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Andrew the First-Called. The Life of a Blessed Martyr
Published by Pemptousia Partnership on November 30, 2021 November 30, 2021
Fotis Kondoglou
30 November is the feast-day of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called. All the Apostles died martyr's deaths [1], preaching the Gospel in various countries. Only one was martyred in Greece, Saint Andrew the First-Called, that is, the first who went to be with Christ. He was martyred in Patra. The city is greatly honored by being counted worthy for its earth to be soaked with the blood of him who Christ called before the other eleven, before his brother Peter.
Initially, Andrew was a disciple of Saint John the Forerunner. One day, the Baptist was sitting with his two disciples and he saw Christ walking in the distance. He turned to them and said: 'Behold, the Lamb of God'. When the two disciples heard their teacher speaking in this way, they went after Christ. He saw them following, turned and asked them what they wanted. They asked Him where he was staying and He told them to come and see. So they went with Him and stayed the whole day. One of these two was Andrew. It's clear that the other one was John, because what we're written above is narrated by John himself in his Gospel (1, 35). He also says: 'One of the two who heard John [the Forerunner] and followed him was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter' (1, 40).
You see how he conceals the fact that he was there with Andrew. He does so out of modesty and not only in this part of his Gospel but in others, as well. And although he's usually sparing with the details of his narrative, at this point he even records the time when they went to meet Christ. It appears that the moment when he first met his beloved Teacher [2] was imprinted on his soul. So he writes: 'It was about the tenth hour' (1, 39).
Later, Andrew goes and finds his brother Peter, who was still known as Simon and says: 'We have found the Messiah', which being interpreted is 'Christ' ['the Anointed One']. He took him along to Christ. When Jesus turned and saw Simon, He said: 'You are Simon, the son of Jonah. Your name shall be Cephas', which means Peter [Rock].
Andrew was born in Bethsaida in Galilee, a fishing village built on the shores of Lake Gennesaret [Galilee]. According to what we've written above, Peter was the brother of Andrew and both were sons of Jonah, a fisherman. Peter was impetuous by nature and easily roused, but Andrew was quiet and didn't speak much. As Saint Epifanios writes: 'Peter was very warm-spirited and well-versed in the duties of the world, whereas Andrew was meek and spoke little'.
From the Gospel, it appears that Andrew was among the Lord's disciples who could be more familiar with Him, as were Peter, John and Philip. But still, he never seems to have spoken much. On the day when a host of people gathered to hear Christ teach, and were hungry, Christ turned to Philip and asked where they could buy bread for them to eat. Philip replied that it would cost a great deal of money to give each of them just a bite. Then Andrew said: 'Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish [3]' (John 6, 5-10).
Again, on another occasion, on the day Christ entered Jerusalem with the palms, some Greeks wanted to see him and went to see Philip saying 'Sir, we'd like to see Jesus'. Philip told Andrew and then they both went to tell Christ. Christ then said: 'The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified' (John 12, 23), in other words that the time had come for the Gospel to be preached to the Gentiles. Do you see? Again Andrew spoke to Him. My conclusion is that the Greeks [i.e. 'idolaters'] went to Philip because he had a Greek, Macedonian name. He told Andrew, who also had a Greek name and perhaps knew the language [4]. Of the Twelve Disciples of Christ, only these two had Greek names.
After the Resurrection, the last time that Christ appeared to His disciples was when He told them: 'Go and preach to the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the age'.
Once they'd received the Grace of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost each of them made their way to different lands, as the Spirit moved them. According to tradition, Saint Andrew first went to the Black Sea region. He preached the Gospel in Trebizond and Amisos [Samsun] together with certain others of the seventy apostles and brought thousands of Jews and Greeks to the religion of Christ. From there he went to Colchis, today's Lazistan, which was inhabited by the fierce corsairs known as the Kerketes (Cercetae).
Thereafter he returned to Jerusalem to see his brother Peter and the other apostles, then left for Ephesus with Saint John the Theologian. While at Ephesus he saw Christ in a dream telling him to go and preach the Gospel among the Scythians. On the way to Scythia, he went through Bithynia and preached in Nicomedia, Chalcedon and Pontic Heraclea. He then crossed over into Paphlagonia and preached in Amastris and Sinope, where he baptized many Christians and then went back to Amisos and Trebizond. From there he went to Samosata, on the River Euphrates, and taught the Greeks, of whom there were many in those parts.
From Samosata, he returned to Jerusalem and this time met Paul. After the Passover he left again and, via Cappadocia and the lands of the Laz people, reached Kiev in Scythia, the Pantheon of Slavonic polytheism. On a low hill he set up a stone cross. He then crossed the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea and preached in present-day Khorasan. He then returned west and arrived in the Crimea, where he taught and baptized many. He visited Sinope, then went on to Byzantium, which was then a still a village, since Constantinople had not yet been built. He consecrated Stachys, one of the seventy as bishop, and then continued into Thrace and today's Bulgaria and Serbia.
After that he went down into Macedonia, Thessaly and Roumeli, and from there continued to Moria and Achaia, the capital of which was Patra, a large city honored by the Romans, who at that time lorded it over the whole world. The city had more than its share of official buildings and statues. The Proconsul at the time was one Aegeates. It soon became common knowledge that Andrew had cured many of the sick merely with the touch of his hands and people flocked to him. As it happened, just then the wife of Aegeates, a woman called Maximilla, also fell ill and Saint Andrew cured her. A short time later, Aegeates went to Rome to present himself before the emperor, Nero, on imperial business and he left behind his brother Stratocles in his place. This Stratocles was a wise man, renowned in Athens for his mathematical knowledge. He had a slave, Alcamanas who was cured of lunacy [epilepsy] by Saint Andrew. Both Stratocles and Maximilla believed in Christ and were baptized, as were many other people with them.
When Aegeates returned to Patra and learned what had happened, he ordered Andrew's arrest and he was thrown into prison. A few days later, after a trial, the verdict was that he was condemned to be crucified. Before his arrest, he'd consecrated Stratocles as bishop.
At dawn on the day of his execution, the Roman soldiers tortured Andrew and took him down to the shore, to the place where his church is today, but which was occupied in those days by a temple to Demetra. He turned, looked impassively at the cross, blessed it and the people, and submitted to crucifixion. He was by then an old man, over seventy. The cross on which he was martyred was made of two equal planks in the shape of a saltire (X) and, according to tradition was of olive wood.
