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JONATHAN RUFFER Angel of the North
The Road to Bishop Auckland
THE GUARD IS up at Bishop Auckland Castle, and I wish I was talking soldiers but I'm not. I've come to meet the very likeable philanthropist Jonathan Ruffer, who whilst warmly welcoming me to his Lodge in the castle grounds, also apologises for his hesitant, considered – and yes, guarded – answers.
Ruffer, 69, is a devout Christian and city investor whose enormous wealth – and drive – and faith – have single-handedly reimagined the fortunes of the historic centre of Bishop Auckland in County Durham. Faith and art have both played their role in this journey but he doesn't, he says, want to be seen as a teacher, hence his guard. 'I've spent all these years building my life around how art dovetails into deep things of our lives,' he says but apologises: 'I'm allergic to trying to tell you things that would be helpful to you and your readers because that immediately holds you out as a teacher… like Paul says, be careful if you feel called to being a teacher as you'd be judged to a higher standard.'
I don't find Ruffer particularly teachy or even preachy at all, instead he's thoughtful, humble, precise (a former barrister) and occasionally mischievously funny. His entire project at Bishop Auckland is devotional and almost liturgical. Personally, I find his ongoing achievements moving. It's a story ever evolving, there is energy all around the whole Bishop Auckland set-up (now called the Auckland Project) with multiple museums, galleries and lavish shows. I have asked him is he creative? 'I'm very uncreative.' Yet he has reimagined this small historic town – once the fiefdom of the Prince Bishops of Durham – to be a leading cultural hotspot focusing on local economic recovery. That is literally and metaphorically a creation. Contemporary Bishop Auckland, affectionately called Bishop by the locals, is a place of some decline, a small washed-up mining market town whose history and once attractive, thriving, historical town centre – castle, church and 150 acre 900-year-old-estate – was intrinsic to the ecclesiastical and political power history of the North East. When in 2011 the Church Commissioners who owned the historic centre lock stock and barrel – and clearly not giving a cultural damn about their own treasures – tried to sell off the collection of 17th-century Francisco Zurbarán paintings of Jacob and his twelve sons, Ruffer stepped up and bought them. When he tried to give them back to the Church and they said they didn't want them, he reluctantly bought the castle and the estate. And the journey began.
"Why does beauty matter? I have asked him: 'If you start on the basis if it exists – it matters, then that's right. This is another iteration of something that's bigger than yourself. It's difficult to get through life without finding something that confronts you with your smallness"
Jacob and His Twelve Sons
c. 1640-45 Oil on canvas
© The Auckland Project/Zurbarán Trust
It's an exceptional human narrative, he has done it and is doing it through faith and art – the power of beauty. It's a vision, I say, and yet he says carefully: 'I don't really do visions. The observation I have is that the common thread of things that change people – is the confrontation with things that are bigger than yourself and it seems to me that great art is central to that. It's always fascinated me… Why do beautiful women get beaten up by ghastly men? I think it's because beauty is such an invasive, powerful thing as far as a luddite bloke is concerned – she's picked a fight, just by being beautiful…' That's the dynamic?
'That is a dynamic… a picture on a wall can't pick a fight because it has no dynamism in the physical sense… but our lives get changed…'
Ruffer says he came to art late in life and that for him art is a learned behaviour but now he is 'toothsome' about it – but reading between the guarded lines just as he says great art changes lives, I'd say art changed his life – and like his faith – the two have run together as a narrative weaving their way to Bishop Auckland. Arguably the dark brooding Zurbaráns got him here, and extended that conversation for him – about the role of aesthetics, his personal relationship to paintings, the power of beauty to raise consciousness. After all, he'd long started his private art collection before Jacob came along and mostly, he says, the Baroque which is a favourite.
"Like his own personal religious narrative, the art he loves reflects the big spiritual story that is his, the truths of Christianity"
I've read that he only collects Spanish art from the Golden Age but this isn't true as he says he has an equal rating of Italian, French and Spanish in his collection, and among that, religious scenes and portraits of saints dominate (not that difficult with Baroque). He offers to show me around the art collection he has in his home in Bishop and it's immediately quite a sight as the bulk of the Baroque are hung European Salon-style, crowding together in rich, dark pigments and gilded frames, hugging the smart stairwell in his lodge. There's an ascending, descending movement all around them (think of the paintings in Harry Potter's Hogwarts that come to life as the children move past), angels and saints rise up the staircase in dark dramatic hues, a biblical kaleidoscope. The feel is luxurious and imagistic, an ecclesiastical narrative as well as an art collection. Ruffer's face lights up taking me through them, the power of art you see, to shake us back into true selves away from guardedness; and among his own paintings I see the truer Ruffer, intellectually passionate, almost emotional, the painting changing his life in that second of recognition. There is a fine and vast Artemisia Gentileschi in lusty oils which he looks at with some reverence, and an exquisite startled Saint Bartholomew, but the 'take out' from this gallery tour (one of Ruffer's favourite boardroom words) is that the intense humanity and deep warmth of the Baroque period possibly fulfills in him something of that spiritual inner need. Why does beauty matter? I have asked him: 'If you start on the basis if it exists – it matters, then that's right. This is another iteration of something that's bigger than yourself. It's difficult to get through life – without finding something that confronts you with your smallness.'
Does he have any abstracts? 'I like the eyes either side of the nose…' he says dryly but again, maybe that existential state-of-being stuff simply doesn't cut it for Ruffer. Like his own personal religious narrative, the art he loves reflects the big spiritual story that is his, the truths of Christianity. 'I've always had a vivid sense of the nature of God,' he says, 'And I think it stems from the fact that if I think that something is right to do, it does not cross my mind that it would be inconvenient, I don't want to do it. And I think those two things are completely connected; all my life I've done startling things, I've made decisions that have looked reckless. Because they're done in obedience – then recklessness doesn't come into it. You don't think to yourself that looks sensible and that looks crazy. You don't think adjectively like that. You just do it. I don't attribute a very high degree of virtue to that, it's just a characteristic.'
Mateo Cerezo (1637-1666), Ecce Homo
Image courtesy of a private collection. On loan to the Spanish Gallery at The Auckland Project
Again this is big narrative stuff, a life disrupted – a very profitable life running his investment company – by revelation, and I'm not surprised that in the antechamber of his bedroom (yes he was truly generous with his private tour) hangs a modern painting by the contemporary Roger Wagner – 'The Road to Emmaus': the road winding long into the distance, a modern desert scene, Christ breaking bread on a slinky modern verandah. Interestingly, you can barely see the moment of recognition between Christ and his disciples but it is the road that leads your imagination, a metaphor for Ruffer if ever there was one; another road, another revelation, more faith journey, and who knows as Ruffer changes for bed each night, the road to Bishop Auckland.
I am tempted to write that those who have had no experience of a religious or spiritual narrative simply won't get Ruffer. As I understand him, he has been touched by God and leads his life in obedience – walking in faith – and it's a big life although he talks about it in careful, considered boardroom paragraphs. And though he doesn't do visions he does quiet, solid, no-nonsense unsentimental ambition based on something beyond – a message, a nudge, that drive.
