional support to be given to our students as they prepare to return to school this fall," Dalaina Smith, director of academics for the district said.
"Teachers and students worked incredibly hard to overcome the gaps that occurred when schools were shut down in March 2020, however, this push has left some students needing a bit more support to prepare for their next academic year," she said.
"We want students to come into school in August feeling confident and ready to learn," Smith said. " For some students, 'Summer Camp' …. is just what they need to jump-start this upcoming year."
"Summer school and ESY opportunities will allow students to work towards mastery in areas they may not have achieved during the previous school year," she said.
"At the elementary level, this looks like additional opportunities for exploration and practice, while at the high school students have an opportunity to recover credits not earned during the school year," Smith said.
Smith said more than 20 teachers and numerous paras and teacher's aids are available to help the students invited to Summer Camp 2021.
The school district has a Focus on Learning theme for the 2021-22 school year.
"It made sense to provide an additional opportunity for students to do just that," she said.
"We cannot wait to have our Tigers back in the buildings," she said.
Students will be provided a FREE breakfast and lunch.
"This is an opportunity available to all area youth 1-18, with no registration or identification required, students will need to be present to pick up the meals," Smith said.
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Colchester: Greens to challenge every seat at council elections
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Six new faces will join Colchester Borough Council next month after the elections.
One-third of the council - 20 seats - are up for re-election on Thursday May 22.
Six current councillors have decided to step down ahead of this year's polls, including stalwarts Sonia Lewis, Terry Sutton and the current mayor Colin Sykes.
One other new face could also join the council ranks later in the year when the by-election for the Wivenhoe Quay ward is held following the death of councillor Steve Ford.
The Green party is challenging every seat in the upcoming round of elections, along with Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties.
The UK Independence Party have candidates in 14 of the seats.
Gerard Oxford, current councillor for Highwoods, is standing again as part of the Highwoods Independent Group, which is part of the existing coalition administration.
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One other independent is standing, Christina Perdicou in the Shrub End ward.
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Trumpton
A sequel, of sorts, to Camberwick Green but set in the larger, nearby town of Trumpton. Each episode opens with the town hall clock and ends with the fire brigade band playing. Every show tells the story of one of the townsfolk.
Network: BBC One (1967 - 1967)
Schedule: Tuesdays (15 min)
Show Type: Animation
Genres: Children
Episodes ordered: 13 episodes
Created by: Gordon Murray
Mar '67 28 Tue
Episode 1x13; Mar 28, 1967
1x13: The Greenhouse Mar 28, 1967
1x12: Pigeons Mar 21, 1967
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Le voïvode est, à l'origine, le commandant d'une région militaire, puis un titre de noblesse dans les pays slaves et roumains.

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Aujourd'hui, la graphie la plus communément usitée en français est voïvode, mais on rencontre encore parfois les formes voïévode, woïwode ou voévode. Ces variantes tiennent essentiellement au fait que le terme a été traduit à partir de différentes langues.

À titre d'exemple, sont données ci-après quelques-unes des formes prises par ce terme dans la langue d'origine :

 forme polonaise :
 forme serbo-croate : /
 forme russe : /voïevoda
 forme bulgare : /voïvoda
 forme roumaine :
 forme hongroise :

Définition

De même que sa graphie, le sens du mot diffère selon les époques et les pays.

Usage contemporain
En Pologne, le voïvode est de nos jours le représentant du gouvernement central dans une voïvodie.

Usages historiques

Les voïvodes avaient mandat pour gouverner, présider l'assemblée (diète ou divan), faire appliquer les lois, envoyer des ambassadeurs, lever les impôts, lever des troupes ou affréter des flottes pour le compte du souverain qu'ils représentaient (Pologne, Transylvanie, Moldavie, Valachie, Serbie, Monténégro).

Le terme d'origine latine correspondant est duc (du latin ducere, conduire). Le terme d'origine germanique correspondant est  (même signification).

En pays slave, le territoire sur lequel l'autorité d'un voïvode était reconnue s'appelait la voïvodie, que l'on peut traduire en français par marche ou palatinat (en fait une région militaire) ; en pays roumain, c'est un voévodat ou voiévodat, que l'on traduit en français par principauté.

