Up next we're taking a look at the first sequel to pop up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Robert Downey Jr returned as the first superhero some two year's after 2008's Iron Man. With his secret identity now out in the public, Tony Stark has to pit his wits against a vengeful Mickey Rourke as Ivan Vanko (aka Whiplash), the authorities who want his suit for their armed services, as well as a rival businessman and weapons manufacturer Justin Hammer, played by the always reliable Sam Rockwell. An actor who was also considered for the role of Tony Stark in the first film.
It was also a first for the franchise as it saw a superhero team-up, with the introduction of secret agent and eventual Avenger, Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson). If that wasn't enough teaming up for you, Don Cheadle, who replaced the departing Terrence Howard, also got in on the action – and his own suit of armour – as War Machine. After his cameo role in the post-credits stinger for Iron Man, there was even time for a greater part for the head of SHIELD, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson).
Whilst the film's critical success is often debated, it was a financial success that further helped to establish Marvel Studios as the emerging beacon of light in a sea of its flailing contemporary film companies and steadied the ship after The Incredible Hulk's wobble. We take a look at why that might be with our retro review following clips and trailers from the film, as well as in our recently recorded retrospective review with our special guest Leighton – who you can find at @LastFilmSeen on Twitter… or if you happen to be passing any rooftop forts in India. You can also check out his incredibly comprehensive list of intertwining MCU timelines, Easter eggs and trivia over on Letterboxd.com.
Our next minisode will feature more clips, more trailers, more retro reviews and retrospective reviews as we look at 2011's Thor.


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Equal Access: Universal Design of Informal Learning
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A checklist for making an informal learning program or facility welcoming, accessible, and usable
As increasing numbers of people with disabilities participate in academic opportunities and careers, the accessibility of classes, services, electronic resources, and events—including informal learning activities—increases in importance. The goal is simply equal access; everyone who would like to engage in informal learning should be able to do so comfortably and efficiently. Informal learning is defined here as lifelong learning that takes place outside of the traditional classroom. The content of this publication can help informal learning leaders and staff get started in making their offerings accessible to and inclusive of people with disabilities.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments of 2008 mandate that no otherwise qualified person with a disability shall, solely by reason of his or her disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination in public programs. This means that presentations, services, information resources, and other informal learning activities should be accessible to individuals with disabilities. Although the content in this publication does not provide legal advice, legal resources available to an organization and the US Office of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) can provide guidance regarding disability-related legal mandates.
An approach to making facilities, information, and activities accessible to and usable by everyone is called universal design (UD). Universal design means that rather than designing for the average user, you design for people with differing native languages, gender identities, racial and ethnic backgrounds, abilities, and disabilities. It requires that staff and volunteers who conduct informal learning activities are trained to support people with disabilities, understand how to respond to specific requests for accommodations in a timely manner, and know who to contact regarding disability-related issues. The universal design of informal learning offerings will make everyone feel welcome and minimize the need for accommodations for individual participants.
Following three sets of principles can ensure that online and on-site aspects of an informal learning program are accessible to, usable by, and inclusive of all visitors. The seven principles of UD ensure that products and environments are equitable, are flexible, are simple and intuitive, offer perceptible information, have a high tolerance for error, require a low level of physical effort, and offer size and space for approach and use. Four principles for IT design underpin the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) guidelines; they require IT components to be perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. The three principles for the Universal Design for Learning require that inclusive pedagogy and curriculum offer multiple means of engagement, multiple means of representation, and multiple means of action and expression. Details about a UD Framework underpinned by these three sets of principles can be found in A Framework for Inclusive Practices in Higher Education.
Guidelines and Examples
Addressing the following questions provides a good starting point for making your informal learning activities, facilities, and resources accessible and inclusive of everyone. This content does not provide legal advice. Contact the US Office of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) about legal mandates.
Planning, Policies, and Evaluation
Consider disability and other diversity issues as you plan and evaluate offerings and activities.
Are people with disabilities, racial and ethnic minorities, men and women, young and old, first generation, individuals with low income, and other groups represented in the project planning processes in numbers proportional to those of the whole campus or community?
Do policies and procedures ensure access to facilities, events, and information resources for people with disabilities?
Are disability-related access issues and other diversity issues addressed in data collection, evaluation plans and instruments?
Do you address issues related to the inclusion of participants with disabilities in grant proposals, perhaps by partnering with an organization with expertise in this area?
Information Resources and Technology
If your informal learning offerings use computers as information resources, ensure these systems employ accessible design, that staff members are aware of accessibility options, and systems are in place to make accommodations when requested.
Do pictures in your publications and website include people with diverse characteristics with respect to race, gender, age, and disability?
In key publications, do you include a statement about your commitment to access and procedures for requesting disability-related accommodations? For example, you could include the following statement: "Our goal is to make materials and activities accessible to all participants. Please inform organization leaders of accessibility barriers you encounter and request accommodations that will make activities and information resources accessible to you."
Are all printed publications available (immediately or in a timely manner) in alternate formats such as Braille, large print, and accessibly-designed electronic text?
Are key documents provided in languages other than English?
Are printed materials in your facility or at an event within easy reach from a variety of heights and without furniture blocking access?
Do electronic resources, including web pages, adhere to accessibility standards adopted by your institution, project or funding source? The World Wide Web Consortium created the most commonly used guidelines, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. For example, provide text alternatives for images; make sure content can be accessed using the keyboard alone.
Do you include a statement on your website affirming your commitment to accessible design? For example, you could include the following statement: "We strive to make our website accessible to everyone. We provide text descriptions of graphics, images, and photos. Video clips are open-captioned and audio-described. Suggestions for increasing the accessibility of these pages are welcome."
Do videos developed or used in the project have captions? Are they audio-described?
Is an adjustable-height table available for each type of workstation to assist participants who use wheelchairs or are small or large in stature?
Do you provide adequate work space for both left- and right-handed users?
Is software to enlarge screen images and a large monitor available to assist people with low vision and learning disabilities?
Do you provide a trackball to be used by someone who has difficulty controlling a traditional mouse?
Are staff members aware of accessibility options (e.g., enlarged text feature) included in computer operating systems and of assistive technology available in the facility?
Are procedures in place for a timely response to requests for assistive technology?
For more information about technology that is accessible to people with disabilities, consult Accessible Technology.
Facilities and Offerings
Ensure that facilities, activities, materials, and equipment are physically accessible to and usable by all participants, and that all potential characteristics are addressed in safety considerations.
Are all spaces welcoming, accessible, comfortable, and safe to a variety of abilities, racial and ethnic backgrounds, genders, and ages?
Are there parking areas, pathways, and entrances to the building that are wheelchair accessible and clearly identified?
Are all levels of the facility connected via an accessible route of travel?
Are aisles kept wide and clear of obstructions for the safety of users who have mobility or visual impairments?
Are wheelchair-accessible and child-friendly restrooms with well-marked signs available in or near the facility?
Is at least part of a service counter at a height accessible from a seated position?
Is adequate light available?
Are there ample high-contrast, large-print directional signs to and throughout the facility, including directions to accessible routes? When appropriate, are these signs marked in braille?
Consult the ADA Checklist for Readily Achievable Barrier Removal for more suggestions and Universal Design of Physical Spaces for guidance in making specific facilities (e.g., engineering labs, makerspaces, computer labs) accessible.
Make sure staff are prepared to work with all visitors and participants.
Are staff members familiar with the availability and use of the Telecommunications Relay Service, assistive technology, and alternate document formats?
Do staff members know how to respond to requests for disability-related accommodations, such as sign language interpreters?
Are staff and contractors in specific assignment areas (e.g., web page development, video creation) knowledgeable about accessibility requirements and considerations?
Are staff members aware of issues related to communicating with participants who have disabilities?
Do staff deliver conference presentations and exhibits that are accessible to all participants?
For further information, consult the Communication Hints section at the end of this publication, Effective Communication: Faculty and Students with Disabilities, and/or Equal Access: Universal Design of Your Presentation.
Checklist Updates
To increase the usefulness of this working document, send suggested improvements to sherylb@uw.edu.
Communication Hints
Treat people with disabilities with the same respect and consideration with which you treat others. Here are some helpful hints when it comes to delivering a presentation, hosting an exhibit, and otherwise relating to people with disabilities.
Ask a person with a disability if that person needs help before providing assistance.
Talk directly to the person with a disability, not through their companion or interpreter.
Refer to a person's disability only if it is relevant to the conversation.
Avoid derogatory slang or negative descriptions of a person's disability. For example, "a person who uses a wheelchair" is more appropriate than "a person confined to a wheelchair." A wheelchair is not confining—it's liberating!
Provide information in alternate means (e.g., written, spoken, diagrams).
Do not interact with a person's guide dog or service dog unless you have received permission to do so.
Do not be afraid to use common terms and phrases, like "see you later" or "let's go for a walk" around people with disabilities.
Do not touch mobility devices or assistive technology without the owner's consent.
Do not assume physical contact—like handshakes, high-fives, or hugs—is okay.
Understand that not everyone uses eye contact.
Be descriptive. Say, "The computer is about three feet to your left," rather than "The computer is over there."
Speak all of the projected content when presenting and describe the content of charts, graphs, and pictures.
When guiding people with visual impairments, offer them your arm rather than grabbing or pushing them.
Offer directions or instructions both orally and in writing. If asked, read instructions to individuals who have specific learning disabilities.
Consider carrying on a long conversation with an individual who has a mobility impairment from a seated position.
Speech Impairments
Listen carefully. Repeat what you think you understand and then ask the person with a speech impairment to clarify or repeat the portion that you did not understand.
Face people with hearing impairments, and avoid covering your mouth, so they can see your lips. Avoid talking while chewing gum or eating.
Speak clearly at a normal volume. Speak louder only if requested.
Repeat questions from audience members.
Use paper and pencil, or type things out on your cell phone, if the person who is deaf does not read lips or if more accurate communication is needed.
When using an interpreter, speak directly to the person who is deaf; when an interpreter voices what a person who is deaf signs, look at the person who is deaf, not the interpreter.
Psychiatric Impairments
Provide information in clear, calm, respectful tones.
Allow opportunities for addressing specific questions.
For more information about applications of universal design consult The Center for Universal Design in Education. Read the books Universal Design in Higher Education: From Principles to Practice, Second Edition and Creating Inclusive Learning Opportunities In Higher Education: A Universal Design Toolkit, both published by Harvard Education Press and sharing perspectives of UD leaders nationwide.
Consult AccessISL for resources specifically related to the design of accessible informal learning. You'll find links to literature, websites, and a Knowledge Base of Q&As, case studies, and promising practices. To engage in the AccessISL community of practice to engage with others interested in making informal learning more inclusive of people with disabilities, send a request to doit@uw.edu.
About AccessISL
AccessISL supports efforts to develop a capacity building model for making informal STEM learning (ISL) opportunities more welcoming and accessible to individuals with disabilities. The project also prepares the University of Washington for the submission of a larger accessible ISL grant as collaborators develop and test model interventions, more fully develop replication steps, and gain insight from both people with disabilities and practitioners.
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This publication is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant #DRL-1906147). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding sources.
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Shoegaze band Nothing will be heading out on a full US tour this September and October to support the release of their upcoming LP. The record is titled Dance On The Blacktop and is due out August 24, 2018 on Relapse Records. See below to view the tour dates.