"And call me romantic but I can't help think that Ruffer has been directed quite purposefully to this most holy area of England, with its Anglo-Saxon and medieval monks and hermits peppered about the North East like sleeper cells of intense Christian spirituality"
'It's a funny thing,' he says, 'I don't think of myself as somebody who gets direct messages but I certainly lead my life on the basis that I do. I think probably the distinction is that people who do have guidance from God, in my experience, tend to seek it. So that if they have out-of-ordinary life experiences, then they covet them.'
But he doesn't?
'I'm exactly the opposite, I'm ashamed of them. Because I'm thinking to myself, why did I need that? It's a bit like only doing something when your mother shouts at you. Why didn't she whisper? I think there's an element – like you can be used on the castle – you can be used on guidance if you're not secretly rather pleased with yourself.'
But arguably there are no whispers in Ruffer's narrative. The calling to change his life first came at a Jesuit spiritual retreat in North Wales. 'I went in 1994 for a spiritual wash and brush-up in St Beuno's in North Wales, an Ignatian retreat house. I felt really quite hijacked by that; I'd seen it as quite a routine thing, but actually it turned out to be a game changer and I became aware that I needed to leave this company that I had set up. Which is not really something that you do, if you're the captain of the ship, you're rather expected to stand on the bridge and direct things…' Hijacked is a big word to use and the Jesuits are tough spiritual masters. It was a silent retreat, he had a spiritual director. We are back to the winding road to Emmaus and the startled saints. Did he have signs or portents, did he have a dream like his Zurbarán's Jacob, angels and ladders? His answer is more psychological. 'In many ways I think you could call the retreat an extended dream. What you are is completely dissociated from everything else you know. What's fascinating about it, is if you think of intercourse with other people, it mostly comes from talking to them, you quickly know if they are well educated or have a sense of humour, you quickly work out a framework in which you and I are with one another. What I found is that you still ended up knowing other people.'
So we're talking about the mysteries of human relationships here, the strangeness of a silent retreat, the retreat into oneself, that journeyman aspect again. It sounds a bit – although I don't want to put Ruffer on the couch – like a midlife or existential crisis. He was hijacked by the surprise answers he received in a heightened state of being brought on a silent retreat. As I'm pondering whether to ask him if this was a form of midlifer when inner truths tend to out, he says, 'I have a batty thought we sort of know as Christians that this world is a training ground, a preparation for what will be, when, as our mothers would say when the wind would change and the expression on your face would stick… Heaven is like when the wind changes, and it depends what you are at that point.'
"Christ is all"
Juan de Juanes (c.1500-1579), The Holy Family
And maybe it's that sense of the wind chasing him for yet another hijack that keeps Ruffer so energised on this project, for there is now an absolutely glorious sense of flow round Bishop. And call me romantic but I can't help thinking that Ruffer has been directed quite purposefully to this most holy area of England, with its Anglo-Saxon and medieval monks and hermits peppered about the North East like sleeper cells of intense Christian spirituality – slowly crystallising the foundations of Christ in England – I'm thinking here not only of the Cistercians and the Benedictines but Saints Bede and Cuthbert, for example, just up the road in Lindisfarne and Jarrow, both buried in Durham Cathedral, to which Bishop Auckland is forever tied as it is the Bishop's country residence; and clearly Ruffer, so invigorated by local ecclesiastical history, has paid tribute to this by using the same deep honey-coloured sandstone from the same quarry from which that haunting Norman Durham Cathedral was built for his sublime nearly completed Faith Museum (of which more later). It's even thought that Constantine was declared the first Christian Emperor while staying at Bishop, and Christianity officially the state religion of the Rome Empire. That's some gig for a small town in the North East.
There are aspects of the project he simply calls 'a millstone'. The entire building works – of renovation of the old – the castle, church, even the medieval walls – would, he intimates, have shaken up another Captain. 'When I came here the Bishop of Durham was Justin Welby and we shared a room for about 15 months. One of the things he said to me was – do make sure you don't get brick fever; people who take on this sort of thing, they lose their cutting edge of faith and they throw themselves into making the thing nice.' But not you?
'Well I'm quite hesitant to say, 'Oh God that's why you've done it' – but I do think I'm a perfect person to take this on because I have absolutely a visceral feeling because it's fear not love or admiration, because it needs to be done not because it gives me pleasure.'
"He is a man of great soul who has experienced real quality of religious experience and inner drama: and so his love of Baroque painting with its no-nonsense narratives of human drama and intensity – divine revelation – that tenebrous pigmentation and spiritual emotionality – like his own – all conveyed in religious narratives, as a form of what the Jesuits would call, Imaginative Contemplation"
But is it really a millstone? (And as I'm asking this I can hear as I've heard throughout our meeting the constant construction work – building literally on Ruffer's doorstep. He's already said he's had a very unlocky lockdown with builders arriving at the crack of dawn and everyday I imagine he negotiates scaffolding, diggers and yellow vests as he comes out.)
I think again he's speaking about the big emotions of life here. What makes humans human, including fine buildings and architecture, how in other words they – art, architecture, aesthetics – shape our psyche – not only Ruffer's but expanding this whole project out, shaping up a town for a new generation. Raising the consciousness. 'I think what I've found nonplussing in owning the castle and the grounds, it meant that our practical work had to centre round the creation of a visitor attraction. One of the things is that I'm frightened of good buildings because they just demand so much of you. I was born in 1951 and when I look at my childhood friends who came from a world of grown up houses what I can see is how many families had been destroyed – had to give up the house that the family had lived in for 500 years. That finished people off. Always something of great pleasure to me that I never came from a house that owned you. I saw this first hand this, it was like being taken out and shot. I thought isn't it ironic that of all the things one can do with one's later life, to take on something that's a complete millstone.'
Millstones and hijacks, angels and saints. These are big things. It's clear that Ruffer quietly runs the Auckland Project as a Christian social project as much as a personal spiritual one. In previous interviews he has referred to breaking a community's 'social haunting' (a term used by sociologist Avery Gordon, where communities are disrupted from their heritage, and meaning stripped from their communities – in Bishop's case this would be the decline of the mining community as well as having the Church of England asset-strip them of their Christian heritage). He may as well add collective imagination, ancestral memory, and collective psyche. He has established an art gallery for mining culture, planted 5000 trees in his 150 acre deer park, and bought the Binchester Roman Fort (again from the Church Commissioners) as well as bought out the Weardale Heritage Railway from an American consortium with a view to extending the line and restoring local vibrancy. More dramatically, he initiated an awesome son et lumiére-type night production 'Kynren' – which, with a cast of a thousand locals, tells the epic historical narratives of England. It is now one of the top tourist attractions in England. The new Spanish Gallery – to open in 2021 – will feature a permanent collection of Spanish art from the Golden Age to help place in context the Zurbaráns originally acquired by Bishop Trevor – including Velasquez and a striking El Greco crucifixion – more drama, more big theology, more divinity. More art. And there's the brand new Faith Museum – which I'll leave till last. But there is basically energy all around, and once Bishop is up and running as a place of international destination there will be no turning back. It's a new – or newly branded – legacy. It's certainly Heritage in action.
