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poetry collection on love, politics and hope. inspired by African content
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A basic understanding of Economics is Essential for well-informed citizenship.Most of todays political problems have important economic aspects.This book deeply describes this relationships turning the reader into an economic expert on the core economic aspects in simple beautiful language
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The Sign And The Seal-graham Hancock
After nine years investigating the exact location of the ultimate religious icon, the Ark of the Covenant, British researcher and investigative journalist Graham Hancock reveals his status-quo shattering discoveries. Part mystery thriller, part true adventure and part travel book, this gripping piece of historical research challenges society's principal religious preconceptions and takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through ancient history
She Said -jodi Kantor And Megan Twohey
For many years, reporters had tried to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein's treatment of women. Rumors of wrongdoing had long circulated. But in 2017, when Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey began their investigation into the prominent Hollywood producer for the New York Times, his name was still synonymous with power. During months of confidential interviews with top actresses, former Weinstein employees, and other sources, many disturbing and long-buried allegations were unearthed, and a web of onerous secret payouts and nondisclosure agreements was revealed. These shadowy settlements had long been used to hide sexual harassment and abuse, but with a breakthrough reporting technique Kantor and Twohey helped to expose it
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The Other Side Of Israel -susan Nathan
The pioneering autobiographical story of a British Zionist in her fifties who moves to Israel and chooses to live among 25,000 Muslims in the all-Arab Israeli town of Tamra, a few miles from Nazareth. Susan Nathan's revelatory book about her new life across the ethnic divide in Israel is already creating international interest. At a time when Middle Eastern politics (in many ways central to the current world disorder) have become mired in endless tit-for-tat killings, Susan Nathan is showing – by her own daily example – that it is perfectly possible for Jews and Arabs to live peacefully together in a single community, recognising their common humanity. The author's familiarity with the former injustices of apartheid South Africa enables her to draw telling comparisons with the state of Israel. The increasing segregation of, and discrimintation against, the million-strong Arabic population of Israel is something she witnesses at first hand
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Alan Greenspan wielded more power than the presidents he worked for, from Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton to George Bush and his son. He was in the command room of the world economy for longer than any other single figure. One word from him could send markets into freefall. Now Alan Greenspan, the legendary former chairman of the Federal Reserve, gives us a unique insider's view of the world over his lifetime, from stock market exuberance to political turmoil - and his predictions for the future of our fast-changing, increasingly turbulent global economy. 'First rate ... [The Age of Turbulence] is intelligent in a way that few popular books on economics manage or even try to be ... An enjoyable read' Economist 'With his book, [Greenspan] finally lets us know what he's thinking ... surprisingly frank ... downright entertaining' David Leonhardt, The New York Times
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As the Israel-Palestine conflict rages on, it is increasingly important to understand the history of the Palestinian people. Rosemary Sayigh's The Palestinians is a classic of radical history. Through extensive interviews with Palestinians in refugee camps, she provides a deeply-moving, grassroots story of how the Palestinians came to be who they are today. Reissued with an extensive new foreword by Noam Chomsky, which brings the story that Sayigh tells up-to-date in the context of the Hamas victory and the war in Lebanon, this book is both a fascinating historical document and an essential insight into the situation in the contemporary Middle East
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UFV Cascades baseball crew ready to deal with Dawgs
The Canadian Colleges Baseball Conference team sets its sights on the Prairie Baseball Academy.
Eric Welsh
Shawn Corness didn't hestitate a second when asked when his University of the Fraser Valley Cascades will be able to go toe-to-toe with the mighty Prairie Baseball Academy.
"This year," he said with a confident grin.
Those are two of the boldest words that could be spoken by a coach in the Canadian Colleges Baseball Conference.
The Prairie Dawgs, after all, have won the last seven league championships.
That's not a typo.
Seven straight.
But the Cascades threw a scare into the champs in last spring's playoffs and with an impressive recruiting class joining UFV for the 2017 season, they think they can be the ones to end the PBA run.
"One real big kid we've got coming home after a couple years down south is Parker Logan," Corness said. "He's a left handed pitcher who played in Chilliwack through bantam and went down to Colorado."
The Chilliwack secondary school grad played for Northeastern Junior College in Sterling, CO..
He struck out a batter per inning with the Plainsmen and Corness believes he's a versatile addition to the UFV pitching staff.
"He's a guy with college experience, and to have that guy who can either start from the left side or come out of the pen is a big upgrade from last year."
Corness cast a large net in this round of recruiting, reeling in prospects from as far away as Ontario.
"We've got players from Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C., so it's a big year across the country for us," Corness confirmed. "I'm reaching out to some of my contacts and they're seeing the progress of this program and the success we're having.
"When you have success it gets out there and people start to take notice.
"A lot of it is players talking to other players too, and our players have good things to say about what we're doing."
Corness is excited about a prairie import, catcher Brody Vogel. He was the starting catcher for Team Saskatchewan, leading his province to gold at the 2016 Canada Cup, a best on best tournament for 15-17 year olds.
"I'm really excited to see how he fits in and I'm also excited about another transfer, Marcus Gregson.
A Surrey native, the six-foot-one and 220 pound right handed pitcher spent last season in Iowa with the Indian Hills Community College Falcons.