I've decided to choose a more Autumnal colour today as the weather hasn't been too great the past week and I just wanted to get in the Winter Christmassy mood (October I know, but I'm an early starter).
I'm wearing Sinful Colours (which I've mentioned in a previous post) and this shade is called Dancing Nails. It's a lovely cranberry colour with just enough hint of a sparkle.
What nail polish have you been loving this week?


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Federico Andrés Giannoni (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1 de junio de 1987) conocido como Emanero es un rapero, compositor y productor discográfico argentino.

Con más de 15 años de carrera y con canciones sobre la realidad social y los problemas personales,
Emanero se ha convertido en un referente del hip hop/rap en Latinoamérica.

Carrera musical

Inició su carrera en el año 2004 produciendo su propia música. En 2005 con solo 17 años publicó en Internet su demo titulado Mi primer maketa; este trabajó lo lanzó a la escena nacional compartiendo carteleras con la banda chilena Tiro de Gracia. A fines de ese año empezó a trabajar con el sello independiente Sigla Music y lanzó su primer álbum de estudio, Bienvenidos a mi mundo.

Televisión

Discografía

Álbumes de estudio
 Bienvenidos a mi mundo (2006)
 Arjé (2010)
 Tres (2014)
 Tres mil millones de años luz (2018)
Chernobyl (2021)

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Emanero en HH Group
 Emanero en Billboard

