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Paris-Albers transmission line placed into service
Posted on March 13, 2015 3/13/15
Project enhances safety, reliability
PEWAUKEE, Wis. – American Transmission Co. today energized the Paris-Albers Rebuild Project in Kenosha County. The 138,000-volt, 12.5-mile line, which runs from the Paris Substation in Paris to the Albers Substation in Kenosha, will enhance electric reliability for southeastern Wisconsin.
Seventy-seven aging, wood transmission poles were replaced with new wood and steel structures and the old wires were replaced with new wires. No new right-of-way was needed for the project, and the new poles were placed within a few feet of the existing poles.
"This project will help ensure safe and reliable transmission operations in the future and adequate clearances between the wires and the ground," said Mary Carpenter, senior local relations representative for ATC.
ATC received approval for the project from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin in spring 2014, and construction began in fall 2014. The project was completed on time and is projected to come in under the PSC-approved budget of $11.5 million.
A map of the project and additional information can be found at atc-projects.com.
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Food Storage consists of the food containers that store food, expanding its lifespan and allowing them to be eaten for a longer period of time. Proper food storage is essential for food preservation and transport. The design of food storage is available in different forms and sizes and for both dry and liquid food. Food storage enables an improved balanced diet, helps reduce food waste, preserves pantry food, and can help prepare for emergencies. Food storage can happen through the different types of food containers. Food storage is important both within the home kitchen, restaurants, offices, schools, and commercial settings.
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Browse through our curated Food Storage Guides for additional categorizations, tips, details, variations, styles, and histories of Food Storage. Guides provide additional insights into the unique properties and shared relationships between elements.
Felt+Fat Stash Jar
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IKEA 365+ Container - Rectangle (34 oz)
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IKEA 365+ Container - Round (14 oz)
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IKEA 365+ Container - Square (20 oz)
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IKEA 365+ Container - Square (6 oz)
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IKEA 365+ Dry Food Jar (44 oz)
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IKEA 365+ Ihärdig Spice Jar
3.375" | 8.57 cm
2.5" | 6.35 cm (Diameter)
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IKEA 365+ Ihärdig Spice Mill
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IKEA 365+ Jar (112 oz)
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IKEA 365+ Jar (57 oz)
5.5" | 14 cm (Diameter)
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IKEA Berömlig Tin Set
4.3", 5.5" | 11, 14 cm
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IKEA Dagklar Jar
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IKEA Dold Sugar Shaker
6" | 15.24 cm
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IKEA Förvar Jar
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IKEA Grilltider Squeeze Bottle
2" | 5.08 cm (Diameter)
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IKEA Intressant Spice Mill
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IKEA Korken Jar (17 oz)
4.375" | 11.1 cm (Diameter)
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IKEA Korken Jar (4 oz)
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IKEA Plats Salt & Pepper Shakers
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IKEA Pruta Container (2 oz)
1.5" | 3.8 cm
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IKEA Pruta Container (20 oz)
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IKEA Rajtan Spice Jar
3" | 7.62 cm
2.875" | 7.3 cm
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IKEA Smäcker Flatware Tray
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IKEA Stödja Flatware Tray (Large)
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IKEA Stödja Flatware Tray (Small)
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IKEA Stödja Utensil Tray
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IKEA Uppdatera Flatware Tray (Large)
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IKEA Uppdatera Flatware Tray (Small)
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IKEA Uppdatera Utensil Tray
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IKEA Vardagen Jar (10 oz)
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2.19 lb | 1 kg
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IKEA Vinter 2021 Jar (24 oz)
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1.75 lb | .8 kg
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If there is one thing about the IKEA Dold Sugar Shaker that you will love, it's its style. This makes it very convenient and easy to fill. The clear glass enables easy viewing of content and the brushed nickel dispenser pours a set amount of sugar with each use. It was designed by Henrik Preutz and is composed of glass and stainless steel.
The IKEA Dold Sugar Shaker has an overall height of 6" (15.24 cm) and diameter of 2.36" (6 cm). It holds a volume of 7 oz (207 mL).
If there is one thing about the IKEA Dold Sugar Shaker that you will love, it's its style. This makes it very convenient and easy to fill. The clear glass enables easy viewing of content and the brushed nickel dispenser pours a set amount of sugar with each use. It was designed by Henrik Preutz.
Glass jar; stainless steel pourer
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IKEA Dold Sugar Shaker front elevation, side, plan
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IKEA 365+ Food Container - Square (20 oz)
Transporting food or storing leftovers is now easier with the Square-shaped IKEA 365+ Food Container. These containers are stackable, can fit tight spaces, and come with a secure click lid that prevents leakage. They were designed by Sarah Fager and made of polypropylene plastic.
The IKEA 365+ Food Container - Square (20 oz) has an overall height of 2.36" (6 cm) and widths of 5.75" (14.6 cm). The IKEA 365+ Food Container - Square (20 oz) holds a volume of 20 oz (.6 L) and weighs 1.06 lb (.48 kg).
Heat resistant glass; bamboo, silicone, or polypropylene lid
Sarah Fager (IKEA)
IKEA 365+ Food Container - Square (20 oz) front elevation, plan
IKEA - 365+ Food Container - Square (20 oz)
The IKEA Rajtan Spice Jar is a little spice jar or organizer that is easy to use and ideal for countertops with small spaces. The surface is clear, making it easy to view the content inside and the flat circular side ensures it doesn't roll over or spill content in the jar. It is made of glass but the lid is of polypropylene.
The IKEA Rajtan Spice Jar has an overall height of 3" (7.62 cm), width of 2.875" (7.3 cm), and depth of 2.125" (5.4 cm). It holds a volume of 5 oz (148 mL).
The IKEA Rajtan Spice Jar is a little spice jar or organizer that is easy to use and ideal for countertops with small spaces. The surface is clear, making it easy to view the content inside and the flat circular side ensures it doesn't roll over or spill content in the jar.
Glass jar; polypropylene top
IKEA Rajtan Spice Jar front elevation, side, plan
IKEA - Rajtan Spice Jar
The minimalistic and easy-to-use IKEA Plats Salt & Pepper Shaker is ideal for modern city life or kitchen. It is composed of a plastic tube that is easy to refill and a metal top that slides in to cover the plastic tube. The top and bottom are flat, but the top has holes for easy sprinkling of salt and pepper.
The IKEA Plats Salt & Pepper Shakers has an overall height of 2.75" (7 cm) and diameter of 1.18" (3 cm).
The minimalistic and easy-to-use IKEA Plats Salt & Pepper Shaker is ideal for modern city life or kitchen. It is composed of a plastic tube that is easy to refill and a metal top that slides in to cover the plastic tube. The top and bottom are flat, but the top has holes for easy sprinkling.
Stainless steel case; polypropylene interior
IKEA Plats Salt & Pepper Shakers front elevation, side, plan
IKEA - Plats Salt & Pepper Shakers
The IKEA Korken Jar is highly portable and versatile. You can use it for keeping sugar, jams, pickles, and nuts fresh. The glass and seal are of high quality, which ends up improving the overall appearance of the container. The thickness and heaviness also ensure it remains stable on any shelf.
The IKEA Korken Jar (61 oz) has an overall height of 8" (20.3 cm) and diameter of 4.875" (12.4 cm). The IKEA Korken Jar (61 oz) holds a volume of 61 oz (1.8 L) and weighs 2.13 lb (.97 kg).
Glass jar; rubber seal; stainless steel
IKEA Korken Jar (61 oz) front elevation, plan
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Preview: Sigur Rós, The Brighton Centre, November 20
Home » Preview: Sigur Rós, The Brighton Centre, November 20
A band that require no introduction, Sigur Rós hit Brighton for one night only on their 2013 World Tour, showcasing their latest album "Kveikur" and staggeringly sublime sound to enthralled audiences the world over.
Sigur Ros's sound is a distillation of the otherworldly beauty and drama of the shimmering Icelandic landscape. Classical and electronic elements weave their way to the spiritual core with heart shattering emotional eloquence, punctuated by lead vocalist Jonsi Birgisson's faultless falsetto.
This latest release reveals new, heavier angles to the band's work, contrasting trademark ethereal folk-melodic sounds with sharper edged, machine-like concepts to create a darker, heavier post-rock feel. Title track "Kveikur" combines crunching electro instrumentation with classical elements (Jonsi has a wonderful habit of playing an electric guitar with a cello bow) into an unrivalled example of aural eminence. "Bláþráður" lays weighty war-drumming and electronic bass beside shimmering instrumentation and angelic vocal in a moving juxtaposition.
Born in August 1994, (the same day as their namesake, Jonsi's little sister), the band supported acts like Radiohead and amassed several television and film credits before their rise to mainstream attention in the UK with second single "Hoppaípolla" from fourth album "Takk" (2005).
Now, following a three year hiatus between 2009-12, the three-piece (since the departure of keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson this year), bring their brand of heart-stopping, transcendent post rock to the Brighton Centre. Just make sure you buy your tickets early.
Starting at 730pm, £32.20 including fees advance. Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult. No under 14s in standing section.
New album"'Kveikur" out now.
For more information and tickets visit the event page at brightoncentre.co.uk
Find Sigur Ros at sigur-ros.co.uk
Words by Sarah Rayner.
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The British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC), established in 1959, is the national bird rarities committee for Britain. It assesses claimed sightings of bird species that are rarely seen in Britain, based on descriptions, photographs and video recordings submitted by observers. Its findings are published in an annual report in the journal British Birds.