"He can be a 90 to 92 (miles per hour) guy on the mound, and because of myself and (assistant coach) Kyle Lotzkar, we were the choice for him," Corness said.
Donovan Moorman is a former Chilliwack Minor Baseball all-star who was with UFV in the program's inaugural season.
He had arm issues last year and decided to go to school and work rather than play ball.
"But he missed it enough that he's back and that really excites me about our middle infield," Corness said. "His arm is healthy, he looks good and I think he could be one of the best ones in our league."
The pool of graduating Chilliwack Cougar talent is just three players deep this year and UFV missed out on two of them. Cade Smith is going to the University of Hawaii while Surrey native Trent King heads south to California Baptist.
But Trey Pankratz has signed on, bringing solid outfield defence and a knack for getting on base.
"He will get an opportunity to come in and play and show us what he can do," Corness said.
Corness has six B.C. Premier Baseball League players coming in, more than ever before.
That list includes Walt Eschner, Will Chaba and Stephen Horner of the Whalley Chiefs, Tanner Carmont and Travis Klein of the White Rock Tritons and Christian Gilchrist from the Coquitlam Reds.
"The BCPBL kids mainly like to go across the line, but these ones see the benefits of staying home and getting an education at UFV," Corness said. "They also see how good our program has become in a short amount of time."
The net result of all of this, Corness hopes, is a team that is stronger in just about every area.
"We'll be stronger on the hill, we'll take a step forward defensively and offensively we'll be better too," the coach said. "So do I see us taking another step forward this year? Absolutely."
But should PBA really be worried?
"We ran into one of the best pitchers in the league (Tanner Jesson-Dalton) in that semi-final (a 6-0 loss that ended UFV's season)," Corness said. "He was throwing 89 to 90 with a punchout slider and that's tough to compete against.
"But it was 2-0 (through three innings) and we were in that game.
"My takeaway was that we could compete with anybody in the league with a couple additions and I think we've got what we need."
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Our Founder visits Leeds University Institute of Psychological Sciences.
During a recent visit to the United Kingdom, Our Founder Khun Teeranard was kindly invited to visit The Institute of Psycholigical Sciences department at Leeds University.
Dr Louise Dye, Dr Clare Lawton and their team kindly showed Khun Teeranard around their department and discussed current research. Of particular interest was the association between diet and cognitive function. After the tour, Khun Teeranard was hosted to an excellent luncheon including SPA Foods products prepared by Chef Carl and hosted by Maitre d� John.
Khun Teeranard recognises the importance of research in this area and believes their work is invaluable for food manufacturers in the creation of a healthy diet.
Khun Teeranard pictured with Dr Louise Dye outside the Leeds University Institute of Psychological Sciences department.
Teeranard Chokwatana and members of the research team. From left to right: Khun Teeranard Dr Louise Dye, Dr Clare Lawton, Ms Fiona Croden and Ms Alexa Brownridge.
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Testifying before the Senate Agriculture Committee on June 30, Dow Brantley III, provided criticism of current farm bill programs and suggestions for their replacements. Brantley — who farms cotton, corn, rice, and soybeans on some 8,500 acres with his father and brothers outside England, Ark. — told the committee how the ACRE program had failed to provide a safety net for Mid-South producers.
The 2008 farm bill "provides a sound and stable farm policy that is essential for our farming operation by continuing the traditional mix of safety net features consisting of the non-recourse marketing loan and loan deficiency payment program and the direct and counter-cyclical payment program.
"While the counter-cyclical payment and marketing loan programs have been helpful in the past, they have recently been overwhelmed by the costs of production. If crop prices drop sharply, most producers, including me, will be in dire financial straits by the time these programs make payments. While there has been much debate about the effectiveness of direct payments, I believe they are an integral part of our farm program delivery system and should be maintained.
"The 2008 farm bill made very substantial changes to the payment eligibility provisions of the safety net, establishing an additional adjusted gross income (AGI) means test and a very significant tightening of the 'actively engaged in farming' requirement for eligibility. In my opinion, the USDA over-stepped the intent of Congress in payment eligibility provisions and issued regulations that are overly complicated and restrictive.
"The Farm Service Agency's (FSA) overly restrictive financing rules, legally incorrect active personal management rules, and multiple sets of 'actively engaged in farming' rules — which are inconsistent when applied to different commodity and conservation programs within the same program year — are a few examples of the problems that we are facing. Sound farm policy provisions are of little value if commercial-size farming operations are ineligible for benefits.
"The 2008 farm bill also included the addition of the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) as an alternative to counter-cyclical payments for producers who agree to a reduction in direct payments and marketing loan benefits. The bill also added the Supplemental Revenue Assurance Program (SURE) as a standing disaster assistance supplement for federal crop insurance.
"The support mechanisms within ACRE do not provide an adequate safety net for cotton or rice producers when compared to the traditional DCP program. If a revenue-based approach is to find support among us producers, a more reasonable revenue target would have to be established.
"In my home county, we have 1,650 producers and no one has elected to participate in ACRE. In fact, only two producers in the entire state have chosen ACRE.