Raperos de Argentina

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The art of selling your soul
There's a venerable tradition of artists, musicians and other creative types selling their souls for supernatural talents and/or commercial success. The poet Robert Graves went cap in hand to Diana, the rather crotchety old Goddess of the Moon, and begged her for inspiration, even at the cost of his soul. Robert Johnson is remembered as one of the most extraordinary blues guitarists of all time, but the price he had to pay, if you believe the legend echoed in songs like 'Hellhound on My Trail' and 'Me and the Devil Blues', was the gifting of his soul to the Prince of Darkness.
Graves' gradual descent into a madness disguised as senility and Johnson's violent death at a shockingly young age ought to point towards the dangers of soul-selling, but they haven't been enough, it seems, to deter Bill Direen, the Kiwi music legend and prolific poet and novelist who has been a frequent subject of dicussion on this blog. A few days ago, for reasons that are still obscure, to me at least, Bill decided to offer his soul for sale. Robert Johnson rendeszvoused with the Lord of Flies at a lonely Mississippi crossroads, and Robert Grves wandered about howling through the nights of Majorca looking for Diana, but Bill decided he'd prefer meet potential buyers online, and thus advertised his 'Soul in very good condition' on the ever-popular Trademe website.
If the following e mail is any indication, though, Bill's plans have run into a bureaucratic brick wall:
Dear William,
Your listing for SOUL IN V. GOOD CONDITION Listing no. 173064528 has been withdrawn. It's come to our attention that you may not be in possession of one or more following items you're selling on Trade Me:
All items listed on our site must be in the seller's physical possession at the time they create their listing.
Our listing policies are explained in more detail on the following page:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Help/Topic.aspx?help_id=516
To learn more about your obligations as a seller please review our terms and conditions:
Please ensure that you're in physical possession of all items before you list them on Trade Me. We appreciate your cooperation with this request.
If you have any questions or require further clarification of this policy please let us know.
Trade Me Customer Support
As someone who has seen Bill Direen bang out his achingly beautiful '80s Flying Nun classic 'Alien' to a packed house at the Masonic Hotel at three in the morning, I have no doubt that the man has has soul. For that reason, I'm happy for punters, human and supernatural alike, to place their bids in the comments box under this post. I just Bill knows what he's letting himself in for...
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Whoever can guess the point that this anonymouse commenter was trying to make about Matisse and Pt Chevalier gets a case of Vailima:
PUNKS are too self involved to consider fair play. They already think THEY are the ones that have been slighted and are only playing OLD TESTAMENT PAY BACK! Excuses for every bad move they make! NEVER their fault because someone else made them do it. Usually "the MAN" (lmao) well there is a MAN is there somewhere I'm sure but MOST are just PUNK BOYS! (and Victimized/Insecure Women) PUNK is a general term in my book for young, ignorant, rude borderline criminal immature kids.
Reasons for learning Moriori
Public discourse around this year's Maori Language Week seemed remarkably upbeat, with veteran activists talking about how far efforts to save te reo have come, and number crunchers telling us that Maori and Pakeha alike are learning the language (or, in my case, desperately trying to learn a few words) in larger numbers. Even Shortland Street, that arbiter of the Kiwi cultural mainstream, got into the act, running Maori subtitles for one of its episodes.
Moriori cultural activists are aiming to emulate some of the achievements of their Maori cousins. Back in June the government made a one-off grant of six million dollars to a trust set up to help the Moriori people research and promote their history and language. The Te Keke Tura Moriori Identity Trust was the idea of the Hokotehi Moriori Trust, which is the organisation that represents the tchakat henu (that's tangata whenua in Maori, and indigenous people in English) of Rekohu and Rangiauria (Chatham and Pitt Islands). The grant was accompanied by an acknowledgement of the suffering that Moriori endured at the hands of both the Crown and the two Taranaki iwi who invaded Rekohu and Rangiauria in 1835.
Over at the Television New Zealand website there is an interesting discussion about the new grant with lawyer and historian Maui Solomon, who is perhaps the most famous living Moriori. Solomon explains that the money will help Moriori scholars make proper use of the records of their language that were written down in the second half of the nineteenth century by a series of Pakeha ethnologists. The most notable of these scholars was Alexander Shand, a long-time resident of the Chathams whose research was guided by the Moriori elder Hiruwaru Tapu. Shand published a number of studies of Moriori culture and history, and spent many years working on a full-scale dictionary of the language. In 1910, though, he lost his life in a house fire that also destroyed his unpublished manuscripts. Other scholars published partial Moriori vocabularies, and in 2001 Rhys Richards synthesised a lot of earlier texts in his Reo Moriori o ngā karapuna o Rekohu (The Moriori language of the ancestors on the Chatham Islands).
By the time the Moriori language was being written down, the people who spoke it had suffered decades of slavery at the hands of Ngati Mutunga and Ngati Awa. Low birth rates and gradual assimilation to Maori culture meant that, even after the end of slavery, the Moriori language continued to decline. Tommy Solomon, who had become famous for being the last full-blooded Moriori by the time he died in 1933, spoke Maori rather than Moriori.
The 'Moriori renaissance' of the last quarter century has brought a renewed interest in the Moriori language. Words and phrases began to used to be used on ceremonial occasions; when members of the Waitangi Tribunal visited Rekohu and Rangiauria to conduct research in the nineties, for instance, they were welcomed to the islands in Moriori. Nevertheless, Maui Solomon says there is today only one person who can speak Moriori fluently, plus a few more who can karakia and chant in the tongue. It must be lonesome to be the sole speaker of a language.
Can reo Moriori be fully reanimated? The example of Cornish, which was extinct for well over one hundred years but now has a couple of thousand speakers, would seem to suggest that the task is not impossible. And there are reasons why non-Moriori should care whether reo Moriori is resurrected in the twenty-first century. The language may well be a unique source of information about many aspects of human history in the Pacific.
About three thousand years ago people spread east from the edges of the Pacific into Samoa, Tonga, and smaller islands of the region known today as Western Polynesia. Over a thousand years a distinctive culture solidified there, and in the first centuries AD the great wave of exploration and settlement that would eventually reach Rapa Nui, Hawaii and Aotearoa began. The new Polynesian territories shared a family of languages known as Eastern Polynesian. Hawaiian, Tahitian, Maori, and Moriori are all part of this family, which is itself a part of the larger Polynesian family, and beyond that the Austronesian family.
Only after following helpful winds and ocean currents as far east as Rapa Nui and the coast of South America did the Polynesians make the difficult journey south to the land we know today as Aotearoa. We do not know the exact origin of the first settlers of these islands, but we can say that they came from somewhere in central east Polynesia, a region that contains the southern Cook Islands, the Austral, Society, and Marquesas Islands, and Pitcairn Island.
Moriori are the descendants of a group of very early Maori who left Aotearoa about seven hundred years ago, perhaps in an attempt to make a return journey to the Cooks or Austral Islands, and discovered Rekohu and Rangiauria. There was little or no contact between Aotearoa and the Chathams for many hundreds of years, so Moriori were not influenced by the culture that Maori iwi developed in Aotearoa until the invasion of 1835. Even after the invasion, their language was little altered by the borrowing of foreign words.
Moriori therefore probably contains an exceptional number of words which hark back to the 'proto-Polynesian' tongue which was spoken three thousand years ago, on the western edge of the Pacific. Moriori contains other words which were developed during the settlement of central Eastern Polynesia - words which early Maori would have brought to Aotearoa, but which have in many cases fallen out of use. Words like namu (mosquito) take us back from the cool kopi forests of Rekohu to the heat and haze of central Polynesia. Moriori can help scholars understand ancient Polynesian society, and the pattern and timing of Polynesian migration.
Moriori might perhaps be compared to the Icelandic language, which preserves much of the old Norse tongue in which the medieval sagas of the Vikings were written. Swedes and Norwegians cannot understand the texts of those sagas today, because their languages have changed a great deal, but Icelanders can still read the stories with ease.
Maui Solomon is realistic about the prospects for reviving the Moriori language, saying that he hopes to see a few score speakers to emerge over the next couple of decades. Every movement needs a vanguard, and the world will be a richer place if Moriori is spoken and studied in the twenty-first century.
Matisse in Pt Chev
I spotted these on a footpath near the end of Point Chevalier the other day. They reminded me of that bit of dialogue between the ageing art dealer and the primary school teacer in Six Degrees of Separation, the only watchable Will Smith movie yet devised:
"Why are all your students geniuses?
Look at the first grade - blotches of green
and black. The third grade - camouflage.
But your grade, the second grade...
Matisses, every one.
You've made my child a Matisse. Let me study with you.
Let me into the second grade.
What is your secret?"
"I don't have any secret. I just know when
to take their drawings away from them."
Why Usain Bolt is the new Jesse Owens
In 1936, Adolf Hitler did everything he could to turn the Berlin Olympics into a celebration of Nazism. The architecture of the Olympic stadium and other events centres, the absurd Wagnerian opera of the opening ceremony, and the ubiquity of the swastika and other Nazi symbols were all intended to drive home the message that the Aryan race was physically and mentally superior to all other breeds of human. Hitler wanted the towering, blond-haired members of the German athletics team to confirm their superiority on the race track, by trouncing rivals from lesser races.
Unfortunately for Hitler, an African American named Jesse Owens left the athletes of the 'master race' in the dust, winning four gold medals in the Berlin Olmpic stadium. Hitler was infuriated, and Owens became a hero to anti-fascists. Are Hitler's Olympics merely a dark chapter in the history of sport, or do they have some parrallels in the present? Scottish socialist blogger Andy Newman has some relevant thoughts:
It is instructive that the sports which exemplify the Olympics are those based upon direct comparative measurement: for example, athletics, swimming, weightlifting, cycling, skiing and boxing. The competition is between those who can best sublimate their human individuality and transform their body into a machine for producing the most efficient performance...human beings are subordinated to maximising the outputs of their own bodies, even at the cost of their long term health or mental well being...
The Olympics - and even more so the Tour de France – are dominated by performance enhancing drugs, and the effective collusion by the sports' governing bodies.
What is more, the training infrastructure and the development of sports science is much more advanced in the developed economies of the imperialist powers. So every four years the Olympics gives an opportunity for the great powers to ideologically demonstrate that their world dominance is underpinned by an implicit biological and racial superiority. This is one of the impetuses behind the prestige of holding the games – an orgy of conspicuous consumption that validates the host nation as a major power.
For me, the dehumanisation of the sportsman - his or her conversion into a mere machine designed to turn out records - is symbolised by the case of Michael Phelps. Like the hulking blond monsters that raced for Hitler in 1936, Phelps seems more like an ideal type than a real human being. Phelps was born with an unusual body - he has an exceptionally long torso, and very short legs - which enables him to move quickly in the water, and for a decade now he has devoted himself obsessively to exploiting his natural advantage. 'All I'm doing is eating, swimming, and sleeping', he admitted in one poolside interview. Phelps' enormous diet has attracted a great deal of amused interest in the media, but few journalists have noted the sheer joylessness with which the man chomps down his daily intake of toasties, omletes, and pizzas. For Phelps, food is simply fuel. To enjoy a meal would be to lose focus and training time. The body is a machine which must be maintained with the maximum efficiency. Phelps' progress towards a record eight gold medals has been as well-planned and relentless as a military campaign. Unsurprisingly, it has failed to move many observers.
Over the last week, a very different athlete has grabbed a lot of attention that might have gone to Phelps. The young Jamaican Usain Bolt has won the one hundred and two hundred metres sprints, and set world record times in both. It is not only Bolt's results but the way they were achieved which has caused excitement. Bolt laughed, joked and even danced about before his races, and he began to celebrate his victories even before he reached the finishing line. A full twenty metres before the end of the final of the one hundred metre sprint, for instance, Bolt slowed down, dropped his arms, looked around and smiled. It was as though he was mocking the solemn sports coaches and commentators who urge athletes to extract every last fraction of effort from their bodies.
Bolt appears to have little time for the sports world that produced the monster that is Michael Phelps. As a teenager, he was offered a lucrative scholarship by a number of US universities impressed by his natural abilities. It is common, of course, for schools, universities, and professional sports franchises in wealthy countries to poach talented youngsters from poorer countries. New Zealand rugby relies increasingly for its health on young men lured from Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji by the promise of education, money, and a career path.
Bolt refused every offer of a scholarship, saying that he was happy living in Jamaica. He has also resisted attempts by sports coaches to make his approach to training and running more 'scientific'. The Guardian offered an account of Bolt's race day 'preparation' for the one metres final:
Fast man, fast food. "I never had breakfast," said the Jamaican as he recalled the start of his greatest day. "I woke up around eleven, I watched television and then I had some [chicken] nuggets for lunch. I went back to my room, I slept for two hours, I went back for some more nuggets and came to the track."
Bolt's attitude to his sport has horrified all the right people. They sputter about 'indiscipline' and wonder wistfully how fast Bolt could go 'if he really tried'. Bolt himself, though, doesn't seem to care. 'I just wanted to win, I didn't care about the time', he said after the hundred metres final. Like Jesse Owens in 1936, Usain Bolt offers a two-fingered salute to those who want to dehumanise sport.
A golden lesson?
It was beginning to seem like the whole country had constipation. In bars, in cafes, in sports clubs and in living rooms Kiwis sat with furrowed brows and clenched fists, grunting whenever another rider lost contact with his horse, groaning whenever the opposition put another soccer ball or hockey puck into the back of the net. Was New Zealand destined not to win a single Olympic medal? Could the dismal record the All Blacks carved out last month have been an augury?
After Saturday night's surge of medals, brows unfurrowed, faces lost their unhealthy purple tingle, fists unclenched into applauding palms, and the cliche-mongers of the media pronounced the salvation of New Zealand. After rower Mahi Drysdale battled Beijing belly to wear a vomit-stained bronze medal, the New Zealand Herald crowed that the spirit of 'national toughness' had not died with Edmund Hillary. With his willingness to rise above adversity and leave his body, or rather his breakfast, on the battlefield, Drysdale was, the Herald reckoned, a model for young Kiwis raised in an era of emasculating, anti-competitive
'political correctness'.
One of the Herald's gang of civic-minded letter writers took up the same theme with reference to the Evers-Swindell twins, who overcame a couple of pumped-up Germans and Peter Montgomery's senile TV commentary to narrowly win their second successive rowing gold. Contrasting the broad sweet smiles and bulging biceps of the Evers-Swindell girls with the bulging boobs of the naughty girls Steve Crow wants to parade down Queen Street, the Herald's correspondent insisted that 'here we have two different models of womanhood'. Apparently the Evers-Swindells hark back to an older, better world, where girls knew how to sew before they knew how to spell, and only visited sinful places like Queen St to watch the Santa Parade or cheer the return of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
Before we turn Drysdale and the Evers-Swindells into symbols of the sort of good old New Zealand Brian Tamaki and Garth George are forever eulogising, though, we ought to consider where all three rowers went to school. Drysdale and the Evers-Swindells didn't spend their formative years at an ultra-conservative, militarised institution like the one John Graham created at Auckland Boys Grammar; nor did they even experience the rough and ready pleasures of a proudly old-fashioned school somewhere in New Zealand's rural heartland.
Drysdale and the Evers-Swindells are all proud ex-students of Taikura Rudolf Steiner School in Hastings. The school was founded more than half a century ago, though it was only in 2000 that the word Taikura was added to its name. As the school's website
explains, the meanings of the new word illuminate the philosophy of Steiner education:
'Taikura'
heartwood of trees with red wood;
'Tai'
currents (of influence, of emotion, of sensibility)
streams (of consciousness, of philosophy)
tides of life
'Kura'
red glow
treasured possession
sanctum of learning
I don't know whether that little incantation would appeal to John Graham, Martin Deaker, or any of the other red-faced schoolmaster-coaches who are always complaining about the 'softness' of young New Zealanders, and the lack of 'guts and grits' shown by young Kiwi sportsmen and women. For his part, Rudolf Steiner would probably have been quite uncomfortable at the barracks-like school John Graham ran at Auckland Grammar in a desperate effort to turn out 'hard' sportspeople with 'a will to win'.
Steiner, a stern critic of the ideological and cultural conformity demanded by
modern industrial society, set up schools that were intended not to churn out robots for the factory or the football team, but to 'educate the whole child', by making the emotions and imagination of pupils as important as their reading and arithmetic skills.
In a fine post on this blog, Skyler described her experiences at one of New Zealand's handful of Steiner schools:
The teachers at my school worked hard to produce well-rounded individuals - people who could learn from life as well as books. Field trips to beaches and forests and school plays were as important as exams. The arts were taken as seriously as the sciences, and imagination was celebrated rather than stifled. Ours was a 'hands on' way of learning: we were encouraged to do our own research, rather than simply swallow facts and figures. I remember learning about history and English literature not by sitting in class taking down a teacher's monologue, but by touring the North Island with our class putting on a play about Nazism and the resistance to it in continental Europe during World War Two. While studying Indian Mythology we heard stories, learnt music, poetry, cooked Indian food and learnt traditional dancing and some of the language, and put on another play. As twelve year olds studying geology we went camping and caving at Waitomo.
Our school would acknowledge the rhythm of the year by celebrating the change of seasons. In autumn we would dress up in autumnal colours, have a harvest table of food we would give to charity, sing songs and eat a meal we had cooked together. For winter we built a bonfire, made lanterns, went for a lantern walk at night and sang winter songs – very magical! These celebrations gave us a sense of stability and connectedness to the world around us.