What about the old stuff, of which there is plenty – the old collection from Bishop Trevor's time, he who originally got the fated Zurbarán 250 years before Ruffer. Ruffer believes, he says, in keeping paintings on their toes or else 'they become Club bores' and has initiated a 'refreshing' of the ecclesiastical collection of Bishop Trevor – of the apostles, founding fathers and the evangelists – by commissioning a famous Spanish ex-rockstar who is now a highly rated painter, to paint the evangelists. 'The chap I've commissioned to do it is José Maria Cano. He's reinvented himself. He's now an ageing rocker. In the 70s and 80s he was the Mick Jagger of Spain to that generation. They all had their first snog to his banjo playing. He now only paints very difficult Ribera-style apostolados.' (This is José de Ribera, the Spanish Baroque painter, and I note, a key propaganda painter for the Catholic Counter-Reformation campaign.) 'It's absolutely harking back to the Spanish Golden Age so it wasn't as random as putting a Picasso look-alike up.'
It does seem to me that Ruffer's emotional and intellectual connection, commitment and passion for Baroque is because – again I'm slightly putting him on the couch – that man of huge wealth that he is with a robust, considered mind – he is really a man of great soul who has experienced real quality of religious experience and inner drama: and so his love of Baroque painting with its no-nonsense narratives of human drama and intensity – divine revelation – that tenebrous pigmentation and spiritual emotionality – like his own – all conveyed in religious narratives, as a form of what the Jesuits would call, Imaginative Contemplation. (Interestingly on the St Beuno's Retreat website they have a section titled Praying with Art – video essays specifically geared around art, scripture and Ignatian spiritual exercises by the Society Of Jesus priest Geoff Wheaton.) And in fact this bears out when I ask him about an entirely different type of painting, an enormous eighteenth-century George Barrett landscape – with a huge solitary oak tree – on his drawing room wall whilst we talk. Is it a favourite? Not really he says, it's just such an absurdly large gilt frame which 'would embarrass a Titian'.
Architect's impression of the Faith Museum
Image creation: Niall McLaughlin Architects. Courtesy: The Auckland Project.
So it's the Baroque that gets him going; and hardly surprisingly, as the Baroque movement after all came out of the Catholic Church as aesthetic propaganda in the Counter-Reformation culture.
Perhaps the intense human drama in Baroque painting allies with his great compassion (in the Christian sense) and plain old sympathy and interest in people, in human beings or the Being part of being human. 'I feed off people,' he says, 'It's hard to know what the pathology of human relationship is, isn't it…' He seems to want to talk about the human condition and human intercourse a lot but falls back, gospel-like, on a parable: 'When I don't know what I'm thinking about I tend to grasp for an analogy and it seems to me we all start like potatoes dug out of a field and we end up in one of those modern things that peel potatoes; they don't peel potatoes, what they do is simply throw them about in such a way that the potato is bruised and at the end of it has lost its outer layer; and it seems to me that that is what really happens to us, we don't really know the order of things, we start off naive and innocent and you end up having been roughed up by life.'
It can be no accident surely that it was Zurbarán's Jacob that got him here – hunched and old man that Jacob is, his tribe around him – a narrative about calling, legacy and heritage and an example if ever there was one of his whirligig journey in his potato metaphor.
I ask him lastly exactly where he sits with his faith as I've read variously he is described as anything from a devout Christian to a committed Evangelical.
'I have a much better sense of the emptiness of labels because I can't understand them; so if you said to me what's the difference between Baroque and Mannerist I simply haven't got a clue. I can't describe things, words and concepts that are useful. So I can see absolutely what it is to be a Christian and what I can see was that the Evangelical tradition was very strong on Truth; now I think one of the clever things about God is that he or she created the twin excellencies of Truth and Love – and if you concentrate on either one, you lose the other. So if you're a tree hugger and you think everything is lovely and everyone is fine, then actually the thing that goes by the board is Truth. But if you concentrate on Truth you lose the Love. I've always been a tree hugger and so I put myself into the hands of the Truth brigade because I always knew morally I would want to short change.'
"The observation I have is that the common thread of things that change people – is the confrontation with things that are bigger than yourself and it seems to me that great art is central to that"
And I stumble at this because like everything Ruffer says, it's slightly hidden, guarded and needs a bit of interpretation. I think what he means is that spiritual emotion is never enough. I ask cackhandedly, 'What role within that relationship would Christ have?'
His face softens, comes alive, no longer in the boardroom. 'Christ is all.'
And there we have it, a confluence of faith, art and sacred intention travelling through one man's imagination in the North East. God actively working in the world, with you, a collaboration. These are my words, not Ruffer's, mind you, but you really have to visit Bishop to see the slow inspired transformation that will, if I'm being honest, probably take two generations to have the sort of impact that it could among the local people. He's returned to them their culture, their theological heritage and aesthetics, often all at the same time in a painting. He's brought them money too. He could have given them a multi-storey shopping experience for the same price, but they've already got that on the outskirts which killed the heart of the high street ten years ago. Instead he's given them their culture back, a view back to the days when faith meant something and their
geographic area played a big role. So he doesn't do visions but he does do grand liturgical gestures, cultural
fertility and Spirit.
So I leave Ruffer with an overwhelming impression of a good man, living a good life. I have to pass the Faith Museum on the way out. It's almost finished, the scaffolding is down. It's utterly beautiful – smooth stone slabs with no join, as mindful as architecture can get, the soul's eye can wander over it and dream in, and you can't help but have your spirit raised. Inside there are two levels for exhibitions but the main upper space is huge with a vaulted ceiling and cat's cradle steel work echoing the vaulted oak beams of the tithe barns that it is based on – a perfect throwback to ecclesiastical history if ever there was one, the tithe barns being the medieval church's tax collection point. The overall effect is calm and hallowed, more church than barn. Curators will soon fill it with artefacts representing the theological and religious cultural history of England and exploring the transformative power of faith in the British Isles.
But honestly?
Really, truly, deeply – I think they should just put Jonathan Ruffer in it. I can't imagine a better witness to the transformative power of faith than everything he has achieved in Bishop, his praxis being a witness to that which lies distant. A liturgical project if ever there was one.
Juan Bautista Maíno (1581-1649), The Penitent Magdalene
© The Zurbarán Trust
On loan to the Spanish Gallery at The Auckland Project
NOV 2020 Sophie Lévy Burton MONK
3 thoughts on "JONATHAN RUFFER Angel of the North"
Brunel James says:
Excellent article!
Lovely to see the north highlighted…
A fascinating, richly layered interview with an extraordinary man. Inspirational.
Kate Bolton says:
I feel privileged to do voluntary work with the Auckland Project. Mr Ruffer is a true inspiration.
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Q: Binary Classification Evaluator AUC Score in Pyspark I have a dataset with 2 classes (churners and non-churners) in the ratio 1:4. I used Random Forests algorithm via Spark MLlib. My model is terrible at predicting churn class and does nothing.
I use BinaryClassificationEvaluator to evaluate my model in Pyspark. The default metric for the BinaryClassificationEvaluator is AreaUnderRoc.
My code
from pyspark.ml.classification import RandomForestClassifier
evaluator = BinaryClassificationEvaluator()

