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Reliance, Aramco deal off, both to re-evaluate
Por Camilo Arcaya • 22 nov, 2021 • Sección: Economía
By KS KUMAR
November 22, 2021. India's Reliance Industries has shelved a proposed deal to sell a 20% stake for US$15 billion in its oil refinery and petrochemicals business to Saudi Aramco, and called for its re-evaluation, citing a shift in priorities.
The oil-to-telecom conglomerate said: "Due to the evolving nature of Reliance's business portfolio, Reliance and Saudi Aramco have mutually determined that it would be beneficial for both parties to re-evaluate the proposed investment in oil to chemicals business in light of the changed context."
However, it said it will continue to be Saudi Aramco's 'preferred partner' for investments in India's private sector.
Reliance chief Mukesh Ambani, at an annual general meeting of shareholders in August 2019, announced plans to sell a 20% stake in the oil-to-chemicals business, which comprises its twin oil refineries at Jamnagar in Gujarat, petrochemical assets and a 51% stake in fuel retailing joint venture with BP, to Aramco. The overall valuation of Reliance's oil-to-chemical unit was $75 billion.
Initially, the deadline set to close the deal was March 2020, but the Covid-19 restrictions hampered due diligence. During this year's AGM in June, Ambani set a new deadline to close the deal by the end of the year.
The company appointed Saudi Aramco's chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan as an independent director on its board. This had generated hope the deal process would be speeded up.
Rumayyan is also the governor of the Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia that had earlier picked up a 2.32% stake in Reliance's digital venture Jio Platforms for $1.5 billion.
However, during the same AGM, Ambani also announced a plan to set up one of the largest integrated renewable energy manufacturing facilities in the world. It also set a deadline to achieve net carbon zero by 2035. It is, however, not clear what changed between June and now to opt for a 're-evaluation'.
Reliance also decided to withdraw a proposal filed before the National Company Law Tribunal to separate its oil-to-chemical business from the company. Reliance's new energy businesses are housed in separate subsidiaries and are not part of the oil-to-chemical unit.
After crude prices started falling last year amid the pandemic, Aramco started to balk at the price of the Reliance stake. However, once oil prices started to rise, there was a sense of optimism that the deal would finally go through.
A stake in the Reliance petroleum unit would have given Aramco entry into one of the world's fastest-growing fuel markets. It would also have given it a ready-made market for half a million barrels per day of its Arabian crude and offer a potentially bigger downstream role in the future.
However, it is not known if the Saudi oil behemoth is interested in Reliance's new energy business.
On the other hand, Reliance's urgency for a stake sale in its oil business ebbed out after it received a windfall of more than $27 billion during stake sale in its digital and retail units. Prominent tech giants including Facebook and Google picked up stakes in Jio Platforms.
https://asiatimes.com/2021/11/reliance-aramco-deal-off-both-to-re-evaluate/
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Supporting the parents of children and young people with anxiety and depressive disorders is an opportunity not to be missed: a scoping review.
Lawrence PJ., Parkinson M., Jasper B., Creswell C., Halligan SL.
Guidance is scarce on whether and how to involve parents in treatment for anxiety and depressive disorders in children and young people. We did a scoping review of randomised controlled trials of psychological interventions for anxiety and depressive disorders in children and young people, in which parents were involved in treatment, to identify how parents and carers have been involved in such treatments, how this relates to both child and broader outcomes, and where research should focus. We identified 73 trials: 62 focused on anxiety and 11 on depressive disorders. How parents were involved in treatments varied greatly, with at least 13 different combinations of ways of involving parents in the anxiety trials and seven different combinations in the depression trials. Including parents in treatment did not impair children's and young people's outcomes, but the wide variability in how they were involved prevents clarity about why some trials favoured parent involvement and others did not. Studies must consider the long-term and wider benefits beyond children's and young people's mental health, such as enhanced engagement, family wellbeing, and economic gains.
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Adolescent, Anxiety Disorders, Child, Depressive Disorder, Humans, Outcome Assessment, Health Care, Parents, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic

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From a practical standpoint, I would prefer to have students arriving at EIL with at least a little essay experience. When I taught these courses online (and no, I don't do that anymore — I'm sorry), some students were very well prepared while others had little or no experience in writing analytical essays. All the students were able to work through the assignments, but well-prepared students seemed better able to focus on deeper analysis and more refined writing. Less prepared students eventually caught up to the level of their natural aptitude.
The most important thing to remember about Excellence in Literature is that it's flexible. You can bend the curriculum to fit your student (don't bend the student to the curriculum!) by shortening, changing, or even skipping portions of assignments. You can even add to or expand a unit if a student is particularly gifted or has a special interest in writing.
The key thing I want students to take away from high school literature is a love for reading great books and a familiarity with a broad spectrum of good literature. Just by doing the reading, they'll increase vocabulary and reading comprehension, and become familiar with the rhythm and cadence of well-written English. All these things help them to become better thinkers and writers, as well as boosting their scores on the SAT or ACT.
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Of course, we are ultimately unsure of how Psalm 1301 would have originally sounded in ancient Israel. Twentieth century French musician and musicologist Suzanne Haik-Vantoura (1912-2000) devised a way of interpreting the cantillation marks in the Old Testament Psalms might be understood as musical notation. The validity of her opinions are controversial, but they offer a fascinating look at how the Psalms might have sounded. It is here that we want to begin our look at Psalm 130 in musical and liturgical history.
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On the Trail of the Mari Lwyd
Imagine it's a dark midwinter night. You're out on a windy street in Wales. Suddenly an apparition appears before you: a white garbed ghostly figure over six feet tall.
From its ragged cowl protrudes a skull - but no human skull - it has a long snout, huge eyes and many teeth set in a long jaw that snaps together repeatedly as it comes towards you.
Now you notice a band of musicians who strike up a tune, a troupe of strangely-garbed figures.
'Our' Mari Lwyd.
Don't be afraid. It's only me and my associates. We're reviving an old midwinter tradition.
The tradition is called the Mari Lwyd (it means Grey Mary in Welsh). It has links with Punch and Judy, the need to bring cheer during the dark midwinter nights, and I've even discovered a connection that Susan Cooper made in her The Dark is Rising series between the Mari Lwyd and Merlin.
I encountered this tradition for the first time in the midwinter of 2011-12 when my wife Helen, a fiddle player, was asked to accompany two artists who live in Carmarthen and who are obsessed with the Mari (as it's known for short).
Phil Larcher peeps out at Helen!
The artists, Phil Larcher and Viv Morgan, are obsessed to the extent that their entire apartment is decorated with pictures and objects they have made of Maris.
Phyllis Kinney's excellent book Welsh Traditional Music describes the tradition as follows:
"The Mari Lwyd was a horses skull draped in yards of white canvas and looking like a ghostly spirit except for the adornment of coloured ribbons [we use red and green from the Welsh flag], black bottle-glass eyes [ours has flashing lights] and black cloth or leather ears. Hidden underneath the canvas, a man with a 5 foot pole operated the Mari's jaw, which was on a spring, enabling it to snap."
Viv Morgan leading the Mari Lwyd
(Phil Larcher) into a pub.
A host of traditional characters used to accompany the spectral mare: the Ostler or Leader, plus a Corporal, Sargeant, Punch, Judy and Merryman. There are many local variations, and records of the tradition are sporadic and rare throughout Wales. Moreover some areas have completely forgotten about the tradition, despite the recent revival in interest, whereas in others some individuals, upon seeing the Mari coming down the street, give a shout of recognition.
They remember it from their childhoods.
Essentially what used to happen was that the party would knock on a door of a house and a ritualised exchange of banter would occur, each with an occasion for a specific piece of music.
The arrival phase has verses greeting the householders and challenging them to a contest;
there is then a spontaneous improvised debate in verse (called the pwnco), largely an exchange of good-natured insults;