 En Serbie, voïvode (en serbe cyrillique војвода, serbe latin vojvoda) était dès le Moyen Âge le grade militaire le plus élevé, correspondant à celui de maréchal. La région serbe de Voïvodine tire d'ailleurs son nom des voïvodes qui y ont été nommés pendant les quatre siècles de guerre contre les Turcs ottomans. Dans ce pays, le Grand Voïvode était désigné par ses pairs (d'autres voïvodes) comme leur chef. Le titre de voïvode devient un titre héréditaire, comme le titre de duc l'est devenu.

 Dans les pays roumanophones, c'est le prince or le grand-duc, le souverain d'une principauté (en roumain voievod, abrégé vodă, parfois nommé aussi hospodar). Un voievod (en pays roumain) est un noble de rang princier. Entre 1930 et 1940, le titre de grand-voïvode d'Alba Iulia désigne par ailleurs l'héritier du trône.

 En Transylvanie, il s'agissait du représentant du roi de Hongrie (erdélyi vajda).

 En Pologne, il s'agissait du gouverneur d'une province, le terme désignant la fonction occupée, sans conférer un titre de noblesse ou un grade militaire particulier .

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Annexes

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 Voïvodies de Pologne

Grade militaire
Féodalité
Histoire de la Valachie
Histoire de la Moldavie
Souverain de Transylvanie
Histoire de la Serbie
Histoire de la Russie
Voïvodie en Pologne
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This December I look forward to speaking for four Sundays about the original songs of Christmas. These four songs, contained in the first two chapters of Luke, poetically proclaim the Good News of Jesus.
These first four songs of Christmas come from Mary, Zechariah (father of John the Baptist), the angels speaking to the shepherds and a man named Simeon. Together, these songs show us the expectation and wonder of the announcement and arrivals of Jesus Christ.


Been cold and got some snow. Been feeding the cows a bit but there is a real cold snap coming, so we got the cows in this morning and sorted off the thinner ones to a groups by them selves so we can take better care of them.. still haven't sold the open ones yet… need to get that done one of these days. Found a few gaps i didn't get closed up before the cold in the house, but finally got both pellet stoves working and installed so it stays pretty nice in here now. I knew we were kind of up on a hill in the wind but you don't realize it until you live in one like that.. good thing about it it mostly blows the snow clear! Guess we need to get some trees planted out here on the upwind side next spring.