# Create an initial RandomForest model.
rf = RandomForestClassifier(labelCol="label", featuresCol="indexedFeatures", numTrees=1000,impurity="entropy")
# Train model with Training Data
rfModel = rf.fit(train_df)
rfModel.featureImportances

# Make predictions on test data using the Transformer.transform() method.
predictions = rfModel.transform(test_df)

# AUC Evaluate best model
evaluator.evaluate(predictions)
print('Test Area Under Roc',evaluator.evaluate(predictions))

Test Area Under Roc 0.8672196520652589

and here is the confusion matrix.
confusion matrix
Since TP=0, how could be that score possible? Could this value be wrong?
I have other models which works fine,but this score makes me wonder if the others are wrong as well.

A: Your data might be heavily biased towards one of the classes, I would recommend using Precision or F-Measure, since it's a better metric in such situations.
Try using this:
import org.apache.spark.mllib.evaluation.BinaryClassificationMetrics
val metrics = new BinaryClassificationMetrics(predictions)
val f1Score = metrics.fMeasureByThreshold
f1Score.collect.foreach { case (t, f) =>
  println(s"Threshold: $t, F-score: $f, Beta = 1")
}

https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/evaluation/BinaryClassificationMetrics.html

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Refugees of an All-out War
Bulatlat Contributors September 2, 2006 New People's Army, refugees
Domus Dei (House of God), jointly set up by the Movement of Concerned Citizens for Civil Liberties (MCCCL)-Bulacan, Alyansa ng Mamamayan para sa Makataong Karapatan (ALMMA or People's Alliance for Human Rights), the Religious Inter-faith Dialogue and local government officials in Bulacan – led by the local parish of St. James – has become a refuge for Bulacan's internal refugees, they who have been fleeing from the ravages of the government's all-out war there.
BY JHONG DELA CRUZ
Plaridel, Bulacan- Fragile three-month old Baby Domingo is the youngest among the internal refugees who had sought sanctuary at the Domus Dei (House of God) for human rights victims in this town.
He was brought to the safe house by his kin early morning of August 9 after his father was shot by suspected soldiers under the 56th Infantry Battalion holding detachment at Barangay (village) Panasahan, a fishing community in Malolos.
Patricio Pagtalunan, the father, sustained bullet wounds on the lower right shoulder and has been recuperating at the Bulacan Provincial Hospital.
The family, with 23 members all in all, is among the seven families housed at the Domus Dei after having been driven away by the heightened militarization in the province.
The Movement of Concerned Citizens for Civil Liberties (MCCCL)-Bulacan, Alyansa ng Mamamayan para sa Makataong Karapatan (ALMMA or People's Alliance for Human Rights), the Religious Inter-faith Dialogue and local government officials in Bulacan collaborated to set up Domus Dei, led by the local parish of St. James.
June 26 abduction
A young refugee suffers the brunt of having to stay within the confines of Domus Dei, a former convent, but being inside for him is no sure safeguard from the military's excesses.
Fourteen-year old Wilfredo Ramos had been a witness to the abduction of two University of the Philippines (UP) students, along with a local farmer, on June 26 in Barangay San Miguel in Hagonoy. He had testified in court when the parents of Sherlyn Cadapan, 29 and Karen Empeño, 23, filed a habeas corpus petition before the Supreme Court ordering the military to surface the two and Manuel Merino, 56, all volunteers for the Alyansa ng Magbubukid sa Bulacan (Peasant Alliance in Bulacan).
He would be able to identify the head of the team that allegedly took the three, he told Bulatlat in an interview. "Malaki ang katawan, bilugan ang mukha, maitim, nakaitim na salamin at edad-kuwarenta" (Burly, with a round face, dark-skinned, wearing dark glasses. He is in his 40s), he said.
The team was composed of 15 armed men, all clad in camouflage uniform. Wilfredo's and his father's hands were tied when being taken out of their house. The team also took Merino. The two women were taken out from an aunt's house nearby.
"Naririnig namin si Ate Sherlyn nagsisigaw, humihingi ng saklolo" (We heard Ate Sherlyn crying for help), he said. Sherlyn, whose cries failed to draw response from neighbors, was two months pregnant but this did not stop the men from punching her stomach, said Wilfredo.
Merino's group had been doing research in the area, based on the accounts Wilfredo provided to the court. They were detailing the plight of the fisherfolks by gathering data in their interviews, he said.
Barely three days after Domus Dei's doors opened for internal refugees in Bulacan, Karapatan (Alliance for the Advancement of People's Rights)-Central Luzon took custody of Wilfredo and kept him out of harm's way inside the sanctuary.
Family helper
Back in Baranggay Salambao, also a coastal village, Domingo was a salt-maker helping the family out to survive
Asked why he was not taught to be a fisherman instead, he said the family has no boat to use. Thus, when he was 10 years old, his father taught him to make salt. He grew up not having an education, he said. "Tatlong malaking bangka ang nakakaya naming punuin ng 50 kaban ng asin (sa isang araw)" (We can fill three large boats [in a day] with 50 cavans of salt) he added, estimating that the trade brings in at least P6,000 ($116.78 based on $1:P51.38 exchange rate) for the family.
For the next salt-making season, he might not be able participate if the militarization persists. "Ligtas na nandito ako… Pag bumalik pa ako sa amin, tiyak wala nang lusot" (It's safe for me to be here… If I go back that would surely be the end of me), he said.
Such is also the case of the Pagtalunans from Barangay Panasahan, also a coastal village, who all sought refuge at the sanctuary for fear of being harassed by the military.
Lydia, young Domingo's grandmother, ordered her children to secure community tax certificates, for fear of being accused by the military of being members of the communist New Peoples Army (NPA). "Y'ong mga pamilya dun, ibibili na lang ng kakainin, ikukuha pa ng sedula sa takot sa mga sundalo" (The families there spend on community tax certificates the money they should be spending for food, for fear of the soldiers), she said.
But this was proven futile. One of her sons, Patricio, was shot three times on the night of Aug. 8 by armed men she suspects as soldiers stationed in the area. The son was a member of the militant fisherfolk organization, Pambansang Lakas ng mga Mamamalakaya sa Pilipinas (Pamalakaya or National Federation of Small Fisherfolk Organizations in the Philippines).