"The SURE program has provided little, if any, assistance to row crop producers in the Mid-South who, last year, suffered significant monetary losses due to heavy rains and flooding occurring prior to and during harvest. I recognize the challenge facing Congress to make improvements in this program. Without increased baseline spending authority, there will be no funds to even continue the program in the next farm bill, much less make the necessary improvements for it to be an effective disaster relief mechanism. However, I do not support reallocating existing spending authority from current farm programs to apply to SURE.
"Crop insurance as a whole has not worked on our farm — or many others like ours — in Arkansas. Our farm is one hundred percent irrigated, and on average, our yields are very consistent. Our financial problems occur with higher production costs due to irrigation, or a weather event in the fall that disrupts our harvest and ultimately affects the quality of our crops. These circumstances cannot be hedged against.
"For example, the coverage available under the current mix of federal crop insurance policies is not as well-suited to rice or other Mid-South crops as compared to producers of other crops in other regions.
"What rice producers need from federal crop insurance are products that will help protect against price risk and increased production and input costs — particularly energy and energy-related inputs.
"The rice industry has been working for over a year now to develop a new generation of crop insurance products that we hope will provide meaningful risk management tools for rice producers in protecting against sharp, upward spikes in input costs.
"My family has participated in several conservation programs over the years. Programs such as the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), and Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) have helped us become better stewards of the land and better conserve our natural resources.
"Conservation programs, such as the new Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), I think, can lead to improved environmental and conservation practices. However, I believe that this program is not succeeding in the way that it could. Of all the conservation programs offered by USDA, the CSP program might have the most potential in terms of actually producing the desired results that are beneficial to both the environment and producers. This program is a win/win for everyone. However, it has always been vastly underfunded.
"The CSP program has been hampered by overly restrictive payment limitations contrived by USDA regulators — restrictions that I do not believe are supported by statute.


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Erdogan: Three Turkish troops died in Idlib
Thursday, 27 February 2020 - 14:16
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ISWNews Analysis Group: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a statement today that three Turkish troops were killed in Syrian soil in Idlib province.
No details were released, but the three are likely to be linked to yesterday's air strikes on a Turkish military convoy in the south of Idlib province. It was announced yesterday that two Turkish troops were killed in the bombing, however the third person appears to have died as result of serious injuries.
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Dr. Geoffrey Gladstone is certified by and a Fellow of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS). This indicates that he has specific training and expertise in this subspecialty. He is also certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a fellow of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery.
Following his residency at Sinai Hospital of Detroit, Dr. Gladstone served his fellowship training at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary and Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Gladstone has been in practice in the Detroit area since 1983. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters.
Currently he is affiliated with a number of hospitals including William Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak, St. Joseph Mercy-Pontiac and Genesys Hospital in the Flint area. He performs surgery at outpatient surgical facilities in the Detroit and Flint metropolitan areas.
Dr. Gladstone is interested in all aspects of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery of the eyelids and face. He was one of the first surgeons in Michigan to perform endoscopic forehead surgery and has been performing cosmetic eyelid surgery for 30 years. He has pioneered new methods of endoscopic surgery for tearing problems as well as performing surgeries for eyelid drooping, eyelid tumors and malpositions of the lower eyelids. He has lectured internationally and extensively in the United States. He directs an international Ophthalmic and Facial Plastic Surgery fellowship.


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The search for a missing girl leads private investigators Elvis Cole and Joe Pike into the nightmarish world of human trafficking in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Robert Crais.
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Series #3 consists of 8 different styles theming around Places Cats Sit. There are 8 styles total. The cats and accessories come with a touch/close feature, allowing you to mix and match, making over 60 possible combinations!
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As Morpheus said to Neo in The Matrix, "Welcome to the desert of the real."
By way of contrast, Lovecraft defined fantasy as "an art based on the imaginary life of the human mind, frankly recognized as such; & in its way as natural & scientific --as truly related to natural (even if uncommon & delicate) psychological processes as the starkest of photographic realism."  In other words, fantasy fiction makes no pretense of representing the physical world as it actually is. However, in the right hands it can vividly the most intensely felt yearnings of the human heart and soul, from the deepest longings and most dreadful anxieties to the loftiest aspirations. Therefore, it could be said that fantasy need have little to do with reality, yet have a great deal to do with truth, since these are not precisely the same thing.
This is, of course, not to say that realistic fiction cannot portray weighty abstractions such as spiritual damnation and redemption, just that fantasy can often do so more excitingly and entertainingly. The Star Wars saga of Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader is a perfect example. For better or worse, more people have seen the Star Wars movies than have read Crime and Punishment. Also, interestingly enough, most people are more familiar with the story of Faust than of Crime and Punishment. Fantasy is an uncannily suitable vehicle for conveying powerful themes to a mass audience.
Howard's remarks to Novalyne strongly suggest that he felt that his readers benefited in some way from seeing their struggles reflected on a higher level. To that end, Robert E. Howard took the oldest type of story --the tale of heroes, gods, and monsters-- and reinvented it as jolting pulp fiction. His prose, not unlike that of Raymond Chandler, was direct and hard-edged, yet lyrical. Howard's modern brand of fantasy has often been characterized as "sword and sorcery," but Lovecraft may have been more insightful when he deemed it "artificial legendry."