The Nazis rushed to close Steiner's schools down, calling them breeding grounds for weak and undisciplined citizens. Today, Steiner's detractors sometimes still use similar language. You won't see a Steiner school first XV taking out a regional schools' title anytime soon. Sport is a part of Steiner education, but it is often not even competitive, let alone militarised and commercialised. Twenty year-old fifth year seventh-formers aren't paid to skip classes play rugby at any Steiner school.
Isn't it remarkable, though, that a single, small Steiner school has delivered New Zealand such Olympic riches? If The Republic of Steiner could appear on the medal board, it would stand above a sports superpower like Argentina, which has so far only won a single bronze at Beijing. Could it be that the strength of character that helped Drysdale overcome acute pain to take bronze, and enabled the Evers-Swindells to come from behind to win a tight race, is acquired more easily in the relaxed, anti-authoritarian, creative atmosphere of a Steiner school? Perhaps the narrow, high-pressure, hierachical education that many sportspeople marked as 'promising' now get at mainstream Kiwi schools has something to with the ability of our rugby players and our cricketers to so often steal defeat from the jaws of victory at the business ends of sports tournaments? Perhaps Rudolf Steiner has something to teach the sports coaches and headmasters of this country?
Rongotute: more than a story?
Last week I posted about the mysterious skull which was the subject of a recent coroner's report in the Wairarapa. Experts who have examined the skull believe it belonged to a Caucasian woman, and radiocarbon tests have indicated that she was alive in the middle of the eighteenth century.
Understandably, many historians and anthropologists are reluctant to accept the Wairarapa skull as proof positive that Europeans were living in the interior of the North Island of New Zealand, decades before the arrival of Captain Cook. One person who has ventured beyond scepticism is Gareth Winter, the archivist at Masterton museum, where the skull is being held. As the British Daily Telegraph reports, Winter believes that the skull may have something to with a Maori oral tradition:
Mr Winter said that Captain Cook recorded, in the log of his second journey to New Zealand aboard the Resolution in 1772-5, a tale told to him by a Maori chief of a ship having been shipwrecked many years earlier. Cook said the Maori told him that they given the ship's captain the name "Rongotute".
Early missionaries wrote of hearing the same story from Maori, who related that the survivors of the ship had been killed and eaten when they came ashore. They said that many Maori had subsequently died in an epidemic, possibly as a result of exposure to a newly introduced infection from Europe. Historians believed that the most likely site of such a shipwreck was Cape Palliser, the windswept southern-most point of North Island.
The story that Winter describes is discussed in detail in a paper Rhys Richards published in 1993 in the Journal of the Polynesian Society under the title 'Rongotute, Stivers, and 'Other Visitors' to New Zealand 'Before Capitain Cook'. Richards has published widely on New Zealand and Pacific history and cultures - I examined his latest publication, Manu Moriori, for the Scoop Review of Books a couple of months ago - and his study of the Rongotute story should serve as a model for anyone considering the
more shadowy regions of history. Where the proponents of Celtic or Phoenician settlement of these islands typically leap to the wildest of conclusions from the flimsiest of grounds, Richards is very careful not to make more than he should of the story of Rongotutute and the the tantalising pieces of evidence that might support it.
Richards begins his argument by noting that the southern part of the North Island seems to have been depopulated in the late eighteenth century; as a result, the region succumbed relatively easily to a series of invasions by peoples from the north during the Musket Wars of the early nineteenth century. The Rongotute story was told repeatedly to Captain Cook by peoples living in the Cook Strait area, but it was also relayed decades later to the Reverend Richard Taylor by the Maori who lived in the Wanganui region of the North Island.
The seas around Cape Palliser are extremely wild, and have claimed many ships over the years. Rhys Richards quotes nineteenth century reports of old wrecks sticking out of the surf near the Cape. He also notes widespread reports of smallpox epidemics in the southern North Island in the late eighteenth century. Richards points out that the Maori word for smallpox - rewarewa - was subsequently used to describe any epidemic, and even lesser illnesses like the head cold.
Did a ship run aground at Cape Palliser sometime in the middle of the nineteenth century? Richards' paper considers whether it is possible that any European ship could have come close to New Zealand shores in the century and a quarter between the fleeting visit of Abel Tasman and Cook's 'discovery' of the country. He discusses the bulky, poorly-designed trading ships known as 'East-Indiamen', which sailed from Europe around the Cape of Good Hope, and then blew east on the roaring forties, before trying steering north to their destinations in Southeast Asia. Is it possible, Richards asks, that one of these craft might have been unable to steer north, and might have blown all the way to New Zealand on the roaring forties? A similar scenario might bring a trading ship to New Zealand's shores via Cape Horn, at the bottom of South America. Eighteenth century British vessels, especially, often carried fine red blankets to trade, and the Rongotute legend mentions that red blankets were taken from the wreck of the strange ship.
Richards accepts that the evidence for Rongotute is less than definitive, but he still feels it needs to be taken seriously:
It is all too easy to dismiss...stories of pre-Cook visits to New Zealand...but an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, so the only valid verdicts are 'not proven', and these, of course, are very different conclusions from 'non-existent'...it seems credible to me that, before 1770, a foreign ship introduced to New Zealand a disease that depopulated the southern half of the North Island...
What is needed now is probably not so much an intensive re-assessment of the existing fragmentary sources, on which there may never be a meeting of minds, but, rather, a determined multidisciplinary search to see whether any additional 'sources' of any kind at all can be brought in from anywhere to illuminate further these shadowy margins of New Zealand's earliest Pakeha history [JPS 102, 1993, pg 34].
Will the Wairarapa skull end up bolstering Richards' theory, as Gareth Winters apparently thinks it might? There are other, more straightforward explanations for the object. I think it is quite possible that the date given for the skull is innaccurate - radiocarbon is good for dating objects over millenia but can easily be out by a hundred years or so - or that the object was brought to New Zealand and used as a keepsake by some Wairarapa settler. Perhaps it held a candle in the lonely study of a nineteenth century cottage? Perhaps the children who inherited the keepsake thought it morbid, and chucked in a nearby river?
Occam's razor isn't infallible, though, and Winter and Richards deserve to be taken seriously. If they're on the right track, then there are a few textbooks that will have to be rewritten...
The aesthetics of mockery
There is something sublimely awful about the 'bird's nest' stadium which hosted the protracted opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics. The nest motif reminds us of the delicacy and sensitivity to the forms and rhythms of the natural world which are such a strength of so much traditional Chinese poetry, painting, and architecture. The size of the stadium, though, makes a mockery of the motif - one imagines a flock of Apache helicopters or one of Darth Vader's ungainly black patrol ships alighting from the nest, instead of the graceful birds of T'ang dynasty poems.
In much the same way, the opening ceremony diminished the event it was supposed to celebrate. The militarised yet absurdly sentimental spectacle was a sort of nightmarish fusion of a Stalinist mass rally and a Disneyland film, and thus undoubtledly appealed to the corporate 'communists' who have run China since D'eng Xiaoping rose to power at the end of the '70s. It was a relief when the Olympic athletes were finally allowed to enter the stadium, and their unscripted ebullience went some way towards the salvaging the night.
New Zealand has a rather different design tradition from China - where the architects of the Middle Kingdom have a reputation for gracefully harnessing chi, we have always been a nation of proudly rough and ready shed builders. And the new, Olympic-sized Westfield Albany megmall on Auckland's North Shore mocks our noble tradition just as surely as Beijing's bird's nest mocks the work of Chinese aesthetes. Where the bird's nest blows a traditional Chinese motif out of all proportion, the mall at Albany takes the good old-fashioned Kiwi backyard shed and blows it up into a Ballardian nightmare.
The smell of chemicals, the absence of windows, and the headache-coloured walls might seem charming when you're visiting the place where your mate stores his homebrew, or tinkers with his motorbike, or paints her masterpieces, but they quickly become oppressive when you're hundreds of metres away from the nearest egress, and desperate for a breath of fresher air, or simply for some proof that the outside world has not ceased to exist.
In John Boorman's essential but half-forgotten film Zardoz - it's the one where Sean Connery runs around for three hours in a red jockstrap playing a character called Zed the Destroyer - a utopian society of immortals ages its artists and dissidents until they become senile, and forces them to live ad infinitum in a dilapidated old folks' home in the middle of the woods, where they pass time by playing in a shambolic brass band. After gratefully discovering an fire exit at the back of the giant shed at Albany, I came upon a brass band of old men playing to a non-existent audience. Something in their bearing reminded me of the band in Zardoz.
I forgot my desire to flee far from the mall and hung about for half an hour, thinking, for the first five minutes at least, that the band was tuning up, and that a crowd would soon gather to applaud politely and drop useless ten cent pieces in a tattered tophat. Nobody appeared, though, to keep me company in the audience. Even more strangely, perhaps, no member of the band ever made eye contact with the sole member of the crowd, even when he began taking photos. The band did not pause for a moment between its songs, which sounded to my inexpert ears like frayed and over-long versions - strictly instrumental, of course - of minor Brat Pack hits from the late 1950s. I also thought I heard the theme from Dad's Army at one point. When I finally fled the scene, it was out of an obscure sense of embarrassment, rather than mere boredom.
Why do these old men play? Who, if anyone, pays them? Are they performing some strange penance? Do the owners of the monster shed pay them to perform outside an obscure fire exit where no sensible person ever loiters, simply so that twenty-first century capitalism's contempt for all artists and all aesthetic standards can be celebrated? Has anyone else seen the old men play? Were my camera and I merely hallucinating?
Window reading
Auckland's Parson's Bookshop marked national poetry week by filling its windows with books and chapbooks of verse produced by small presses. I have a somewhat utilitarian approach to books - I'm interested in getting to the contents, and tend to forget about little things like cover design, page layout, illustrations, font choice, and so on - but I was impressed by the artistry on display in the windows of Parson's.
Regular readers of this blog might remember my post about Jack Ross' Papyri: the chapbook was launched by Soapbox Press last year, on a boozy night that almost ended in the evaporation of Richard Taylor.
The Wairarapa skull and the 'white tangata whenua'
Over the past year or so I've had a few cracks at the self-styled scholars who believe that Maori were beaten to Aotearoa by Europeans, or Chinese, or Egyptians, or Indians, or half a dozen other peoples who had no documented contact with these islands in prehistoric times.
I became aware of the variety and relative popularity of alternative theories of Kiwi prehistory while working on an Information Desk in the Maori-Pacific section of Auckland museum. Often, the historical understanding of museum visitors was severely affected by their subscription to one or another extravagant theory that denied the real past of these islands and the status of Maori as the tangata whenua of this country. It's hard to have a useful discussion about the Kaitaia lintelpiece and other masterpieces of Maori carving, for instance, when your interlocutor believes that those carvings were made by Phoenicians or Celts, and then stolen by Maori. It's hard to talk about the meaning of the Treaty of Waitangi with somebody who has been convinced by a well-designed but utterly flakey website that Maori were the third or fourth people to arrive on these shores.
Perhaps the most aggressive proponents of an alternative theory of Kiwi prehistory are those folks who believe that Celts settled these islands in ancient times, only to be conquered by the Maori, who appropriated much of their material culture. The best-known advocate for the Celts is Martin Doutre, an American-born immigrant to New Zealand who has published a massive and whimsical book called Ancient Celtic New Zealand and who maintains a very odd website with the same name. Doutre spends his weekends hiking around the backblocks of New Zealand, discovering the ruins of ancient Celtic observatories - 'Stonehenges of the South Pacific' - where other people see random collections of rocks.
Like a number of advocates of alternative, incredible versions of New Zealand prehistory, Doutre has links with the extreme right-wing end of the political spectrum. His name pops up frequently at the website of the One New Zealand Foundation, a small but very grumpy organisation set up to oppose the Treaty of Waitangi, state support for the Maori language and, it seeems, all forms of biculturalism. Doutre has written admiring letters to the neo-Nazi pseudo-historian David Irving, and he also appears to have connections to the kookiest parts of the '9/11 Truth' movement. Kerry Bolton, one of this country's best-known neo-Nazis and the former theorist for the National Front, has published a book on New Zealand prehistory which makes much the same arguments as Doutre. Bolton has lately become a contributor to the One New Zealand Foundation's website.
In The Politics of Nostalgia, his fine study of the far right in New Zealand, Paul Spoonley argued that one of the main barriers to fascist politics here was the status of the Maori people as tangata whenua. Pakeha Kiwis could not, Spoonley suggested, imitate the 'We were here first', 'Keep our country white' rhetoric that had helped make neo-Nazism popular amongst certain sections of modern European societies.
The theory that the ancient Celts settled New Zealand first before being conquered by Maori can be seen as an attempt to dispose of the impediment to fascist propaganda that Spoonley noted. For the likes of Doutre, the One New Zealand Foundation, and Bolton, the assertion that an ancient European people - or the 'white tangata whenua', as Bolton calls them - were the first to settle these islands is enough to discredit Maori nationalism and the ideology of biculturalism. If Maori only took control of these islands as a result of a 'genocide' of Europeans and if taonga of Maori culture like the magnificent carvings at Auckland museum were actually produced by Europeans, then Maori lose their mana, and seem actually to deserve the treatment which was meted out to them by colonisers' armies and goverments.
Doutre and a number of his fellow thinkers employ a paranoid theory with its roots in anti-semitism to explain the apparent lack of evidence for their claims about New Zealand prehistory. They argue that a massive conspiracy run by a sinister minority buries the proof that a massive ancient Celtic civilisation existed on these islands. It seems that some sort of special government squad, rather like the sinister and secret forces in The X Files, is always ready to descend on excavations and confiscate Celtic bones and artefacts. Caves are sealed up and forests declared off-limits whenever Doutre and his co-thinkers get too close to the truth. Advocates for the theory of an ancient Celtic settlement of New Zealand wash up on this blog occasionally, to accuse me of being a spokesman for the vast Maori-led conspiracy to suppress Celtic history.
Now, though, it seems that the conspiracy might be losing its grip, and the heavy veil drawn over the truth about New Zealand history might have lifted. How else can a paranoid pseudo-historian explain the recent investigation into the skull discovered several years ago beside a river in the Wairarapa? Experts have decided that the skull probably belonged to a middle-aged European woman, and radiocarbon tests have suggested that the woman was alive in 1742, twenty-seven years before Captain Cook made it to New Zealand and almost one hundred years before the start of the European settlement of the Wairarapa. Yesterday at least one of the advocates of the prehistoric Celts was using a comments box at this blog to celebrate the vindication of his theory:
Ha ha Maps better stop posting you anti-white racist and bitter halfcaste you have no answer to this skull which proves that whites were first in NZ
Some historians and Maori leaders are clearly apprehensive about the uses that might be made of the skull. Wairarapa Maori leader Haami Te Whaiti thinks that 'the crypto-historians will have field day with this'. Kerry Howe, the Massey University historian who wrote a book about false theories of the first settlement of New Zealand, has the same worry.
Neither Te Whaiti nor Howe has been willing to concede that a European was living in the Wairarapa in 1742. This is not evidence of a conspiracy by a monolithic intellectual establishment, but an entirely appropriate display of caution. There is no evidence, besides the recently-analysed skull, for a European presence anywhere in New Zealand in 1742.
The fact that the skull belonged to a woman, and was discovered some distance from the sea on the eastern side of the country, only makes it more of an anomaly. If the skull of a man was found lying in the sands of some West Coast beach and dated to 1742 it might possibly be explained away as the remains of a whaler or adventurer whose ship was wrecked on New Zealand shores. What, though, would a woman be doing in the inland Wairarapa at that date?
Martin Doutre and his friends undoubtedly believe that they have the answer to the puzzle posed by the Wairarapa skull. Has their golden hour of recogniton and credibility really arrived? I don't think so: one swallow does not make a summer, and one skull dated to the eighteenth century hardly constitutes reasonable evidence that a massive and advanced Celtic civilisation existed on these islands many hundreds of years earlier. If Celts really did establish a southern civilisation here, then we ought to be stumbling on skeletons, buried roads, walls, and so on every hour of every day. Not even the most elaborate conspiracy of radical Maori, elitist academics, and politically correct bureacuracy could conceal the truth from the eyes of Kiwis.
I'll post some more reasonable possible interpretations for the Wairarapa skull on the weekend, if I can manage to find a computer. In the meantime, it's worth remembering that some of the self-appointed experts rushing to acclaim the skull as proof for their theories have pretty unpleasant political motivations.
Maps will return soon
Just a quick notice to say that Maps hasn't been able to blog much lately, due to a broken down laptop and not being 100% well. He wants to assure everyone he'll be back in action soon.
In the meantime these events look interesting:
POETRY LIVE - Guest Poet: Jack Ross
8 pm onwards
@ the Classic Studio
Upstairs at 321 Queen Street
Indy Film Screening: Logging in West Papua (Auckland)
6pm Tuesday August 5 @ Clubspace, AUSA Quad,
off Alfred & Princess Streets.
Auckland University.
Entry by koha.
Solid Territory Album Launch 08/08/08
When: Friday 8th of August
Where: RISING SUN - 373 Karangahape Rd
Marc Rambeau
Memories of China
Tuesday, 29 July 2008 - Saturday, 16 August 2008. Head over to the Lane Gallery in Auckland, and view Memories of China an exhibition by Marc Rambeau.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 8:00pm
Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 10:00pm
BackLit Production's latest dance creation, The Story of Stuff transforms the Concert Chamber into a world of extravagant desire.
The Story of Stuff is told on multiple levels where energetic contemporary dance combines with intricately designed costumes and an eclectic mix of locally crafted music.
0800 TICKETEK