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Headword: Ἀπολλωνιὰς λίμνη
Translated headword: Lake Apollonias
Attalos, the king of Asia,[1] waged war against Nikomedes the One-toothed[2] and gained control of his territory. But Nikomedes called on the Romans and regained his kingdom. Attalos laid to rest his deceased mother Apollonias[3] alongside the greatest shrine in Pergamon, which he himself had built, and he named the neighboring lake after her.
Ἀπολλωνιὰς λίμνη: ὅτι Ἄτταλος, ὁ τῆς Ἀσίας βασιλεὺς, Νικομήδει τῷ Μονόδοντι πολεμήσας ἐκράτησε τῆς αὐτοῦ χώρας. ἀλλ' ὁ μὲν Ῥωμαίους ἐπικαλεσάμενος ἀνέλαβε τὴν ἀρχήν. Ἄτταλος δὲ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ μητέρα Ἀπολλωνιάδα μεταλλάξασαν κατὰ τὸ μέγιστον ἱερὸν Περγάμου κατέθετο, ὅπερ αὐτὸς ἐδείματο, τήν τε γείτονα λίμνην αὐτῇ προσωνόμασεν.
Adler attributed this material to John of Antioch (Neos Hellenomnemon 1.13.2-7), noting also the suggestion of Johann Schweighaeuser (1742-1830) that its ultimate source is Polybius. See now John fr.145.1 Roberto.
[1] Attalos II Philadelphos of Pergamon (220-138 BCE; reigned from 159).
[2] Nikomedes II of Bithynia (reigned 149-c.127 BCE).
[3] alpha 3415.
Keywords: architecture; biography; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; religion; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 24 January 2002@22:11:36.
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 21 August 2002@06:18:51.
David Whitehead (expanded primary note; cosmetics) on 3 April 2012@07:33:24.
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Windows Phone 8.1: A Giant Leap Forward for Convergence
It may look like a simple point upgrade, but it isn't. Examine more closely, and you'll see why the latest iteration of Windows Phone is a big deal.
By Nick Randolph
Those familiar with the Microsoft mobility story are aware that convergence has been a topic long discussed both by Microsoft and its community of developers. Back in the Windows Mobile/.NET Compact Framework (.NET CF) days, it was a niche space where you had to be a mobile specialist in order to build great applications.
While there were some similarities between the .NET CF and the full .NET Framework, there were specific Windows Mobile APIs, and due to the underlying OS being based on Windows CE, there were implementation differences with which to deal. Windows Phone 7 was seen as a major step forward in platform convergence since it adopted the Silverlight programming model, but it was actually a step back for most mobile developers. Windows Phone 8 was the next major step forward in platform convergence, as it switched across to the NT Kernel and started to integrate the Windows Runtime (WinRT) APIs. What's interesting about the Windows Phone 8.1 update is that it's probably one of the most significant steps in this convergence story. Don't be confused by the minor version increment -- this is a major step forward for developers, since the programming and application lifecycle model is now unified with Windows 8.1. In this article I'll look at why this is a big deal, and some of the other features that come with Windows Phone 8.1.
Prior to Windows Phone 8.1, if you wanted to write applications using XAML and C#, you used a programming model based on Silverlight. As part of the new convergence story, you can now use Windows XAML, which is compatible with the model used for creating Windows Store apps. Recognizing the investment developers have already put into Windows Phone Silverlight applications, Microsoft ensured they could leverage some of the new platform features without having to re-write applications into Windows XAML. As such, there are now three choices for developing applications for Windows Phone 8.1:
Build a Windows Phone 8.0 Silverlight application
Build a Windows Phone Windows XAML application
There are benefits and limitations associated with each of these choices, so it's worth reading some of the documentation on the Windows Phone Dev Center.
[Click on image for larger view.]	Figure 1. Re-Targeting to Windows Phone 8.1
Retarget to Windows Phone 8.1
If you have an existing Windows Phone 8.0 Silverlight application and want to start using some of the new platform features, the first thing you'll have to do is re-target your application to Windows Phone 8.1. Microsoft has provided a shortcut to this workflow within Visual Studio: right-click on your project file and select Retarget to Windows Phone 8.1, as shown in Figure 1.
Before upgrading your application to point to the new platform, and adding in missing assets and manifest files required for Windows Phone 8.1, Visual Studio will warn you that you should back up your project before proceeding. In fact, the recommendation should be to take a clone of your application and upgrade that (or if you're using a source control repository you might consider a separate branch). The upshot is that you'll want to be able to maintain a Windows Phone 8 build of your application as long as possible to ensure the widest market available to your application.
For a lot of applications re-targeting will not alter or break your app. However, before making any further changes, or starting to incorporate any new features, it's important to verify your newly re-targeted application is still operating as expected.
Universal Projects
One of the main reasons for using Windows XAML is compatibility between your Windows and Windows Phone applications. In this release, it isn't possible to build a single package that can be deployed to both environments. However, there is so much compatibility between the platforms that most code and markup files can be shared across both projects. Recognizing that the ability to share files between projects wasn't being handled well in Visual Studio, Microsoft came up with the notion of Universal projects, which contain a Shared project along with different "head" projects for each target platform.
Figure 2 illustrates a newly-created Universal application based on the Hub template. It has three sub-projects: one for each of Windows and Windows Phone (that is, the "head" or target projects), and one Shared project. From the toolbar you can select not only whether to run on the emulator or a device, but also which target you want to run (Windows or Windows Phone).
[Click on image for larger view.]	Figure 2. The new Universal application.
Of course, sometimes your project will start as just one target and end up having to deliver multiple targets. Luckily, this migration path can be easily achieved in Visual Studio by right-clicking on the original project and selecting Add Windows Phone 8.1 or Add Windows 8.1. Both these options will create two new projects; one for the other target and one shared project. It's then up to you to work out how much of your code and markup can be shared. Note that this isn't an option for existing Windows Phone 8.0 Silverlight applications.
Web development for Windows Phone has always been a second-class citizen, relegated to being displayed within a WebBrowser container, following the PhoneGap style pattern in order to expose device capabilities. With Windows Phone 8.1, developers have their choice of technology and language. For games, C++ and DirectX will give the best performance. For rapid development, the combination of XAML -- to declaratively lay out pages and control -- and C# (or Visual Basic) to write the application logic is the best option. For Web developers, the introduction of the WinJS programming model to Windows Phone allows you to leverage your existing skill set to build across both Windows and Windows Phone platforms.
Microsoft has taken this one step further, announcing that it's open sourcing WinJS and continuing to evolve it to work across multiple platforms. This means application developers should be able to leverage a common set of APIs for working with device features (likely taking advantage of project Cordova to provide the low-level device integration), as well as some of the rich UI elements provided by WinJS, the GridView and ListView controls, for example.
The distinction between phones and tablets has increasingly become less about size and more about usage patterns. As the Windows platform evolves and converges with the Windows Phone platform, it seems logical that what was once a discrete choice between developing for a phone or developing for a desktop/tablet is now becoming a continuum of different device shapes and sizes.
Windows Phone developers will be used to developing their applications based on a width of 480 units. Depending on which device your application runs on, this might equate to 480, or some other number of actual pixels. This allows for a very simple layout model, because you only need to account for whether the device is in portrait or landscape mode (and in reality, most applications are only designed to work in portrait). However, as devices scale beyond 6 inches, this simplicity means the layout doesn't make effective use of the additional screen real estate available on larger devices.
Windows Phone 8.1 has a shared virtual layout canvas, with a 166 logical DPI. This means devices with the same resolution but different physical size will have a different effective resolution. This sounds much scarier than it really is. A lot of layouts will still use alignment to control the size and position of elements. Where it becomes relevant is for list and, particularly, grid controls -- instead of having two columns of tiles that simply grow with device size, you'll automatically see additional columns appear as the effective resolution increases.
As the effective resolution of your application varies, you may want to adjust the arrangement of controls to leverage the additional space, or in the case of smaller devices, perhaps reduce the amount of content visible. This can all be done using visual states. First, define your visual states in Blend for Visual Studio. Then, as the screen size varies, simply change the current state using the VisualStateManager. This strategy not only works for screens with different effective resolution, but also varying device orientation and screen splitting for desktop applications.
Windows Phone 8.1 applications are able to share controls with Windows. This means there are some controls (Button and TextBlock, for example) that are common across both platforms. There are other controls where the API is the same, yet they're optimized for the different platforms. There are also platform-specific controls (such as Pivot for Windows Phone). When building controls, you, too, can share (or customize) those controls for the different platforms.
Application Lifecycle and Navigation Model
The lifecycle model for a Windows Phone 8.1 application is the same as a Windows 8.1 application. This means your logic for suspend and resume can be shared. In addition, the navigation model is the same, based on navigating to the type of a page, rather than its Uri. A side effect of this is that Windows Phone developers will have to learn how the NavigationCacheMode can determine the page lifecycle. Simple guidance such as enabling the cache mode on forward navigation, and disabling it on a back navigation, may work for simple applications, but may need to be tweaked for applications that have a different navigation flow.
The agent and task model of Windows Phone 8.0 is replaced by the Windows model for background processing. This leverages a number of triggers an application can listen for, such as NetworkStateChange, Location and Time triggers, and push notification triggers. When a trigger is raised, the application gets to execute and react to the changing state of the background device.
Tiles and Notifications
Windows Phone 8.0 exposed three tile sizes and three tile templates, but application developers still felt the need to generate custom background tile images to get them to look perfect. With Windows Phone 8.1, the majority of the tile templates available to Windows 8.1 are now available, although some templates vary on Windows Phone to account for the different layout and style.
The notification platform has also taken a massive step forward by adopting the same infrastructure as Windows applications, the Windows Notification Service (WNS). This makes for more reliable notifications and the ability to share push notification logic, rather than having different logic for each platform. Instead of manually creating the XML necessary to send to WNS, the NotificationExtensions project on NuGet can be used, which provides a rich managed code wrapper for sending notifications.
App Data and Share Contract
Windows Phone 8.1 applications can now take advantage of roaming settings. In the case of Windows Phone and Windows Store applications that share the same store identity, this means they'll be able to use the same roaming settings, so developers can delight their users by providing a continuous experience across whichever device they're using.
Unlike Windows 8.1, with a dedicated Share charm, Windows Phone 8.1 only inherits the Share contract. Windows Phone 8.1 applications need to expose their own interface for launching Sharing, but thereafter the experience is controlled by the platform. This means any application can act as a Share source, and any application can act as a Share target. The list of default content types that can be shared is similar to those supported on Windows 8.1, whilst also supporting an extensible model allowing developers to specify their own schema.
Location and Geofencing
Finally, I'll touch on the location services available to Windows Phone 8.1 applications. This is really an evolution of the APIs added in Windows Phone 8.0, and one of the most exciting additions is the ability to create geofences. These are circular areas where your application will be invoked if the user enters, leaves or remains for a given time. This opens up a world of context-aware applications – for example as you walk past a theater, the app can notify you of what events are coming up, or any last minute walk-in tickets that are available.
This article provided a quick walk-through of some highlights coming in Windows Phone 8.1. This is by no means a complete list, and there are other areas like sensors; enterprise applications and management; media; and Bluetooth, which have all had significant investment and continue to evolve with Windows Phone 8.1. This is no minor update -- there are lots of exciting new applications just waiting to be built. I encourage you to see what's available.


