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Una delle sue più famose imprese, che lo consegnò alla storia della Frontiera, fu la sparatoria contro la famiglia Blevins avvenuta a Holbrook nel territorio dell'Arizona durante la Pleasant Valley War (1882-1892).

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Owens nacque in una piccola fattoria nella contea di Hawkins da Oliver H. Owens e Fanny Carron. Il padre era stato così chiamato in onore del commodoro Oliver Hazard Perry, distintosi contro gli inglesi nella battaglia del Lago Erie, che era stato il punto di svolta della guerra anglo-americana. Il figlio fu chiamato Perry dalla madre, che perpetuò così la tradizione paterna, rafforzandola includendo nel nome anche "Commodore".

Poco dopo la sua nascita, la famiglia emigrò e costruì una fattoria a Liberty Township, nella contea di Hendricks (Indiana). All'età di 13 anni (o 16 secondo altre fonti), Commodore scappò di casa per sottrarsi alle violenze paterne e si spostò nel West, diventando un cowboy presso un ranch nel territorio indiano (oggi in Oklahoma) poi in Nuovo Messico, accompagnandosi però anche, come avrebbe in seguito confessato egli stesso, a tipi poco raccomandabili, rimanendo coinvolto nel contrabbando di whisky e nel furto di bestiame. In seguito diventerà un cacciatore di bisonti per la Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in Kansas e sarà probabilmente a seguito della compagnia ferroviaria che Owens arriverà a stabilirsi nei pressi della comunità di Navajo Springs, nella contea di Apache in Arizona, all'inizio degli anni 1880. Qui trovò lavoro occupandosi con successo di tenere lontani i ladri di cavalli dall'area della stazione ferroviaria e gli indiani Navajo che capitava depredassero i magazzini. In diversi scontri a fuoco si guadagnò presto la fama di grande tiratore e il soprannome di Iron Man e di "uomo fantasma" tra i Navajo, cui uccise diversi guerrieri.

Nel settembre del 1883, Owens fu arrestato dal US Indian Agent Denis Matthew Riordan per l'omicidio di un giovane ragazzo Navajo. Owens ammise di aver sparato e ucciso il giovane, ma dichiarò che questi che stava cercando di rubare dei cavalli. Owens fu successivamente assolto per l'omicidio da parte della giuria della contea di Apache.

Grazie alla sua reputazione di pistolero, Owens fu presto nominato sceriffo della contea di Apache. Owens godeva del sostegno dellApache County Stockgrowers Association (l'associazione degli allevatori della contea), oltre che dei mormoni e dei messicani. La nomina ufficiale all'ufficio di sceriffo avvenne nel novembre 1886: egli sarebbe stato responsabile di ben 54.850 km2 di territorio, più della superficie complessiva di New Hampshire e Vermont o poco meno della superficie dell'Italia nord-occidentale. Eletto con un margine di soli 91 voti sul candidato democratico Tomas Perez, Owens era ben voluto da gran parte della popolazione all'interno della sua giurisdizione. Un giornale dichiarò: « Il signor Owens è un uomo tranquillo e senza pretese, rigorosamente onorevole e onesto nei suoi rapporti con tutti gli uomini ed è immensamente popolare ».

Nel gennaio del 1887, poco dopo l'entrata in carica, a Owens furono affidati 14 mandati di cattura che erano stati lasciati irrisolti dal suo predecessore Jon "Don" Lorenzo Hubbell. Tra questi figuravano quelli per il pistolero mormone Lot Smith, per il fuorilegge Ike Clanton, precedentemente operante nei dintorni di Tombstone, e per il ladro di bestiame "Andrew Arnold Cooper", un alias per Andy Blevins. La gang dei Clanton e i Blevins Brothers avevano entrambi una famigerata reputazione in Arizona come ladri di bestiame e fuorilegge. I cittadini della contea di Apache si aspettavano che il nuovo sceriffo prendesse subito l'iniziativa contro le due bande. Lo sceriffo Owens iniziò il suo lavoro ripulendo e rimettendo immediatamente in sesto la lurida prigione della contea e i conti dell'ufficio, centellinando i fondi pubblici fino a tenere conto anche dei francobolli da utilizzare.

Newman Haynes Clanton, noto come Old Man, i suoi figli e i suoi Cowboys formavano una grande banda di ladri di bestiame e contrabbandieri. Il ranch dei Clanton, nei pressi di Tombstone, era usato per nascondere il bestiame rubato e quindi rimarchiarlo per poi rivenderlo. Il patriarca dei Clanton fu ucciso il 13 agosto 1881 nel Guadalupe Canyon Massacre quando truppe messicane attaccarono i contrabbandieri di bestiame vicino al confine messicano. Il posto di Old Man fu preso dal figlio Ike.

Ike Clanton e la sua famiglia erano stati per lungo tempo rivali dei fratelli Earp e Clanton aveva più volte minacciato di sterminarli. Le minacce di Ike istigarono il 26 ottobre 1881 la celeberrima sparatoria all'O.K. Corral.

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Tiwaripur Salempur Village
Tiwaripur Salempur Village, with population of 1877 is Kanpur sub district's the 100th most populous village, located in Kanpur sub district of Kanpur Nagar district in the state Uttar Pradesh in India. Total geographical area of Tiwaripur Salempur village is 3 km2 and it is the 74th biggest village by area in the sub district. Population density of the village is 571 persons per km2.
Nearest town of the village is Kanpur Nagar and distance from Tiwaripur Salempur village to Kanpur Nagar is 35 km. Pin code of Tiwaripur Salempur village is 208001. The village comes under Tiwaripur Salempur panchayat. Kanpur Sadar is the sub district head quarter and the distance from the village is 32 km. District head quarter of the village is Kanpur Nagar which is 32 km away. 0.02 square kilometer (1%) of the total village's area is covered by forest.
The village is home to 1877 people, among them 994 (53%) are male and 883 (47%) are female. 69% of the whole population are from general caste, 31% are from schedule caste. Child (aged under 6 years) population of Tiwaripur Salempur village is 13%, among them 57% are boys and 43% are girls. There are 386 households in the village and an average 5 persons live in every family.
Caste wise male female population 2011 - Tiwaripur Salempur
1,877 1,291 586 0 238
Total 1342 people in the village are literate, among them 776 are male and 566 are female. Literacy rate (children under 6 are excluded) of Tiwaripur Salempur is 82%. 90% of male and 73% of female population are literate here.
Tiwaripur Salempur has 57% (1079) population engaged in either main or marginal works. 59% male and 56% female population are working population. 33% of total male population are main (full time) workers and 26% are marginal (part time) workers. For women 26% of total female population are main and 30% are marginal workers.
Percentage of working population - Tiwaripur Salempur
Overview of Tiwaripur Salempur Village
Area 3.29 km2
Panchayat Tiwaripur Salempur