Howard wrote for the American working class of the early twentieth century. His readers were widely seperated by time, distance, and upheaval from the myths and legends that had enthralled their ancestors in the Old World. They lived in an era rocked by cataclysm, no less than the fictional Hyborian Age of Conan had been. In 1906, the year Howard was born, the world was ruled by kings, dukes, emperors, sultans, kaisers, and czars. Twenty years later, they were all gone. The slaughter of the First World War and the lawlessness of the Roaring Twenties were followed by the malaise of the Great Depression. The Depression was a humiliating ordeal for many Americans, and Howard's rousing tales of Conan helped to empower readers with flagging spirits. In a larger sense, however, Howard sought to resurrect the heroic saga where it had long been lost.
When America declared its independence from the Mother Country, it was also bidding farewell to Saint George and King Arthur. No comparable myths grew up to take their places. The new folk legends that appeared in the wake of the Industrial Revolution celebrated laborers and producers of goods. Today everyone has heard of Paul Bunyan, John Henry, and Casey Jones, and yet no one really cares about them. One needn't marvel at the fact that no nineteenth century publisher ever attempted to use such characters to sell dime novels. Instead, stories of gunfighters and bank robbers were dime novel mainstays. "Tall tales" of how hard some guy worked were presumably less inspiring. After all, how popular would Horatio Alger's novels have been, had his protagonists simply worked but remained poor?
The dime novel was followed in the early twentieth century by the pulp magazines. At this time, radio and motion pictures were in their infancies, television yet unborn. As astonishing as it may seem today, print was the primary entertainment medium for the masses. Publishing empires were built on pulp fiction magazines that usually sold for ten cents. By the late twenties, scores of different titles were on sale at any given time. The pulp jungle proved fertile ground for a new crop of homegrown heroes: cowboys, sailors, detectives, aviators, and soldiers of fortune. Interestingly, however, such pre-eminent pulp heroes as The Shadow and Doc Savage were essentially supercops, maintainers of the status quo.
Robert E. Howard had something different in mind when he conceived of Conan. His giant barbarian is an outlaw, a sword-for-hire, basically out for himself, yet still retaining a certain knack for doing the right thing. Conan is not a preserver of order; he is a mover and shaker, the whirlwind at the center of momentous events. And though his author endowed him with a very modern hardboiled edge, Conan remains that most immemorial of heroes, the warrior. Writing before Carl Jung was well-known in America, before Joseph Campbell's work had appeared, Howard possessed an instinctive grasp of mythic, archetypal figures-- king, warrior, magician, femme fatale. He knew that the ancient figure of the warrior would resonate with readers on a deeper subconscious level than, for example, the detective, a hero figure in some ways emblematic of the Age of Reason.
Howard's vivid "artificial legendry" has often sadly been dismissed as "escapism." Yet if the lot of the average man is truly one of "drab monotony and toil," as Howard believed, it falls to the skald and the storyteller to furnish needed refreshment for tired minds. And in truth, the average working adult does endure his or her fair share of drudgery. The majority of people earn a living by means of tedious jobs, not rewarding careers.
Herein lies a clue to Howard's well-known resentment of "civilization," for which the author has taken so much flak. Youngsters are told they can become anything they want if they try hard enough; they are never told how many waiters the world needs for every archeologist it can support. The former notion is wishful thinking, the latter a dismal truth Howard knew only too well. Viewed this way, civilized society is like a big lottery in which most people have to lose. As one example, consider the monkey-suited doorman standing in front of a luxury hotel. To Howard, such an individual would be better off, spiritually if not materially, wearing a loincloth and carrying a spear, battling openly against man and nature.
Decades after Howard's death, the lot of the working class changed, but in an important sense it was not for the better. Previously, the laborer could at least derive some satisfaction from accomplishing enormous tasks and producing tangible goods. In the last quarter of the twentieth century, however, the workplace underwent a transformation. Countless American manufacturing jobs were sold overseas to the lowest bidder. America became a "service economy," a glib euphemism for a nation of flunkies.
The plight of the American working man at the turn of the twenty-first century is explored in Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel Fight Club. The novel and its subsequent film adaptation look at a generation of men who are increasingly marginalized. Most are relegated to menial jobs and inane tasks. Alienated from society, they begin to form underground "fight clubs" in the basements of bars and similar places. Here they engage in greuling fistfights, finding a renewed sense of meaning in raw physical strife. At one point a character remarks, "I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived...and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables."  It is a statement with which Robert E. Howard would have nodded in somber agreement.
In 1928, before his professional writing career took off, Howard wrote a novel entitled Post Oaks and Sand Roughs. It is actually a thinly-veiled autobiography of Howard (herein called "Steve Costigan") between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two. While crossing the threshold of adulthood, Howard at one point toiled at a tedious job in his town's drug store. At this time, Cross Plains, Texas, was in the midst of an oil boom. Oil workers swelled the town's population, and Howard had to work long hours for weeks on end. However, he was able to vent some of his frustration by taking part in amateur boxing matches held in an empty building at a local ice plant. One such episode is recounted in Chapter 9 of the novel. It is Fight Club seven decades early.
A man who works all day or all night swinging heavy sledges, clambering about on an eighty foot rig, and in general doing work suitable for a giant, has scant respect for one who makes his living by doling out soft drinks.