The BBRC covers around 280 species whose annually recorded sightings in Britain fall below a threshold deemed to signify rarity. Since the establishment of the committee, some previously included species have become more common—or at least better recorded; this has resulted in their removal from the committee's list and their reclassification as "scarce migrants".

The committee has a chairman, a secretary, and ten voting members, and is supported by others who serve in an advisory capacity. Since its inception, a total of 69 people have served on the committee as assessors. In addition to assessing annual records of rare birds, the committee conducts regular reviews of batches of previously accepted records on a species-by-species basis, to ensure that only those consistent with advances in knowledge of bird identification are retained, and to determine the subspecies of accepted records. Several species have been problematic for assessment, and extreme examples have taken more than 20 years from initial observation to acceptance.  The committee has been criticised for its approach to assessing records where only one observer was present, for not publishing reasons for rejecting the validity of records, and for placing undue weight on descriptive detail when assessing record submissions. Seabird identification has proved particularly difficult, leading some observers to suggest that the committee sets too high a standard.

Role and status

The "Rarity Records Committee" (as it was originally known) was established in 1959 by the editors of the journal British Birds. Its original purpose was to provide a means whereby uniform assessment standards could be applied to all rare bird records across Britain. Prior to the establishment of the committee, records were assessed by local bird recording organisations using varying standards. The most recent statement of the British Birds Rarities Committee's role is given in Bradshaw, Harvey and Steele (2004):

BBRC aims to maintain an accurate database of the occurrence of rare taxa in Britain, in order to enable individuals or organisations to assess the current status of, and any changes in, the patterns of occurrence and distribution of these taxa in Britain.

Contradictory information has been published on the exact nature of the committee's status. On its website, BBRC describes itself as the "official adjudicator of rare bird records in Britain" (although it does not say on what basis it has this status). In Birders: Tales of a Tribe, author Mark Cocker erroneously describes the committee as a "statutory vetting body" (i.e. one established by an Act of Parliament). BBRC's constitution states that it "has no automatic or legal expectation that birders submit records".

The committee does not assess records of birds from Ireland; that task is carried out by the Irish Rare Birds Committee, which publishes its decisions in Irish Birds. Records of IRBC-assessed rarities were included in BBRC annual reports for many years, although this ceased in 2002 at the request of IRBC. Although the British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee does not regard records from the Isle of Man as contributing towards their British list, BBRC does include records from there in its totals. BBRC has had an ongoing sponsor in the German optical equipment manufacturer Carl Zeiss since 1983.

Species covered

Over 580 bird species have been recorded in Britain; some 250 have regular breeding or wintering populations, or are common migrants, and a further 50 are "scarce migrants". The BBRC assesses the remaining species. A list of the species the committee assesses (known as "British Birds rarities", or "BB rarities" for short) is on its website, although the list has not been updated to account for the most recent changes. The committee generally considers only the records of species rare enough to meet its criteria for inclusion on the BBRC rarities list, based on a numerical threshold. In addition to considering full species, records of some rare subspecies are considered and, in a few cases, the committee considers indeterminate records (birds that belong to a pair or group of rare species that are particularly difficult to separate, such as frigatebirds).

The committee keeps the list of species it considers under review and, from time to time, makes changes. These are usually because species have increased in frequency and no longer meet the numerical criteria for inclusion. A species is removed if it has more than 150 records in the preceding ten years, with ten or more in at least eight of those years. Different criteria were used in a review in 2006 (see below).  There have been three major "purges" of species since the committee's formation. The first was soon after the committee's formation, in 1963, when 16 species were removed: red-crested pochard, snow goose, pectoral sandpiper, Mediterranean gull, Sabine's gull, melodious warbler, icterine warbler, yellow-browed warbler, northern goshawk, golden eagle, red kite, Kentish plover, crested tit, bearded tit, marsh warbler and Dartford warbler. Records of the last eight species had been considered only outside their "normal" British range (e.g. crested tits outside Scotland, and red kites outside Wales). Kentish Plover was readmitted in 2020 following the loss of breeding populations in both the UK and nearby continental Europe leading to a massive decline in records. The second was in 1982, when ten further species were removed: Cory's shearwater, purple heron, white stork, buff-breasted sandpiper, Richard's pipit, tawny pipit, Savi's warbler, aquatic warbler, serin and common rosefinch. Savi's warbler was re-admitted to the committee's list in 1998, due to declining numbers of occurrences, with Tawny Pipit and Aquatic Warbler being reinstated in 2015. Thirdly, in 2006, a further 17 species were dropped from the list: ferruginous duck, Wilson's petrel, great white egret, black kite, red-footed falcon, American golden plover, white-rumped sandpiper, white-winged black tern, alpine swift, red-rumped swallow, red-throated pipit, subalpine warbler, greenish warbler, dusky warbler, Radde's warbler, Arctic redpoll and rustic bunting. Their selection was based on different criteria from those previously used: more than 200 records in Britain ever, and more than 100 occasions in the last decade. Of the 17 species that were removed in the 2006 purge, three have been reinstated - Ferruginous Duck in 2017, and Red-throated Pipit and Rustic Bunting in 2015.