He was martyred at the time when Nero was emperor in Rom. According to Saint Epifanios, 'he was a well-built man, a little bent, a slightly hooked nose and thick eyebrows'. His body was buried by Bishop Stratocles and Maximilla and the funeral was attended by a great many people. He was embalmed with precious ointments and his placed in a marble tomb near the sea. The tomb is still there, within his church, but his holy relics aren't, because 350 years after his martyrdom, they were removed to Constantinople and placed in the church of the Holy Apostles, together with the other disciples of Christ.
In 1204, the Frankish Crusaders arrived in Constantinople and seized whatever they laid their hands on. A certain Cardinal Petrus, from Capua, took the relics of Saint Andrew to Amalfi, in Italy. He built a magnificent church in memory of the saint and, in a great procession, placed the relics there, in a silver case, on 8 May 1208.
All that remained in Patra was his holy skull, which had been given to the people of Patra by Emperor Vasilios the Macedonian. But in 1460, when the Turks invaded Moria, Thomas Palaiologos, the brother of Konstantinos and last governor of Patra, took the holy skull and sent it by ship from Pylos to Rome where he gave it to Pope Pius II [5]. His cross is in Marseilles, in the Monastery of Saint Victor.
In Patra and the surrounding towns and villages there were a great many churches dedicated to Saint Andrew, though none of them have survived until today. Today's church is a basilica of the type we're used to seeing in the Ionian Islands and was built in 1845. The ceiling was painted by Dimitrios Vyzantios, who wrote the Babylonia and was an iconographer. Despite the fact that the church is neither built nor decorated in the Byzantine manner, it is still a prayerful location.
On the other hand, the half-finished church nearby is a monstrous creation and ought to be pulled down by the people of Patra. I know that they've been tormented for years now without being able to come to an agreement on the plan for the large church that they want to build. I've seen the plan sketched by some Frenchman and it's nothing but an ice-cream cake. How difficult can it be? Commission somebody who has some idea about things Byzantine to build a small church, a faithful copy of one of the most beautiful Byzantine churches, such as, for example, Saint David's in Livadia, Vrontokhi in Mistras, a church in Thessaloniki or on the Holy Mountain. Patra is the port of Greece, looking out onto the European sea and, if you're coming in from there, it's shameful that your first sight should be a Frankish church on the site where Saint Andrew was martyred. There should be a Greek, Byzantine church there. What are you doing sitting around talking for so many years when you've already got the best resources available locally?
Here in Athens I painted the icons for a small, old church dedicated to Saint Andrew, on Lefkosias Street, near Agamon Square. It was a lot of work. But when the painting was finished, I think it was a little museum of Byzantine iconography.
The small church dedicated to Saint Andrew on Lefkosias street
[1] Except Saint John the Theologian.
[2] Not if he was the son Salome, a relation of the Mother of God, as tradition has it. But, as Kondoglou says, Saint John keeps himself very much in the background in his Gospel and doesn't mention any family connection here.
[3] It is interesting that, although Matthew, Mark and Luke mention 'fish', the word used in the Gospel of Saint John is 'opsaria', from which we get the Modern Greek word 'psari', meaning 'fish'. But at the time of Christ it meant something like 'a bite' or 'appetizer', usually some form of fish. The point being that the fish were already cooked and ready to eat (and probably quite small).
[4] There is a great deal of interest in academic circles today regarding the languages spoken by Christ and the Apostles. A very rough summary would be that the consensus is that those who came from Galilee would have had a working knowledge of Greek, as well as Aramaic and Hebrew. As a tax-collector, Matthew, of course, would also have known Latin.
[5] It was returned in 1964, as a gesture of good will, by Pope Paul VI. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNB2tXEi1n4
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Cromer, Janis L. – 1997
This report compares results from the 1997 national study of the current attitudes of American teenagers with similar 1974, 1983, and 1996 surveys. Participating were 334 students between 14 and 18 years of age, from households representative of the national population in geographic distribution, population density, household size, age of…
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The Doctrine Leader's Guide Download completes the 7-part video-driven Bible study and includes leader's guide notes and group handouts for all seven sessions, information on how to use the leader's guide, and several other resources.
Each lesson within the Leader's Guide includes ice-breaker questions, discussion questions from the video teaching and the real-life stories, and in-depth Bible study, and an activity for the group to do together. This guide leaves room for open discussion, but also gives the leader plenty of material to work with.
The Doctrine Leader's Guide Download also includes directions on how to use the Leader's Guide, a bio for Francis Chan as well as promotional material (flyer, poster, logo, headshot of Francis Chan).
Whether you're leading a small group as a volunteer or a paid staff member, this downloadable material will help your group focus on the meaningful teaching in Doctrine.


Japan has ratified the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free-trade pact aimed at linking a dozen Pacific Rim nations. The upper house of parliament voted to enact the deal on Friday.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is under strong criticism for forcefully passing TPP-related bills through the lower house a day after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency. The U.S. president-elect says he will take the U.S. out of the deal.


Could Your Mental Health Issues Stem From Your Mouth?
The terms mental and oral health are rarely uttered in the same breath. After all, if you've got a problem with your mental health, you see your therapist, whereas if you have an issue with your teeth, you go to the dentist. The two worlds rarely collide. But from a naïve and child-like perspective, that seems strange: your brain and mouth are both contained in your head, so surely if one gets sick, it could affect the other? Physical proximity has to count for something, doesn't it?
It turns out that it does. And the causality works both ways: poor dental health can lead to poor oral hygiene, and vice versa. Unexpected but true. Here's how.
Depression isn't just a feeling that you get: it's a condition that can affect the way you behave in multiple ways. People with depression have been shown to have a higher consumption of many of the substances associated with poor oral health, such as alcohol, tobacco and caffeine. High levels of use of these chemicals help to speed up tooth decay processes, stain the lead, and lead to a general decline in overall healthfulness.
Depression can also lead to self-neglect, or the inability to look after yourself in a regular way. If you feel depressed, you are less likely to want to clean your teeth and more likely to have to visit the emergency dentist. Bi-polar can have an effect too. People with bipolar are more likely to engage in over-brushing, resulting in dental abrasion. Abrasion removes the enamel from the surface of the teeth faster than it can recover, leading to a loss of tooth volume over time. In extreme cases, the loss of enamel can expose the core of the tooth, requiring specialist interventions, like veneers and false teeth.