Howard initially asserts that "life was shoving Coca Colas and ice creams across the fountain top to unshaven roughnecks who swore at you," but changes his tune once the fight is underway: "Steve knew Life, fierce, red, and vibrant." To put that capital "L" on "Life," one must seek out extreme experiences seldom encountered in the normal course of everyday living. Restless within the folds of a safe, comfortable civilization, adventurous spirits search for ways to test and challenge themselves. Examples can be found at every level of society, from the mountaineer scaling a peak "because it is there" to the teenage street racer.
Howard once told Lovecraft, "Despite the tinsel and show, the artificial adjuncts, and the sometimes disgusting advertisements, ballyhoo and exploitation attendant upon such sports as boxing and football, there is, in the actual contexts, something vital and real and deep-rooted in the very life-springs of the race...Football, for instance, is nothing less than war in miniature, and provides an excellent way of working off pugnacious and combative instincts, without bloodshed."  One can experience a fleeting taste of glory through some form of athletic striving, either first-hand or vicariously as a spectator. One can also experience a heightened sense of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment vicariously through art.
Ordinary everyday life consists of slogging through a morass of stifling worries and squabbles. A week's worth of listings for a courtroom television program like Judge Judy reads like a series of postcards from the desert of the real: "A dispute involving a VCR, a TV, and clothing. / A woman sues her beautician after her hair extensions fall out. / A woman sues her ex over unpaid bills. / A case involving a damaged TV set; an alleged break-in. / A dispute over an unpaid loan. / A dispute over a TV. Also: a fight is sparked by damaged bicycles."  The sheer pettiness of it all seems almost suffocating. Even so, there are people who watch such programs religiously, presumably for the dubious satisfaction of seeing others chided and punished. It is a peculiar form of spiritual tunnel vision.
Howard endeavored to offer his readers a wider vista. He knew that working at the counter of a drug store, or pumping gas, or selling shoes, or digging holes, was not enough to fill a man's heart. That is one reason he so excelled at depicting struggles that were epic, against evils that were truly horrific. Such is the essence of adventure, and Howard has been widely lauded as a great adventure writer. The path of the adventurer leads either to glory or doom, but it skirts commonplace tedium and transcends the gradual grinding down of the human spirit by the weight of the world. In its way, the adventure story is a subversive art form in the sense that it carries within it the implicit suggestion that everyday life is inadequate. No author has been more militant in conveying this message than Robert E. Howard.
There is little of adventure or glory to be found in the desert of the real, save in the form of a mirage. To invest common events like holidays, weddings, and graduations with an atmosphere of pomp and grandeur involves the use of the creative imagination in a manner not unlike the way the storyteller weaves his tales. "[T]here was pagentry and high illusion and vanity, and the beloved tinsel of glory without which life is not worth living," wrote Howard to a correspondent concerning times gone by, "All empty show and the smoke of conceit and arrogance, but what a drab thing life would be without them."  For him, there is no meaning or beauty in life other than what we dream into it. In this respect, and in other respects, Howard could be considered as early existential writer.
Conan's world is one of exotic kingdoms, gleaming citadels, desolate wastelands, and mysterious ruins haunted by nightmarish spectres. Fabulous wealth in the form of gold and precious gemstones lies in heaps for the taking, if one is bold enough to dare the terrors that lurk in the nearby shadows. Monstrous fifty-foot serpents rear up, fangs dripping venom. Giant slavering apes snarl and lurch forward with taloned hands extended. Yet even these horrors can be overcome by the craft, sinew, and fighting prowess of a fierce barbarian warrior. And gold is not his only reward. Alluring women await; some are slave girls, some are princesses, some are warriors in their own right, but all are almost agonizing in their physical perfection.
For daring to conjure such fever dreams, Howard has at times been labelled an "arrested adolescent" by his harsher critics. However, such critics tend to be familiar with only a small portion of Howard's work. Howard lavished whatever exhuberance and love of life he possessed upon his most famous creation, leaving precious little for himself and his other characters. Thus Solomon Kane is driven by fanaticism, and Bran Mak Morn by wrath. King Kull broods on his throne, grappling with philosophical abstactions. The crusaders of Howard's historical tales are not knights in shining armor, but brutal men in dirty chain male vying for power over small medieval fiefdoms. Howard himself was buffeted by severe manic-depressive mood swings. He took his own life at the youthful age of thirty. While only in his early twenties he was writing poetry redolent of world-weariness, loss, and ennui. Far from being an "arrested adolescent," Robert E. Howard was, if anything, a premature middle-aged burnout.
Wrestled with the hills at sunset --till I met brass-tinctured Truth.
More than once Howard speaks of the bone-crushing weight of age pressing upon him, even as he admits he is young in actual years: "I fling aside the cloak of Youth and limp / A withered man upon a broken staff."  In "Always Comes Evening" he exhorts the devil to "Feed with hearts of rose-white women ashes of my dead desire."  Surely a lament for one's "dead desire" is more appropriate for a man in late middle life than for a young poet of, perhaps, twenty-two years.
Of nameless battles where lost armies crashed.
Possible former incarnations notwithstanding, however, Howard did not live out even a single normal life span. Even so, he experienced his share of strife and conflict. This was not in the form of physical combat, but rather resulting from his struggle with his surroundings.