Many other species and subspecies have been removed over the years: Cetti's warbler (in 1976); long-tailed skua (in 1979); common crane and ring-billed gull (in 1987); surf scoter, little egret, European bee-eater, Pallas's warbler and woodchat shrike (in 1990); green-winged teal (in 1992); ring-necked duck, greater short-toed lark and little bunting (in 1993); white-tailed eagle and Kumlien's gull (in 1998); American wigeon, black-crowned night heron and rose-coloured starling (in 2001); and black brant (in 2005).

Until 2009, the parrot crossbill was an anomaly, in that it was on the committee's list of species, even though a breeding population existed in Scotland. In 2009, this species was removed, along with white-billed diver and cattle egret. Latter removals included Glossy Ibis and Olive-backed Pipit in 2013, Lesser Scaup, Citrine Wagtail and Blyth's Reed Warbler in 2015 (although Lesser Scaup was reinstated in 2020), Black-winged Stilt and Red-flanked Bluetail in 2017, and Lesser Yellowlegs and Arctic Warbler in 2019.

In 2021, for the first time, White-spotted Bluethroat became the first taxon to be added to the BBRC list that hadn't previously been removed (except British firsts).

Once removed, a species is classed as a "scarce migrant": British Birds publishes a separate annual report summarising the occurrence of these species, and the data is also presented on the Scarce Migrants website. Aside from breeding species, Cetti's warbler, little egret, long-tailed skua, Mediterranean gull, Cattle Egret, Great White Egret and Yellow-browed Warbler have become so common that they no longer qualify even as scarce migrants.

Structure and personnel

The committee has ten voting members, a chairman (who may be one of the ten, or may be another, non-voting individual) and a non-voting secretary. BBRC was assisted in its assessment of seabird records by a Seabirds Advisory Panel from 1987 to 1996. In 1999, the BBRC set up the "RIACT" (Racial Identification Amongst Changing Taxonomy) group to advise on how records of rare subspecies should be treated. RIACT published its first report in 2006, setting out the subspecies it believed were sufficiently diagnosable, and that occurred infrequently enough to justify being assessed by the rarities committee. Prior to this, a partial selection of rare subspecies had been routinely included in BBRC reports; the RIACT report aimed to bring consistency to the selection for future years. When a record is of a species not previously recorded in Britain in a wild state, BBRC deals with assessment of the bird's identification, then passes the record to the British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee, which decides whether the species should be included on the BOU's British Bird list.

The committee has two permanent posts, a Chairman and a Secretary: they are appointed by the board of British Birds. There had been no fixed term for these appointments before 2008, however, a three-year fixed term, with a limit of ten years, was introduced with the change of chairman in that year. The current chairman, the committee's seventh, is Adam Rowlands; the six previous chairmen were Philip Hollom (1959–72), Ian Wallace (1972–76), Peter J. Grant (1976–86), Peter Lansdown (1986–93), Rob Hume (1993–97) and Colin Bradshaw (1997–2008).  The committee's secretary is Nigel Hudson, appointed in 2007. Its previous secretaries were G. A. Pyman (1959–61), Christopher M. Swaine (1961–63), Denzil D. Harber (1963–66), F. R. Smith (1966–75), J. N. Dymond (1975–77), J. O'Sullivan (1977–78) and Mike Rogers (1978–2006).

At least one (usually the longest-serving) record-assessing member retires every year, to balance experience with "new blood". The committee usually nominates its own replacement candidate, but also invites nominations from others, and if any are received, holds an election among county bird recorders and the bird observatory network. A set of criteria for membership has been developed—currently, these are "a widely acknowledged expertise in identification, proven reliability in the field, a track record of high quality submissions of descriptions of scarce and rare birds to county records committees and BBRC, considerable experience of record assessment, the capacity to handle the considerable volume of work involved in assessing upwards of 1,000 records per year and the capacity to work quickly and efficiently". The following 69 individuals have served on BBRC in a records assessment capacity:

A number of other individuals have served as the committee's statisticians, museum consultants, archivists and avicultural consultants, or on the Seabirds Advisory Panel or RIACT.

The committee has stated that it has a desire to be made up of members of "all age ranges and both sexes"; however, all BBRC members to date have been male, a fact reflected in the nickname "the ten rare men". Measures exist to ensure that the committee has a geographic balance amongst its membership—BBRC's constitution states that it "should attempt to provide a reasonable geographical spread with members having a detailed knowledge of each of the following areas: Wales, Scotland, Northern England, the Midlands, the Southwest and the Southeast of England".

Documentation of records, including the members' deliberations, are kept in the committee's archives, which are deposited with the British Trust for Ornithology. Some older data is missing, as the committee's files were originally held by the editors of British Birds, and they were not transferred to the new owners of the magazine when it was sold in the 1960s.

Annual report and other publications
The committee publishes an annual report on the rare birds occurring each year, in British Birds. This has usually been in the issue published in November of the following year, although the 2007 Report appeared in the October 2008 issue, and the committee has said that it plans to keep to this new timescale in future years.

The report typically begins with an introduction, summarising the most significant birds occurring during the year, and discussing any current issues relating to the committee's work. This is followed by a list of accepted records in taxonomic sequence. Records for each taxon are listed by county, followed by comments about its occurrence during the year. Late-accepted records and decisions to reject a previously identified record are included. This section of the report contains painted illustrations and photographs of some of the birds. The report lists records that have not been accepted, often noting the most significant that remain under consideration.

The committee also publishes frequent "Rarities Committee news" items (previously called "Rarities Committee news and announcements") in British Birds.

Record reviews

BBRC reviews 1200 to 1500 records each year (when it was first set up, the figure was around 200 per year). Of these, approximately 85% are accepted: this acceptance rate has remained steady for many years. Species that have caused particular problems include black kite, great snipe, gyrfalcon, gull-billed tern, and North Atlantic little shearwater. Peter Grant estimated that, during his tenure as chairman, approximately 2% of accepted records are incorrectly accepted, and 5% are incorrectly rejected.

Wallace (1973) addressed a number of criticisms of the committee including that it provides too little information on the reasons for rarity rejection. Alan Vittery and Sara McMahon have both argued that the committee should inform observers whose records are rejected of the committee's reasons for doing so. This view also has the support of the editor of Birdwatch, Dominic Mitchell, who has made this the topic of editorials on a number of occasions.

BBRC has from time to time published material illustrating its assessment process in an attempt to explain to a wider audience how it arrives at its decisions. Much of these have appeared in a series called "From the Rarities Committees files" in British Birds magazine. Another short series was published in Birdwatch magazine: entitled "You: The Jury", it featured six fictitious rarity accounts, with, in the subsequent issue, accounts from two rarities committee members stating how they would vote.