Microsoft has announced its Windows 10 release on July 29. This version brought the Start Menu back and fixed the broken desktop experience of Windows 8, just like what most users had wished. The upgrade process is mostly painless, and free for most Windows 7 and 8 users. But as we all know that Windows 10 still doesn't provide Blu-ray playback support out of the box. This is why third-party Blu-ray Player software developers are needed to do the footwork. And if you're looking for a first-rate and reasonably priced Blu-ray player software for Windows 10, there's no other perfect option than Macgo Windows Blu-ray Player that is fully compatible with Windows 10 and supports Blu-ray discs, Blu-ray ISO files and BDMV folders perfectly on Microsoft's latest OS.
Designed with a slick interface, Macgo Windows Blu-ray Player software can play almost everything else out there and the most significant feature it offers is integrated support for Blu-ray movies like Blu-ray discs, Blu-ray ISO files and BDMV folders on all Windows OS without conversion. It can output up to 1080P High Definition quality without loss. With DTS5.1 audio system, it brings the best-in-class audio output for Blu-ray fans on Windows. And the AirX feature can makes media files sharable between PC and iOS device as long as the devices are connected in the same Wi-Fi environment or Home Network. But more efforts are needed on making Macgo Windows Blu-ray Player's UI compatible with Windows 10's.
It's completely easy to use. Just download Macgo Windows Blu-ray Player, install it, and insert a Blu-ray disc into the Blu-ray drive. Launch the application, click "Open Disc" in the main interface, after a few seconds' loading, click "Open" in the pop-up window. Macgo Windows Blu-ray Player will skip straight to the menu or the movie itself. In the Menu, you can select the chapter, subtitle, audio track or play the movie directly.
I purchased this today, and while I am happy with the movie playback, on Star Wars EPVII Blu Ray for example, I cannot see any of the menus on either disc, so there is no option to access additional features on the second disc, only the main feature plays.
I read the FAQ questions on your site, and it mentions : "Quick Play Mode" and "Blu-ray Menu Mode", but this is for the Mac version only. The "Blu-ray Menu Mode" does not exist on the Windows version.
I'm using version 2.16.10.2261, current as of April 22 2016.
When will this be added? I feel like I have wasted $50AUD! Not happy.