Finally, eating disorders like bulimia can damage teeth. Stomach acid is highly acidic and is strong enough to dissolve the material on the surface of teeth. Repeated vomiting, therefore, can strip away tooth enamel and result in tooth shortening and loss.
Causality works the other way too. Poor oral health can leave a person feeling depressed and have problems with their self-image. People with bad breath, for instance, report having higher levels of social anxiety. They worry about the effect that their bad breath will have on their social relationships. Missing teeth can be damaging to mental health too. People who have had a history of mental illness are more than 2.8 times as likely to have lost all their teeth.
Finally, people with poor oral health are likely to have higher levels of systemic inflammation. Inflammation, caused by conditions like gingivitis, can affect mood. When inflammatory markers enter the bloodstream, they interact with brain cells, causing the brain itself to become inflamed, even if there is nothing wrong with it. Science shows that people who have higher levels of inflammation in their brains report higher levels of anxiety and depression than those with lower levels.
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There is more to the Wire Compression issue than I first thought. The Firebird documentation is confusing and needed some interpretation and testing.
1. My initial post was correct in itself and setting "WireCompression = true" in both client and Server "firebird.conf" files does force wire compression to be on.
2. Adding an isc_dpb_config item to the connection DPB set to "WireCompression=true" will force wire compression from the client side event when the local "firebird.conf" does not include "WireCompression = true".
will do anything other than return an error message.
"When compression is turned on Z flag is shown in client/server version info – for example: LI-T3.0.0.31451 Firebird 3.0 Beta 1/tcp (fbs)/P13:Z."
I had to search the Firebird-devel list to understand what this meant. In a very useful post back in 2016, the implementor (of wire compression) said "This is requested by isc_version() in legacy API and IUtil::getFbVersion() in new one."
This seems to be the only way to check whether wire compression is in use, and returns the client/server version information.
If this property is set to true then WireCompression will be requested by the client. Note: it is still necessary to include "WireCompression = true" in the firebird.conf file on the server.
7. For an example of how to determine if wire compression is in used, see the ibx/examples/dbInfo example. This prints out the result of calling getFBVersion as part of the database information. Note: this information is the same as IBSQL returns with the "-z" option.
Thanks for your hard work. I'd be glad to help in testing the changes.
Hmm, guess I need to brush some dust off of the SVN skills I haven't used for 15 years. Is Tortoise still the SVN client of choice for Windows?
Tortoise works but I prefer to use the command line svn for Windows.
Previous version, will return an error.
I have IBDAC + C++ Builder, this IBDAC support WireCompression and it returns TRUE.
I also test it in action, retrieved about 10K rows by 15 columns via internet. zlib1.dll location is the same wtih app, performance difference between with WireCompression and without WireCompression, is quite noticeable.
I finally got my install updated to IBX-trunk, and tested with the DBInfo demo.
Firebird/Windows/AMD/Intel/x64 (access method), version "WI-V3.0.4.33054 Firebird 3.0"
Firebird/Windows/AMD/Intel/x64 (remote server), version "WI-V3.0.4.33054 Firebird 3.0/tcp (HP17Z)/P15:CZ"
Firebird/Windows/AMD/Intel/x64 (remote interface), version "WI-V3.0.4.33054 Firebird 3.0/tcp (HP17Z)/P15:CZ"
But it did take a bit of fiddling.
I also copied zlib1.dll to the directory for the project (dbinfo). I did this because (thanks to Windows DLL-Hell) I already have four other versions of zlib1.dll on my system. I was afraid adding another version to the system path would hose one of the other applications.
I changed the WireCompression property in my TIBDatabase instance to True.
It will not actually use zlib compression until you add zlib to the uses clause in your app. I tried both the .lpk file and the .pas where the TIBDatabase unit resides. Both worked.
Zlib compression cannot be enabled for local connections (XNET). It works for IP addresses (INET). Haven't tried NETBEUI (WNET) yet.
I can confirm that this works on Firebird 3.0.4. Documented in Firebird doc/sql.extensions/README.context_variables2.txt.
I have tried connecting from Windows to a Linux server. In this case, I had no problem enabling wire compression - and with no zlib included in the application. Maybe something about the location of your zlib. I have zlib1.dll in the same folder as the fbclient.dll (default Firebird install).
To check out, install subversion and enter the following at a command line (should work on both Windows and Linux).
Lazarus 2.0.0 RC3 is recommended for this update, but earlier versions should work.
1. New property for TIBDatabase and TIBXServicesConnection. This is "ConfigOverrides"
includes "WireCompression" and "WireCrypt". The value of this property is a "TStrings".
Each line of the string list should be a setting in the same format as "firebird.conf".
For example "WireCompression = true" in order to request wire compression on the client side.
ibx/examples/dbinfo for examples of how to display this information.
ConfigOverrides. If unchecked then this setting is removed.
Documentation should now be up-to-date. The TIBDatabase and TIBXServicesConnection property editors are also updated.
Note: with Firebird 3 before 3.0.4, the only way to check whether Wire Compression or encryption is in use is to get the Client/Server version and protocol information using the IAttachment interface method "getFBVersion", and inspect the second and third lines. Both the DBAdmin and DBInfo example applications provide an example of use. The information returned is the same as calling isql with the "-z" option. The second and third lines will end in "Z" is compression is used, "CZ" if both encryption and compression is in use and "C" if encryption only is in use.
It will not actually use zlib compression until you add zlib to the uses clause in your app.
Updated to 2.3-3 Build 11288.
I tried it with zlib1.dll in the Firebird Library Path and in the application directory. Both worked. And neither required adding zlib to the uses clause.
My database server is on a LAN, so I can't really judge how Wire Compression is affecting throughput... but it is working.
I can test it Wire Encription performance on remote server, but how to download the entire folder ibx/trunk ?
And should old IBX 2.3.2 uninstall before install ver 2.3.3?
I used the instructions in Reply # 22 above. Requires an SVN client. I used Tortoise SVN (for Windows) initially, but decided to use the command line client (Slik SVN).
I always remove a previous version, completely scrub the directory structure, and re-install. Just to avoid any issues. That may be overkill, but it works for me.
Have tested new feature WireCompression.
I have a set of apps and services wich rely on a framework with DB drivers to access databases.
So far the IBX driver worked flawlessly with IBX 2.2.0 compiled with Lazarus 1.8.4.