if the party is then invited indoors (it may not be) havoc could be caused. For instance Punch might use his poker to put out the fire, unless he'd been made to promise not to before entry, or Judy might scatter the ashes over the room. There is even a suggestion that the Mari might be looking for a baby in the house;
the hosts give the guests drink (!) and a wassailling song is sung as the visitors wish good luck to their hosts;
a further song is sung as the party leaves.
Here are the words of the Mari Lwyd Farewell song:
Dymunwn ich' lawenydd
I gynnal blwyddyn newydd
Trapari'r gwr dincian cloch
Well, well y bo chwi beunydd.
In our part of Wales, Carmarthenshire, as the tradition is being revived we do not visit people's houses but pubs instead. This is the second year I've been involved and the group has got larger partly because my wife has been running a Welsh tunes workshop in which we have been rehearsing the music.
Phil Larcher and Viv Morgan with their Mari Lwyd in the White Horse, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, in January 2012 with fiddler Helen Adam.
The Mari Lwyd in The Parrot pub, Carmarthen on
December 15. You might spot yours truly playing the guitar.
Viv Morgan is to my right, Helen on the left.
We made two visits last year towards the end of December. In Carmarthen we stayed in one pub, The Parrot, all evening and were given a cake baked specially for the occasion!
In Llandovery our large party (two fiddlers, guitar, five percussionists including a monk, a flautist and an accordionist - my son Nemos - plus assorted singers) were turned away from the first pub. The second permitted us to terrorise the diners - who didn't know what had hit them!
We visited two more pubs and, halfway through the evening, a twmpath, or ceilidh in the community hall which we proceeded to disrupt - much to the dancers' enjoyment.
When we went to the final pub we found someone who obviously knew we were coming who was wearing a massive papier maché head with a top hat, whom I took to be the Merryman and who danced to our music.
But what are the origins of this madness?
Samhain decoration on the Mari's costume.
Given the link with Punch and Judy, one line of ancestry may lead back to the 16th-century Italian commedia dell'arte, a touring troupe of actors with stock characters. Punch derives from the Neapolitan stock character of Pulcinella, a manifestation of the Lord of Misrule and Trickster figure found in many old mythologies. His wife was originally called Joan.
The Mari Lwyd ritual has also been described as "a pre-Christian horse ceremony" associated with many similar customs throughout the world. Some aspects of it, including some of the music, suggest considerable age.
The Mari could be associated with the Welsh mythic figure Rhiannon, who first appears in the Mabinogion, the Welsh cycle of old stories, riding a shining white horse.
Our Mari is decorated with pagan symbols. The Leader, Viv, carries a broom whose staff is richly decorated, topped with a small black bird, and whose brush is made with freshly picked herbs.
Susan Cooper's brilliant The Dark Is Rising epic cycle of five children's fantasy books includes a character called Merryman. He is one of the Old Ones, on the side of Light. The second book, The Dark Is Rising, and the final book, Silver on the Tree, are set around Aberdyfi, south Gwynedd, in the area where her parents and grandparents lived, and it is likely Susan would have known of the Mari Lwyd tradition.
One of the manifestations of Merryman in the book cycle is Merlin.
You might ask where a horse's skull might be obtained. If you look, they come to you. Viv and Phil swear that they found theirs hanging in the branches of a tree one day when they went for a walk following a storm.
The ritual is not associated with any particular day of the year, just any time around midwinter and the turning of the year, and so it can be repeated in different places. We have one further date on January 11 in Llandeilo, where we will be visiting three pubs during the course of the evening. Perhaps we'll see you.
Traditionally, the host are supposed to give us a drink in each one, but I don't think the publicans have yet cottoned on to this.
Nevertheless it's the best excuse for a pub crawl and a lot of fun on a dark midwinter night that I've come across in a long time. And the Tricksters and Lords of Misrule demand their time. There are those who would like to tame them - but they will not be tamed. Maris are wild.
They have a life of their own. They have been spotted gathering together when the night is dark in wooded valleys where caves can be found.
If you should hear the snapping of jaws and the sound of hooves one dark night - don't venture near. The Maris don't care to be watched by the uninitiated.
Photos: Phil Larcher.
Labels: Mari Lwyd, Susan Cooper, Wales, Welsh folk traditions