Re-reviews

From time to time, BBRC has re-reviewed records that it previously accepted, to ensure they are acceptable in the light of improved knowledge of the species in question. These reviews are carried out on a species-by-species basis. Old World warblers have proved particularly in need of re-review. A review of greenish warbler records was initiated in 1983. The purpose of this review was to establish whether records, particular those in late autumn and winter, of drab grey Phylloscopus warblers, which had previously been accepted as greenish warbler, were in fact this species, or were common chiffchaffs of the Siberian race tristis. 48 records between 1958 and 1970 were examined. Of these, 20 were rejected. A review of Arctic warbler records was begun in 1991, with the aim of determining whether any greenish warblers had been mistakenly accepted as Arctics. The review was completed in 1994, although as of 2009, the results had not been published.

A review of spectacled warbler records was initiated in 1984. This review resulted in the species being removed from the British list; of the three accepted records, one, at Spurn, Yorkshire in 1968, was re-identified as a first-year female subalpine warbler, while descriptions of the other two, at Porthgwarra, Cornwall in October 1969 and on Fair Isle in June 1979, were not considered sufficiently watertight to permit their continued acceptance. Spectacled warbler has since been re-added to the British list following an individual at Filey, Yorkshire in 1992, and there have been further subsequent records. In the late 1990s, BBRC reviewed some of the accepted records of moustached warbler, and concluded that one, from Sussex in 1979, was unacceptable, but that one other, from Buckinghamshire in 1965, should stand. Two further records, from Hampshire in 1951 and Kent in 1952, were reviewed as part of the 1950–1957 review (see below), and found to be unacceptable. Following these rejections, the Buckinghamshire record, and the remaining record, a breeding pair in Cambridgeshire in 1946, previously accepted as Britain's first, were scrutinised by the BOURC and found to be unacceptable, leading to the removal of moustached warbler from the British list; it has not re-occurred.

A review of olivaceous warbler records commenced in 1986, and continued through the 1990s. The results of this review were published in 1999: six of the previously accepted records were rejected as not meeting modern identification standards. In 2003, following the split of olivaceous warbler into two species, the accepted records were all reviewed again to ascertain which of the two they were—all nine proved to be eastern olivaceous warblers. Following the split of Bonelli's warbler into two species, the committee reviewed all the 121 accepted records, and concluded that 51 were western and two were eastern; for the remainder, not enough evidence was available to make a firm decision. The committee had previously stated that it would regard as western Bonelli's warbler all except proven eastern Bonelli's warblers, however, this announcement rescinded that decision. In 2003–04, all desert warbler records were reviewed, and it was concluded that all were referable to the newly split Asian desert warbler, rather than African desert warbler.

A review of American and Pacific golden plover records was begun in 1991, with the purpose of evaluating whether any individuals previously accepted as "either American or Pacific" could now be definitely assigned to one species or the other (and vice versa). The results (a small decrease in the number of accepted American golden plovers, and a small increase in the number of accepted Pacifics) were published in the committee's report for 1996, with a comment that a detailed paper on the subject was being prepared, although as of 2009, this has not been published. A review of isabelline shrike records commenced in 1986. This review, the results of which were published in 1989, established a racial identification for a number of adult isabelline shrikes previously accepted to species level. A further review, with the same aim, was begun in the late 1990s. A preliminary set of results of this review was published in 2003; four previously accepted individuals were rejected, including one, in Cambridgeshire in 1978, which is now thought have been a hybrid with red-backed shrike. The full results of this second review were published in 2007; some of the previous racial attributions were withdrawn, but the committee felt able to confidently assign a race for a number of more recent individuals, although it stressed that this could only be done with adult birds (the committee's 2005 report mentions that a further article is in preparation). A review of black-eared wheatears was conducted in 2002–04, with the aim of assigning individuals to the eastern and western races where possible; this was possible with nine records; both western hispanica and eastern melanoleuca were shown to have occurred.

A review of semipalmated sandpiper records took place in the 1970s, resulting in seven of the twelve records being rejected. A review of black-headed wagtail records was initiated in 1983. The results were published in 1994 and 1995, and nine previously accepted records were judged to be unsound, due to possible confusion with grey-headed wagtail. A review of rufous turtle dove records took place in 1994, and concluded that three of the eight accepted records should no longer stand. A review of lesser kestrel records, begun in 1994, and completed in 1995, concluded that six accepted records of this species should no longer be regarded as acceptable. Five of the six were from autumn, whereas the overwhelming majority of records the committee continued to accept are from the spring/summer period. All 24 spring records of Siberian stonechat were reconsidered in 2002–04, in the light of new information on the variability in appearance of European stonechats in spring; the committee decided that all but five should remain accepted. In 2003, the committee revised its assessment criteria for male pine buntings, redefining some birds previously considered hybrids  as acceptable, but requiring an overall greater level of precision in descriptions, and reviewed past records in the light of these changes.

As of 2017, the following reviews are underway: a review of past records of Macaronesian shearwaters, reviews of all claimed Nearctic cackling goose records, a review of great white egrets to establish if any are of the Nearctic race, a review of sandplovers, a review of records of the eastern race of common redstart, a review of Orphean warbler records aimed at determining the race of each, and a review of subalpine warblers to determine which individuals are ascribable to the race albistriata. It has also been suggested that reviews should be conducted of records of great snipe, as older records show a very different temporal occurrence pattern than more recent birds, the large numbers of gull-billed tern records from the English south coast from the 1960s, and desert wheatears, to establish racial identifications.

Problematic records

Most records received by the committee are processed within a year and published in its annual report in British Birds. Some records prove problematic, and for some species, it has taken the committee many years to come to a decision. This has particularly been the case where the species or subspecies in question was new to Britain—examples include northern harrier (Britain's first, in Scilly in 1982, accepted in 2007), long-toed stint (Britain's first, in Cornwall in 1970, accepted in 1994), least tern (Britain's first, and to date only record, accepted in 2005, after first occurring in 1983), black lark (Britain's first, from Spurn, Yorkshire in 1984, accepted in 2004 after a second set of notes came to light), Sykes's warbler (the first three records, from 1959, 1977, and 1993, accepted in 2003), Iberian chiffchaff (the first two records, from 1972 and 1992, accepted in 2000), and Hume's leaf warbler (the first 27 records, the earliest from 1966, accepted in 1998). Occasionally, decisions have been delayed due to non-ornithological factors, such as the loss by the Royal Mail of a file on Britain's first lesser short-toed lark.

The first three field records of Blyth's pipit, including an atypical pale individual on the Isles of Scilly, proved difficult, but following the occurrence of trapped individuals, on Fair Isle in 1993 and Suffolk in 1994, these were accepted. Some records of citrine wagtail and short-toed treecreeper were accepted only after prolonged consideration. Prior to the publication in 1984 of Jonsson and Grant's stint identification paper, a number of stints (Calidris) proved difficult to assess; a paper covering four such cases was published in 1986. It included accounts of a bird on Fair Isle, originally thought Britain's first red-necked stint that turned out to be a sanderling; and a bird in Suffolk, The "Felixstowe stint", which most observers at the time believed was a western sandpiper, but was in fact a semipalmated sandpiper. A previous paper details four early claims of red-necked stint, none of which were acceptable.