I installed Lazarus 2.0 and the Online Package manager installed IBX 2.3.2.
Now I get a SIGSEV error when the app closes.
TIBXDBConnection is a DB connection wrapper that holds a TIBDatabase and a TIBTransaction.
FTransaction is a TIBTransaction and is valid when this code is executed.
Going back to Lazarus 1.8.4 and IBX 2.2.0 solves the problem, though.
I am not sure how Online Package Manager installed IBX 2.3.2 as Online Package Manager is not supported by IBX.
IBX is anyway at 2.3.3. I suggest that you remove all copies of IBX from your PC - as my guess is that you have an inconsistent installation and the install IBX 2.3.3.
So it must be some change between 2.2.0 and 2.3.2.
For the moment it's back to 2.2.0 as I can't afford to spend more time investigating what's going on.


What has the world come to... A private city with its own private laws and its own private police? is this a Libertarians paradise? Should we export Ron Paul to be the Mayor...? I wonder this is something to watch!
Article 8. – The REDs must establish their own police force, and are authorized to perform the said function on their own, or through proxy. Therefore, for this purpose, the REDs may enter into cooperative agreements with other countries or regions.


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This Week in Puerto Rico: Investigations, Cries of Censorship, and Duplicate COVID-19 Tests
By: Natalia Rodríguez Medina
Gov. Wanda Vázquez, wearing a protective face mask, arrives for a press conference to announce that she has ordered the cancellation of all contracts awarded to people and companies whose names have been publicized as part of a local and federal investigation into the intended purchase of new coronavirus testing kits, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, April 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Everything is on fire, and every time we get close to putting it out, a new fire erupts. That's how life has been for Puerto Rico over the last three years.
There's a running joke going around Puerto Rican social media: There is life before Hurricane María, and life after Hurricane María. Life before the earthquakes, and life after the earthquakes. And now, life before COVID-19, and life after COVID-19.
So what do these three extraordinary events that have cost the lives of Puerto Ricans and changed life forever have in common? Government mismanagement.
In the last three weeks, the news coming out of Puerto Rico goes beyond how the local government is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Intertwined with government response is a series of events that have led to federal investigations, resignations from several leaders of the Health Department, and war on the press.
The breaking news is nonstop, so we've tried to condense and make everything digestible.
Rapid Test Investigation
On Thursday afternoon, the Puerto Rican House of Representatives concluded another round of hearings the Health Committee is holding to look into discrepancies in the purchase of one million rapid tests and ventilators from companies with no medical equipment experience.
So far, the House's Health Committee has heard testimonies from the likes of former interim Health Secretary, Concepcion Quiñones Longo, who was one of the first to flag irregularities in the purchases made by the Health Department, resigned the same day the order was approved.
Quiñones de Longo revealed that Fortaleza had forced her to make approvals and sign the purchase of ventilators in under 20 minutes. Governor Wanda Vázquez has spoken up against the former Health Secretary and attempted to discredit her on multiple occasions.
But the face of the investigation is Adil Rosa, who has admitted to being directly involved in the purchase of the emergency coronavirus supplies in question. During her testimony on Tuesday, Rosa, former Assistant Health Secretary, said that doctors Segundo Rodríguez and Juan Salgado, members of the Governor's "Task Force" made the decision to purchase the rapid tests and ventilators.
She even revealed that a cheaper offer existed, but Rodríguez and Salgado insisted on using APEX's services.
Rosa declined immunity during the hearings, and has refused to say whether the Governor was involved in the APEX purchase, only speaking of Fortaleza as an entity.
Another name that keeps popping up is Mabel Cabeza, who served as a liaison between the Health Department and Fortaleza's "Task Force" and served as Chief of Staff under former Health Secretary Rafael Rodríguez and has been implicated in several investigations into the department. Recently, her name came up during the Health Committee's investigation as the one truly running everything.
During her tenure as interim Health Secretary, Quiñones de Longo tried to fire Cabeza but she was deemed essential by the Governor, but very little is known about her and what she does.
The investigation began after journalists from El Nuevo Día uncovered in early April a multi-million dollar plan to purchase one million rapid tests and several ventilators from Apex General Contractors (APEX), a construction company with ties to the PNP (the New Progressive Party, currently in power).
APEX was given an advance of $19 million —out of the total $38 million— by the Treasury Department to buy the supplies from an Australian company called Promedical. The rapid tests were not FDA approved, and on Tuesday, Promedical released a statement saying they were never approached by APEX in the first place. But a quick investigation from NotiCel journalist Omar J. Serrano found that Promedical had lied about it's relationship with APEX.
Hearings will continue on Monday, as we've yet to hear from Juan Maldonado de Jesús, who represents APEX, and Segundo Rodríguez, among other officials. On Friday, the leader of the House's Health Committee told the press that the investigation is a long way from concluding.
Fortaleza vs. the Press
Despite all eyes being on Fortaleza and the House as the investigation continues, on Sunday, the president of the public TV station WIPR, Eric Delgado, said that outside press would be banned from attending the televised Medical "Task Force" segment.
This led to a massive uproar on social media from the press and other citizens, calling out repression and censorship. José Cancela, the president of Telemundo Puerto Rico, wrote on Facebook that Telemundo would not air propaganda, as WIPR chose to follow orders from Fortaleza. Soon, most major press organizations on the island boycotted the program.
Delgado argued later on in an interview with CBS correspondent David Begnaud that he had to pull the plug because he feared journalists would take over the segment.
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— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) April 13, 2020
A drive-through protest was held in front of WIPR's studio on Wednesday, where members of the Colectiva Feminista called out the censorship, and the alleged corruption through the sketchy purchase of the rapid tests and ventilators.
On Thursday, Delgado was on Latino Rebels Radio to discuss claims that he is operating state-run television that promotes government propaganda.
Fortaleza vs. the House
Since the conception of the investigation, Fortaleza has been at war with the House of Representatives, attempting to discredit evidence and go against what is being testified. At Thursday's press conference, Vázquez took the side of "Task Force" member Segundo Rodríguez despite him being named as one of the players in the investigation on coronavirus emergency supplies.
During that press conference, Vázquez also accused the investigation of being pushed as a plot by Juan Maldonado and the APEX people, who favor her political opponent, Pedro Pierluisi.
As of Friday, there are 1,068 positive known cases, and 58 deaths related to the coronavirus in Puerto Rico.