Since 9/11, public displays of patriotism have been built into major sporting events. Here's why that's so insidious.
Since 9/11, however, sports and the military have become increasingly fused in this country.
As long as I can remember, I've been a sports fan. As long as I can remember, I've been interested in the military. Until recently, I experienced those as two separate and distinct worlds. While I was in the military – I served for 20 years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force – I did, of course, play sports. As a young lieutenant, I was in a racquetball tournament at my base in Colorado. At Squadron Officer School in Alabama, I took part in volleyball and flickerball (a bizarre Air Force sport). At the Air Force Academy, I was on a softball team and when we finally won a game, all of us signed the ball. I also enjoyed being in a military bowling league. I even had my own ball with my name engraved on it.
Don't misunderstand me. I was never particularly skilled at any sport, but I did thoroughly enjoy playing partly because it was such a welcome break from work – a reprieve from wearing a uniform, saluting, following orders, and all the rest. Sports were sports. Military service was military service. And never the twain shall meet.
These days, you can hardly miss moments when, for instance, playing fields are covered with gigantic American flags, often unfurled and held either by scores of military personnel or civilian defense contractors. Such ceremonies are invariably touted as natural expressions of patriotism, part of a continual public expression of gratitude for America's "warfighters" and "heroes." These are, in other words, uncontroversial displays of pride, even though a study ordered by Republican Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake revealed that the U.S. taxpayer, via the Pentagon, has regularly forked over tens of millions of dollars ($53 million between 2012 and 2015 alone) to corporate-owned teams to put on just such displays.
Paid patriotism should, of course, be an oxymoron. These days, however, it's anything but and even when the American taxpayer isn't covering displays like these, the melding of sports and the military should be seen as inappropriate, if not insidious. And I say that as both a lover of sports and a veteran.
Maybe you've heard the joke: I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out. It was meant to poke fun at the fisticuffs in National Hockey League games, though these days there are fewer of them than in the "glory days" of the 1970s. An updated version would, however, fit today's increasingly militarized sports events to a T: I went to a military parade and a baseball (football, hockey) game broke out.
Nowadays, it seems as if professional sports simply couldn't occur without some notice of and celebration of the U.S. military, each game being transformed in some way into yet another Memorial Day or Veterans Day lite.
Consider the pro-military hype that surrounded this year's Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Not so very long ago, when I watched such games I would be transported to my childhood and my fantasies of becoming the next Nolan Ryan or Carl Yastrzemski.
When I watched this year's version of the game, however, I didn't relive my youth; I relived my military career. As a start, the previous night featured a televised home-run derby. Before it even began, about 50 airmen paraded out in camouflage uniforms, setting the stage for everything that would follow. (As they weren't on duty, I couldn't help wondering why they found it appropriate to don such outfits.) Part of T-Mobile's "HatsOff4Heroes" campaign, this mini-parade was justified in the name of raising money to support veterans, but T-Mobile could have simply given the money to charity without any of the militarized hoopla that this involved.
Those same pre-game festivities included a militaristic montage narrated by Bradley Cooper (star of "American Sniper"), featuring war scenes and war monuments while highlighting the popular catchphrase "freedom isn't free." Martial music accompanied the montage along with a bevy of flag-waving images. It felt like watching a twisted version of the film Field of Dreamsreshot so that soldiers, not baseball players, emerged early on from those rows of Iowa corn stalks and stepped onto the playing field.
And the All-Star game is hardly alone in its militarized celebrations and hoopla. Take the 2017 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York City, which I happened to watch. With John McEnroe in retirement, tennis is, generally speaking, a quieter sport. Yet before the men's final, a Marine Corps color guard joined a contingent of West Point cadets in a ceremony to remember the victims of 9/11. Naturally, a by-now-obligatory oversized American flag set the scene – here's a comparable ceremony from 2016 – capped by a performance of "God Bless America" and a loud flyover by four combat jets. Admittedly, it was a dramatic way to begin anything, but why exactly an international tennis match that happened to feature finalists from Spain and South Africa?
More than 14 years later, that combination – corporations, the military, and mass spectator sports, all wrapped in a gigantic version of the stars and stripes – has increasingly come to define what it means to be an American. Now that the country also has its own self-styled strongman president, enabled by a spineless Congress and an increasingly reactionary judiciary, Mailer's mention of a "pre-fascistic atmosphere" seems prescient.
What started as a post-9/11 drive to get an American public to "thank" the troops endlessly for their service in distant conflicts – stifling criticism of those wars by linking it to ingratitude – has morphed into a new form of national reverence. And much credit goes to professional sports for that transformation. In conjunction with the military and marketed by corporations, they have reshaped the very practice of patriotism in America.
Today, thanks in part to taxpayer funding, Americans regularly salute grossly oversized flags, celebrate or otherwise "appreciate" the troops (without making the slightest meaningful sacrifice themselves), and applaud the corporate sponsors that pull it all together (and profit from it). Meanwhile, taking a stand (or a knee), being an agent of dissent, protesting against injustice, is increasingly seen as the very definition of what it means to be unpatriotic. Indeed, players with the guts to protest American life as it is are regularly castigated as SOBs by our sports- and military-loving president.