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High energy works in an entrepreneurial community, but peace works in the funeral home
Affect research explores how affects, sensory and bodily sensations, are created, and how they have an effect on employees and customers in organisations.
Participants of the Affect in Organizational Revewal -workshop that was organized at the School of Business in June 2019. Photo: Johanna Moisander.
Have you stopped to consider why vastly different work environments, such as a funeral home, an advertising agency, university, or even how two companies in the same industry might have a different atmosphere? The reason is not always so apparent.
Organisations and institutions often strive to create a working atmosphere that would seem most appropriate for the situation, for example by providing different work-space solutions, room fragrances or even by facilitating and steering group activities in a specific direction.
Unlike emotions, affects are hard to express with words, but examples of affects are anxiety, the raising of hairs, or even an enormous burst of enthusiasm that makes someone feel like they are flying. Organisational researchers are interested in affects, as they can make people work better together on a task but can just as easily be counter-productive, and ensure that the customers don't return.
A fresh research trend
Affect Research is a relatively new area of research that offers exciting ways to explore how affects are created and how organisations can influence the affects experienced by their employees. However, while organisational researchers, psychologists, and cultural researchers are all interested in affect research, they each look at it from a slightly different perspective.
A recent international workshop organised by the Aalto University School of Business brought together researchers in the field to reflect on how affects influence the renewal of organisations. The organisers of the workshop, Senior University Lecturer Saija Katila and Doctoral Student Ari Kuismi from the Department of Management have previously studied Helsinki Think Company, a university-driven entrepreneurial initiative, to see how its members could be more enthusiastic about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial activity.
"According to our research, all organisational practices have a certain normative affective order which determines the rhythm of work practices, what kind of affective energy characteristics there are, and the physical presence it requires from the workers. As one example, the 4UNI accelerator of Helsinki Think Company appreciates fast-paced development and zealous energetic and physical presence", says Saija Katila.
Whistleblowers in the finance sector
Professor Kate Kenny from the J.E. Cairnes School of Business in Ireland has been analysing and using affect research on financial sector whistleblowers, i.e. employees who have reported abuse in the work community. While abuse is considered unacceptable, whistleblowers are often subject to hostile treatment.
"Whistleblowers are often treated as pariahs, with entire work communities involved in their isolation. Affect theory sheds light on this dynamic in financial services by showing how whistleblowing can be seen as a radical social act so, from that perspective, we are collectively compelled to take responsibility for the suffering of those who expose wrongdoing" Professor Kenny says.
In turn, Professor Silvia Gheradi of the University of Trento has promoted the idea of affective ethnography, in which the researcher's own body and senses are part of the research tools. "Affective ethnography is a style of research that acknowledges that people, texts, objects, and language are all entangled in complex ways and that they should be interpreted through their intra-actions as data in motion", Professor Gheradi explains.
Endlessly tired in a dream job
Senior Researcher Mona Mannevuo from the Centre for Parliamentary Studies at the University of Turku has applied affect theory to multidisciplinary cultural and culturohistorical research which requires researchers to be open-minded and willing to cross disciplinary boundaries. According to Mona Mannevuo, affect theory works well when the researcher aims to approach his or her research subject by emphasising diversity and interpretation.
Mannevuo adds, "A great, new example of a multidimensional affective atmosphere is the coexistence of exhaustion speech and the #ilovemyjob phenomena. Affect theory offers one tool to look at why someone can be in their dream job and endlessly exhausted at the same time. Affect theory also provides a tool to look at how contemporary stories - especially those circulating in social media - affect individuals' behaviour".
Saija Katila
Senior university lecturer
Aalto University School of Business
Link to Professor Kate Kenny's recent book:
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674975798
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Q: How does Batrider's tether-break and napalm work WRT his firefly ability? Two questions in one here guys, let me know if better to split them out:

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*If Batrider has ult'd someone and lasso'd them, under what circumstances does the lasso break? I ask as on various occasions I've seen it break, but it appears to be inconsistent, so wondering how that works. One example I've seen is if Bat uses a force-staff it can break, but sometimes it doesn't break.

*If Batrider has applied stacks of sticky napalm to a hero, and then the hero takes damage from his firefly AoE ability - does the firefly DPS increase with napalm stacks? For example - if Bat has level 1 firefly (20 DPS) and level 1 sticky napalm (extra 10 damage), then does a hero with 1 stack of sticky napalm take 30 DPS or 20?
Thanks!

A: Breaking flaming lasso requires either Batrider or the victim to travel at a speed faster than 500 unit per 0.05 sec. The distance does not matter as long as you break that speed limit.
Exemple : if you use Lasso one someone and the Vengeful Spirit next to him uses Nether Swap on him, the lasso will break since swap is a pseudo blink and thus the swapped unit gets a really fast travel speed
Same would apply with Relocate (Wisp), Glimpse (Disruptor), Recall (Keeper of the Light), Test of Faith (Chen) or any ability that would induce a travel time faster than 500 unit in 0.05sec. In a Similar fashion, If batrider uses Blink dagger, the lasso breaks. Forcestaff pushes a unit forward at the speed of 600 unit in 0.4 sec which is way too slow compared to the speed required to break lasso (500units/0.05sec). So by Forcestaffing, Batrider should never break its lasso.
As for your second interrogation, the damage of Firefly is dealt per second (at max level  80 per second). A "tick" of damage is applied every second and to this number is added a bonus for every Sticky Nappalm stacks on your victim.
Exemple : If you have 2 level 4 stack you will apply 80 + 2*25 = 130 Damage Per Second with Firefly. If you have 3 level 1 stack you will apply 80 + 3*10 = 110 Damage Per Second with Firefly.

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Q: How to run a batch class for list of string I have a requirement where I need to process a list of string having hundreds of records in it     . For each string I need to have an http callout so I cant run in a normal apex method. For this I am trying to pass the list to a batch apex class and then execute each callout in the execute method so that I wont hit the callout limit.  Here is my problem the start method can return only Database.querylocator or Database.iterable. How to pass a list string from the start method with a specified batch size?  below is the code explaining the same
 global  class DF_BatchToExcessFields implements Database.Batchable<sObject>{
global list<String> batchlist = new list<String>();

global DF_BatchToExcessFields(list<String> lstObjectAsString)
    {
        batchlist.addAll(lstObjectAsString);
    }

    global Iterable<sObject> start(Database.BatchableContext info){

            //Current code
           //str='select id from account';  // just a query for start method
           // return  Database.getQueryLocator(str);

           // My requiremnt is to pass part of list batchlist  to execute method
    }
    global void execute(Database.BatchableContext info, List<account> scope){
              //I want to process the string ie http callout here

    }
    global void finish(Database.BatchableContext info){
    }
}

A: All lists are iterables. Create a constructor to take the list, and change the interface of your class:
global class DF_BatchToExcessFields implements Database.Batchable<String> {...

Then return the list in the Start method. Here's a great article by AFawcett to help you get the idea:
http://andyinthecloud.com/2013/08/11/batch-worker-getting-more-done-with-less-work/

Iterable<String> i = new List<String> { 'A', 'B', 'C' };

public with sharing class SimpleBatchApex implements Database.Batchable<String> {
    public Iterable<String> start(Database.BatchableContext BC) {
        return new List<String> { 'Do something', 'Do something else', 'And something more' };
    }

    public void execute(Database.BatchableContext info, List<String> strings) {
        // Do something really expensive with the string!
        String myString = strings[0];
    }

    public void finish(Database.BatchableContext info) {}
}

then try it out in Developer Console
//Process the String's one by one each with its own governor context
Id jobId = Database.executeBatch(new SimpleBatchApex(), 1);