This week, the government flip-flopped with curfew, going from 7 p.m.-5 a.m. to 9 p.m.-5 a.m. to 7 p.m.-5 a.m. in less than a week. The Governor has also extended the lockdown and curfew until May 3, although experts believe Puerto Rico's peak will be in June.
That being said, the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, in Spanish) reported on Friday that the Health Department's COVID-19 numbers are wrong, saying the department has been counting molecular tests and rapid tests. Health Secretary Lorenzo González told the CPI if a patient has had multiple tests done, those tests are counted individually.
This news puts into perspective why many are calling for Puerto Rico's government to do more testing and tracking, instead of focusing solely on lockdown.
Natalia Rodríguez Medina is a journalist based in Puerto Rico. She tweets from @nataliarodmed.
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Twitter Search / julito77: I asked @nataliarodmed for a summary of what happened in #PuertoRico this week, because it was quite a week. Citing work of @cpipr, @ElNuevoDia, @DavidBegnaud. This Week in Puerto Rico: Investigations, Cries of Censorship, and D says:
[…] This Week in Puerto Rico: Investigations, Cries of Censorship, and Duplicate #COVID19 Tests https://www.latinorebels.com//2020/04/17/thisweekinpuertorico-2/ … […]
The Government of Puerto Rico's Main Strategies During COVID-19: Ineptitude, Misinformation and Secrecy (OPINION) says:
[…] The echoes of Maria are deafening. Faced with the third major crisis in as many years (María in 2017, strong earthquakes in late 2019 and early 2020, and now this pandemic), the Puerto Rican government's ineptitude, misinformation and secrecy are glaring. Once again, Puerto Rico is navigating an emergency blindly, without reliable and credible data, and seeing its government officials pretend like everything is under control. There are accusations of government corruption due to discrepancies in the purchase of COVID-19 rapid tests. Recently, La Fortaleza (Puerto Rico's "White House," where Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced resides) briefly cancelled press conferences and instead opted to host "special programming" about COVID-19 on state-run TV, leading to outcries of censorship. […]


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WarCraft III, as of April 14th, 2009, has an updated warden system. Most bots these days don't know how to handle the warden packet correctly, or don't know how to handle it at all.
This is affected for the latest WarCraft III patch 1.23. All bots that do not automatically know how to handle this will be disconnected after 2 minutes, just like if they were using StarCraft or Brood War.
This will render most clans without bots for a while, so hang tight.
In conclusion to this, I have updated this website by posting this news post and updating SID_WARDEN's "Used By" to include WarCraft III and The Frozen Throne.


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Review, Social Sciences
Five Leaves boasts an eclectic list: fiction, non-fiction, politics, social history, essays, verse novels … you name it. What's that you say? A book on the history of whistling? Yup, Five Leaves have published it.
John Lucas and Allan Chatburn's good-natured overview begins with an investigation into the mechanics of whistling and determines that Lauren Bacall's oft-quoted line from To Have and Have Not – "you know how to whistle, don't you … just put your lips together and blow" – is something of an understatement. As a sassy double entrende, it's hard to beat, but Lucas and Chatburn uncover more than enough evidence to prove that whistling is, in fact, an art form, one requiring practice, discipline and dexterity.
But like all art forms, whistling can have its subversive practitioners. The authors present instances of whistling as a form of protest – from the iconic 'Colonel Bogey' scene in David Lean's Bridge on the River Kwai to the Cretan shepherds who, in the real-life theatre of conflict, whistled in code to alert resistance fighters to the proximity of Nazi patrols – or as a similar tool of communication between criminal gangs. A sign at the Burlington Arcade in Piccadilly permits the Beadles (i.e. the security staff) to eject anyone behaving in a disreputable manner; historically, this included whistlers: accomplices reconnoitring the arcade would whistle to tip-off thieves to easy targets.
Bans on whistling extend to the working environment (miners at the coalface and theatre hands behind the scenes – in both cases, health and safety considerations mandate the ban), though elsewhere whistling is culturally intertwined with professions: the shepherd who instructs his dog with specific variances of tone and pitch; ploughmen signalling a turn at the end of the field; tinkers and butcher-boys whistling to announce their presence.
Whistling in literature offers plentiful material, from the bustling descriptions of Dickens, to Hardy's critique of a patriarchal society and the prejudices by which a woman's reputation can suffer in Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Edward Thomas's poem 'The Penny Whistle', a lament for a changing England written in the early months of the Great War, is quoted in full and sensitively analysed. John Hartley Williams's 'Music While You Walk' is given equal consideration; likewise Paul McLoughlin's beautifully evocative 'Whistling', which closes the book.
A Brief History of Whistling is an eccentric but eminently likeable work. At a shade under 170 pages, it doesn't outstay its welcome, but instead deals out a wealth of little-known facts and anecdotes. The prose is elegant but wittily crafted. At the risk of a crass and obvious analogy, if this book were a person it would be a 1920s dandy, whistling jauntily and twirling its cane as it swaggers confidently onto your reading list.
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Diageo Sells Off Argentinan Wine Interests
Nov 06, 2015 by The Staff
Diageo continues to shed wine assets while refocusing on other aspects of its business.
The global corporation has agreed to the sale of its Argentian wine interests to Grupo Peñaflor.
This includes the Navarro Correas and San Telmo wine brands, together with production sites and vineyards. In the year ending June 30, 2015, net sales of these assets were $27.8 millon.
In addition, Peñaflor will become the distributor of Diageo's international spirits brands and, after an interim period, will jointly produce with Diageo its domestic spirits brands across Argentina.
"The appointment of a dedicated distributor in Argentina will strengthen Diageo's route to market and is expected to accelerate the performance of Diageo's brands there," the company said in a press release.
Grupo Peñaflor is the largest producer and distributor of wine in Argentina, the company says, and one of the top ten wine producers worldwide.
The transaction is expected to be completed early in 2016.
Sale proceeds have not been disclosed.
The transaction, which is eps neutral in the first full year following completion, will result in an exceptional loss before taxation of approximately $90.2 million upon completion, the company says.
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Pokémon Shuffle for 3DS
Nintendo | Release Date: 18-Feb-2015
Developer: Genius Sonority Inc.