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Blood Libel
The term blood libel refers to the false allegation that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish, usually Christian children, for ritual purposes. The Nazis made effective use of the blood libel to demonize Jews, with Julius Steicher's newspaper Der Stürmer making frequent use of ritual murder imagery in its antisemitic propaganda.
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Blood Libels throughout History
Historically, blood libels often took place close to Passover, when Jews were charged with using the blood of Christian children to bake matzahs. The proximity of such charges to Easter was thus also often associated with the continuing belief that Jews were responsible for the Passion and Crucifixion of Jesus. Blood libels, together with allegations of well poisoning, were a major theme in Jewish persecution in Europe throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern period. They were a central component in the development of modern antisemitism in the 19th century.
Blood libel accusations often led to pogroms, violent riots launched against Jews and frequently encouraged by government authorities.
Murder is expressly forbidden in the Torah, as are the blood sacrifices which were practiced by ancient pagan religions. In fact, Jewish dietary laws (kashrut), forbid the consumption of blood in food and require all blood to be drained from slaughtered animals before consumption.
Blood Libels in the Middle Ages
The earliest references to blood libel charges against the Jews can be found in the Hellenistic writings of Apion in the 2nd century BCE. However, the spread of Christianity in western Europe saw the growth of the blood libel myth, in particular in the 12th century in the aftermath of the First Crusade.
The first case of the blood libel in Europe in the Middle Ages was that of William of Norwich in 1144. The Jews of Norwich, England, were charged with ritual murder after the body of a young boy (William) was discovered stabbed to death in the woods. In this case, the Jews of Norwich were alleged to have "bought a Christian child [the 'boy-martyr' William] before Easter and tortured him with all the tortures wherewith our Lord was tortured, and on Long Friday hanged him on a rood in hatred of our Lord."
Subsequent cases were recorded in Gloucester, England (1168); Blois, France (1171); Saragossa, Spain (1182); Bristol, England (1183); Fulda, Germany (1235); Lincoln, England (1255); and Munich, Germany (1286). Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Prioress's Tale" (in The Canterbury Tales) also invokes the blood libel motif, describing Jews as aroused by satanic urges to murder Christian children.
The motif of the Jewish need for Christian blood spread throughout the Middle Ages. It was combined with allegations of well-poisoning by Jews during the time of the Black Death in the middle of the 14th century. By the 15th century, the motif was commonplace throughout western and central Europe. It often gave rise to legends around miracles performed by the alleged victims of the blood libels. In 1475, a 2-year old boy named Simon disappeared from the city of Trent in Italy around the time of Easter. His father alleged that he had been kidnapped and murdered by the local Jewish community in order to make matzah for Passover. The entire Jewish community was arrested and forced to confess under torture before they were sentenced to death and burned at the stake. After hundreds of miracles were ascribed to Simon of Trent, a religious cult spread across Italy, Germany, and Austria in his name and he was granted sainthood in the 16th century (subsequently removed by the pope in 1965).
Blood Libels in the 16th to 19th Centuries
Martin Luther, German theologian and key figure in the Protestant Reformation, lent even further credence to the blood libel charge by accepting the Jewish use of Christian blood as fact in his On the Jews and their Lies (published in 1543).
By the 17th century, blood libels became increasingly common in eastern Europe, particularly in Poland and Lithuania. Jews had moved to Poland from the German lands during the Middle Ages in return for the promise of protection by Polish nobles. But as conditions deteriorated for the Jews in Poland, blood libel cases spread. In 1690, a six-year old boy named Gavriil Belostoksky was kidnapped from his home in Zverki in the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania; a Jew named Shutko was accused of murdering the child in Bialystok and the boy became a saint in the Russian Orthodox church.
Blood libel charges in eastern Europe often resulted in the outbreak of pogroms, or anti-Jewish riots. The 1903 Kishinev pogrom started with the murder of a Christian boy in the town of Dubossary, about 15 miles (25 km) north of Kishinev, the capital of Bessarabia in the Russian Empire. Spurred by articles published in the Russian-language antisemitic newspaper The Bessarabian, the pogrom broke out on April 19, 1903 (Easter Sunday). In the course of three days of rioting, almost 50 Jews were killed and hundreds were wounded. Hundreds of Jewish homes and businesses were looted and destroyed.
The Beilis Affair, in which Menachem Mendel Beilis was accused of murdering a Christian boy in 1911 (and subsequently acquitted at a trial in 1913), sparked international criticism of Czarist Russia's antisemitic policies.
Blood libel charges also spread beyond Europe in the 19th century. The 1840 Damascus Affair and the 1910 Shiraz (Iran) blood libel marked the spread of the blood libel charge in the Arab world.
Blood Libels in the Nazi Era and after the Holocaust
The Nazis made effective use of the blood libel charge in their antisemitic propaganda. In 1923, Julius Streicher established his virulently antisemitic newspaper, Der Stürmer (The Attacker), which frequently employed the blood libel motif. The May 1934 volume of Der Stuermer was devoted specifically to the blood libel, accusing Jews of practicing ritual murder to secure the blood of Christians to use in Jewish religious rituals with the headline "Jewish Murder Plan against Gentile Humanity Revealed."
Even after the Holocaust, the blood libel charge figured prominently in a number of pogroms that broke out in Poland after the war. Most prominent was the Kielce pogrom of July 1946. The pogrom was sparked by charges that a nine-year-old non-Jewish boy, Henryk Blaszczyk, who had left his home in Kielce without informing his parents, had been kidnapped and hidden in the basement of the local Jewish Committee building in Kielce. Although he returned home two days later, the accusation led to a pogrom that resulted in the deaths of 42 Jews and sparked the widespread flights of thousands of Jews out of Poland once and for all.
The Roman Catholic Church has repudiated the blood libel charge, removing Simon of Trent from the list of saints in 1965. Nonetheless, the myth of the blood libel remains powerful into the 21st century. A 2003 TV series broadcast in Syria and Lebanon based on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion shows the Jewish people as engaging in a conspiracy to rule the world, and presents Jews as a people who murder Christian children and drain their blood to bake matzah.
Christian Persecution of Jews over the Centuries
How did Nazi antisemitism build on previous beliefs and attitudes?
Why do people generalize characteristics for an entire group? How can this be dangerous?
How can deep-seated hatreds be countered?
How can knowledge of the events in Germany and Europe before the Nazis came to power help citizens today respond to threats of genocide and mass atrocity in the world?
Dundes, Alan. The Blood Libel Legend: A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore. University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
Poliakov, Leon. The History of Anti-Semitism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Wistrich, Robert S. Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred. New York: Pantheon Books, 1991.


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Q: How to access resources that are newly added while running? JAVA SPRING BOOT I got a spring boot application. Where I serve images from my front end. However, when I serve one it gets saved in the target directory?.
My springboot structure is the standard and I got my images in the src/main/resources/images folder. And I try to read them in using
File fileFolder = new File(new ClassPathResource("/images/").getURI());
However this gives me back the target/images that is build when I run my project. However, I want it to be dynamic so when a image is newly added in I want my app to read them in and give them to my front end. Can anybody help me with this?

A: When you build the project, Maven copies the content from src/main/resources to target/classes, hence the images would not have the new images. You should probably use an external directory for such purposes when you want to load the new images that you'll keep on adding on the server.

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Maneuver Center of Excellence HQ Donovan Research Library in the Spotlight!
Maneuver Center of Excellence HQ…
By Ericka Loze-Hudson
The MCoE HQ Donovan Research Library is much like any other library. It is a place where students, instructors and doctrine writers feel at home, look for information, use a computer, attend programs, hold meetings and get together with other students to study. The Library supports the academic mission at Fort Benning. Soldiers attending the various schools use the library's collection of historical documents, student papers and the extensive collection of military related books to enhance their training and education.
The library was first established in Monterey, California in 1907 as part of the School of Musketry at the Presidio. General Arthur MacArthur, father of General Douglas MacArthur donated the first 20 books. The Musketry Library moved from Monterey to Fort Sill, Oklahoma and became the Infantry School of Arms Library. In October of 1918 the Infantry Library settled at Camp Benning, Georgia, later renamed Fort Benning, with a collection of over 1,700 books. Assistant Commandant LTC George C. Marshall understood the importance of teaching military history and the role academic research played in training future Army Officers. His support helped get the Infantry School Library expanded and in 1935 the Library moved to Building 35 as part of the Infantry Hall and Post Headquarters. In 1964 the Infantry School Library moved to Building 4 along with the Post Headquarters. In 1980 the library's name changed to the Donovan Technical Library in honor of William "Wild Bill" Donovan; a Medal of Honor recipient also known as the "Father of the CIA."
The latest milestone was achieved when the Armor School moved from Fort Knox, Kentucky to Fort Benning, Georgia and the Armor School Library merged with the Donovan Library. The combined collections of the Infantry and Armor School Libraries include one of the Army's best collections of military history along with thousands of historical documents, after action reports and student papers. Many of the student papers describe firsthand accounts of Soldiers experiences in battle and will provide primary source research for students of military history. Currently the staff is in the process of digitizing, cataloging and posting the collections to the library's Virtual Branch at http://www.benning.army.mil/library. In addition to student papers digital collection, the Virtual Branch also provides information about the history of Fort Benning and Fort Knox and digital copies of the Post newspapers.
Professional librarians staff the reference desk on site. Librarians use Facebook and email to connect with researchers from all over the world. You can request information by contacting the library at 706 545-6411/5661 or email questions to the address provided at http://www.benning.army.mil/library.
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Liberty University recently hosted a lecture by Dr. Gary Yates & Dr. Don Fowler on "Genocide and War in the Old Testament." If you're interested in this topic, Yates and Fowler provide a compelling explanation of these Old Testament narratives that is well worth your time. If you'd like more on this topic, you can listen to Yates' podcast on the subject here.
Image: "Joshua Passing the River Jordan with Ark of the Covenant" by Benjamin West.