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Ferruccio Morandini nasce da una famiglia di antiche origini friulana. A causa degli eventi bellici del 1915/18, nell'autunno del 1917 a seguito della sconfitta di Caporetto è costretto a sfollare, ed insieme ad altri giovani friulani viene trasferito nella Maremma Toscana, in provincia di Massa. In questa città trovandosi solo senza l'appoggio della famiglia, gli viene proposto di proseguire gli studi, viste le sue naturali propensioni, viene iscritto al Reale Stabilimento Teorico Pratico di Belle Arti di Massa. Nello Stabilimento di Massa insegnavano nel periodo in cui lo frequenta Morandini (1917/18; 1918/19; 1919/20;) lo scultore Leonardo Croce, i pittori Plinio Nomellini e Luigi Gioli, gli ultimi eredi della tradizione macchiaiola, ideali successori di Giovanni Fattori.

Tornato definitivamente ad Udine frequenta un corso di coordinamento didattico, per l'insegnamento del disegno, presta servizio come assistente straordinario dei corsi diurni e serali tra gli anni 1924/25, 1925/26, 1926/27,9 nella scuola industriale "Giovanni da Udine".
Nel 1926 Ferruccio Morandini si cimenta nel concorso cittadino per borse di studio "Legato Marangoni", presentando un dipinto dalla accattivante tematica campanilistica; il quadro dalla insolita composizione, non convince la giuria, che gli assegna il secondo premio. Nel 1927 si trasferisce a Milano dove forte della sua professionalità si inserisce nel tessuto artistico cittadino, praticando fondamentalmente l'attività pittorica. Nel gennaio del 1935, come si legge da due minute di lettere che datano 2.3.35. XIII, 7.3.35. XIII, egli presenta e vende a Vito Mussolini, due ritratti incisi su cristallo, raffiguranti il "Duce", l'altro Arnaldo Mussolini. Questo avvenimento segna una svolta nella vita artistica di Morandini, che si vede coinvolto dalle autorità del regime, come "artista a servizio del regime", spogliato pero della sua personale visione dell'arte. Subito gli viene dato l'incarico di realizzare sotto la guida dell'arch. Pagano, un pannello da presentare nel padiglione italiano all'Esposizione Internazionale di Bruxelles del 1935.
Nel 1936 il Presidente dalla Triennale, Giulio Barella gli affida l'incarico di realizzare un grande pannello per la sesta edizione della Triennale di Milano, il tema da sviluppare è l'evoluzione della moda nei secoli, il pannello viene sistemato ai lati dello scalone nell'atrio d'onore. L'arch. Giuseppe Pagano dice per i lavori della VI Triennale, " Il Morandini , a punta di diamante , incideva cinquanta metri quadrati di cristallo, dimostrando una non comune sicurezza di segno e di tecnica. Senza aiuto né di ruota a smeriglio, né di acidi,  né di getti di sabbia egli ha ottenuto dal vetro effetti delicati, trasparenti nitidezze, segni sottilissimi e strani chiaroscuri, dove i punti di luce sono ricavati dalla incisione più profonda."
Nel 1939 viene convocato nuovamente per la VII Triennale, ma l'incarico che gli viene affidato è secondario e la sua collocazione è marginale. Il periodo che intercorre tra questi due incarichi è certamente il più fecondo per quanto riguarda l'attività di Morandini come incisore di cristalli.
Nel 1950 collabora con l'architetto Gio Ponti in diversi progetti legati alla cantieristica italiana, realizza lavori per la T/N Andrea M/n Giulio Cesare, Cristoforo Colombo, San Giorgio e San Marco. Per la Giulio Cesare realizza un grande pannello in cristallo per il Bar di prima classe, il soggetto di questo pannello è L'evoluzione delle imbarcazioni.

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Now that you have decided the promotional product you will be giving away, it's time to think about the packaging. Most companies fail to achieve their purpose even after distributing promotional products due to neglecting the packaging. Understand that the packaging is what your customers see first even before they see your product. Therefore it is important to present it in a visually appealing way.
Incorporate your brand's logo and colors into the packaging. It is also good to include a handwritten note to your customer, thanking them for their association with your company. Your receivers will defiantly appreciate your special gesture. Such little things leave a bigger impact.
If your company has sponsored an event, then it could be a platform to promote your brand and reach out to a larger audience. This can be achieved if you provide promotional items to the attendees and also as prizes for winning a competition. Another inexpensive way to promote your brand awareness is by utilizing social media platforms. This can be done by organizing online contests and giving out promotional products via these sites. It is a great way to indulge people with your company and your products.
Irrespective of whatever item you give as a promotional product, the idea is to always incorporate your image picture or logo with the goal to capture the attention of the audience and in this manner successfully advertise your business.