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Apple attacks EU in court fight over $14B tax bill
By Aoife White
Apple Inc. told a European Union court it was unfairly painted as a tax dodger as it sought to topple a massive EU back-tax bill that's the hallmark of antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager's five-year crackdown on U.S. tech giants.
The EU alleged that "Apple paid essentially no tax on earnings in Europe" and "sought headlines by quoting tiny numbers, but this public campaign ignores the taxes Apple pays all across the world," Apple attorney Daniel Beard said at a hearing at the EU General Court in Luxembourg on Tuesday.
The iPhone maker said it's the world's biggest taxpayer, urging EU judges to overturn a 2016 order by the European Commission to hand over a record 13 billion euros ($14.3 billion) in unpaid taxes to Ireland. Apple, which made a reputation on smashing industry conventions, "follows the rules" and the EU was wrong to claim that profits should have been taxed in Ireland instead of the U.S. where Apple products are developed, according to Beard.
"Apple pays its taxes and understands the importance of doing so," the lawyer said at the hearing where Apple executives, including Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri, dropped their usual smart casual attire for formal suits. "In fact, we believe Apple is the largest taxpayer in the world."
Apple's haggling over tax comes after its market valuation hit $1.02 trillion last week on the back of a new aggressive pricing strategy that may stoke demand for some smartphones and watches. The company's huge revenue — and those of other technology firms — have attracted close scrutiny in Europe, focusing on complicated company structures for transferring profits generated from intellectual property.
Ireland, in its parallel appeal of the EU decision, accused regulators of "unjust criticism" and coming up with "confused and inconsistent lines of reasoning in an attempt to justify" a desired conclusion.
"It is a serious overreach for the commission to override national law," Paul Gallagher, a lawyer for Ireland, told the judges. "The commission did not identify a single instance where a taxpayer was treated less favorably than Apple."
While the hearing lacks some of the box-office appeal of Monday's Brexit meeting a few miles down the road between U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Luxembourg counterpart Xavier Bettel, it's a blockbuster event for the EU's courts, with dozens of lawyers and lobbyists crammed into a chamber that's usually virtually empty.
The final ruling, likely to take months, could empower or halt Vestager's tax probes, which are now centering on fiscal deals done by Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc. She's also been tasked with coming up with a "fair European tax" by the end of 2020 if global efforts to reform digital taxation don't make progress.
The commission rejected claims that it acted "as some sort of policeman of taxation" and said questions of "tax sovereignty are utterly irrelevant."
"At no time" did Ireland "explain just what it does," commission lawyer Richard Lyal told the court. Its initial 1991 tax deal with Apple involved "no real assessment" of how Apple should be taxed, when Irish officials "simply accepted an arbitrary method proposed by Apple Ireland subsidiaries."
If Ireland "has no system, then its decisions must be based on pure discretion. And if those decisions were based on pure arbitrary discretion, they must be presumed to constitute aid" in the form of an illegal tax break, he said.
Apple's fury at the EU's 2016 order saw Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook blasting the EU move as "total political crap." The company's legal challenge claims the EU wrongly targeted profits that should be taxed in the U.S. and "retroactively changed the rules" on how global authorities calculate what's owed to them.
The U.S. Treasury has weighed in too, saying the EU was making itself a "supra-national tax authority" that could threaten global tax reform efforts. President Donald Trump said Vestager "hates the United States" because "she's suing all our companies.
The first hints of how the case may turn out will come from a pair of rulings scheduled for Sept. 24.
The General Court will rule on whether the EU was right to demand unpaid taxes from Starbucks Corp. and a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV unit. Those judgments could set an important precedent on how far the EU can question tax decisions national governments make on how companies should be treated.
The cases are: T-892/16, Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe v. Commission, T-778/16, Ireland v. Commission.
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Singapore recently came under Amazon's GlobalSaver programme. What this means is that orders above $125 USD will have free shipping. Do note that if you're spending over $400 SGD, you will probably need to pay taxes on those items.
So how does one go about buying these free shipping goodies?
The product must be sold by Amazon.com LLC and not one of its re-sellers.
I would however make sure to first email the CS reps before proceeding with the purchase to confirm the refund process. The service is pretty prompt.