One of the most common problems learners of English have during language exchanges is not knowing what to talk about, especially for the first meeting. Both you and your partner are probably feeling extra nervous during that first conversation, and it can be hard to think of things to talk about. That is why it is good to prepare a list of general topics to talk about for your first few conversations. If the conversation flows naturally and you don't need them, that's great! But you will feel more confident if you know you have some conversation topics to fall back on.
Unless you know someone well, you should talk about safe topics, topics that aren't likely to be too emotional, sensitive, or raise strong feelings. Topics to avoid include: politics, wars, health-care policies, religion, personal finances, people's appearance, gun control, abortion laws, corruption, democracy (or lack of it), crime, international relations between specific countries or regions, questions about gender identity, terrorism, racial issues, etc. None of these topics are advisable to talk about with people you don't know.
If you have something to add to the conversation, say it! Don't just ask questions. It's natural in conversations for people to take turns asking and answering questions.
Feel free to change the topic if you get stuck. Normal conversations change topics all the time.
How's the weather there today?
It's really hot/cold/rainy/cloudy/snowy/stormy/windy/smoggy here today. What's the weather like where you are?
Do you like rain/snow/hot weather/cold weather/windy days?
What is the weather like in the spring/summer/fall/winter where you live?
Do you have a favorite season? What do you like about it?
Do you have anything special planned for the weekend?
What do you do for entertainment? (read books, watch cat videos on youtube, watch films and tv series).
Do you watch much TV / Youtube?
Do you have any favorite TV series / films / movies?
What kind of movies/films do you like?
Do you have a favorite character from TV or film? Why do you like him/her?
What's the most memorable movie you've seen recently?
Do you listen to music? What kind of music do you like?
What sport do you think seems the most difficult or hardest to learn?
Do you like to watch any sports?
Are there any foods you've never eaten that you would like to try?
That should be plenty of questions to get you started. Good luck with your English practice!
This entry was posted in blog, Intermediate by Lori.
Are you stuck at the intermediate level, feeling overwhelmed and frustrated, and not sure how to make progress? Are you over-complicating things, hopping from one English learning resource to the next and getting nowhere? Are you tired of not feeling fluent?
Feelings like these at the intermediate stage are very common. They lead to frustration, and learners often end up over-complicating things and getting even more frustrated. At worst, they give up.
Getting stuck in your language learning is normal. But it still doesn't feel good.
Improving your English fluency past the intermediate level doesn't have to be complicated. It doesn't have to be frustrating and overwhelming. You can do it on your own, even without a class or a teacher.
Try this simple 6-step system for one week. Look at it as a 7-day experiment. You are going to test something new and see how it works.
If you commit to the process and put in consistent effort for 7 days, you will be amazed at how much your fluency improves.
But even better than that, you will have learned a simple and effective system you can use to keep improving your English for as long as you want.
This is "teach a man to fish" turbocharged.
To be able to speak fluently* about a specific topic for at least 90 seconds.
For the next 7 days, you will work exclusively toward mastering this specific task.
I've broken the fluency-building process down into 6 steps. It's even got an easy-to-remember acronym: S.T.A.R.T.R. It's pronounced "STARTER. The letters stand for Select, Test, Analyze, Research, Train, Repeat.
Your topic should make your feel like this.
Choose a topic that feels interesting and exciting. It should be something that you can look forward to working on for the coming week. It makes no sense to choose something you would never need to talk about, or something that bores you. Can you feel excited about it for a week of study? If yes, then it's a good topic.
Why should you care about finite verb forms?
Finite verb forms in English contain a lot of information. They mark number, person, tense, and mood, all of which contribute to meaning.
Finite verbs are also the the part of the verb phrase that has to agree with the subject (in person and number). In the example below, the subjects are green and the finite verbs are in bold.
If my neighbor's stupid kids don't turn down that awful music soon, I am going to lose my mind.
Subject-verb agreement is an important part of English grammar. When you make mistakes with subject-verb agreement, it makes it harder for people to understand what you mean. Unless the context is very clear, listeners don't know if the mistake is in the verb form or in the subject. For example, where is the error in the sentence below?
Even if the meaning is clear from the context, subject-verb agreement errors tend to draw more than their fair share of attention, distracting and even annoying the listener. So it's worth making the effort to get them right!
All non-modal English verbs (except be) also change form for the third person singular in the present tense (he/she/it goes).
All of this might seem confusing, but the pattern is really pretty straightforward. Look at Table 1 below, and you'll see it's a lot simpler in table form.
This entry was posted in blog, grammar by Lori.


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Daily Journal features Jesse Lueders editorial on U.S. Supreme Court case
Toxic waste can cause injuries, like latent illness and concealed property harm, which don't become apparent until years after exposure occurs. If too much time passes, however, plaintiffs may no longer have a remedy for these harms, in part because of so-called "statutes of repose" (a variation on the traditional statute of limitations). Today's Daily Journal features an editorial by Jesse Lueders, Emmett Frankel Fellow at the Emmett Institute, regarding a case that will decide whether the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) allows toxic tort plaintiffs to bring claims for latent injuries after the expiration of such periods.
The text of his editorial is available here. The Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic filed an amicus curiae brief in this case, on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council, which is available here.


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La 55a cerimònia de lliurament dels Fotogramas de Plata 2004, lliurats per la revista espanyola especialitzada en cinema Fotogramas, va tenir lloc el 7 de març de 2005 a la discoteca Joy Eslava de Madrid. Fou presentada per Anabel Alonso amb guió de Miguel Angel Fernández i Joaquín Górriz. El veredicte es produeix per votació dels lectors de la revista i a través de la seva pàgina web.

L'abril de 2005, com a continuació dels premis, es va convocar el primer premi de curtmetratges Fotogramas en Corto, que fou atorgat a Miguel C. Rodríguez i Francisco Pérez per Manolito Espinberg: une vie de cinéma.

Candidatures

Millor pel·lícula espanyola

Millor pel·lícula estrangera

Tota una vida

Millor actriu de cinema

Millor actor de cinema

Millor actor de televisió

Millor actriu de televisió

Millor actriu de teatre

Millor actor de teatre

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Vegeu també
 Medalles del Cercle d'Escriptors Cinematogràfics de 2004
 XIX Premis Goya
 49a edició dels Premis Sant Jordi de Cinematografia
 XIV Premis de la Unión de Actores
 III Premis Barcelona de Cinema
 XIV Premis Turia

Enllaços externs
 Consulta dels Fotogramas de Plata de l'any a l'IMDB

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Open Access Government October 2019
Open Access Government October 2019 has more content than ever before. I hope you enjoy reading about a wealth of government policy issues globally, such as health and social care, research and innovation, environment, agriculture, energy, transport, industry, ICT, legal affairs and HR & training
A selection can be found below:
Europe's silent killer: The air we breathe
Monika Kosinska, Programme Manager, Governance for Health Division at the World Health
Organization explains why the air we breathe is Europe's silent killer.
Une stratégie commune à long terme pour 2025 en matière de formation, de recherche et d'innovation
Frédérique Vidal, ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation au gouvernement français, explique comment les universités européennes vont définir une stratégie commune et à long terme pour 2025 en matière de formation, de recherche et d'innovation.
Finland's priorities in science policy
Hanna Kosonen, Minister of Science and Culture, Finland, details Finland's priorities in science policy.
The Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund
Matt Warman MP, Cyber Security Minister at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, tells us about the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund and how it is quickly increasing the number and diversity of individuals entering the cyber security profession.
Data linkage and sharing for healthy longevity: A global challenge
Data linkage and sharing for healthy longevity together present a global challenge, in the view of Prof Makoto Suematsu and Prof Victor J Dzau, Co-chairs of Global Future Council for Human Enhancement and Longevity at the World Economic Forum.
The priorities for tackling viral hepatitis in Africa
In this exclusive interview with Prof Olufunmilayo Lesi, Regional Medical Officer for Viral Hepatitis from the World Health Organization (WHO) Office for the Africa Region, she speaks to us about the priorities for tackling viral hepatitis in Africa.
The Moonshot Research and Development Program: Challenging research and development towards the future
Hirai Takuya, Member of the House of Representatives and former Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy in Japan, shares his thoughts on The Moonshot Research and Development Program, that challenges research and development towards the future.
Meeting the real-life enterprise taking humans to the final frontier
Dr Lena De Winne, Head of Information and Communications at Asgardia, speaks of how the endeavours of the billionaire class could soon become a reality for a mass audience.
The EU and Japan: Cooperation on innovation in the clean energy transition and climate action
Mauro Petriccione, Directorate-General for Climate Action at the European Commission, discusses how the EU and Japan are cooperating on innovation in the clean energy transition and climate action.
A time of unprecedented opportunity for ecology and evolutionary biology
Stephanie E. Hampton, Division Director and George W. Gilchrist, Acting Deputy Division Director, at the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, convey that now is a time of unprecedented opportunity for ecology and evolutionary biology.
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Q: Is there an analogue of the Balazard-Saias-Yor criterion for the Riemann Hypothesis for finite fields? The Balazard-Saias-Yor criterion for the Riemann Hypothesis states that the latter is equivalent to the statement that
$$\int_{\Re(s)=1/2} \frac{\log|\zeta(s)|}{|s^2|}|ds|=0$$ where $\zeta$ denotes the Riemann zeta function. But does this criterion also hold if $\zeta$ is the Weil zeta function ?