As with many of my posts, I've also included a video showing the process, you can find it on YouTube.
When it comes to safety, it pays to double check your work and error on the side of caution. I can give some guidance on how to choose equipment safe for your application, but it doesn't mean it is safe for your person if you get in the middle of your electric circuit. if you have concerns about doing this on your own particular project, ask for help.
Voltage does not kill, current kills, but voltage is required to push the current along. So, while a 5 Volt 1 amp power supply may be reasonably safe to work with, a 100 volt .1amp is potentially lethal if it 'bites' you in the wrong spot. Ask for advice if you do not know. At all times, practice safety.
Batteries/power supplies have specific direction/polarity (positive or negative) that the moves the current along. If you wire your circuit backwards, the current will attempt to flow backwards through your device and could damage it. Check the polarity of your batteries and power supply to ensure they match. There will be more on this in a later step.
Before replacing batteries with a power supply, consider where the device or toy is used. Will it be sitting on a desk or near the bathtub? Would your kids put it in the bathtub? Will it be a shocking experience for them if they do?
In general, batteries make my life a little more mobile and less tangled. Sometimes however, there are certain devices that I wish came with a plug. Most recently my kids got an awesome night-time toy that projects stars, the moon, galaxies, etc on the ceiling. The problem is the toy is battery operated only and there's no automatic shutoff so when kids use it like a night-light it's dead in a few days. I don't like buying or replacing batteries. (Because I'm a cheapskate).
This toy just sits on the desk, so it's a good candidate to modify to accept a DC power supply instead of batteries. This idea is not well suited to something like an R.C. Car, but in a pinch, you can use it on the remote control for your TV.
Wall outlet power is generally alternating current, or 'AC'. Batteries are direct current 'DC' and only push the current in one direction. An AC to DC power supply can change AC wall power to DC power. Many common devices that have batteries (laptops, smart phones, etc) only accept DC power. They use a AC to DC power supply to allow us to charge the device by plugging it into the wall.
Ohm's law is a formula in electronics that relates the voltage (V, volt), current (I, amp) and resistance (R, ohm) of a circuit. Ohm's law tells us that Voltage in an electric circuit is equal to the product of the current flowing through the circuit and the resistance of the circuit.
For a given circuit, in my case, the toy, the resistance R is a constant. If I replace my batteries with a power supply of equal voltage, then the current in the system also stays the same. This project uses this relationship to replace Voltage, V supplied by a battery with voltage supplied by a DC power supply – nothing else is changed.
Another way to think about this is that voltage is how much the power supply pushes and current is how much the device pulls the energy. If your power supply says 5 Volts and 1.5 amps, it can power a 5 Volt circuit and it won't burn up until the device pulls more than 1.5 amps from the power supply. In a later step, I will show you how to verify the current draw of your device.
Pro tip: AAA, AA, C and D cell batteries all have the same voltage rating and are interchangeable. That is, they are interchangeable if you can make them fit. My brother and I used to wrap AA's in paper strips to make them fit the place of a C cell 😊. The difference between the batteries is just the physically larger batteries last longer/have more 'juice', they don't push more current/amperage through your system.
First step: understand what voltage your system uses and how the electricity flows.
My device has 3 AA batteries which are 1.5 volts each. All added together (assuming they are connected A to D to E to B to C to F) I should see 4.5 volts. The first thing to check is how the batteries are wired and find the beginning and end of where the energy flows.
Consider the above battery diagram. If you put your volt meter such that one lead is on A and the other D you will see either +1.5 or -1.5 volts (or something close unless your batteries are dead), Now check point A and point B do you see +/-1.5 volts or +/- 3 volts? If it is +/- 1.5 volts, then point A and B are essentially the same point and must be electrically connected. If A to B is +/- 3 volts, then you are adding the voltage from batteries #1 and #2 together. Use this same logic to trace the batteries to the end and determine if points A to F or points D to C incorporate all 3 of the batteries (+/- 4.5 volts with full charge batteries). This example are for batteries in parallel (connected A to D to E to B to C to F for example) Most of the kids toys batteries seem to come this way, but I'm sure there are exceptions. Let me know if you need some help troubleshooting the batteries for a different circuit.
Keep note of which points show you the 4.5 Volts or -4.5 volts and which voltmeter lead you are using at each point. You will need to maintain the +/- polarity when you hook up your new power supply.
To measure the current draw of your system, connect your multimeter inline with the batteries. You'll have to disconnect one end of a battery and use your multimeter to bridge the gap between the disconnected end and where it should be. Note that current draw may change for your device if it has multiple modes of operation. For example, a computer at startup draws more current than one that is hibernating.
Now find a power supply that supplies the needed voltage you measured and has a high enough current rating that you won't burn it up with your device's amp draw.
I've had good luck finding power supplies at thrift stores. Some power supplies even have multiple voltage settings. In my example, I am using a 5V 1.2 Amp power supply – it is a little over-sized, but for my application, I think it will be just fine. Often times batteries at full charge put out a little more than their rated voltage as well, so that' something else I'm considering when choosing a slightly higher voltage power supply.
Unplug the power supply, snip the plug end off (unless you are going to use it!), divide the wires and strip them at the tip. Plug in the power supply and check the voltage using your volt meter making sure to note which way gives you +4.5 or -4.5 volts (like in the previous steps example). So, if you put your red voltmeter lead on A and your black on F and saw -4.5 volts, then you want to want to see -4.5 coming out of your power supply and then whichever wire the red lead is on will go to point A.
Solder and assemble and you are done, no more need for batteries!


How To Choose The Best Freight Forwarder Around Us?
Whatever you might be looking to ship, it's important to go beyond simply searching 'freight forwarders Bali' and actually thinking through what each company can offer you at what costs. Finding the best forwarder will ensure you the best fit for your requirements, but where do you start when it comes to searching?
Work out what you need.
Working out what you need from a company before you go searching will make your search a lot easier. Try and determine to the best of your ability what type of transport you will need, which service or delivery type you might need, and just how much you plan to ship. Working this all out, or forming the questions you need to ask before you contact a forwarder can save time and keep the whole process far more efficient – and often get you better deals!
Make sure to look at the services that a Freight Forwarder can offer. Some companies may only offer port to port shipping, where others will cover door-to-door. Most will offer a trucking option, but it's important to make sure that this is the case, as opposed to simply assuming that they'll cover the road freight too. It's also worth checking to see if they have cargo insurance and shipment tracking available to purchase alongside their standard shipping. Some companies will also offer Next-day delivery, so it could be worth shopping around for the best services.
Make sure that your Freight Forwarder has experience. The shipping industry is not an easy sector to work in, and so choosing an experienced company will give you that extra peace of mind that the company is reliable, and that your shipments are in good hands. The more experience that a company has, the more likely it is that they have been through difficult situations from strikes to shutdowns and have learned how to deal with these effectively. Your forwarder's experience could mean they can advise you on how to avoid customs, warehousing and other routing problems before they've even begun to ship out your cargo.
While customer service doesn't necessarily mean that the drivers are necessarily bad, good customer service will make the entire experience far more pleasant and hopefully, run more smoothly. The sales person you speak with initially may not have all of the answers, but there is a difference between telling you they don't know, and telling you that they will find out for you. If your Freight Forwarder is a good one, they will care about you and your shipments, from sales through to the drivers. Without that care, you can't be sure that your cargo will arrive safely, on time, or in good condition.
When it comes to shipping internationally, ensuring that you have a Freight Forwarder with good contacts in the country that you're shipping to is vital to ensuring that your cargo arrives in good time and with minimal fuss. Having a company with good connections all over the world will give you a good impression as to how reliable and good of a company they are, but make sure to focus on the country that you find yourself in need of shipping to specifically. If they have experience shipping to Australia of USA, this won't help if your cargo needs to reach China.
So contact us, PT. Bali Intercont Cargo, for your best freight forwarder solution.


Ford has added a trio of awards to its trophy cabinet after attending the 2012 Fleet World Honours.
The Blue Oval scooped gongs for its EcoBoost engine, Ford Ranger and Ford Transit.
Indeed, Ford's new one-litre turbo-powered EcoBoost engine received the Innovation Award, which the judging panel said is a petrol engine capable of challenging the best diesel units.
Fleet World editor Steve Moody said that while diesel dominates the fleet industry, the "brilliant" new EcoBoost engine has seen Ford prove that petrol "can offer an alternative"
The expert went as far as to say that the new engine, which is already available in the Ford Focus, is a "game changer".
For the third year in a row the Ford Transit was awarded a prize, this year scooping the Best Large Van gong.
The panel said it is easy to see why the model has been one of the country's most popular for nearly half a century.
John Kendall, Van Fleet World editor, said: "It has been the best-selling van in Britain for the past 47 years and there's no denying Ford's thorough approach to engineering the Transit, nor the all-round quality of the product.
"Ford was the first to offer a choice of front- or rear-wheel drive in the 3.5-tonne sector 12 years ago, giving fleets a comprehensive choice of drivetrain and body styles according to need."
Completing the hat-trick was the Ford Ranger, which was this year named as Best Pick-up.
The panel claimed that the unrivalled choice of options and the SUV-like driving controls made the Ranger a clear winner.
Kevin Griffin, Ford of Britain fleet director, welcomed the wins and said that with the Fleet World Awards being among the most competitive and firmly judged in the industry, the triumph should not be underestimated.