All these things contributed to Howard's premature burnout. Possessed of a dominant personality, he was given to butting heads with people and situations with which he felt himself at odds. Essentially, he was fighting the whole damn world, and over time this took its toll. Hence his feelings of world-weariness and futility.
In a larger sense, however, Howard's disillusionment differs from that of the average person only in degree. Everyone experiences some form of unrequited longing or thwarted ambition. Disappointment is a fact of life, an inevitability known to all. For the more sensitive, disappointment is shadowed by disillusionment. There is a vague sense that life has somehow played one false. Often this is simply dismissed with the commonplace observation that things aren't always what they're cracked up to be. But in Howard's prose, as well as his poetry, disillusionment has a way of becoming magnified.
From time to time, Howard writes of some glorious dream that only serves to conceal a hideous underlying reality. In such passages, he feels moved to portray disillusionment on a grand, even cosmic, scale. All pervasive, it enfolds humanity like some form of original sin. Not even Conan can escape it. For Howard's heroes, disillusionment is a dragon no less formidable than a literal monster with fangs and claws. Typically it is the result of a sudden horrifying revelation, rather than the accumulation of minor disappointments. Portrayed in this manner, it is another example of Howard's penchant for depicting ordinary human struggle on a mythical level.
Howard may or may not have known a loose woman or two, but he leaves it to Conan to confront the true harlot out of hell. Frequently Conan encounters beings whose capacity for evil or depravity exceeds that of mere mortals. It's all part of a heroic saga of ordeals and triumphs surpassing those to be found in the course of ordinary everyday life. And if there is no escaping disillusionment, Conan must experience disillusionment on an epic scale.
The fantasy of Robert E. Howard encompasses both high adventure and blood-chilling horror. In both prose and poetry, Howard sends the reader soaring to exhilerating summits or plummeting to the very depths of his despair. But in either case, he endeavors to avoid the tedium of what T. S. Eliot described as a life measured out in coffee spoons. This aspect of the storyteller's art is of no small importance.
Critics like Robert McKee have theorized that it is the structure of "the story" that enables us to see our own lives as something other than a chaotic jumble of trivial incidents. We learn to focus on what is important and edit out the mundane. Our lives center on our goals and loved ones, rather than being measured out in coffee spoons, or frozen dinners, or toothbrushes, or flea powder, or parking meters, or crossword puzzles. Bruce Lee once quoted a Zen aphorism about a finger pointing to the moon: concentrate on the finger, and you miss all that heavenly glory. We define our reality by determining what is important to us.
The desert shimmered in the heat waves. Conan the Cimmerian stared out over the aching desolation and involuntarily drew the back of his powerful hand over his blackened lips. He stood like a bronze statue in the sand, apparently impervious to the murderous sun, though his only garment was a silk loin-cloth, girdled by a wide gold buckled belt from which hung a saber and a broad-bladed poniard. On his clean-cut limbs were evidences of scarcely healed wounds.
 Robert E. Howard (hereafter REH), "The Phoenix on the Sword," The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (New York: Ballantine Books, 2003), p. 7.
 REH to Farnsworth Wright in Glenn Lord, ed., The Last Celt (West Warwick, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1976), pp. 37-38.
 Mark Schultz, Robert E. Howard's Conan of Cimmeria: A Sketchbook (Wandering Star, 2001), p. 2.
 Novalyne Price Ellis, One Who Walked Alone (West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1986), p. 62.
 REH, Post Oaks and Sand Roughs (Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, 1990), p. 157.
 H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, November 16, 1926, in Selected Letters II (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1968), p. 90.
 H. P. Lovecraft to Donald A. Wollheim, 1936.
 Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (New York: Owl Books, 1997), p. 149.
 REH, Post Oaks and Sand Roughs, p. 141.
 REH to Lovecraft, January 1932.
 All from TV Guide for the week of December 8, 2001: Vol. 49, No. 49, Issue #2541.
 REH to Harold Preece, received October 20, 1978.
 REH, "Always Comes Evening," Always Comes Evening (San Francisco: Underwood-Miller, 1977), p. 73.
 REH, "Surrender," Shadows of Dreams (Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, 1989), p. 92.
 REH, "The Sands of Time," Echoes From an Iron Harp (West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1972), p. 65.
 REH, "Always Comes Evening," p. 73.
 REH, "The Guise of Youth," The Second Book of Robert E. Howard (New York: Berkley Books, 1980), pp. 211-212.
 REH to Lovecraft, circa May/June 1933.
 Dr. I. M. Howard to E. Hoffman Price, June 21, 1944.
 REH to Lovecraft, March 6, 1933.
 REH to Wilfred B. Talman, September 1931.
 REH, "Song From an Ebony Heart," Shadows of Dreams, p. 85.
 REH, "Love's Young Dream," Shadows of Dreams, p. 88.
 REH, The Hour of the Dragon (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977), pp. 220-221.
 REH, "Xuthal of the Dusk," The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, p. 219.


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This discovery suggests a previously unknown physiological defence towards heavy metal poisoning. Great whites are known to have a propensity for "self-therapeutic and avoiding age-related illnesses". However, it's now understood that the nice white shark holds closer ties to the mako sharks and is descended from a separate lineage as a chronospecies unrelated to the mega-toothed sharks. This was proven with the discovery of a transitional species that linked the nice white to an unserrated shark generally known as Carcharodon hastalis.