As of 2007, records of Wilson's snipe (from 1985 and 1998),  elegant terns (from 2002), a number of eastern whitethroats and lesser whitethroats, and several apparent North African common chaffinches, are still under consideration.

Problematic seabird records

BBRC has had particular problems with a number of rare seabirds. The "Chalice petrel", a dark-rumped storm petrel seen and photographed in the Southwest Approaches in 1988, and believed by its observers to be a Matsudaira's storm petrel, was eventually rejected as other similar species could not be ruled out. Martin Garner and Killian Mullarney subsequently wrote a critical review of this decision, arguing that the evidence points to the bird having been a Swinhoe's storm petrel, the only dark-rumped storm petrel species otherwise recorded in the North Atlantic. They argued that the Seabirds Advisory Panel's assessment of the record was at fault, and a critical reappraisal of the evidence should have been prompted by the (then relatively recent) discovery in the North Atlantic of Swinhoe's storm petrel, and that the committee was instead too heavily swayed by the views of a single expert.

A petrel seen from Dungeness, Kent and believed by its observers to be Britain's first herald petrel was rejected, although the committee noted that the bird was clearly "an amazing seabird". This decision sparked a number of letters to British Birds questioning whether the committee's stance is too strict. Fea's petrel is now officially accepted as having occurred, but for many years, the identification of these birds was accepted only as Fea's/Zino's/soft-plumaged petrel, followed by a period where they were referred to Fea's or Zino's; however, following BOURC acceptance of two birds in Scilly waters as Fea's petrels, BBRC published a paper arguing that all birds are likely to have been Fea's.

The occurrence in Britain of southern (i.e. south polar/brown) skuas is also unresolved. A series of reports of south polar skua, from 1982 to 1993, were all eventually rejected after being assessed for several years. Two other birds (from the Isles of Scilly in 2001, and Glamorgan in 2002 have been accepted (by the BOURC) as belonging to one or other of these two species, while a bird from Dorset in 1996 remains under consideration.

Criticisms of level of detail required and approach to single-observer records

In 1996, Alan Vittery raised the question of whether the level of detail required by the committee for a description to be acceptable was too high. Similar points were made by Keith Vinicombe and Mike Pennington in 2001. In the light of the rejection of a record of Blyth's reed warbler in Shetland in 1997, Vinicombe and Pennington wrote to British Birds to question the decision. They suggested that the committee was becoming too focussed on minutiae in assessing bird descriptions, ignoring more obvious evidence, Vinicombe saying that "the Committee has prevaricated to the point where it 'cannot see the wood for the trees'". David Walker and Owen Leyshon, David Ferguson, and Andrew Duff have criticised the committee on similar grounds in relation to its approach to the assessment of rare seabirds, citing the Dungeness herald petrel claim as an example. Vittery, and Moss Taylor both expressed concern that BBRC was adopting too strict an approach for records of birds seen only by their finder.

In 1998, BBRC explained its approach to the assessment of single-observer records. The committee explained that while it understood that geographical and social circumstances make it likely that some people are more likely to find rare birds on their own, it is "very cautious about observers with a high proportion of single-observer records" and that its policy is to watch patterns closely and review those observers' past records on a regular basis. This approach has attracted criticism. Former BBRC chairman Ian Wallace and others have written about the subject in Birdwatch magazine. Wallace believes that the committee has a blacklist of observers, from whom it automatically rejects records unless there are other observers able to corroborate the sighting. He mentions two specific observers, both of whom live in remote parts of northern Scotland. Ken Shaw, a former BBRC member, has claimed that BBRC would not accept a single-observer record of a species new to Britain without photographic evidence, regardless of the track record of the observer. Graham Bell, another former member, writing in response to Shaw's article, has accused the committee of adopted unfounded suspicions, arguing that just because a competent observer moves to an underwatched part of the country, their abilities do not change. One of the observers who Wallace claimed was blacklisted, Alan Vittery, also contributed to the debate, stating that he had been informed by the BBRC that they would not consider any single-observer record he submitted, unless supported by a photograph. Vittery contrasted the BBRC's attitude with that of other national rarities committees, arguing that the result of the approach is to distort rarity statistics. Vittery invited the BBRC to reply in public, but this request was declined.

The Druridge Bay curlew

The BBRC conducted a detailed review into the controversial identification of a curlew seen at Druridge Bay in Northumberland in 1998, coming to the conclusion that it was, as had been believed by many observers, a first-summer slender-billed curlew. This identification was accepted by the British Ornithologists Union's Records Committee, leading to the addition of this species to the British List. The record was reviewed in 2014, and, after a split decision by both the BBRC and the BOURC, the record was found not proven and subsequently removed from the British List.

Review of 1950–57 records including an Ascension frigatebird sighting

A subcommittee was set up in 1997 to undertake a review of rare bird records from the years immediately prior to BBRC's establishment. The purpose of the review was to ensure that all records from 1950 onwards (the cut-off date for Category A of the BOU British List of birds) have been subjected to a similar level of scrutiny. Not all of the 1,100 records of species considered to be rarities at that time were assessed, but only those related to species not recorded more than 100 times by 1997, as well as a few records of less rare species under particularly unusual circumstances, which were termed "sore thumbs". Much of the original documentation was unavailable for the review, as it had been lost, and so for many records, the review was based solely on published accounts of the birds. The most notable outcome of this review was the reidentification of a frigatebird record from Tiree in 1953. Previously identified as a magnificent frigatebird, the BBRC review concluded that the bird was in fact an Ascension frigatebird, the only individual of this species ever identified in Europe (Walbridge, Small & McGowan 2003). The full results of the review were published in 2006. Of the 126 records reviewed, 37 were rejected as unacceptable. These included a claimed white-tailed eagle, which broke into a chicken-run in a garden and stole a chicken, three little crakes, three Eurasian scops owls, the only late December record of tawny pipit, three black-eared wheatears, a record of two White's thrushes together in April, a spring lanceolated warbler, two moustached warblers and a pine grosbeak. Furthermore, issues were found with the identification of Britain's first western sandpiper, on Fair Isle in 1956, and these led the BOURC to reject this record. The western sandpiper has been recorded several times subsequently in Britain however, and remains on the national list. The subcommittee's final report also hints at the prospect that some records from immediately prior to 1950 may be incorrect; because these fell outside the timeframes of the review they were not reassessed.

The Chipping Ongar hermit thrush

Only a single known hoax involving a record submitted to BBRC has become public. In autumn 1994, Nigel Pepper, a birdwatcher from Essex, claimed to have recorded a hermit thrush in a garden in Chipping Ongar. Doubts about the record were raised in Birdwatch and BBRC reviewed the record in 2002, but decided that it should stand. In 2009, Nigel Pepper came clean and revealed in Birdwatch magazine (Birdwatch 204: 46-47) that the record was actually a hoax, made in protest at perceived suppression of rare bird records in the county. He revealed that the Hermit Thrush in question was actually photographed in Canada on a recent birdwatching trip.