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Books of the Bible: Exodus
While the so-called culture war has in our time elevated the status of Genesis, it is the second book of the Bible, concerning the exodus from Egypt and the sojourn in the desert, during which God established at Sinai a covenant with Abraham's descendants, that has (by far) the most significance for Judaism. The original authors seem to have shared this view of what's most important. The Yahwist's narrative about Joseph and his brothers, which I skipped over in my post on Genesis, is characterized by brilliant storytelling, our appreciation of which is augmented by the creeping recognition that its function is largely utilitarian: it gets the people into Egypt, where they have to be in order to proceed with the crucial part of the story.
If we find the set-up more interesting than the main event--and I do--then I think it is because in the book of Exodus the work of the Yahwist is eclipsed by the material from the priestly source. Especially in the book's second half, while the people are encamped at Sinai, the determined reader faces the stultifying task of wading through considerable evidence of the priestly writer's interest in the building specs for two objects of worshipful veneration, the "Tent of Meeting" and the "Ark of the Covenant." Thus we meet page upon page of this kind of thing:
They shall make an ark of acacia wood; two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. And you shall overlay it with pure gold, within and without shall you overlay it, and you shall make upon it a molding of gold round about. And you shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark by them. The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it.
That's concerning the ark. Let us not give short shrift to the tent, also known as the tabernacle:
Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet stuff; with cherubim skillfully worked shall you make them. The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall have one measure. Five curtains shall be coupled to one another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another. . . .
Had enough? Multiply by fifty or more. While the Jews are stuck at Sinai, Bible readers are stuck with the priestly writer.
By default, the first part of Exodus is of more interest. It describes how, after the death of Joseph, the people of Israel were reduced to slave status in the reign of a less friendly Pharaoh. There is a charming account of the unusual circumstances surrounding the birth and youth of Moses, who, before God recruited him to intercede with Pharaoh on behalf of the enslaved Hebrews, had been raised in Pharaoh's own house. These intercessory interviews do not go well, for Pharaoh continually and formulaically "hardens his heart," and, despite the afflictions wrought by a series of successively more baleful "plagues" meant to impress upon him the strength of Israel's God, does not relent. A contrarion may feel a grudging admiration for the willful Pharaoh, but I do not think that is the intent of the narrative.
I should say that, as we progress through the first couple books of the Bible, myth begins to merge into historicity. Searching for "the historical Adam" makes about as much sense as scouring records in an effort to discover who Tantalus really was. But the nomadic way of life depicted in the second part of Genesis, including customs connected to marriage and hospitality, is in line with what we know about human culture in the Mideast, circa 2000 B.C. When we come to the exodus from Egypt, we are plainly meant to regard it as an actual event. This is where brisk modern rationalists might begin to rebel. The annals of ancient Egypt have been searched in vain for even a fleeting allusion to the contretemps with the Hebrews. The identity of the Pharaoh with the hard heart has been the subject of scholarly inquiry. Ditto for the body of water (it could not have been the Red Sea) that swallowed up Egypt's finest after miraculously "splitting" to allow the Hebrews to flee. Various naturalistic explanations have been advanced to account for the plagues, for the mysterious pillars of cloud and fire that showed the way in the wilderness, for the manna and quail that fed the people--and for that great escape at the Sea (wherever it was). To me, it all seems sort of silly and unsatisfying. Shouldn't God, being God, have foreknown Pharaoh's hard-heartedness and just cut to the chase with the death of all the first-born? And speaking of things that God should know, why the instruction that Hebrews smear animal blood on the lintels of their homes, so that they would be "passed over"? Might God otherwise be confused about addresses and kill someone innocent?
But weren't Egypt's first-born innocent?
It seems to me that it's not advisable to spend a lot of time trying to distinguish what actually happened from the subsequent embroidery supplied by authors rendered unreliable by their passionate devotion to Israel's cause. There is also the removal in time to consider. Many of the laws set out in the book of Exodus are evidently designed to regulate life in a settled, agricultural state. Since the people of the exodus would have been wholly unacquainted with such a way of life, it appears that the biblical authors imposed current concerns on centuries-old "historical" material. Yet we are told to take it all as the inerrant and infallible word of God.
On the other side of the ledger, there is in Exodus a leitmotif relating to the wavering faith of Moses's people--and of Moses himself--that I find very attractive. When the people are on the march in the wilderness, they regularly complain about hardships--the lack of potable water, of tasty food, of all creature comforts. The bluntness of the complaint can hardly be overstated:
And the whole congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and said to them, "Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
Moses's reaction to God's voice from the burning bush is likewise unheroic. If I may paraphrase: No, not me! I won't know what to say. The people won't believe me. I am not eloquent. Please, someone else. Anyone else! It's a little humorous, actually. Moses argues with God, is not satisfied with the assurances he receives, raises new objections, receives more assurances but persists with his complaint, until finally "the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses." The upshot is that his brother Aaron is appointed his aide. Imagine George Washington receiving that kind of treatment. Or the gallant soldiers with whom he crossed the Delaware on Christmas.
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Although some people are surprised to learn this, Tulsa has thousands of immigrants who hail from countries all around the world. As a result, there are many programs for ELLs, but it can be difficult for people unfamiliar with the area (and with limited English proficiency) to find the resources they need. As we believe that libraries should provide for the ever changing and growing needs of the community, we wanted our library system to be place in which people can learn about the various resources available for them.
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We have been finding that many of our books just weren't meeting the needs of our students; as one can imagine, materials geared toward building basic conversational skills just aren't going to help the young woman who is working on her Ph.D. in electrical engineering at a local university. With this grant, we have been able to purchase intermediate and advanced level materials, such as Face the Issues for those needing speaking/listening help and the Reading Power series for students wanting to build reading skills. We are still searching for more books, and we're especially in need of a good writing series.
Also through this grant, we've been able to purchase eighty Longman Dictionaries of Contemporary English. We've been giving these to ESL learners at our student orientation sessions. They are thrilled to receive these user-friendly dictionaries. We also purchased two books: Teaching Adults and PACE Yourself; these are resource books designed to provide tutors with creative, practical ideas and plans for tutoring ELLs. We distributed these at our ESL Tutor Training and at a workshop called "Everything ESL." Needless to say, tutors were very pleased (and immensely relieved) to have these resources.
We are so thankful for this grant; it has helped, and continues to help, dozens of tutors and learners in our program. In a time when most organizations are facing an increase in demand for services but a decrease in money and resources, this has truly enabled us to continue to provide quality programming to meet the needs in our community. We are excited to see what will happen in the future as our program continues to expand and evolve.
In October 2010, John Amundsen with ALA's Office for Literacy & Outreach Services visited High Plains Library District in Greeley, Colorado, to discuss plans to hold U.S. Citizenship classes with HPLD's American Dream Starts @ your library coordinator, Cindy Welsh. Specifically, we talked about the challenges, successes and big-picture goals of providing badly-needed citizenship resources to Greeley's growing immigrant population.
On September 27, 2010, The American Dream Starts @ your library hosted a poster session at the Joint Conference of the Arkansas Library Association and the Southeastern Library Association in Little Rock. During the session, American Dream librarians Hadi Dudley and Darby Wallace discussed the challenges, the successes nd their hopes for the future as they develop programs for English Language Learners.
To mark International Literacy Day, the Berwyn Public Library in Chicago's Western suburbs held a ceremony to dedicate its new literacy collection. During this ceremony, the Berwyn Public Library renewed its lasting commitment to literacy by honoring retiring District 100 ESL teacher Lucy Barahona, naming its growing literacy collection after her.
This new and valuable community resource was made possible by the efforts of dedicated library professionals and educators in Berwyn, and supported in part by grant from The American Dream Starts @ your library literacy initiative.
In May, Dale Lipschultz and John Amundsen of ALA's Office for Literacy & Outreach Services visited American Dream libraries in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Bentonville, Arkansas. During the trip, Dale sat down with Hadi Dudley, Director of the Bentonville Public Library, to discuss the American Dream programs underway at BPL, the challenges facing the community,and the naturalization ceremony held in the library earlier that day.
On Monday, June 28, 10:30-12:00 representatives from the Bentonville (AR) Public Library; Hooper (NE) Public Library; and Wood County (OH) Library District will describe how participation in the American Dream Starts @ your library initiative helps their libraries provide literacy services for adult English language learners. Â The session will be held in the auditorium of the Renaissance Washington.
Rebecca Carson, Chief of the Office of Citizenship, US Department of Homeland Security, will open the program and Vivian Wynn, Wynn Library Consulting, will provide an overview of the American Dream Starts @ your library initiative. Hadi Dudley, Bentonville (AR) Public Library; Karla Shafer, Hooper (NE) Public Library; and Maria Simon, Wood County (OH) District Public Library will share their unique experiences and insights and describe how and why the American Dream Starts at their library.
Since the initiative was launched in 2008, 104 public libraries in 24 states have been awarded the grants. Â American Dream libraries serve urban, suburban, and rural cities and towns ranging in size from 850 to over 1 million. This project is managed by the ALA Office for Literacy and Outreach Services and supported by a grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.
The program is open to all conference attendees. For more information about the program, visit www.ala.org/annual.
For the most part, things went as planned. We selected, purchased and distributed the physical materials to the centers and were able to train Head Start staff on the online resources at a staff training day.  Presentations at parent nights elicited oohs and ahhs from parents and an eagerness to use the literacy tubs.  All the same, every project—no matter how well planned—runs into complications and ours was no exception. Our biggest obstacle involved a new filter on Head Start's computer network (at that time operated by the county) that prevented access to the library's entire website. Were there other hindrances? Yes. Were they insurmountable? By all means, no. It helped that I was able to glean ideas from other American Dream librarians for work-arounds.
Assistance. As we all know (too well?), these are hard times in library world. We all have to work smarter with reduced resources—even when those are supplemented by Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Why waste time re-inventing the wheel when another American Dream library may have a solution for you? Yet another reason to make good use of all the resources found in the American Dream Toolkit as well as this blog.
C(reativity), A(ssistance), S(ustenance), T(ime) = CAST. We need to talk to because we are the cast in this production. Dollar General Literacy Foundation is our producer. Dale, Vivian, John and the rest of the ALA crew are our directors. Our patrons are our audience and we are the cast. If we are to wow our audience (and we know they need us to do just that), please our producer, heed our directors and support one another we have to converse.  I've just finished my "monologue," who's up next?
Sometimes when I'm in the middle of a large, complex project I temporarily loose sight of what's really important. For the last few months, I've been buried in American Dream  paperwork – proposals, budgets, contracts, and endless strings of emails. I know the importance of this kind of paperwork. I also know that it's what I have to do before I get to do what I love. I love visiting libraries, talking with directors, library staff, and community partners. I love seeing what's happening at your library.  Last week's 'road trip' to the Wauconda (IL) Area Library confirmed the importance of these face-to-face meetings.
When we were planning this phase of the American Dream project I knew that I wanted to build in time for collaboration and conversation. Of course, I want to see libraries, but that's only a small part of it. What I really want is for you to talk with each other.
This time around, establishing a virtual community was (relatively) easy – thanks to ALA Connect, Facebook, and John Amundsen. Virtual communities lay the groundwork, but it's conversations that develop organically and take unexpected turns that really move our work forward.
Whenever possible, I want to bring the American Dream libraries together. We have clusters of libraries – four in South Carolina and New Mexico, five in Florida, Texas, and Pennsylvania, seven in North Carolina and New Jersey, and 11 in Illinois. We will reach out to the local ALA chapters.  We'll certainly will meet at ALA's Annual Conference and Midwinter meetings.
Right now, we're looking at calendars and studying local maps. This Thursday we're traveling to Tulsa, Oklahoma and Bentonville, Arkansas. I'll keep you posted.