A: There is no Weil Zeta Function per se, but a bunch of such associated with various algebraic-geometric objects (the simplest ones are associated with elliptic curve structures on toruses); such functions are rational functions (very unlike the highly transcendent classical zeta) and the analogue of the Riemann Hypothesis there is a statement about the decomposition in factors of the numerators of such and it's an algebraic-combinatorial statement essentially, not an analytic one like in the classical case.
The RZ book by Patterson explains how the same combinatorial statement extrapolated for the complex field is simply false but that has nothing really to do with the Riemann Hypothesis per se.


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HomeTOP NEWSENTERTAINMENTKrushna Abhishek Confirms that it will be working "soon" Kapil Sharma: 'I...
Krushna Abhishek Confirms that it will be working "soon" Kapil Sharma: 'I really miss him'
Krushna Abhishek He has heaped praises upon Kapil Sharma And he revealed that he plans to work with the comedian shortly. In Interview with a new person Krushna Also, highly praised The Kapil Sharma ShowHe was once a member of the. Krushna He also stated that people had asked him to not join. Kapil's Show that he had an attitude. Krushna He also stated that he works hard for money and wants to have a lot. (Also Read | Krushna Abhishek Return to The Kapil Sharma Show)
KrushnaHe was also a member of The Kapil Sharma Show, did not return to the show for the third time last year. Among Regular ones Kapil Sharma As Kappu Sharma Sumona Chakravarty His wife Bindu. Chandan Prabhakar, Kappu's Refer a friend Chandan Kiku Sharda They were also featured in the third season. The Return to Sony TV September 10 in the last year.
Speaking With Indian Express, Krushna said, "I love Kapil, I love the show. He is such a great talent, he is like a friend and brother, who has taken such good care of me over the years. There were people who would tell me he has changed, attitude aagaya hai (he has an attitude), don't join his show. But let me tell you, the man is such a hard-working artist. The way he creates comedy does stand up, and takes the team along, it's not an easy job. For us, after doing this for years, it really becomes difficult to create new content. You tend to ask yourself 'ab naya kya (what can be new)?' However, that man, and that show is doing something different each time and making people laugh. It's a great show."
Talking about Sony TV and Kapil, Krushna added, "I really want to work with him, and I am sure we will work out something. I really respect Kapil, and I think he will say the same thing about me. Hum bohot jald saath mein aayenge (We will come back together very soon). I really miss him and the team. I love Kiku Sharda so much. They are such wonderful people. Even when things did not work out with Sony, they are also my family. I have been on the channel for so long, it's like my own home. As they say, 'subah ka bhula agar shaam ko ghar aajaye, toh usse bhula nahi kehte'. I will also be back then."
Last When was the year? Krushna When asked why he wasn't on the show, he replied, "Koi nahi, hum aaj raat ko jaare hain Australia saath mein. Kapil aur main pata nahi kya afwaahe hain ki aisa hogaya waisa hogaya. Koi issue nahi hai. I love him, and he loves me. Mera bhi ai wo, i will be back (NothingTogether, we are leaving. Australia tonight. Don't Find out what these rumours say about me. Kapil. There It is not a problem. He loves me, and I love him. It This is also my show, and I will return again).
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El Championship de 1995-96 fue la 101.º edición del torneo de rugby league más importante de Inglaterra.

Formato

Los equipos se enfrentaron en formato de todos contra todos en condición de local y de visitante, el equipo que terminó en la primera posición al finalizar el torneo se coronó campeón, mientras que no hubo descenso a la segunda división.

Se otorgaron 2 puntos por cada victoria, 1 por el empate y 0 por la derrota.

Desarrollo

Tabla de posiciones

Véase también
 Australian Rugby League 1996

Referencias

1996
Deporte en Reino Unido en 1995
Deporte en Reino Unido en 1996
Inglaterra en 1995
Inglaterra en 1996
Rugby en 1995
Rugby en 1996


You Are Here: Home → Is There A Particular Way That YOU Should Prepare For SHTF?
There are so many opinions about the best way to prepare for a disaster or survival situation. Some people say that you should stockpile food first. Others say that you should set up other food supplies like your own farm plots at an escape location. Some say that you should stockpile guns and ammunition. Others say that you should learn to set traps and get good at archery for both hunting and self-defense. Still others say that you should initially focus on your bug out bag.
And the thing is that all of these people with all of these positions about how to prep are right and wrong.
They have a point. Your living situation will have an impact on what resources that you have available. If you live in a more urban area, then access to hunting animals for food or growing food could be more difficult. On the other hand, you may have more ready access to items left over when people have fled the area. I'm not trying to be cynical by mentioning that type of situation. I'm just trying to be realistic.
Also, in an urban area, practicing with guns may not be as easy to arrange (unless you have ready access to a gun range, which isn't easily available in all areas). On the other hand, ammunition may be easier to come by because people in urban areas tend to be more politically liberal and tend to stay away from guns.
What it comes down to is that you will need to think about your situation as it is now, think about what you think are the most likely survival scenarios, and then decide how you need to prepare. Once you have done that, try to find ways to do a little bit every day. Make preparedness a habit and not a one time event.
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current location and to start a food plot if you are forced to relocate.
I think we must have a mindset of preparedness. Buy extra, think about what can be saved or grown, balance out things needed for protection with food, water, and other needed items. I save seeds each year and use some the next year, while also purchasing some seeds each year. Each year, I store some seeds for emergencies. I try to keep a three year supply of seeds at all times. I keep a supply of Mylar bags, oxygen absorbers, jars, lids, etc. While canning vegetables and fruit this summer, I also dry canned some additional pasta, rice, beans, and cereals. Every month when I shoot, I replace what I have used and add an extra box. Every year I check my stockpiles and do an inventory. This year I realized that I needed more coffee, flour, toilet paper, and sugar, so I dealt with those shortages, dry canning and storing in Mylar bags. That is what I mean by thinking preparedness. I am sure that I don't do everything perfect, but I feel like I am continually improving. I will probably never be fully prepared, but I am more prepared than 90% of the people that I usually come into contact with in this state.


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Asking someone their thoughts about a price of a machine after you already decided on a price to sell it at, You might not like the answer you get.
I think Lou summed it up pretty good. Its worth about $100 at best.
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We're pleased to welcome Lauren Jewell as our new content and production manager. Melbourne-bred, Miami-based Lauren has been doing an amazing job of managing the processes and curators involved in curating The Fetch to its fine-tuned standards each week. We're lucky to have her on the team!
I spent 12 years living and working in Melbourne mainly in retail marketing for Australian franchisors. Deciding it was time for a big change, I packed up my life for a year in order to travel throughout the US, Caribbean, Europe and South America. While on the road, I put my skills to use freelancing for both Australian and US-based clients. As 2013 closed out, my hometown of Miami was calling.
Why did you want to get involved with The Fetch?
I've been an on-going subscriber and found it incredibly useful as a professional resource. In particular, I love the way in which The Fetch champions community – both globally and locally.
The standout for me is the sheer passion from our curators and city ambassadors. They are an exceptional collection of creative, intelligent and hardworking people. They make me excited to be exactly where I am.
What's unique about Miami (will we see a Fetch there one day)?
Beyond being diverse, Miami is a mashup of extremes. While it's best known for geriatrics and lightly dressed rollerbladers, there's also a bit of grit thrown into the glitter. Come-as-you-are has an entirely literal meaning; the wild, wonderful and weird all vie for attention! As I get to know the community better locally, I'd love to see a Miami digest pop up. Stay tuned.
What improvements can we look out for in The Fetch?
Without giving too much away, I'd say you can expect more of what you absolutely love about what we do!
If you didn't live in Florida, where would you be?
I would be at home in the North Shore of Oahu, Seattle, Portland or Melbourne, of course. Common theme? Great coffee!
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First lady announces new White House tennis pavilion
First lady Melania Trump introduces President Donald Trump to speak at a campaign rally for Senate Republican candidates, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., and Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., at Valdosta Regional Airport, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020, in Valdosta, Ga. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tennis anyone?
Weeks before her family turns the White House over to President-elect Joe Biden, Melania Trump announced that a new tennis pavilion on the south grounds is ready for action.
The project included sprucing up an existing tennis court and children's garden, in addition to building a pavilion to replace a smaller structure.
The first lady's office said Monday that the pavilion's design was inspired by the architectural style of the White House, especially the East and West Wings. A colonnade, parapet wall and fanlight windows tie the new building to the look and feel of the White House.
Planning for the project began in early 2018, followed by approval in June 2019 by the Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission.
Mrs. Trump helped break ground for the project in October 2019. Construction was in partnership with the Trust for the National Mall and the National Park Service. The new building was funded by private donations. The White House did not disclose the cost.
Earlier this year, as the coronavirus pandemic began to take hold in the U.S., the first lady tweeted photos of herself wearing a hard hat while reviewing blueprints for the pavilion.
Her critics lashed out, with some calling the photos insensitive during the coronavirus scare. She pushed back in a follow-up tweetencouraging "everyone who chooses to be negative & question my work at the @WhiteHouse to take time and contribute something good & productive in their own communities."
In a written statement Monday, the first lady thanked the "talented craftsmen" who worked on the project and the "generous supporters of the White House."
"It is my hope that this private space will function as both a place of leisure and gathering for future First Families," she said.
Biden is set to take the oath of office as the nation's 46th president on Jan. 20.
President Barack Obama, an avid basketball player, had turned the tennis court into one suitable for basketball.
President Donald Trump had been a regular spectator at the annual U.S. Open tennis tournament held in his native New York, but he has not attended since taking office.
Completion of the tennis pavilion follows the first lady's redesign of the White House Rose Garden earlier this year.