See also

 The Hastings Rarities
 The Rare Breeding Birds Panel

Footnotes and references

Bibliography

Principal works

 BBRC, BBRC constitution (accessed 26 October 2007)
 Bradshaw, Colin, Paul Harvey and Jimmy Steele, on behalf of BBRC (2004) What does the British Birds Rarities Committee do? British Birds 97(6): 260–3
 Cocker, Mark (2001) Birders: Tales of a tribe
 Dean, Alan R. (2007) The British Birds Rarities Committee: a review of its history, publications and procedures British Birds 100(3): 149–176
 Lansdown, P. G. (1987) Rare birds — the work of the British Birds Rarities Committee British Birds 80(10): 487–91
 Lansdown, P. G. (1993) Rare-bird recording and the Rarities Committee British Birds 86(9): 417–22
 Mairs, David (2003) The record breaker Birdwatch 131: 40–1 (an interview with Colin Bradshaw)
 Wallace, D. I. M. (1970) The first ten years of the Rarities Committee British Birds 63(3): 113–29
 Wallace, Ian (2004) Beguiled by Birds, pp. 97–105 ("The winding road of national review")
 Wallace, Ian (2005) Questions that won't go away Birdwatch 153: 19–20

Annual reports

 1958: G. A. Pyman on behalf of the Rarity Records Committee (1960) Report on rare birds in Great Britain and Ireland in 1958 British Birds 53(4): 153–73
 1959: G. A. Pyman on behalf of the Rarity Records Committee (1960) Report on rare birds in Great Britain and Ireland in 1959 British Birds 53(10): 409–31
 1960: G. A. Pyman on behalf of the Rarity Records Committee (1961) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in i960 British Birds 54(5): 173–200
 1961: C. M. Swaine on behalf of the Rarities Committee (1962) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1961 British Birds 55(12): 562–84
 1962: D. D. Harber and C. M. Swaine on behalf of the Parities Committee (1963) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1962 British Birds 56(11): 393–409
 1963: D. D. Harber and the Rarities Committee (1964) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1963  British Birds 57(7): 261–81
 1964: D. D. Harber and the Rarities Committee (1965) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1964 British Birds 58(9): 353–72
 1965: D. D. Harber and the Rarities Committee (1966) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1965  British Birds 59(7): 280–305
 1966: F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee (1967) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1966 British Birds 60(8): 309–38
 1967: F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee (1968) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1967 British Birds 61(8): 329–65
 1968: F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee (1969) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1968 British Birds 62(11): 457–92
 1969: F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee (1970) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1969  British Birds 63(7): 267–93
 1970: F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee (1971) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1970 British Birds 64(8): 339–71
 1971: F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee (1972) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1971 British Birds 65(8): 322–54
 1972: F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee (1973) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1972 British Birds 66(8): 331–60
 1973: F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee (1974) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1973 British Birds 67(8): 310–48
 1974: F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee (1975) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1974 British Birds 68(8): 306–38
 1975: J. N. Dymond and the Rarities Committee (1976) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1975 British Birds 69(9): 321–68
 1976: O'Sullivan, John and the Rarities Committee (1977) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1976 British Birds  70(10): 405–53
 1977: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1978) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1977 (PDF) British Birds 71(11): 481–532
 1978: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1979) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1978 (PDF) British Birds 72(11): 503–49
 1979: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1980) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1980. British Birds 73(11): 491–534
 1980: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1981) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1980. British Birds 74(11): 453–95
 1981: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1982) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1981. British Birds 75(11): 482–533
 1982: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1983) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1982 (PDF) British Birds 76(11): 476–529
 1983: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1984) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1983. British Birds 77(11): 506–62
 1984: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1985) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1984. British Birds 78(11): 529–89
 1985: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1986) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1985. British Birds 79(11): 526–88
 1986: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1987) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1986. British Birds 80(11): 516–71
 1987: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1988) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1987. British Birds 81(11): 535–96
 1988: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1989) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1988. British Birds 82(11): 505–63
 1989: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1990) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1989 (PDF) British Birds 83(11): 439–96
 1990: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1991) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1990 (PDF) British Birds 84(11): 449–505
 1991: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1992) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1991 (PDF) British Birds 85(10): 507–54
 1992: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1993) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1992 (PDF) British Birds 86(10): 447–540
 1993: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1994) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1993 (PDF) British Birds 87(11): 503–71
 1994: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1995) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1994 (PDF) British Birds 88(11): 493–558
 1995: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1996) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1995 (PDF) British Birds 89(11): 481–531
 1996: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1997) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1996 (PDF) British Birds 90(11): 453–522
 1997: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1998) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1997 (PDF) British Birds 91(11): 455–517
 1998: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (1999) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1998 (PDF) British Birds 92(11): 554–609
 1999: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (2000) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 1999 (PDF) British Birds 93(11): 512–67
 2000: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (2001) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2000 (PDF) British Birds 94(10): 452–504
 2001: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (2002) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2001 (PDF) British Birds 95(10): 476–528
 2002: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (2003) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2002 (PDF) British Birds 96(11): 542–609
 2003: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (2004) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2003 (PDF) British Birds 97(11): 558–625
 2004: Rogers, Michael J. and the Rarities Committee (2005) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2004 (PDF) British Birds 98(12): 628–94
 2005: Fraser, P. A., Michael J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee (2007) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2005 part 1: non-passerines (PDF) British Birds 100(1): 16–61 and part 2: passerines (PDF) British Birds 100(2): 72–104
 2006: Fraser, P. A. and the Rarities Committee (2006) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2006 . British Birds 100(12): 694–754
 2007: Hudson, Nigel and the Rarities Committee (2008) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2007. British Birds 101(10): 516–577
 2008: Hudson, Nigel and the Rarities Committee (2008) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2008 . British Birds 102(10): 528–601
 2009: Hudson, Nigel and the Rarities Committee (2009) Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2009. British Birds 102(10):

External links
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 Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain

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Early in Acts chapter 3, the apostle Peter performed one of the great miracles of the New Testament, healing a man lame from his mother's womb. This mighty deed drew the attention of a sizable crowd, and Peter seized the opportunity to preach. But, it is interesting to note that he did not preach a sermon about divine healing. Rather, he preached Christ, and Christ alone. His focus was not the healing, but the healer. And that will be our focus as well today on this life study of the Bible.
After Pentecost, there is a new creation on the earth, and that is the most monumental fact of that day. God poured out of His Spirit to create a new entity on the earth, and this is called the Church.
On the day of Pentecost, the first gospel message was preached by a New Testament apostle. Peter, standing with the eleven, unveiled a clear and prevailing word that brought thousands to Christ on that monumental day. The content of Peter's message remains powerful today, and presents an example of gospel preaching worth our full examination. We continue that examination today on the life study of the Bible.
Because Christ is so wonderful and all-inclusive, plain words are just not adequate to revel Him and describe Him. Types which are actually pictures are also necessary. Both the tabernacle and the offerings in the Leviticus are types of Christ. As we look at these types or pictures that we see of Christ in the Old Testament.
Today, we come to the tremendous preaching of the apostle Peter on the day of Pentecost. We're going to spend several programs to get into this message that he gave. But today particularly, we want to focus on one generally overlooked, but altogether tremendous point. And, that's mentioned in verse 21 of Acts chapter 2, calling on the name of the Lord.