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Patent Legal Experts Highlight the Value of Patent Pro-Bono FL/PR
Written By Josie Gulliksen
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The biggest challenge facing innovators and inventors today isn't inventing the next big idea – it's protecting it. The Patent Pro Bono Program is managed by the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO to match pro-bono patent attorneys and agents with financially under-resourced inventors and small businesses to help them secure patent protection.
Patent Pro Bono Florida & Puerto Rico is part of the nationwide network of regional programs to serve inventors. It's a collaboration with the Arts & Business Council of Miami and Dade Legal Aid.
"For over five years we have served creatives and inventors throughout Florida with legal clinics and pro bono matches. In 2021 we started serving Puerto Rico. Our Idea to Reality symposiums elevate and celebrate the entrepreneurial ecosystem and engage some of the region's preeminent legal minds. Our featured thought-leaders provide inventors with tips and tools they need for success," said Laura Bruney, President & CEO of the Council.
Jessica Napoles Zuvic, Pro Bono Coordinator for Dade Legal Aid, brings her matching magic to the program. "We have the distinct honor and privilege to work with exemplary attorneys and patent agents throughout the United States. They dedicate their expertise, knowledge, and a few hours of pro bono work to underserved inventors that range from innovative entrepreneurs to business students to retired veterans. It is gratifying for the attorneys and all of us in the program when our inventors achieve their dreams."
Two of the legal experts that participate in the Patent Pro Bono Program discuss the importance of sharing their skills, the many rewards it offers and memorable matches they've made through the program.
Greg Popowitz, Esq., with Assouline & Berlowe, P.A, is a native South Floridian who started his career path as a product engineer for the auto industry in Michigan. He returned to South Florida, received his law degree and is a Board-Certified Intellectual Property Attorney and Registered Patent Attorney.
"Over the years, I have focused my work on helping entrepreneurs, inventors and companies protect their creations through the various forms of Intellectual Property that includes patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets," said Popowitz. "After almost 13 years of practice, I am proud to have earned the distinction by the Florida Bar to be Board Certified in Intellectual Property Law."
Popowitz has been involved in Patent Pro Bono Florida/PR for five years. During that time, he's enjoyed experiencing the eagerness of inventors he works with and the opportunity to help them navigate the patent process.
"It is a team effort where I learn how the invention works to properly apply for the patent rights, and the inventor learns about the patent process," he said. "When inventors know why certain information is needed or why a prior invention may be a roadblock, it helps them contribute to the process as part of the team with the goal of securing a patent."
Popowitch said the most frustrating part of the process is when inventors apply too late or miss key deadlines. He works to ensure his clients understand the key parts of the complicated patent application procedure, so they make informed decisions about critical patent deadlines and timelines.
"My goal is to always educate creatives and inventors on how to protect their Intellectual Property rights. Whether that is now, or in the future as they continue to plan, invent, and develop branding," he said. "It is very gratifying, when one of the inventors I help, secures their patent rights and turns an idea into an invention or product to build a business".
Frank Pham with Pham Law PLLC became involved with patent law in 2015. His focus is intellectual property. He helps clients draft and complete applications to protect their work and also advises on invalidated patents and patent infringement which is mostly litigation related.
Pham accepted some pro bono patent cases and quickly realized that some of the entrepreneurs he was working with had great ideas but no clue how to protect their inspiration. 99% of the inventors we assist are startups or microentrepreneurs with limited knowledge about intellectual property.
"It's rewarding to help innovators protect their idea or invention by securing a patent. I value the opportunity to educate and teach them the value of their concept and help them understand intellectual property law," said Pham.
Pham recalls helping a client whose invention was a device that combined jewelry with technology capabilities. We helped him patent the product and ultimately land a contract with a jewelry designer. Working with an inventor to prosecute a patent and then see them successfully launch the product is the win-win scenario. It's an economic impact for the inventor and for the business community.
Both Pham and Popowitz agree that their work is invaluable to inventors. The thing they love most about their volunteer matches is the opportunity to share their legal skills with smart people that have great ideas but don't have the resources to move them forward. The patent protects the invention from being copied and provides the licensing and selling the rights to the inventor to monetize the product.
Popowitz encourages other patent attorneys and agents to do whatever they can to assist the Patent Pro Bono program so all inventors have a chance to bring their inventions to completion. We all benefit when innovative new products come to the market.
Registered patent attorneys and agents interested in sharing their time and skills, can learn more and apply at www.artsbizmiami.org/patentfl
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Loraine Barry has gone for the chop.
The stylish talent show judge has revamped her already flawless look just days after the Dancing with the Stars final.
The world champion dancer cut six inches off her long blonde locks for a nice spring change up in appearance.
"Loving my new hair the chop was well needed," she said alongside a stunning selfie.
Sharing another picture of her brand new hairstyle, she went on to say: "Loving my new hair can't get enough of it."
Loraine was announced as one of three judges on Dancing with the Stars when it hit screens back in January 2017.
Since then, she has been on hand to watch Aidan O'Mahony, Jake Carter and Mairead Ronan claim the glitterball trophy.
On the show, Loraine is right in the middle between Brian Redmond who is very opinionated and Julian Benson who is just so extra . What is that like for her? "Obviously, there is a huge contrast and I feel like I get a perspective of two different people."
She previously told RSVP Live: "Julian is all about entertainment and he is just so rewarding and inspiring to the couples, always letting them know that they did really really well.
"Brian, on the other hand, always wants to point out that the couples have to dance and they have to have a certain set of skills".