Pokémon Shuffle is a Pokémon game available now for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. In Pokémon Shuffle, your goal is to clear various stages by lining up the same Pokémon and clearing these matches from the puzzle area. Within each puzzle stage, you can deal damage to the wild Pokémon you face by lining up three of the same Pokémon to clear them. Battle and try to catch the Pokémon before you run out of moves!
Each stage in Pokémon Shuffle provides you a limited number of opportunities in which to move your Pokémon around. There is no time limit, so you can take as long as you like to study the board. To clear each stage, you'll have to reduce the HP of the wild Pokémon you face to zero within a set number of moves. Use all the strategies and tactics available to you, and learn to read the board to spot future matches. Clearing Pokémon efficiently is the key to winning Pokémon Shuffle's many stages!
Pokémon all have a type of their own, and each has its strengths and weaknesses. Choosing a group of Pokémon that is right for each level is important. You'll also be able to raise the level of your Pokémon by using them multiple times, enabling them to deal more damage to foes. Collect many different Pokémon and raise them up so that you will be able to make your way through your battles against wild Pokémon with finesse.
Pokémon Shuffle also features Mega-Evolving Pokémon—when one of your Pokémon Mega Evolves, it can clear out a whole heap of Pokémon at once or cause other special effects!
Pokémon Shuffle is a download-only game and it can be downloaded at no cost to you. You'll be able to enjoy virtually all the features of Pokémon Shuffle without paying any money. There is a limit to how many stages you can play through without taking a break. This number will be replenished with time, but you can also purchase items in the game's shop that will enable you to continue playing immediately, if you choose.
You can also purchase paid content that will help make your progress through the game a little easier, such as items that aid in your battles. Stay tuned for more details on in-game purchases.
In-game content available for purchase using stored account funds.
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Fearon Brown moderated a panel discussing business mediation. Stew Cogan, Teri Wakeen, and Chris Soelling were the panelists. Access the panel handout here.
Speakers Rodney Tullett at Perkins, Kevin Jablonski at Lane Powell, and Rachel Winger at Lee and Hayes.
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Interview with Barbara Clowers, September 12, 2019, Catholic Pastoral Center, Savannah, GA
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Barbara Clowers shares her experiences as a teacher at St. Peter Claver School. She also witnessed the racial integration of the parishes in Macon, and served as the Chair of the SPC Evangelist Mission which had a great impact on the community and children.
Barbara Clowers (née Brooks), 88, was born in Macon, GA in 1931 to Julia Bell Brown of Albany, GA, and Harold Sheffield Brooks of Macon, GA. Her mother worked as a teacher and her father was an agent with Atlanta Life Insurance in Macon, as well as a musician. Sadly, Julia died in childbirth with her youngest child, Essie. Barbara was only five years old. Following the death of her mother, Barbara and two of her siblings, Marilyn and Harold Jr., were raised with their grandmother. The baby, Essie, was sent to live with the niece of her grandmother in Philadelphia, where she met Mother Katharine Drexel (canonized a saint in 2000) and served her whenever Mother Katharine visited the school Essie attended.
Barbara worked as a teacher for 5 years in Bibb County Schools and was a social worker for 20 years in Bibb County, DFACS. In 1956, Barbara married Frank Clowers, a mechanical engineer. Frank received his degree from West Virginia State College (now a University). He worked for Robins Air Force Base and Travis Air Force Base in graphics and design. He also taught at Macon Technical College. After 53 years of marriage, Frank died in 2009. They had two children, Michael who also died in 2018 and Francine lives in South Carolina.
Barbara and Frank were not born Catholic. They converted later in life. Frank's sister was Catholic. After Marilyn (Barbara's sister) married, she and her husband became Catholic, and shortly after that Frank and Barbara became Catholic as well and fully immersed themselves in the St. Peter Claver community. Barbara served as the first Director of Evangelization and organized the Vacation Bible School summer programs. She also volunteered with St. Peter Claver's food pantry.
Barbara Clowers
19 minutes, 27 seconds
Office of Archives and Records, Catholic Diocese of Savannah, "Interview with Barbara Clowers, September 12, 2019, Catholic Pastoral Center, Savannah, GA," Diocese of Savannah's Black Catholic History, accessed January 16, 2022, https://diosavblackcatholichistory.omeka.net/items/show/17.


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We want to discuss this public policy broadly looking at what HIGH-SPEED RAIL means in overseas FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES-----as shown yesterday only discussion of FREIGHT HIGH SPEED RAIL dominates public policy discussions. The COST-ANALYSIS of building these HIGH-SPEED rail while including the concept of duel usage-----PASSENGER/FREIGHT ------it is very easy to understand that far-right wing global banking 1% COST ANALYSIS never never never includes PUBLIC BENEFIT.
If making these underground tunnels DUEL -- USE is 'full of compromises' by global corporations wanting them to be FREIGHT-----if duel tunnels come with a SIGNIFICANT PRICE TAG------we can be sure that COST ANALYSIS will find making these HIGH-SPEED RAIL ---AKA HYPER-LOOP RAILS is not PRAGMATIC when including PASSENGER LINES.
'However, running freight on a high speed line involves a significant number of compromises, some with big price tags attached, so it is not to be considered as a "free gift"'.
As usual, here in Maryland all the benefit goes to THE PEOPLE. So, this super-duper highly expensive underground structure
getting rid of all that wind-resistance'----you know, it's touted as being GREEN----has NO MENTION of being built as a FREIGHT RAIL structure.
THAT WOULD BE A RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT.
"Hyperloop" refers to a vacuum-based, people- and car-moving system, which would get rid of wind resistance. Shorter hops within or between cities might have a non-vacuum system, hence the reference to a "Loop" system.
This route follows what is the most HISTORICAL ROAD in America-------Baltimore Washington TP has colonial era historical landmark designation. This project will use EMINENT DOMAIN to claim some of the most GREEN SPACE land in Maryland.
What are these STATION STOPS? Think of MARYLAND as one super-duper global FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE filled with GLOBAL FACTORIES with campuses that will see these STOPS as MANUFACTURING PRODUCT distribution structures all leading to PORT OF BALTIMORE.
So, what is called GREEN is really eminent domain of MARYLAND'S most beautiful GREEN SPACE to be allocated to global factory campuses with this HYPER-LOOP HIGH SPEED FREIGHT RAIL having STATIONS where products will indeed be lowered into this FREIGHT TUNNEL transit system.