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Le Palais Liechtenstein (en Tchèque, Lichtenštejnský palác) sur la place Malostranské à Mala Strana est l'un des deux palais, à Prague, qui appartenaient jadis à la Famille Princière de Liechtenstein. L'autre est le Palais Liechtenstein de l'île Kampa.

Restauré, le bâtiment abrite aujourd'hui un conservatoire de musique (l'Académie des Arts du Spectacle de Prague) et il est souvent le lieu de récitals et de concerts. Le Palais Liechtenstein sur l'Île de Kampa accueille aussi, parfois, des manifestations culturelles.

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EXCLUSIVE: The 'go cook my burrito bitch' guy speaks out
'I'm no racist. I am who I am. There's people out there of all colors that are horrible'
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Footage of a shirtless man shouting "go cook my fucking burrito bitch" to some Mexicans made the rounds yesterday, in what many people saw as the archetypal Trump supporter.
"Get the fuck out of here! Our country motherfucker, made in fucking USA. Trump! I love Trump," Zack Fisher explains, flexing his biceps, on the film shot by photojournalist Eric Rosenwald.
Now Zack, 30, who was attending Trump's rally in Phoenix, has spoken out to say the clip that was seen by millions in fact misrepresented him, and that anti-Trump protesters started it all by spitting on him.
Here's his side of the story.
What would you like to say to the people who saw that video?
I just want people to know, dude, I love all colors. I'm no racist. I am who I am. There's people out there of all colors that are horrible. Whites, browns, blacks, yellows out there, it doesn't matter. It's the color of your heart. You know how many people messaged me to say thank you so much for other people will not do because they're scared? It sucks that people are scared to stand up for what they believe in, and yet Latinos can do it and it's fine. And if we do it? We're racist. White people? The only race you can legally discriminate against. People make movies about us and do we get mad? Like White Chicks? If there was a movie called Black Chicks, it would be a huge race thing. Do you understand? Do you know what movie I'm talking about, right? We couldn't do that, no way, they'd be like, "this is so racist". And yet they can make a movie making fun of white people. I just wish people could get over what happened back in the day, to Mexico or Blacks. That was back in the past, people don't get over it and it sucks. I forgive and forget. A lot of people don't.
A still from the YouTube video shot by Eric Rosenwald Photography
How did it feel waking up this morning and seeing that video?
Waking up to millions of views of me going crazy on the internet… Honestly man, it's fine. I kind of needed this to get my point across. When you spit on people for attending an American presidential rally, I don't think that's right. Going there to fly a Mexican flag – this is America. I don't understand why they fly it here, I know they're proud of their heritage. I'm super proud of my heritage, I'm from Germany and from Ireland. All of my parents and grandparents came here legally, the right way, that's what I was trying to explain. We were walking by and got yelled at, saying "you like that taco, you like that burrito in your mouth?" and we just don't want to put up with that all the time. You shouldn't have to put up with that, I don't get it. They're bringing the hate to the rally.
What did they say to you?
They started saying to me, "we're going to take this country over, we're going to make this Mexico". I got spit on my face, you can see on those videos, it's clearly on my face. I don't know who has AIDS, or who has anything disgusting, but I don't want that on my face. You don't do that, that's very disrespectful. I lost my temper, man. My friend was over there getting harassed, they ripped his sign out of his hand. You saw that lady in California who got egged? If that was my mother, I would have pulled my gun out, and I would have tried to protect her, because nobody was helping her. And in the state where I come from, if you're cornered and you feel helpless, and you need to defend yourself and you can't run anywhere, you can start shooting. And I'm not saying people need to start doing that at all, but it's just crazy how they just punked all the people like that. I didn't want that to happen here, I didn't like them saying "go stick my burrito in your mouth". I'm not going to take that. I'm going to tell them to make my burrito. And yeah, I don't think that's right. If I have to yell "go make my tortilla, go make my wall" for getting spit on, I don't know. You weren't there.
I work out every single day in the gym. I have done MMA a lot. That's what helped me keep my cool even more. When you study the art of Muay Thai in Thailand and stuff, you respect a lot more. But I kind of lose my cool whenever people spit on me man, that's not right.
Do you have anything else to add?
People believe everything on the internet. People are so gullible. And then you guys put that on there, that's not cool. People put up where I work, and stuff. Now I do have to carry my gun, with a bullet in the chamber. And that's fine, I carry a gun with me everywhere and always.
I'm going to go on as many talk shows as I can, just to make people know we aren't racist. We love Mexicans, we don't like illegals. Like I said in that video, it's not right. Come into this country legally, and we won't have a problem at all. I don't get it. Our problem is with ISIS, our problem is with fixing the entire world that's going down the drain.
Is ISIS the biggest problem we face today?
Yes. I see nothing but terrorism going across the country, and ISIS is a big link to that. The big three issues, for me, are ISIS, illegal immigration, and our debt. We owe so much money. I don't know who I'm going to vote for, for sure. I know I don't want Hillary because she's so corrupt and evil. And yeah, Donald Trump might not be the right guy, but that's all we really have right now. I'm just so sick and tired of political correctness.
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Hunting for ancestors got easier last June when the Peoria Public Library opened its new Local History and Genealogy Department.
Library reference assistant Linda Aylward knows these books. On an afternoon tour of the Peoria Public Library's new Local History and Genealogy Department, we drift through rows of the local history collection, pausing occasionally to skim noteworthy editions. She gingerly takes a volume off the shelf, supporting its ancient spine as she turns the pages. Her finger runs down a list of passenger names in Illinois Mayflower Descendents; in another, she traces a column of late 19th-century dates in an index entitled Germans to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving to U.S. Ports.
In this manner, we continue through the collection: books by Peoria and Illinois native authors, biographies of local personalities, local cookbooks and history books, annual budgets, school board minutes, city directories, manuscripts, maps and atlases. Donated materials from the Peoria County Genealogical Society and other organizations make up a large portion of the library's hard-copy masses, along with indices of cemeteries, funeral homes, marriage records, obituaries, local and regional periodicals, county newsletters, and subscriptions to genealogical magazines like American Revolution and Family Time. In short, this frenzy of materials is the local genealogist's dream.
Officially launched in June 2011, the department houses the library's genealogy and local history collections in a new wing encased in open glass, adjacent to a new gallery space showcasing local art. The large space allows all the local history and genealogical materials to be displayed in a central location for the first time.
Among these services, the library offers free access to ancestry.com, the popular site that's reshaping the field of genealogy, with more than seven billion records, 1.7 million paid subscribers and 29 million user-created family trees. But a subscription can be expensive, so on-site access to the extensive library edition is quite a perk.
"What people don't always understand is that [genealogy] takes a lot of patience," explains Aylward. She says that many people just jump in, thinking all the information they want will just be there, readily available via Google. But "it takes years…to collect it all," she says.
Take the collection of photographs donated by Ernest Grassel, a local history buff. It includes 82 meticulously crafted three-ring binders of historic photographs depicting long-lost Peoria buildings and homes alongside their occupants' histories. Collections like these are a pure treasure. But if you don't know how to get to the treasure, navigating through the historic masses can be overwhelming.
"You talk to your parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles and try to find out as much information as possible and then work backwards from there to try to confirm what they tell you," Katko adds.
All the experts agree. "You've got to be pretty logical in your approach. You want things documented because stories change as they come down from one person to another, and they weren't true a lot of times to begin with," cautions Nanette Meals, a deputized volunteer at the Peoria County Clerk's Office, with 30 years of experience fielding genealogical inquiries.
According to county rules and state laws, certain vital records—such as birth certificates, military records, marriage licenses and death certificates—are only made available to the public after a certain amount of time passes, and sometimes, only to certain people.
At each step, as you weave the family narrative, you should try "to prove what you're putting down as much as possible," Ralph suggests. "Make sure the birthdates are right, the death dates are right, the states are correct and that you've got the right person." I chuckle at that, but Marge replies soberly, "It's surprising when you [discover] your own parents didn't know the actual name of their grandparents." And Ralph adds, "Sometimes people with exactly the same name or with similar names get confused when they live in the same town. At each step, try to be sure," he repeats.
"I would not encourage genealogy to anyone that wasn't [already] interested," says Meals bluntly. "You have to really be bitten by the bug to do it and do it well." There's no doubt she's been bitten by the bug herself; she tells me she's been able to track her own roots to descendents of the Mayflower.
Katko's got the bug, too. He has traced his mother's roots back to 1590 and his father's to the mid-1800s in Slovakia. "I think people are just interested in where they came from, and who their relatives were and what they did." He describes assisting people with their family searches as "detective work," tracing "that info" to "that info" in a jigsaw charade.