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The vertical displacement v of a cracked slurry infiltrated fiber concrete member at maximum shear stress is given by v = a + b w, where w is the crack Width, and a and b are estimated from data to be a = 2.5 ± 0.1 mm and b = 0.05 ± 0.01. Assume that w= 1.2 ± 0.1 mm.
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Simon Wiesenthal Letter 20 13-Sep-1997 Jews killing Ukrainians in Lviv
Jewish Documentation Center
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Dear Mr. Wiesenthal:
In my letter to you of September 12, I presented the testimony of Erwin Schulz to the effect that in the few days prior to the arrival of German forces in Lviv in 1941, some 5,000 inhabitants of the Lviv region, predominantly Ukrainians and Poles, had been killed, and that the killing had been conducted "under the leadership of Jewish functionaries and with the participation of the Jewish inhabitants of Lemberg."
The continuing question before us can be broken down into two parts: (1) Were such large numbers of Ukrainians and Poles killed? (2) What ethnic groups were most responsible for the killing?
On the first question, there does not appear to be much doubt — every one of the half-dozen sources that I consulted agree that the slaughter did take place. In fact, in the last quotation of the following set of six, you yourself, Mr. Wiesenthal, can be seen to agree:
Before fleeing the German advance the Soviet occupational regime murdered thousands of Ukrainian civilians, mainly members of the city's [Lviv's] intelligentsia. (Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Volume 3, p. 222)
The Bolsheviks succeeded in annihilating some 10,000 political prisoners in Western Ukraine before and after the outbreak of hostilities (massacres took place in the prisons in Lviv, Zolochiv, Rivne, Dubno, Lutsk, etc.). (Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia, Volume 1, p. 886)
The Soviets' hurried retreat had tragic consequences for thousands of political prisoners in the jails of Western Ukraine. Unable to evacuate them in time, the NKVD slaughtered their prisoners en masse during the week of 22-29 June 1941, regardless of whether they were incarcerated for major or minor offenses. Major massacres occurred in Lviv, Sambir, and Stanyslaviv in Galicia, where about 10,000 prisoners died, and in Rivne and Lutsk in Volhynia, where another 5000 perished. Coming on the heels of the mass deportations and growing Soviet terror, these executions added greatly to the West Ukrainians' abhorrence of the Soviets. (Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, 1994, p. 461)
Right after the entry we were shown 2,400 dead bodies of Ukrainians liquidated with a shot at the scruff of the neck at the city jail of Lemberg [Lviv] by the Soviets prior to their marching off. (Hans Frank, In the Face of the Gallows, p. 406)
In Lvov, several thousand prisoners had been held in three jails. When the Germans arrived on 29 June, the city stank, and the prisons were surrounded by terrified relatives. Unimaginable atrocities had occurred inside. The prisons looked like abattoirs. It had taken the NKVD a week to complete their gruesome task before they fled. (Gwyneth Hughes and Simon Welfare, Red Empire: The Forbidden History of the USSR, 1990, p. 133)
When the German attack came on 22 June the Soviets had no time to take with them the people they had locked up. So they simply killed them. Thousands of detainees were shot dead in their cells by the retreating Soviets. (Simon Wiesenthal, Justice Not Vengeance, 1989, p. 35)
The first question having been settled — I trust — to the satisfaction of all, we turn now to the second question: Is there any ethnic group that might have been particularly responsible for the killing? Well, if the slaughter was conducted by the NKVD or was directed by the NKVD, then the question reduces to What was the ethnic composition of the NKVD?
The evidence that I have come across points to the conclusion that the NKVD was dominated by Jews. Here is one such piece of evidence. The speaker is Yoram Sheftel, John Demjanjuk's Israeli defense attorney, describing his visit to the Simferopol, Ukraine, KGB headquarters in 1990 — what Sheftel seems to be saying is that out of a sample of some 30 members of the wartime NKVD, every last one was a Jew:
On the right-hand wall was a stone memorial plaque engraved with the names of about thirty KGB men from Simferopol who had fallen in the Great Patriotic War, as the Soviets call World War II. I was shocked and angry as I read the names: the first was Polonski and the last Levinstein, and all those between were ones like Zalmonowitz, Geller and Kagan — all Jews. The best of Jewish youth in Russia, the cradle of Zionism, had sold itself and its soul to the Red Devil. (The Demjanjuk Affair: The Rise and Fall of a Show-Trial, 1994, p. 301)
Of course a sample of 30 is not necessarily a sample that is representative of the entire NKVD; however the Jewish domination of the entire NKVD is not a rare or dubious hypothesis, but is one, rather, that is upheld from more than one direction:
As a Jew, I'm interested in another question entirely: Why were there so many Jews among the NKVD-MVD investigators — including many of the most terrible? It's a painful question for me but I cannot evade it. (Yevgenia Albats, The State Within a State: The KGB and its Hold on Russia, Past, Present and Future, 1994, p. 147)
Jews abounded [also] at the lower levels of the Party machinery — especially in the Cheka and its successors, the GPU, the OGPU and the NKVD.... It is difficult to suggest a satisfactory reason for the prevalence of Jews in the Cheka. It may be that having suffered at the hand of the former Russian authorities they wanted to seize the reins of real power in the new state for themselves. (Leonard Shapiro, The Role of Jews in the Russian Revolutionary Movement, Slavonic and East European Review, 1961, 40, p. 165)
The question that I would be interested in hearing your views on, then, Mr. Wiesenthal, is whether the assertion you made on the 60 Minutes broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom of October 23, 1994 may have been diametrically opposite to the truth — specifically, that whereas you held out that during the interval prior to the occupation of Lviv by German forces Ukrainians were slaughtering Jews by the thousands, in reality during this same interval it may have been closer to the truth to say that Jews were slaughtering Ukrainians by the thousands.