Will These Be The Stops For Elon Musk's DC-Baltimore Loop?
by Nena Perry-Brown
Earlier this year, UrbanTurf reported on the proposed route for The Boring Company's Loop to facilitate high-speed travel between DC and Baltimore. Now, we are getting an idea of where that mode of transportation could stop.
As pictured below, the 35-mile inaugural run of the DC-Maryland Loop would have up to 17 "Lifts", or stations, spanning from a terminus ostensibly at or near 53 New York Avenue NE (map) (where the Boring Company has a vaguely-worded work permit) to a stop on S. Paca Street in Baltimore, near Camden Yards. The Boring Company recently updated the map on its website with the approximate stop locations.
Map of the approximate DC-Baltimore Loop "Lifts", or stations. Click to enlarge.
The locations of the stations are conceptual and subject to change as the company engages with local, state and federal authorities, but are currently envisioned at the following areas:
53 New York Avenue NE
Riverdale Park*
College Park*
Greenbelt 1 and 2
Ammendale
Snowden Pond
Linthicum Heights*
S Paca Street*
The Loop would apparently ferry passengers via "autonomous electric skates", which will each carry 8-16 people along a pair of underground tunnels at 125-150 miles per hour. This would get people from DC to Baltimore in 15 minutes (or, for example, from DC to Greenbelt in 5 minutes, or from Laurel to Baltimore in 9 minutes). Longer-term plans are to extend the line to New York for a 29-minute trip. Fares will reportedly be on par with or less than other public transit.
Realization of this transportation system will require approval from dozens of bodies, including the Federal Highway and Federal Railroad Administrations, the National Capital Planning Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, Maryland and DC Department of Transportations, and the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Once all permits are acquired, the website states that construction will last for 12-20 months. The website also states that all subsurface construction will be "silent and invisible at ground level along the alignment, and no surface vibrations would be felt", an assertion which may surprise area residents currently experiencing disruption from construction of the Purple Line.
Elon Musk announced over the weekend that his company's two-mile high-speed transit tunnel in Hawthorne, California would open to the public on December 10th.
When we understand this Maryland HYPER-LOOP is FREIGHT RAIL not passenger then we can imagine what infrastructure complementing the end of HYPER-LOOP here in PORT OF BALTIMORE will look like. What are today's downtown freight rail tunnel renovations running through communities in Baltimore preparing for?
'Musk first proposed the hyperloop—a system of reduced-pressure tubes'
'The Foodtubes project, unveiled in 2010, calls for a similar design — except the network would be underground and would carry food. Canisters would travel up to 60 miles per hour in the system, which would cost around $8 million per mile to build in the United Kingdom (though it's still just a concept)'.
REMEMBER, our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE are never told proprietary goals of these kinds of infrastructure building. The job of global media is to sell these goals as having SOCIAL BENEFIT.
This article is interesting in that it shows the progression of these TRANSIT TUBE structures to today's plans. PNEUMATIC AND MAGNETIC -----Megla and Hyper-loop seems to be the intended goal of these FREIGHT TRANSIT structures. Please look at the FOODTUBES project showing a picture of what is a PORT OF BALTIMORE filled with these HYPER-TUNNEL tubes. These PORT tubes will carry particular products being loaded and unloaded onto cargo ships----and would lead to a central station as here in Baltimore would be PACA AND GREENE STS. HYPER-LOOP along Baltimore Washington PK having freight from FOODTUBES in PORT HARBOR carried by PODS to PACA AND GREENE STS SYSTEM CONNECTOR to shoot up to end of TUNNEL near WASHINGTON BELTWAY.
No doubt this location outside Washington DC will then connect to HYPER-LOOP TUNNELS coming down from northern states OH, PA, WVA.
WILL THERE BE A PASSENGER ASPECT TO HYPER-LOOP FREIGHT RAIL FOR MOVING CARGO FROM GLOBAL FACTORY CAMPUSES TO PORTS?
The design for MARYLAND HYPER-LOOP RAIL is NOT human-friendly. Safety issues, public health issues, exposure to toxicity from freight leaks along same rail----all say NO to HYPER-LOOP having anything to do with being a PASSENGER HIGH SPEED RAIL TRAIN.
'Another technical issue is the design of the trackbed drainage. When building a new line, it is necessary to consider the consequences of any derailment which might release hazardous goods into the environment.
15 remarkable images that show the 200-year evolution of the Hyperloop
Leanna Garfield
Feb. 20, 2018, 3:17 PM
In 2013, Elon Musk, the famed entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla and Space X, came up with an idea for a vacuum-and-maglev-powered super-fast train that would travel through a tube. It would be called the Hyperloop.In a research paper, he outlined its potential and challenged other tech companies to develop it for commercialization. Two startups, Shervin Pishevar's Hyperloop One and Dirk Ahlborn's Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, are perhaps the closest to making the Hyperloop a reality. Though it's still a moonshot project.
In July 2017, Musk revealed that he's working on his own system, tweeting that he "received verbal government approval" to build stops in Washington, DC and New York City. And on Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that his tunneling startup, the Boring Company, gained an "early and vague building permit from DC for excavation experimentation in a parking lot.
But Musk is not the first person to suggest air pressure-driven transportation. As io9 notes, the concept behind the Hyperloop originated in the late 17th century with the invention of the world's first artificial vacuum, which led to designs for "underground rapid transit systems" powered by pneumatics (i.e. pressurized air) in the decades that followed.
Take a look at a brief history of the technology that led to Musk's Hyperloop.
In 1799, inventor George Medhurst proposed an idea to move goods through cast-iron pipes using air pressure. In 1844, he built a railway station (for passenger carriages) in London that relied on pneumatics until 1847.
The Brunel Jolly-sailor railway station and pumping station, 1845.
WIkipedia Commons Source: io9
Throughout the mid-1850s, several more pneumatic railways were built in Dublin, London, and Paris. The London Pneumatic Despatch system was meant to transport parcels, but it was large enough to carry people, too. To mark its opening, the Duke of Buckingham traveled through it in 1865.
Air Tube Systems UK Around that time, French novelist Jules Verne published "Paris in the 20th Century," which envisioned tube trains stretching across the Atlantic Ocean.
In the mid-1860s, South London constructed the Crystal Palace atmospheric railway, which ran through a park. A fan, which measured 22 feet in diameter, propelled the train. On return journeys, the fan's blades reversed, sucking the carriage backwards.