The IUCN notes that very little is thought concerning the precise status of the great white shark, however as it appears unusual in comparison with different broadly distributed species, it is thought of weak. It is included in Appendix II of CITES, that means that international commerce within the species requires a allow. As of March 2010, it has also been included in Annex I of the CMS Migratory Sharks MoU, which strives for elevated international understanding and coordination for the safety of certain migratory sharks. Little is known in regards to the great white shark's mating habits, and mating behaviour had not been noticed on this species till 1997 and properly documented in 2020.
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In Queensland, nice white sharks found alive on the drum lines are shot. In New South Wales, between 1950 and 2008, a complete of 577 great white sharks had been killed in nets. Between September 2017 and April 2018, fourteen great white sharks were killed in New South Wales. However, some researchers have hypothesized that the explanation the proportion of fatalities is low just isn't as a result of sharks don't like human flesh, but as a result of humans are often in a position to escape after the first chunk.
The English name 'white shark' and its Australian variant 'white pointer' is thought to have come from the shark's stark white underside, a attribute feature most noticeable in beached sharks lying the wrong way up with their bellies uncovered.
"An evaluation of photographic evidences of the biggest great white sharks , Linnaeus 1758, captures within the Mediterranean sea with issues in regards to the maximum size of the species".
This is a looking method employed by nice white sharks whilst looking seals.
Later research proved this specimen to be in the regular size vary, at around 4.9 m in length.
"A Great white shark's favourite tune? 'Back in Black'" Archived 16 April 2016 on the Wayback Machine Surfersvillage Global Surf News .
The great white shark has no known natural predators apart from, on very rare occasions, the killer whale. It is arguably the world's largest-identified extant macropredatory fish, and is likely one of the major predators of marine mammals, as much as the scale of huge baleen whales. This shark can be recognized to prey upon quite a lot of other marine animals, including fish, and seabirds. It is the one known surviving species of its genus Carcharodon, and is liable for extra recorded human chunk incidents than some other shark. "An evaluation of photographic evidences of the biggest great white sharks , Linnaeus 1758, captures in the Mediterranean sea with issues concerning the maximum size of the species".
Another white shark that was tagged off the South African coast swam to the southern coast of Australia and back throughout the year. The reasons for their migration and what they do at their vacation spot is still unknown. The authentic speculation of the great white shark's origin held that it's a descendant of a lineage of mega-toothed sharks, and is closely related to the prehistoric megalodon. These sharks were considerably giant in measurement, with megalodon attaining an estimated length of up to 14.2–16 m (47–52 ft). Similarities between the enamel of great white and mega-toothed sharks, similar to large triangular shapes, serrated blades, and the presence of dental bands, led the first evidence of an in depth evolutionary relationship.
This keeps sure parts of the body at temperatures up to 14 °C (25 °F) above that of the surrounding water, while the heart and gills stay at sea temperature. When conserving power, the core body temperature can drop to match the surroundings. A great white shark's success in raising its core temperature is an example of gigantothermy. Therefore, the good white shark could be thought-about an endothermic poikilotherm or mesotherm as a result of its physique temperature just isn't constant but is internally regulated. Great whites additionally depend on the fats and oils stored within their livers for long-distance migrations throughout nutrient-poor areas of the oceans. Studies by Stanford University and the Monterey Bay Aquarium revealed on 17 July 2013 revealed that along with controlling the sharks' buoyancy, the liver of great whites is crucial in migration patterns.
Sharks that sink quicker throughout drift dives were revealed to use up their inside shops of energy faster than these which sink in a dive at extra leisurely charges. One contender in maximum size among the many predatory sharks is the tiger shark . Some other macropredatory sharks such because the Greenland shark and the Pacific sleeper shark (S. pacificus) are also reported to rival these sharks in length in distinctive circumstances. The question of maximum weight is sophisticated by the unresolved query of whether or not to embrace the shark's abdomen contents when weighing the shark.
Recording it on video, he stated that it weighed about 5,000 lb , and measured 25–30 ft (7.6–9.1 m), evoking a comparability with the fictional shark Jaws. The video was shared with the page "Troy Dando Fishing" on Facebook. A notably infamous nice white shark, supposedly of report proportions, as soon as patrolled the area that contains False Bay, South Africa, was stated to be well over 7 m during the early Eighties. This shark, recognized locally as the "Submarine", had a legendary popularity that was supposedly properly founded. Ferreira describes the 4 encounters with the large shark he participated in with nice detail in his book "Great White Sharks On Their Best Behavior".
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The examine reveals the forces and behaviours its cranium is tailored to deal with and resolves competing theories about its feeding behaviour. In 2008, a team of scientists led by Stephen Wroe carried out an experiment to determine the great white shark's jaw energy and findings indicated that a specimen massing three,324 kg may exert a bite pressure of 18,216 newtons . Toxicity from heavy metals appears to have little adverse effects on nice white sharks.
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On Tuesday, West – AKA "Ye" – sent a number of tweets calling for love and unity, and touting an endless supply of "dragon energy," which he's claimed he and President Trump possess.