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Sidney Crosby scores on Sweden's Henrik Lundqvist during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
Tom Renney was the last man to coach a Canadian men's Olympic hockey team before NHL players took the reins. It was 1994 in Lillehammer, Norway, an event that produced a memorable gold-medal final. Paul Kariya and Peter Forsberg competed in a heart-stopping shootout duel. Corey Hirsch was heroic in goal for Canada. When Sweden ultimately won the gold medal, the championship was so well-received it was commemorated on a Swedish postage stamp.
Now, a generation later, Renney is the president of Hockey Canada and may be facing a familiar yesteryear scenario.
Increasingly, it is looking as though the stalemate among the International Olympic Committee, the International Ice Hockey Federation and the National Hockey League over the latter's Olympic participation will drag on – and eventually oblige all national federations to fill out their men's Olympic hockey rosters with non-NHL players.
If that happens, Hockey Canada is getting ready – just in case.
Back in the fall, Hockey Canada hatched a tentative Plan B, hiring former NHL goalie and two-time Olympian Sean Burke to oversee its participation in two European hockey tournaments – the Deutschland Cup and the Spengler Cup – with a view to evaluating Canadian hockey talent playing abroad.
Renney says he remains in favour of best-on-best competition at the Olympics, but isn't shrinking from the challenge if it goes the other way.
"We were good in 1980 [without NHL players] and, ultimately, we got ourselves to the point where we were winning silver and within millimetres and milliseconds of gold medals in 1992 and 1994," Renney said. "Those were special teams and special times. So there's a bit of me saying: 'whatever happens, we'll be ready to go – and we will be.'"
Complicating matters for Canada is the number of different recruiting scenarios that could present themselves if the NHL stays home.
Right now, Burke's scouting mission focused mostly on Canadians playing professionally in Europe, most of them in either Russia or Switzerland.
But both he and Renney wonder, might the Olympic team have access to AHL players, those NHL prospects on the cusp of playing in the league? Would any Canadians playing college hockey be available? How about top juniors? If Nolan Patrick didn't make it directly to the NHL as the projected No. 1 pick of the 2017 NHL entry draft, would he be interested in following in the footsteps of his uncle James Patrick, a member of Canada's 1984 Olympic team?
All good questions, said Renney, for which there are no ready answers.
Unlike 1994 and the four men's Olympic teams before Lillehammer, Canada will not centralize a men's team in Calgary, with a six-month lead time to get ready, said Renney, because the costs would be too prohibitive.
Instead, Canada is tentatively planning to hold a summer evaluation camp, and then bring those players together for multiple international competitions before the 2018 Olympics in the hope of developing the necessary chemistry. The team could be a work in progress until the 11th hour.
An Olympics without NHL players will shift the favourite's role to Russia, as was the case when Renney and Dave King were icing teams of "amateurs" against the powerful Soviet Union teams of a previous generation.
The NHL's Russian content has dropped precipitously since the high point – 2000-01 – when 89 played here. This year, it's down to 39.
According to figures supplied by the Elias Sports Bureau, among the 934 players to have played at least one NHL game through Wednesday, Russia ranks fourth by nationality behind Canada (435), the United States (246) and Sweden (82) and just ahead of Finland (35) and the Czech Republic (34).
In effect, the Russians will lose access to far fewer players at the top end of its player pool – and would have available the likes of Ilya Kovalchuk, Pavel Datsyuk, Slava Voynov and others playing in the KHL.
Canada, by contrast, would lose a far greater number of its most accomplished players and thus would have to plumb deeper into the mid-echelon of its talent pool.
Ultimately, it could evolve into the sort of David vs. Goliath battle that characterized King's three terms as Olympic coach – and Burke's time as a player in the national program, where he is the career leader in games played (35) and wins (21) at the IIHF world championships.
Burke was also part of the managerial teams that won back-to-back men's hockey world championship gold medals in 2015 and 2016 and would be the logical candidate to act as Canada's 2018 Olympic general manager if the NHL bowed out.
In his current role with Hockey Canada, Burke said he was reminded once again of how important it is to players to play for their country.
"We take it for granted sometimes," Burke said. "We've seen [Wayne] Gretzky, [Mario] Lemieux and [Sidney] Crosby in that Canadian jersey and remember the events they've played in. But at the Deutschland Cup, which we don't even go to every year, I saw how important it was, not just for the players, but also for their families and their parents – to see their kids wear that Canada jersey. So that really resonated for me.
"It's been an interesting assignment – to get to know the Canadian players from around the world who aren't in the NHL but are still pretty good hockey players."
One thing Burke is sure of: No matter who might be playing on the men's Olympic hockey team in 2018, the country will rally around them.
"A year out, sure, people may say they want the NHL players there," Burke said. "But when that event starts, it is still the Olympics. It is still the greatest sporting event in the world. You're representing not only your own sport but you're representing your country alongside other athletes in other sports, too. It takes on a totally different meaning.
"How many people would say, 'I'm not watching the Olympic hockey tournament because it's not the NHL guys.' My guess is, hardly anybody. They'd say, 'if Canada's in the gold-medal game in the Olympics, I want to watch it.' It won't matter who is playing."


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Freedivers' portraits
The sport of freediving is starting to gain momentum in Romania, driven by a small, but quite active community, behind which Sergiu Şerban and Alex Russu have laid a great deal of effort, conviction and dedication. AIDA Romania, the local branch of the most known international freediving organization, was founded in 2012, the same year in which the first Romanian attendance as a team took place at the World Championships in Nice.
Following, we present a series of freedivers' portraits, freedivers who practice the sport and are active supporters of the freediving community, and who make a life enriching passion out of apnea diving.
Adriana Bantu, freediver
She is 29 years old, she's from Bucharest and since four years ago she lives in Cyprus. It's been nearly two years since she started practicing freediving, mainly in the Mediterranean Sea, in Cyprus. "Freediving helps me relax my mind and body, helps me know myself better and also the limits my body can withstand. It is the perfect combination between sport and relaxation," Adriana explains.
She participated in the 2011 AIDA Depth Games, which took place in Limassol, Cyprus, and where she placed first in the female Constant Weight (CWT) category. In September 2012 she took part in the 2012 AIDA Freediving World Team Championships, in France, Nice, where, together with Sergiu Şerban and Alexandru Russu, she represented the Romanian team. Here, Ada established two new female national records: 30m CWT and 75m DYN. The most recent attendance for Ada was in the middle of October at the AIDA Cyprus Depth Games 2012, in Limassol, where she placed first once again with a new Romanian national record – 34m CWT.
She will continue to practice freediving as a hobby and she will dive "as much as I'll feel secure and relaxed. Usually, after I feel comfortable in a specific depth, I'm trying to go 1-2 meters deeper, and so on. In freediving I prefer to take small steps and be safe".
Sabin Bidian, freediver
He's 32 years old and originally he's from Timişoara. He started freediving one year ago and believes that through it he gains "a sort of freedom that you can't get somewhere else and the possibility of exploring the underwater world". He will continue to practice this sport, "only when my friends are very insistent to dive:)".
Adrian Lică, freediver
He's 37 years old, he comes from Bucharest and has already accumulated a rich freediving experience under his belt: "I first started diving 5 years ago with SCUBA equipment and I attended a few courses and got a few certifications, so this is how I came in contact with Romania's diving community.
In the beginning of 2010 a group of people interested in freediving started to gather up. Sergiu was the catalyst. At around the same time the first courses were held and the ARDA association was founded; it was then when I truly started to practice freediving, because I was splashing around in the water at 3-4 meters since I was 10," Adrian explained to us.
When asked what he gains by practicing freediving he says that he gains a lot, but, if he should resume to a single "thing" he says that is Relaxation, because "you can't practice freediving if you are physically and mentally tensed; you have to effortlessly float through the water, not fight it, and, for this, you need to relax your mind and then your body."
He will continue practicing freediving every time he will get a chance. "The underwater world is fascinating and there are so many beautiful places to explore and so many things to see. I like both the recreational side of it with «strolls» along reefs and colored fish and the sport side of it where I can find out where my limits lay and train to surpass them", explained Adrian.
Bogdan Mitoc, freediver
He's 36 years old, coming from Vâlcea county and "naturalized" to Bucharest for over ten years. Since three years ago he practices apnea diving "in an organized and «methodical» fashion". "Freediving started to draw me in through offering me the key to another dimension, an interior one. When you freedive you feel truly free," Bogdan explains his attraction to freediving.
He trains in the pool in Bucharest, while the depth disciplines he practices either at the Black Sea or "in our outings with the boys at the Red Sea", as he told us. "I hope to also teach my children to freedive, probably I will practice freediving until my age and health will allow it. Once you've descended beyond a certain depth it's not likely that you'll soon forget that experience, it takes just a second to fundamentally change you, there are moments when you feel that the mental and physical barriers are surpassed and you begin to redefine yourself."
Mihai Vigariu, freediver
He's 28 years old, originally from Craiova, but has been living in Bucharest for almost ten years. Even though it's perhaps unexpected from a computer developer, he describes with emotion what his experience when freediving means for him: "Sudden joy. There's a state when your entire body smiles, when you meet different underwater creatures, and when simply, it just feels you are one with the sea. It's sublime to be able to swim together with huge schools of fish, or to keep pace with a turtle; not to mention that if you have the chance of seeing a few dolphins pass you by, and accept you into their gang, you're instantly hypnotized, and your whole being vibrates at the beauty of these mammals." In other words, for him freediving means relaxation, "primarily, I just come closer to myself, I know it sounds strange, but this is what happens. There's also a slogan in the diver's world: «The scuba diver dives to look around, the freediver dives to look inside»."
He took part in different competitions held by Freediving Romania, "which had the purpose of placing us in the role of attending a real competition, to feel what it means to keep in chess your emotions, to face any thought that passes through your head, and the final aim to be completely relaxed."
He works on equalization techniques, to improve his swimming technique and "the most important for me, to succeed in reaching relaxation states as deep and long as possible. I prefer the recreational side, but in the future, depending on my results, I reserve the choice to take part in a competition."
The most recent event in which the Romanian freedivers have taken part was the Sofia Freediving Cup 2012 in Bulgaria, on the 17th and 18th of November 2012. Our team comprised six athletes: Ilhan Baobec, Adrian Lică, Bogdan Miţoc, Sergiu Şerban, Traian Văduva, Mihai Vigariu. On this occasion Adrian Lică established a new male national record with 107m DYN (Dynamic with Fins).