Wikipedia Commons The Beach Pneumatic Transit, which operated in Manhattan from 1870 to 1873, was New York City's earliest subway predecessor. Designed by Alfred Ely Beach, it had one stop and a one-car shuttle that used compressed air to move riders.
Museum of the City of New York Source: The Atlantic
By the end of the 19th century, most major cities used pneumatic tube systems to transport mail and other messages. Some still exist today at banks, hospitals, and factories.
The New York City Post Office pneumatic tube system, early 20th century.
Museum of the City of New York NASA started using pneumatic tubes as intra-office communication in the 1960s. And until 2011, a (now-closed) McDonald's in Edina, Minnesota used them to deliver Big Macs and fries to customers at its drive-through.
In 1910, American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard designed a train that would go from Boston to New York in just 12 minutes. Though it was never built, it would've floated on magnets inside a vacuum-sealed tunnel.
Wikipedia Commons Throughout the 20th century, scientists and science fiction writers imagined transit systems that would work like a Hyperloop. In the 1956 story "Double Star," for example, sci-fi author Robert Heinlein wrote about "vacutubes."
Flickr/x-ray_delta_one Researchers at MIT designed a vacuum-tube train system for a 45-minute trip from New York City to Boston in the early 1990s. Like Musk's plan, the design called for a magnetic track.
MIT In the early 2000s, transportation startup ET3 designed a pneumatic-and-maglev train. The design features car-sized pods that would travel in elevated tubes.
ET3 The Foodtubes project, unveiled in 2010, calls for a similar design — except the network would be underground and would carry food. Canisters would travel up to 60 miles per hour in the system, which would cost around $8 million per mile to build in the United Kingdom (though it's still just a concept).
FoodTubes Source: Ars Technica
Three years later, Elon Musk published his proposal for the Hyperloop in a 57-page white paper. According to his design, sealed pods containing 28 people each would whisk through tubes. A trip from NYC to DC would take 29 minutes, he tweeted in 2017.
Tesla Source: Business Insider
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, a startup building off Musk's concept, is creating a 5-mile test track for a Hyperloop system in Quay Valley, California. Construction began in 2016, and the company is aiming for the train to reach 760 mph.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies In July 2017, a startup called Hyperloop One successfully tested a full-scale system on its DevLoop test track in Nevada. Using maglevs, the vehicle reached a top speed of 70 mph. The company hopes to reach 250 mph.
Journalists and guests look over tubes following a propulsion open-air test at Hyperloop One in North Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. May 11, 2016.
Reuters/Steve Marcus Source: Business Insider
A group of Chinese scientists want to construct a pneumatic train underwater. In 2017, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed a submarine rail project that would run at a theoretical speed of 1,240 mph, much faster Musk's Hyperloop concept.
Chinese Academy of Sciences/Chinese Academy of Engineering Source: China Money Network
All of these visions could one day come together to create a Hyperloop system that revolutionizes transportation.
So, what does it matter if MARYLAND HYPER-LOOP is a FREIGHT POD rail system or a PASSENGER POD rail system?
First, as usual hundreds of billions of dollars in FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL tax funding is supporting the building of these HIGH-SPEED RAIL at the same time our US city subways, light rails, and eventually our MARC COMMUTER rail trains are being allowed to decay from lack of maintenance. We don't have the funding to keep REAL STRONG PUBLIC TRANSIT infrastructure running but they will at the end FULLY FUND with PUBLIC MONEY what are called
PRIVATE RAIL STRUCTURES.
This image of a HYPER-LOOP POD is definitely not a PASSENGER POD----
The importance of looking at PUBLIC POLICY broadly is this: today's local development touts all kinds of COMMUNITY BUILDING---all kinds of TRANSIT opportunities ---all kinds of campus GREENING/HOUSING.
It appear very likely my Baltimore City downtown----UMMS for example PACA AND GREENE being the end of MARYLAND HYPER-LOOP will simply be a staging for industrial PORT OF BALTIMORE cargo freight rail entrance.
WHAT DOES THAT DO TO THE CONCEPT OF 'COMMUNITY BUILDING' HERE IN BALTIMORE -----UMMS IS BEING STAGED FOR SUPER-DUPER INDUSTRIAL ZONE DEVELOPMENT.
Hyperloop Phase 2 test
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Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Trinity cross country runner Jack Baum.
After a standout season and postseason in cross country, it's time to name the Courier Journal All-Area Boys and Girls Cross Country Teams and the nominees for runners of the year.
The nominees for the Courier Journal Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year are Trinity's Jack Baum, Holy Cross' Caleb Bolus, Austin's Ethan Fugate, Christian Academy of Indiana's Caleb Futter, Manual's Nic Geary, Floyd Central's Luke Heinemann, CAI's Evan Heitz and Holy Cross' Keeton Thornberry.
The nominees for the Courier Journal Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year are Floyd Central's Sydney Baxter, Oldham County's Savannah Cagle and Katy Chapman, CAI's McKenna Cavanaugh, Christian Academy of Louisville's Addi Dewey, Sacred Heart's Josie Gilvin and Floyd Central's Sydney Liddle and Lillian Pearce.


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Traveling today means a slew of options when it comes to accommodation – from glampgrounds to Airbnbs. However, sometimes we just yearn for that classic hotel experience, where we arrive to a single piece of decadent chocolate on our pillow. For a taste of yesteryear, check into the Magnolia Hotel in Missouri. The historic destination even has a connection to those chocolates on our pillows.
Before it was known as Magnolia in St. Louis, the majestic hotel on North 8th Street opened as the Mayfair Hotel in 1925.
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Its rich history includes having the first "female general manager in St. Louis" which, in part, helped it earn a spot on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
However, it's also known as the birthplace of chocolate on hotel pillows - and that's all thanks to Hollywood legend Cary Grant.
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Legend says that Grant, sometime in the 1950s, created a chocolate trail through his penthouse suite, ending on the bed - where a lone piece of chocolate sat on a pillow alongside a letter to his love interest.
Struck by the gesture, the manager of the Mayfair decided to start having staff leave a chocolate on guests' pillows. The rest, as they say, is history.
If you stay at the Mayfair, you can request the Cary Grant Suite on the 18th floor.
The Mayfair also hosted other such notable guests as Harry Truman, John Barrymore, and Lyndon Johnson.
The Mayfair ownership changed hands several times, the latest in 2013. It was rebranded as Magnolia St. Louis. If you check in, you'll still find a chocolate on your pillow.
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