Ye, who was chastised by liberals last year after appearing on social media sporting a Make America Great Again baseball cap, added he's going to be wearing the President's trademark hat during his live performances.
"One of my favorite of many things about what the Trump hat represents to me is that people can't tell me what to do because I'm black," Kanye wrote.
The multi-platinum artist also lashed out against the liberal world order in a tweet highlighting the Democrats' control over the black community.
Last April, Kanye broke the internet when he tweeted a picture of himself wearing a MAGA hat, in addition to a photo of a cap autographed by President Trump.
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Kingsbury's gun rights fight
November 24, 2021	Hot Copy
By Mark Frost & Zander Frost, Chronicle Editor & Staff Writer
Councilwoman Jane Havens has resigned from the Kingsbury Town Board effective November 30, because she says a town law — Chapter 136 — banning guns on town property conflicts with her personal protection and infringes the public's constitutional rights.
"I refuse to give up my right to carry" a gun, Mrs. Havens told The Chronicle. "I took an oath to defend the Constitution."
She and Councilman William H. Haessly sought repeal of the law, but lost in a 3-2 vote. Town Supervisor Dana Hogan and councilmen Rick Doyle and Dan Washburn were the majority.
Supervisor Hogan praised Mrs. Havens but told The Chronicle Monday, "I am not comfortable with a full revocation of the law at this point," which he said "would allow people to bring long guns, rifles into the town hall, into meetings, things like that."
Mr. Hogan said, "I am a carry concealed permit holder myself in the state of New York. I have a handgun. I do not bring it into the town hall. I don't bring it on the town property…the big piece for me is that we have to find some compromise to the language itself," he added.
He said of Mrs. Havens, "I really do have a great deal of respect for the principled stance she has taken on the matter…We had a very good working relationship. She's done a great deal for the town in the two years she was here. She's the one who took the lead on our comprehensive plan…She's going to be a big loss."
The current law allows some "exceptions" including one for "a Town official or Town employee specifically authorized by the Town Board to possess a firearm on Town property" subject "to any and all restrictions or limitations which the Town Board may place."
Mrs. Havens rejects the exception. "I cannot support an elite class that has a privilege that my friends and neighbors don't. I wanted to rescind it. The general public has done nothing to warrant it."
"People think that there are not concealed firearms all around them," but there are, says Mrs. Havens. "That's how responsible people are about it."
Mrs. Havens said the focus should be on actual crime. She said Falls Farm & Garden, the business that she and her husband operate on Dix Avenue "was robbed" and chainsaws were stolen.
She said two men are "now in jail because of our case." She mentions a related shooting incident and said, "Law enforcement told us we could be in danger."
She operates a gun shop — Calamity Jane's Firearms and Fine Shoes — across the road from Falls Farm & Garden.
But Mrs. Havens says that because of the town prohibition on guns, any time she goes into the town hall, she first goes home and secures her firearm, which she says she is prohibited by federal rules from doing in her store.
"What good is a lawmaker that doesn't follow the law," she asks rhetorically. She said she wouldn't accept a "don't ask, don't tell" option.
Mr. Haessly said, "In the north country there are a lot of people who hunt" and they may keep a firearm in their vehicle to go hunt after work."
He said if a Highway Department employee does that and parks on town property, it's in violation of the law. Likewise, if a hunter does that while going into town hall to buy a license.
Moreover, Mr. Haessly said, "There's no posting that it's illegal."
Mr. Haessly told The Chronicle, "I was hoping for a compromise" in which a person could keep a firearm "locked and secured" in their vehicle on town property.
But Mrs. Havens said that option is prohibited. "The gun is supposed to be in your care and control at all times so it's not a compromise to say you're requiring them to secure it in the car," she said.
She says a vehicle at Walmart was broken into, a gun was stolen and "the person lost the permit to carry."
Ms. Haessly acknowledges, "Firearms can be intimidating to some people" and "longarms can be seen as menacing."
He says "most town employees" do not want firearms brought into town hall except carried by law enforcement people.
Mrs. Havens said that last year, as deliberations began, she surveyed 16 town office workers individually, keeping their identities anonymous. As to changing the law, she said seven didn't care, seven did not want to change the law and two wanted it completely rescinded.
"I'm always willing to compromise but they just kicked the can down the road," Mrs. Havens said of the town board.
As to repercussions of the prohibition of guns on town property, Mrs. Havens raises the scenario of people grooming snowmobile trails that run through town property. "They may do that work at night [and] carry a firearm for coyotes — they're breaking the law. We're making criminals of people."
Mrs. Havens said they spent more than a year seeking action on changing the gun law. "Councilman Haessly wrote up an amended law back in June-July 2020 public hearing but nothing happened with it." She said it mentioned the New York Safe Act "and that's a really bad piece of legislation," she said.
Asked why, Mrs. Havens said, "It doesn't do anything to lessen gun crime. I didn't want to lend credence to it."
Mrs. Havens is about halfway through a four-year term ending Dec. 31, 2023.
sked how business is in her Calamity Jane's Firearms & Fine Shoes store, Mrs. Havens said it's gratifying to see more people buying guns this year for hunting, whereas last year, she said, purchases were more frequently for home protection. She said, "12 million new gun owners entered the market in 2020."
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