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Reno-based gaming company Eldorado Resorts, Inc. has reached two separate acquisition agreements that amount to an estimated total of $2.2 billion. The company already owns twenty establishments across ten different states, including four casinos in Missouri and three in its home state of Nevada – these recent deals will add eight new properties to the Eldorado Empire.
MGM Resorts International and its venture partner have agreed to sell the Grand Victoria Casino to Eldorado Resorts in a $327.5 million cash deal.
In an even more sizable move, Eldorado has partnered with real-estate investment trust Gaming and Leisure Properties to buy most of Carl Icahn's Tropicana Entertainment. Valued at $1.85 billion, the arrangement will see Gaming and Leisure Properties taking the helm with a significant share of the payment. Eldorado Resorts will be responsible for the remaining amount, and the two companies will enter into a leasing agreement.
Both acquisitions were publicly announced this week and resulted in a record high in Eldorado's NASDAQ performance – an increase of up to 20.9% in shares.
Located in Elgin, Illinois about forty miles west of Chicago, the Grand Victoria Casino first opened in 1994 to a warm reception. The boat would embark on hour-and-a-half long cruises in order to allow guests to gamble until 2000, when dockside gambling was legalized. The casino features 1,088 slot machines, 30 table games, a 12-table poker room, a 1,450-space parking garage, and four dining establishments.
For years, the MGM-owned riverboat casino consistently generated more revenue than any other Illinois casino, but due to recent contenders like Rivers Casino in Des Plaines and the rise of video gambling, business at the Grand Victoria has slowed down considerably. Today, the Grand Victoria ranks #8 on TripAdvisor's top Illinois casinos.
The Grand Victoria will be Eldorado's first Illinois property, and the deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2018.
Tropicana Entertainment, Eldorado Resorts, and Gaming and Leisure Properties have all agreed upon a $1.85 billion deal that signs over seven casinos across six states: Tropicana Evansville in Indiana, Belle of Baton Rouge Casino & Hotel in Louisiana, Trop Casino Greenville in Mississippi, Lumière Place in Missouri, Tropicana Casino & Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Tropicana Laughlin Hotel & Casino and the MontBleu Casino Resort & Spa, both in Nevada. The deal excludes the Aruba property, which Tropicana plans to sell as a condition of the deal closing.
Gaming and Leisure will pay $1.21 billion and lease the properties to Eldorado for an initial term of fifteen years for an estimated $110 million a year. Eldorado will be responsible for the remaining $640 million and will have the option of lease renewals of up to 20 years.
In total, the properties contain an estimated 7,900 slot machines, 265 table games, and 5,400 hotel rooms. Once all conditions have been met, Eldorado's casinos will feature a total of 26,800 electronic gaming machines, 800 table games, and more than 12,500 hotel rooms.
These acquisitions aren't the first of their kind for Eldorado. In 2014, Eldorado had sole ownership of only two casinos – in 2016, the casino entertainment company acquired St. Louis-based Isle of Capri Casinos' 13 gaming properties for $1.7 billion. With the recent additions to its portfolio, Eldorado will be a diverse 28-casino enterprise.
On the other hand, Carl Icahn is on his way out of the casino business. Tropicana Entertainment, which had filed for bankruptcy in 2008, was revived by Icahn in 2010. Since then, the company has made an entire turnaround, though Icahn has been slowly selling off properties – most recently in 2017, when he sold the unfinished Fontainebleau resort project in Vegas for $600 million.
These recent shifts reflect a clear trend of consolidation within the U.S. casino market – one that will undoubtedly continue, with Eldorado Resorts maintaining its momentum and forging ahead.


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The ingredient 'VETIVER'
by Fabcent Store Admin | Aug 31, 2018 | FabStories | 0 comments
The mighty vetiver, a staple ingredient in most masculine fragrances
Vetiver oil, also known as khus oil, is believed to be very grounding, calming and stabilizing, and provides a range of essential oil uses and benefits. Its calming and soothing properties are said to dispel anger, hysteria and irritability, and reduce neurotic behavior.
What Is Vetiver Oil?
Chrysopogon zizanioides, commonly known as vetiver, is a perennial grass that belongs to the Poaceae family, which is native to India. Western and Northern India know this plant as khus.
Vetiver (Vetiveria zizanioides), derived from a Tamil word that means "hatcheted up," can grow up to 1.5 meters (4.9 feet). It has tall stems and long, thin and rigid leaves. Its flowers are brownish-purple. Vetiver hails from India but is widely cultivated in the world's tropical regions.
Vetiver essential oil is derived through the steam distillation of the plant's roots. It has a strong initial aroma and is described as woody, smokey, earthy, herbaceous and spicy. While not widely known, it dates back centuries and, in the 12th century, even became a taxable item in India.
Perhaps the most valued quality of vetiver oil is that it is deeply grounding and often used for promoting sleep. It is said to also be equally helpful for restlessness.
Uses of Vetiver Oil
Almost the whole vetiver plant is used for various applications. The roots have been particularly used since ancient times.
Vetiver essential oil is extensively utilized in perfumery, including the creation of perfumes for the body, room fresheners and coolers, as well as soaps, cosmetics, and oils. It is also a flavoring agent in beverages, sorbets and other foodstuffs. Its aromatic effect on the mind is grounding, calming and balancing, while its other notable actions are antiseptic, antispasmodic, immune-stimulating, warming and sedative to the nervous system, and stimulating to the circulatory system, to name a few.6
Vetiver oil's calming and soothing properties are said to dispel anger, hysteria and irritability, and reduce neurotic behavior. This in turn reduces stress and tension. These revitalizing qualities make it helpful with physical and mental exhaustion, and for addressing issues ranging from general aches and pains to insomnia and anxious feelings.
Composition of Vetiver Oil
According to a paper by U.C. Lavania from India, the chemical composition of vetiver oil is extremely complex. It mainly comprises sesquiterpenes and sesquiterpene derivatives, of which vetiverols, their carbonyl compounds and esters, serve as the main constituents. Their relative abundance normally dictates the quality of the oil.
Three carbonyl compounds are deemed the primary odor-influencing components of this essential oil, which is used extensively to blend oriental-type perfumes and floral compounds, along with other cosmetic and aromatherapy applications. Vetiver oil is also a main ingredient in 36 percent of all Western-quality perfumes and 20 percent of all men's fragrances, says Lavania. The author adds that the main fibrous smooth roots are important for oil quality.
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We find ourselves in the ninth year of economic expansion, with most indices pointing in an upward direction. According to the Expectations & Market Realities in Real Estate 2018 report, published by Deloitte, the National Association of REALTORS® and Situs RERC, most global economies toiled under sunnier skies over the past year, with about 75 percent of countries experiencing gains.
In the U.S., gross domestic product has been expanding steadily, boosted by a combination of higher consumer spending, rising business investments, and solid export activity. For consumers, the pace of job creation and wage growth spurred increased optimism, which led to higher spending. Employers added 2.2 million new jobs to payrolls during 2017, bringing the 2010-17 total number of new jobs to 17.8 million. The unemployment rate declined from 4.8 percent in January of 2017 to 4.1 percent by January of 2018. For perspective, the unemployment rate clocked at 9.8 percent in January 2010, not far from the Great Recession-high of 10.0 percent. Just as importantly, employment gains over this period have been broad-based, across most sectors.
The pace of economic gains was also reflected in the Federal Reserve's monetary policy actions. The Federal Open Market Committee voted for three rate hikes during 2017, citing the low unemployment rate and signs of upward pressures on inflation. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) moved in a narrow range most of the year, around 2.0 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, the cost of housing — both rent and owners' equivalent rent, which comprise about a third of the CPI—advanced at a faster clip during 2017, averaging close to 3.5 percent. In addition, the Fed also moved toward further monetary tightening, when it announced in October of 2017 that it would commence divesting some of its $4.5 trillion in assets starting in 2018, by allowing maturing bonds to roll off its balance sheet without reinvesting the payments.
For commercial real estate fundamentals, the economic gains translated into solid demand for space. While the performance of each property sector offered more nuances in 2017, on balance, commercial markets recorded rising rents, placing cash flows at the center of shifting investor expectations.
This shift in investor expectations was a defining characteristic of the commercial real estate landscape in 2017. While the bifurcation in investment trends continued along valuation lines, with pricing reaching new highs and interest rates moving higher, investors refocused their strategies away from returns based on appreciation gains and cap rate compression, and toward cash-flow-centered returns.
The refocus was evident in transaction volumes and pricing. Investment volume in the large cap space closed 2017 with $463.9 billion in transactions, a seven percent decline from 2016, according to Real Capital Analytics (RCA). This marked the second year of sales declines. Sales volume declined in each of the four quarters, with the last one posting a 13 percent drop.
However, highlighting the more nuanced environment, prices in large cap commercial real estate markets advanced 7.1 percent year-over-year in 2017, according to RCA. All property types, except hotels, posted higher prices during the year, with the apartment and industrial properties recording higher comparative gains. Analysis from RCA pointed to a growing gap between sellers' high price expectations and buyers' willingness to pay those high prices. Cap rates spent most of the year moving sideways, in a narrow range of 6.7-6.9 percent. The fourth quarter of 2017 average across all property types was 6.9 percent, on par with the last quarter of 2016, according to RCA.
The common thread in commercial real estate markets over the past year was the continued increase in the profile of small cap metros and properties. While the six major markets tracked by RCA experienced a 14 percent decline in investment sales over the year, secondary markets' sales volume slid by a moderate two percent in 2017, and tertiary markets' investments were flat over the year.
The thread was also echoed by trends in REALTORS®' commercial real estate markets, most of which focus on small cap transactions. REALTORS® reported advances in investment sales, as the momentum picked up in the final quarter of 2017. Following on the second quarter's 4.4 percent increase and the third quarter's 3.6 percent gain in sales volume, REALTORS® reported that sales volume advanced a solid 9.1 percent in the fourth quarter.
Mirroring large cap investors' interest in rising fundamentals and higher yields, small cap markets remained an attractive environment. The shortage of available inventory—a defining market feature during this cycle—remained the number one concern for REALTORS® engaged in commercial investments. The dearth of inventory pushed prices for SCRE properties up, to the tune of a 6.9 percent yearly advance in the fourth quarter of last year. Echoing the large cap market trend, the pricing gap between buyers and sellers proved the second highest ranked concern for commercial practitioners. Anecdotally, REALTORS® indicated that while sellers expected high prices, many buyers were more targeted in their acquisition strategies, and more likely to focus on expected cash flow gains to drive valuations, versus cap rate compression.
The longer-dated bond market remained tentative in 2017, even with the Fed's rate increases. The Treasury 10-year note ranged from 2.17 percent in the first quarter to 2.29 percent in the third quarter, and settled at 2.25 percent by the end of December. However, the rate picked up speed during the first part of 2018, riding a precipitous curve and reaching a high of 2.94 percent on February 21 of this year. With the Federal Reserve signaling continued commitment to upward rate adjustments, most market participants expect three-to-four increases this year.
As investors scan the horizon for signs of change and risk, questions abound about the current cycle's duration, timing, and outlook, in light of the expected upward march in interest rates. Are commercial real estate assets overvalued? Is there a price bubble? As we approach the 10-year mark of this cycle, are we headed for a downturn?
Over the next two years—barring external shocks—the U.S. economy is projected to continue expanding at a positive-if-moderate pace: 2.9 percent in 2018 and 2.6 percent in 2019. With the attendant gains in employment, the advance will maintain demand for commercial properties on a positive trend line. In turn, landlords can expect positive cash flows, especially for value-add properties. Looking at net operating income growth in 2017, it has been a major contributor to price gains, particularly for retail and industrial properties, and it is expected to play an important role over the next couple of years.
With cap rates flat over the past year and a half, compression likely reached its lower bound, and investors can expect rising rates to add upward pressure on yields. However, it's worth noting that cap rates remain low by historical trends, in line with returns on most financial assets. Moreover, the spreads between caps and the 10-year Treasury note yield—a measure of investor compensation for commercial real estate risk—remain quite wide, especially when viewed through the lens of a longer-timed horizon. Investors in commercial real estate assets retain about a 400 basis-point cushion against rising interest rates.
Adding a bright line to the outlook, unlike prior cycles, debt financing has played a smaller role in the current expansion. Partly due to the regulatory environment and partly due to investor preference, equity capital has become a larger source of commercial real estate funding, exceeding debt placements in 2017. While commercial real estate debt instruments accounted for $3.76 trillion in 2016, they comprised $3.92 trillion in 2017. In comparison, commercial real estate equity investments totaled $3.97 trillion in 2017, a noticeable advance from 2016's $2.85 trillion, based on an analysis by Situs RERC.
It is important to keep in mind this is a constantly shifting environment and risks are also evolving. With improving global economies, investors are finding attractive alternatives outside U.S. commercial real estate markets. With rising prices and shrinking inventory, investors are likely to shift some of their allocations away from U.S. metros and toward faster growing economies in Asia and Europe. Also, while the tax reform and a softer regulatory regime are expected to boost corporate investments in the U.S. economy, an unresolved North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiation, coupled with the administration's proposed tariffs, could potentially provide negative shocks to prices and consumer spending.