How can terrazzo be installed in a busy hospital and complement its existing architectural design? Ask Kevin Rickman of Missouri Terrazzo.
Missouri Terrazzo's major challenge on the Mercy Hospital project in St. Louis was to install at 3/8" epoxy terrazzo, in 6 colors, with multiple radius designs, in multiple phases while keeping a very busy hospital open and functioning. The 20,000-plus square-foot project was installed off and on for a three-year period.
Four of the colors are mixed with a combination of size and various glass and marble aggregates. They're separated by flowing 1/8" zinc strip that were shaped and set on site. Areas of terrazzo near the chapel had to be poured-in-place in unique shapes and designs.
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Singapore's Intellectual Property Office decides that a foreign brand owner with no earlier trade mark registration or recognition of its brand being "well known" in Singapore can rely on "passing off" to prevent another trader from registering the same brand in Singapore.
"Footpure" is a brand of foot deodorant powder from Taiwan. The applicant was a sole proprietor operating Nunufish.com ("Nunufish"), an online platform selling various personal care products. The opponent, U-Manga International Business Co., Ltd ("U-Manga"), was the owner of the registered trade mark "footpure" in Taiwan, but had not obtained registration for the mark in Singapore at the relevant date of the opposition. Nunufish had previously sold U-Manga's goods in Singapore. U-Manga alleged that Nunufish was clearly aware of its rights in "footpure"; indeed, it had registered the "footpure" mark in Singapore a few days after U-Manga terminated Nunufish's licence to distribute its "footpure" products locally.
(b) U-Manga's "footpure" mark constituted an "earlier trade mark" as it qualified as a "well-known trade mark", such that registration of the "footpure" mark would result in a likelihood of confusion and/or use would indicate a connection between the respective goods that would be likely to damage U-Manga's interests.
Notably the opposition did not proceed on the ground of "bad faith", apparently on the basis that U-Manga did not plead the correct operative section under the Singapore Trade Marks Act.
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The Rev. Donald MacNicol (; 1735–1802), was a Scottish clergyman,  Minister of Saddell and Lismore in Argyll, and an author. He was the son of Nicol Macnicol of Succoth, Argyll, and the nephew of Alexander Stewart of Invernahyle in the Strath of Appin. He is perhaps best known for his Remarks On Dr. Samuel Johnson's Journey To The Hebrides, a work which commented rather vituperatively on Dr. Johnson's equally insulting A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.

The Rev. MacNicol assisted the renowned Gaelic poet, Duncan Ban MacIntyre, by transcribing over 6,000 lines of the illiterate man's work. MacNicol is also remembered for his Gaelic poem of lost love, entitled "Mo Shùil Ad Dhèidh." (English: "My Eye is After You")

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Ochoin a chailin 's mo shùil ad dhèidh"	 A chailin, mo chailin 's mo shùil ad dhèidhA Lili, mo Lili 's mo shùil ad dhèidhCha lèir dhomh am bealach le sileadh nan deurEnglish Translation:Alas, my girl, my eye is after youGirl, my girl, my eye is after youLily, my Lily, my eye is after youI can't see the mountain pass for the flowing of tears''

The thirty-five-year-old Rev. MacNicol wrote the poem in lament of being snubbed by Lillias Campbell, a local laird's daughter. He had requested the seventeen-year-old girl's hand in marriage, but Lillias had already accepted the hand of her cousin, Captain Alexander Campbell. However, Sir Alexander made an ungallant bet with a servant which left the incensed Lillias no choice but to accept the alternate proposal of the Rev. MacNicol. They married just after her eighteenth birthday, and would go on to have sixteen children.  The poem was later set to music and remains a popular Highland folk song.

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Check your borders to see if they are flat or wavy. Sometimes a quilter can compensate for wavy borders by using puffy batting or quilting densely in the borders,but sometimes it is pretty hard to quilt out without making tucks. The best way to make flat borders is to fold the quilt in half lengthwise and measure the center of the quilt and make the side borders the same length as the center measurement. After you attach the side borders, fold the quilt in half the other way and measure the crosswise center (including the borders you just put on) and make the other borders the same length as that center measurement. Many pattern makers tell you how long to make the borders, but they don't know if your seams are a perfect 1/4 inch, so what works perfectly in a pattern may not work on your quilt.
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If you piece your backing, which is most often the case, make sure to trim the selvages off. They will shrink unevenly when you wash the quilt and create a puckered line. Use a minimum 1/2" seam and press the seam open. That will minimize the bulk in one area as the quilt back is rolled on the frame and minimizes any resulting waves. Ideally, the quilt back can be loaded so the seam runs parallel to the bars, taking the bulk of the seam out of the equation, but that may not always be possible depending upon the kind of quilting we are doing, especially with directional pantographs.
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I've had difficulty navigating the Message Boards because the page freezes every few clicks, and I have to close and re-open a browsing window. The pages load v-e-r-r-r-y s-s- sl-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-wly, and sometimes they just sit there 'spinning' until I close and reopen. Trying to go from the main site to the CFU or vice versa invariably causes the page to freeze.Usually after a few rounds of this I give up and go do something else.Just now on the TCM site I got booted off of the network completely while trying to request a 'reminder' for a film (Chaplin on Sunday morning ... ). I had to re-submit the network password to get back on my own WiFi. This has never happened to me with other web sites.
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