Professional sports owners certainly know that this militarized brand of patriotism sells, while the version embodied in the kinds of controversial stances taken by athletes like former National Football League quarterback Colin Kaepernick (cashiered by his own league) angers and alienates many fans, ultimately threatening profits.
Meanwhile, the military's bottom line is recruiting new bodies for that all-volunteer force while keeping those taxpayer dollars flowing into the Pentagon at increasingly staggering levels. For corporations, you won't be surprised to learn, it's all about profits and reputation.
In the end, it comes down to one thing: who controls the national narrative.
Think about it. A set of corporate-military partnerships or, if you prefer, some version of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's old military-industrial complex has enlisted sports to make militarism look good and normal and even cool. In other words, sports teams now have a powerful set of incentives to appear patriotic, which increasingly means slavishly pro-military. It's getting hard to remember that this country ever had a citizen-soldier tradition as well as sports teams whose athletes actually went almost en masse to serve in war. Consider it paradoxical that militarism is today becoming as American as baseball and apple pie, even as, like so many other citizens, today's athletes vote with their feet to stay out of the military. (The NFL's Pat Tillman was a noble post-9/11 exception.) Indeed, the widespread (if shallow) support of the military by so many athletes may, in some cases, be driven by a kind of guilt.
"Collusion" is a key word in this Trumpian moment. Even though Robert Mueller isn't investigating them, corporate-owned sports teams are now actively colluding with the military to redefine patriotism in ways that work to their mutual advantage. They are complicit in taking a select, jingoistic form of patriotism and weaponizing it to suppress dissent, including against the military-industrial complex and America's never-ending wars.
Driven by corporate agendas and featuring exaggerated military displays, mass-spectator sports are helping to shape what Americans perceive and believe. In stadiums across the nation, on screens held in our hands or dominating our living rooms, we witness fine young men and women in uniform unfurling massive flags on football fields and baseball diamonds, even on tennis courts, as combat jets scream overhead. What we don't see – what is largely kept from us – are the murderous costs of empire: the dead and maimed soldiers, the innocents slaughtered by those same combat jets.
The images we do absorb and the narrative we're encouraged to embrace, immersed as we are in an endless round of militarized sporting events, support the idea that massive "national security" investments (to the tune of roughly a trillion dollars annually) are good and right and patriotic. Questioning the same – indeed, questioning authority in any form – is, of course, bad and wrong and unpatriotic.
For all the appreciation of the military at sporting events, here's what you're not supposed to appreciate: why we're in our forever wars; the extent to which they've been mismanaged for the last 17 years; how much people, especially in distant lands, have suffered thanks to them; and who's really profiting from them.
Sports should be about having fun; about joy, passion, and sharing; about the thrill of competition, the splendor of the human condition; and so much more. I still remember the few home runs I hit in softball. I still remember breaking 200 for the first time in bowling. I still remember the faces of my teammates in softball and the fun times I had with good people.
But let's be clear: this is not what war is all about. War is horrific. War features the worst of the human condition. When we blur sports and the military, adding corporate agendas into the mix, we're not just doing a disservice to our troops and our athletes; we're doing a disservice to ourselves. We're weakening the integrity of democracy in America.
We can afford to lose a ballgame. We can't afford to lose our country.
This article first appeared on Tom Dispatch.
William Astore is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and history professor who blogs at Bracing Views.
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The Department of Social Science and Law is based on the merger of two academic departments since 1st of August 2017. The department offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees that aim at enhancing students' practical and theoretical skills, prepare them for various sectors in the international job market and provide students with essential skills of partaking in public debate on politics, law and economics. Furthermore, its undergraduate degrees are a good preparation for further studies on postgraduate levels.
The Bifröst learning module is very hands-on, where students practice their skills through project-based learning, particularly with the yearly term-projects (in the undergraduate studies), where students collaborate in groups on a real time project (practical and / or a research project) (see further information about Bifröst University's Teaching Policy here.
The degrees are mainly taught in Icelandic – however, international undergraduate students can take a semester or a full academic year at Bifröst University, which has bilateral agreements (Erasmus) with many universities throughout Europe (see here). In addition, students (both undergraduate and postgraduate) can do internships with companies and institutions as a part of their degrees.
Bifröst University is in active cooperation with the Icelandic labour market. Furthermore, academics at the department are leading researchers in their fields and are visible and active in public debate. BU partakes in the project LawWithoutWalls, which is a collaborative project between many of the best universities in the world in the field of law, such as Harvard University, Stanford University and University of Miami.