I got into running in 2010. I hadn't done sports since school, and the honest answer is that I got drunk and agreed to run a marathon with a friend. We went for our first run together and after the first lap, she told me she was pregnant and couldn't run the marathon.
I decided to do it anyway. I had no desire to run but decided to go on this journey. At the time, I didn't know anyone doing sport, so I started writing a blog – Run Like Elle – to document my journey.
Soon I was getting 2000 hits a day. People were reading it because it was a really finite journey: running a marathon after never having run before. And I had 11 weeks to train. Since then, I've run 12 half marathons, five full marathons and one ultra. I run one a year.
Race day nerves have always been my downfall. I don't run for world records but I still can't ever sleep the night before a race, or eat that morning. I do all the things you're not meant to do. But practice makes perfect, and the more I do it, the less abstract an experience it becomes.
I started a running club at work, so once a week we go out for that. Then I do a quick run one evening after work, and one long run at weekends – 10 miles-ish. I also alternate a few Barry's Bootcamp, spin classes and vinyasa flow yoga classes. I enjoy the mix of structured classes and the freedom of running.
There's only so much time in the day, so I started combining running with seeing art. I invited friends to join me and #artsrun was born. Now it's open to anyone. Just check my Instagram @runlikeelle for news.
It's basically an opportunity for me to try and do it all. In this stead, I led a group of women on a Fashion Week run – from show to show. You have to do what you can, when you can; I muddle it all together.
Running does two things for me: firstly, it allows me pure escapism. It washes away my stress.
And then the complete opposite: it allows me to focus. You can sit at a desk for hours willing the ideas to come to you. Then you go for a run and something tramadol online pharmacy overnight shipping really random will spark something.
I love what I see on my runs. I travelled a lot of with my last job and found it helps me to discover a place, as I throw myself down little backstreets.
For me, it's never been about a race time, it's about the journey – the things en route are more important to me than the time you get at the end of a race.
In the early days, after a 20-mile run I was genuinely in a catatonic state – zombied. But now I actually find it really reenergising.
I keep it pretty simple. I change up my trainers all the time – depending on the terrain and how I'm feeling – always Nikes though, I've amassed a pretty good collection over time.
I love A Day work-out tights. They use the same zips as Balenciaga, so you don't feel you're even wearing sportswear. Or Nike men's split shorts; they're really comfy. Then a crop top, vest – the usual.
I've never really been into a running 'look' per se; running is quite a pure thing for me. I work in fashion all day so it's quite nice to not think about it at all.
I always wear sunglasses though – I love Prism. Even if I have tears streaming down my face, in my head I'm still totally retaining composure.
For someone who's lacking motivation – maybe a tired mum or dad – what advice or tips would you give to inspire them to exercise?
If you've got parenting down, running's going to be a doddle. There's no good or bad – it's really just a personal thing. Run up to the point that feels right for you, for two weeks, then that point will get further.
Enjoy spending time in your own body and brain, just thinking about you. It's a good opportunity for parents to focus on themselves. There's no right or wrong; it's not about having a great backhand, or strong serve, so just find what works for you.
Some people are goals orientated and perform well with guidelines, which give them impetus to improve. Personally, that's never been my motivation so doesn't necessarily turn me on – but people I've met have used the Couch to 5K app and they say it's amazing.
One great thing about running is that it's free. And you get to be outside. You forget that London is one of those rare cities where we do have loads of green space – take advantage of it – and run like 'elle.
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Monument of Peoples Heroes Tiananmen Square Beijing China at sunset
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Tiananmen Square and the 38 meters (125 ft) high monument to the People's Heroes, Beijing
Monument to the People's Heroes at Tiananmen Square was erected as a national monument of China. It serves as a national monument of the People's Republic of China for the martyrs of revolutionary in the 19th and 20th centuries. The public memorial is located in Asia, Far East People's Republic China Capital City Beijing Megacity, Dongcheng.
The fine-art urban photographic print is taken during sunset creating a warm, soft glow. The only person visible is the guard standing just left of the stairs. The relative size of the man standing juxtaposed against the monument creates a sense of size.
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