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ONCOLOGY Table Of Contents
Carboplatin/Docetaxel as First-Line Therapy for Gynecologic Cancers
Combination chemotherapy with carboplatin (Paraplatin) and docetaxel (Taxotere) is a highly active and generally well-tolerated regimen when used as initial therapy for gynecologic cancers, including cancers of the ovary, fallopian tubes, and the
Cigarette Smoking Among Adults—United States, 1998
One of the national health objectives for 2010 is to reduce the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults to no more than 12% (objective 21.la). To assess progress toward meeting this objective, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Coverage for New Oral Cancer Drugs
While many people continue to worry about Medicare's coverage of currently available oral chemotherapy drugs, Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio) is waving a warning flag about future drugs. Her Access to Cancer Therapies Act (H.R. 1624)
FDA Gives Fast Approval to Gleevec in Treatment of CML
Novartis recently announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved its signal transduction inhibitor Gleevec (imatinib mesylate) as an oral therapy for the treatment of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in
Low Doses of Zoledronic Acid Reduce Complications of Bone Metastases
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center report that very low doses of a potent new bisphosphonate, zoledronic acid (Zometa), reduces the complications arising from multiple myeloma and breast cancer that have metastasized to the bone. The
Recent Developments in Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer
David J. Vaughn, MD
S. Bruce Malkowicz, MD
Invasive bladder cancer is a chemotherapy-sensitive neoplasm. Historically, the development of cisplatin (Platinol)-based chemotherapy regimens has represented an important advance for patients with metastatic
Dose Intensity for Breast Cancer
Edward A. Stadtmauer, MD
Steven Stein, MD
Drs. Armstrong and Davidson have nicely reviewed the use of dose-intensive chemotherapy in the treatment of metastatic and high-risk early-stage breast cancer, and we agree with the basic premise of the article—that there are no conclusive data
ASCO Welcomes Tobacco Bill
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is backing legislation (H.R. 1097) that would give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate tobacco products. The legislation explicitly states that nicotine should be
Robert Dreicer, MD, MS, FACP
Drs. Vaughn and Malkowicz have provided us with a succinct, thorough, evidence-based overview of the current role of chemotherapy in advanced bladder cancer. Their discussion highlights the veritable explosion of new chemotherapy agents
Neoadjuvant Strategies for Pancreatic Cancer
Margaret Tempero, MD
The article entitled "Neoadjuvant Strategies for Pancreatic Cancer," by Drs. Evans, Wolff, and Crane, is an excellent review of past and current developments in adjuvant therapy for pancreatic cancer. In addition to a thorough literature review, the authors draw on their own extensive experience in neoadjuvant therapy for pancreatic cancer at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Surgical Approach to Organ Preservation in the Treatment of Cancer of the Larynx
Gregory S. Weinstein, MD
Nonsurgical approaches to preservation of the larynx in the treatment of laryngeal carcinoma include either radiation alone or chemotherapy and radiation in combination. In light of the common use of total laryngectomy,
Ankesh Nigam, MD
Herbert C. Hoover, Jr, MD
We have made much progress over the past 30 years in the surgical management of pancreatic cancer, and perioperative mortality rates are low in centers with experience in the treatment of this disease. However, surgical resection is clearly limited in achieving local and systemic control of pancreatic cancer, and chemoradiation will likely become a part of any successful pancreatic cancer treatment program.
Gregory T. Wolf, MD
In the past 10 years, the introduction of combined chemotherapy and radiation as an alternative to total laryngectomy for patients with advanced laryngeal cancer ushered in a new treatment paradigm termed "organ preservation." The adoption of
Deborah K. Armstrong, MD
Nancy E. Davidson, MD
Despite nearly 20 years of study, the importance of chemotherapy dose intensity in breast cancer remains unclear. Substantial preclinical data suggest a dose-response relationship, and consistent data document that
Barriers to Clinical Trial Enrollment
Most patients do not want to use investigational treatments even though entry into cancer clinical trials is frequently associated with a higher survival rate. This is just one of the reasons why patients do not participate in trials, according to researchers at
Daniel F. Hayes, MD
It has been roughly 20 years since chemotherapy dose escalation was proposed as a possible strategy for improving outcomes in patients with breast cancer.[1,2] This concept has sustained a series of remarkable rollercoaster-like controversies, with heated arguments at national meetings, substantial lay press coverage, patients suing their insurance companies seeking coverage, legislative fiats requiring third-party payment long before critical data were available, and a well-publicized episode of clinical scientific fraud that is nearly unprecedented in its audacity. How did we get here from there?
Neil Mehta, MD
Ralph R. Weichselbaum, MD
Harold H. Hines, Jr
Daniel J. Haraf, MD
The article by Dr. Weinstein is a discussion of the newer surgical options available for the treatment of patients with laryngeal cancer. Several aspects of the article deserve mention.
Daniel D. Lydiatt, DDS, MD
The management of cancer of the larynx has arguably become the most complicated task in the field of head and neck oncology. Both physicians and patients struggle to decide how initial treatment should be delivered. Treatment decisions
Tamoxifen Does Not Affect Sexual Functioning or Mood Swings
Contrary to speculation, long-term use of tamoxifen (Nolvadex) does not affect mood or sexual functioning, according to British researchers who studied the use of this antiestrogenic drug in women who are at high risk of developing breast cancer
Kevin C. Conlon, MD, MBA, FACS
This report by Drs. Evans, Wolff, and Crane is a well-written and concise description of their extensive experience with the treatment of pancreatic cancer. They and others at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center should be congratulated for their innovative, methodical, and thoughtful approach to the treatment of this lethal disease.
Risk Factors for Relapse of Cutaneous Melanoma
Patients with both melanoma of the skin and positive lymph nodes may suffer regional relapse after lymphadenectomy, according to a report in the Annals of Surgical Oncology (8[2]:109-115, 2001). The report cites a study by John Gibbs, md,
Mario A. Eisenberger, MD
Drs. Vaughn and Malkowicz provide a fairly extensive and balanced review of chemotherapy for metastatic bladder cancer. They highlight the results obtained with some of the most commonly employed regimens that have been evaluated
Outline of Oncology Therapeutics
Mark J. Ratain, MD
Consuelo Skosey, RN
Elisabeth I. Heath, MD
Outline of Oncology Therapeutics is a well-written, concise, and up-to-date book providing detailed descriptions of a variety of medications and issues important to the overall care and treatment of patients with cancer. Oncology practice today
Atlas of Cancer Surgery
Norman D. Bloom, MD
Edward J. Beattie, MD
James C. Harvey, MD
Craig Shriver, MD, FACS
The field of surgical oncology is
growing rapidly. As it assumes
Patient Care Costs in Cancer Clinical Trials
Rep. Pryce is also cochair of the House Cancer Working Group. In March, she introduced the Access to Cancer Clinical Trials Act (H.R. 967), which would require health insurers to pay for the routine costs incurred by patients in
Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Inhibitors in Clinical Trials
Janet E. Dancey, MD
With the understanding of the mechanism of malignant transformation has come the knowledge that oncogene products are frequently growth factors, growth factor receptors, or elements of growth factor signal-transduction pathways. Overexpression
Douglas B. Evans, MD
Robert A. Wolff, MD
Christopher H. Crane, MD
Recent prospective and retrospective data suggest that the use of multimodality therapy combining pancreaticoduodenectomy with postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy (fluorouracil) and external-beam radiation
HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphomas: Mycosis Fungoides and Sézary Syndrome
3 Keys to Success in the Oncology Care Model


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Беньє () ( , також ,  ,    ; дослівно гуля від удару)  — це різновид фритерів (пампухів) або смаженої у фритюрі випічки, яка у Франції зазвичай готується з дріжджового тіста, можливо, виготовленого з заварного тіста () і називається ,  у Франції, але також може виготовлятися з інших видів тіста, в тому числі дріжджового.  У Франції є щонайменше 20 різних версій. Вони можуть бути різними за формою, борошном, яке використовується для тіста, і начинкою. Вони популярні у французькій, італійській та франко-американській кухнях.

Типи
Термін беньє можна застосувати до двох різновидів, залежно від типу тіста. Беньє у французькому стилі в Сполучених Штатах має специфічне значення смаженого у фритюрі заварного тіста.

Беньє також можна приготувати з дріжджового тіста , яке французькою мовою може називатися boules de Berlin, що означає берлінські пончики, у яких немає типового отвору для пончиків, наповнених фруктами чи джемом.

На Корсиці беньє готують з каштанового борошна () відомі як .

У канадській французькій мові пончики  називаються або beigne, або beignet.

Луїзіана

Беньє у луїзіанському стилі — це квадратні або прямокутні смажені тістечка, виготовлені з дріжджового тіста, а не з заварного тіста. У Новому Орлеані вони найбільш відомі як сніданок, який подають із цукровою пудрою. Їх традиційно вживаються свіжими та гарячими. Варіації смаженого тіста можна знайти в різних кухнях світу; однак походження терміну beignet є виключно французьким. У Сполучених Штатах беньє користуються популярністю в креольській кухні Нового Орлеана, їх також можна подавати як десерт. Вони були привезені до Нового Орлеана у 18 столітті французькими колоністами зі «старої батьківщини»,  також принесені акадійцями  і стали значною частиною домашньої креольської кухні. Варіації часто містять банан або плантан – популярні в портовому місті фрукти – або ягоди.

Приготування
Інгредієнти, які традиційно використовуються для приготування беньє, включають:
 тепла вода
 гранульований цукор
 згущене молоко
 хлібне борошно
 кондитерський жир
 олія або сало, для смаження у фритюрі
 цукрова пудра

Дивись також
 Чурос
 Пампухи
 Пончик

Примітки

Подальше читання
 Ів Тюріес, французький кондитерський виріб ,
 Розана Г. Морейра та ін., Смаження у глибокому жирі: основи та застосування ,

зовнішні посилання

Американська кухня
Пончики
Випічка
Випічка за країною


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Judge seeks more answers from FBI related to surveillance
WASHINGTON (AP) — The presiding judge of a secretive national security court directed the Justice Department to identify all cases before it that involved an FBI lawyer accused of altering an email related to the surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, according to an order unsealed Friday.
The order from Judge Rosemary Collyer also asks the department to describe what steps it has taken to ensure the accuracy of any filings in those cases, and whether the attorney has been referred for any disciplinary action.
The order is signed Dec. 5, four days before the public release of a Justice Department inspector general report that harshly criticized the FBI for withholding key information in its applications to wiretap former campaign adviser Carter Page.
In a separate order made public this week, Collyer, the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, directed the FBI to report by Jan. 10 how it plans to fix the problems identified in Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report. The FBI has said that it plans to work with the Justice Department and the court to fix the issues.
The order that was declassified on Friday concerns an FBI lawyer, who has since resigned. He was accused in the report of altering an email to hide the fact that Page was a source for another government agency. Horowitz has said the attorney has been referred for possible criminal prosecution.
Heidi Klum Clarified Her Statements on Gabrielle Union and America's Got Talent
Pentagon adding to restrictions on foreign military students
Supreme Court will again review Obamacare birth control mandate


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module OAuth2::Rack::Authentication
  autoload :Client, 'oauth2/rack/authentication/client'
  autoload :ResourceOwner, 'oauth2/rack/authentication/resource_owner'
  autoload :AccessToken, 'oauth2/rack/authentication/access_token'
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Want to start a "green team" in your place of worship but aren't sure where to begin?
The Climate Speakers Network and the Center for Earth Ethics are teaming up with Kate McGregor Mosley, executive director of Georgia Interfaith Power and Light, to help you get started.
webinar in our series addressing climate change and environmental action in faith communities.


Comparisons of tax evasion and welfare fraud: how well does policy in Australia and New Zealand reflect public attitudes to these crimes?
This study reports on attitudes towards tax evasion and welfare fraud in Australia and New Zealand. The study challenges extant policy arrangements that allow for different outcomes where crimes result in similar harm.