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Coldplay have returned today with "Atlas," their new song from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack. The dreamy tune features a classic Coldplay presentation, with twinkling piano that builds as Chris Martin croons "I'll carry your world." The song arrives with a video that follows a shooting star coursing through the universe while tracing various constellations in the zodiac to the point of supernova.
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Last November, Coldplay hinted that the band would be going on a three-year hiatus. "This is the last big show for three years or so," Chris Martin told an Australian crowd on their last tour stop. The band has kept its word, with "Atlas" being the only thing heard from the British band since then.
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I am Back and Feeling Rejuvenated!
Oh, I just want to say what an awesome time we had on vacation. It wasn't perfect and there were things I would change but any day on vacation is better than any day at work! Right!!!
Over the next few weeks I will post some highlights of our trip and maybe some in depth stuff on some of our shore excursions.
Also, I am kind of considering doing the whole NaNoWriMo thing again this year. I did it last year and I got some good ideas and the beginning of a story started. I haven't done anything with it yet, but maybe one day. It did spin off some ideas for other short stories, so it was helpful.
For now, I just wanted to drop and say hello and leave you with a picture that sums up my entire last week!
In a few short day's we will be on the cruise ship and sailing out to sea.
So when the weekly photo challenge of Dreamy came up I knew instantly what I was dreaming about.
I feel like I am floating, suspended in time. I am not writing. I am going through a dry period. The thing is, I know it's only because I haven't sat down at the computer to write.
I am making time for all kinds of other things, but not writing.
Truth be told, it has been a bit of a nightmare around here lately. Baby girl was sick with a virus and running a fever for 6 days. The only way I could keep it below 102-103 was to consistently alternate Tylenol and Ibuprofen.
Then my brother and his boys have been staying at our place for the last 2 weekends. Hectic is an understatement. My house is a wreck and by the time I get something organized and cleaned, something else is a mess.
Top it off with the fact that I feel like I am a failure on my novel and my story is crap and it doesn't lead to much creativity.
I have definitely found out that STRESS and DISORGANIZATION will kill my creativity.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel. In just over a week we will be climbing aboard a cruise ship and heading out on a Caribbean vacation. It will be a time to recharge and connect with my daughter and husband and hopefully come back refreshed and renewed.
In the meantime, please forgive my lack of postings and know that I am here… hovering around… and will be back regularly in no time!
The sad thing is, without the daily writing prompt of Ready, Set, Done…. I wouldn't have even written this post… sheeesh!!!
For this weeks weekly photo challenge the topic is signs, I began searching for a few signs I knew I had pictures of: One that says: Arm/Leg for gas prices, one with the W missing from Waffle so it looked like it was and affle (awful) House, and a few more along this line. But then I saw the picture below and realized it was the greatest sign of all!
Besides the actual passing of my father and mother the hardest day of my life was the day I had to make the decision to put my mother in a hospice facility.
Only a few days later she would take her last breath.
The day she was admitted I was with her and when I left her that afternoon my heart was so heavy.
As I walked outside I looked up in the sky and saw this. It gave me chills. It also gave me peace. I really needed peace that day.
Maybe you can see what I saw that day or maybe what I see is just for me.
But it was one of the greatest signs I have ever been given!


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Pakistan flooding deaths pass 1,000 in 'climate catastrophe'
Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan topped 1,000 since mid-June, officials said Sunday, as the country's climate minister called the deadly monsoon season "a serious climate catastrophe."
Flash flooding from the heavy rains has washed away villages and crops as soldiers and rescue workers evacuated stranded residents to the safety of relief camps and provided food to thousands of displaced Pakistanis.
Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority reported the death toll since the monsoon season began earlier than normal this year — in mid-June — reached 1,033 people after new fatalities were reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and southern Sindh provinces.
Sherry Rehman, a Pakistani senator and the country's top climate official, said in a video posted on Twitter that Pakistan is experiencing a "serious climate catastrophe, one of the hardest in the decade."
FLASH FLOODS RAVAGE PAKISTAN; 903 DEAD AND 50,000 HOMELESS SINCE MID-JUNE
"We are at the moment at the ground zero of the front line of extreme weather events, in an unrelenting cascade of heatwaves, forest fires, flash floods, multiple glacial lake outbursts, flood events and now the monster monsoon of the decade is wreaking non-stop havoc throughout the country," she said. The on-camera statement was retweeted by the country's ambassador to the European Union.
Flooding from the Swat River overnight affected northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where tens of thousands of people — especially in the Charsadda and Nowshehra districts — have been evacuated from their homes to relief camps set up in government buildings. Many have also taken shelter on roadsides, said Kamran Bangash, a spokesperson for the provincial government.
Bangash said some 180,000 people have been evacuated from Charsadda and 150,000 from Nowshehra district villages.
Khaista Rehman, 55, no relation to the climate minister, took shelter with his wife and three children on the side of the Islamabad-Peshawar highway after his home in Charsadda was submerged overnight.
MISSISSIPPI FLOODING: GOVERNOR DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY WITH RIVER EXPECTED TO CREST AT 36 FEET MONDAY
"Thank God we are safe now on this road quite high from the flooded area," he said. "Our crops are gone and our home is destroyed but I am grateful to Allah that we are alive and I will restart life with my sons."
The unprecedented monsoon season has affected all four of the country's provinces. Nearly 300,000 homes have been destroyed, numerous roads rendered impassable and electricity outages have been widespread, affecting millions of people.
Pope Francis on Sunday said he wanted to assure his "closeness to the populations of Pakistan struck by flooding of disastrous proportions." Speaking during a pilgrimage to the Italian town of L'Aquila, which was hit by a deadly earthquake in 2009, Francis said he was praying "for the many victims, for the injured and the evacuated, and so that international solidarity will be prompt and generous."
Rehman told Turkish news outlet TRT World that by the time the rains recede, "we could well have one fourth or one third of Pakistan under water."
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"This is something that is a global crisis and of course we will need better planning and sustainable development on the ground. … We'll need to have climate resilient crops as well as structures," she said.
In May, Rehman told BBC Newshour that both the country's north and south were witnessing extreme weather events because of rising temperatures. "So in north actually just now we are … experiencing what is known as glacial lake outburst floods which we have many of because Pakistan is home to the highest number of glaciers outside the polar region."
The government has deployed soldiers to help civilian authorities in rescue and relief operations across the country. The Pakistani army also said in a statement it airlifted 22 tourists trapped in a valley in the country's north to safety.
Prime Minister Shabaz Sharif visited flooding victims in city of Jafferabad in Baluchistan. He vowed the government would provide housing to all those who lost their homes.
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