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Black Holes in Benghazi
Far be it from me to defend Barack Obama or Hilary Clinton, but the Republican attempt to embroil the Obama administration in a 'cover-up' over the killing of four Americans, including the US ambassador, in Benghazi last September says a great deal about the intellectual and moral vortex into which American politics has descended.
Obama has just released 100 e-mails containing 'talking points' with the administration in the aftermath of last year's attacks, in order to refute Republican accusations of a cover-up. According to the Republican narrative, the administration claimed that last year's attack was an ad hoc protest against the Islamophobic 'Innocence of Muslims' video, rather than the work of a terrorist organization. Republicans also allege that the White House had been warned of a possible attack and did not take action, and then concealed the fact in order to deflect criticisms that might have affected Obama's election chances.
These allegations take it for granted that the administration knew who was responsible, and the Republicans are clearly determined to use Benghazi, just as they once used Monica Lewinsky's dress and the Starr Inquiry, to compensate for the fact they have currently made themselves unelectable.
Leading Republicans, including House Speaker John Boehner and Karl Rove are using the Benghazi 'cover-up' not just to attack Obama and US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, but also to discredit Hilary Clinton, in what appears to be a pre-emptive move to disrupt her presidential chances, should she choose to run in the next election.
The result is a carnival of lies, stupidity and bad faith. Dick Cheney has accused Obama and Clinton of ignoring "repeated warnings from the CIA about the threat. They ignored messages from their own people on the ground that they needed more security."
Given the warnings that the Bush administration once ignored in 2001, it takes some gall for Cheney to suggest that Obama should have scrambled fighter jets or unleashed special forces in response to the Benghazi attack, because " In my past experience when we got into these situations, especially after 9/11, we were always on the step, locked and loaded, ready to go on 9/11."
Elsewhere there was Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post, accusing Obama of playing down the significance of the Benghazi attack, by supposedly designating the attack as an "act of terror" rather than an "act of terrorism". And John Bolton, the neocon caveman with the walrus moustache, telling Newsmax – a webzine that makes Fox News look like The Guardian that
"The failure of the administration eight months after the attack either to retaliate, to avenge the killing, to exact retribution, to make it clear to the terrorists you can't do this and get away with it, is much more serious….It tells terrorists, you can attack Americans with impunity, and that's very dangerous."
Who would Bolton like to 'retaliate' against, given that the people who attacked the Benghazi embassy were allies of the United States during the overthrow of Gaddafi? The Great Avenger doesn't say.
There is clearly not much point in bombing Libya – been there, done that. Or Mali – the French have it covered. At least Israel is bombing Syria – something that will undoubtedly warm Bolton's heart. And in Bolton-land, it's almost certain that Iran had something to do with Benghazi, even if it didn't.
Nowhere in this scandal-in-a-teacup, is there the slightest acknowledgement either by the Democrats or the Republicans that what took place in Benghazi is a direct consequence of a fraudulent 'humanitarian' intervention to 'prevent a massacre' (in Benghazi) and overthrow a dictator that has ripped to pieces yet another Arab society – while simultaneously opening new spaces for al-Qaeda-like Salafist formations to spring up from the wreckage.
There is a debate to be had there, which could also address the question of why the same process is being repeated in Syria. But these aren't debates that either the Democrats or the Republicans are interested in having, because all the latter really want to do is ditch Obama and they don't care what it takes.
And their efforts are already bearing fruit, according to a Public Polling Policy poll which found that 55 percent of 'very conservative' respondents and 41 percent of Republicans believe that Benghazi is the "biggest political scandal in American history".
Which only proves that conservatives know nothing about American history, and that the Republican party has become a black hole in which truth, rationality and honesty have vanished – never to be seen again.
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If you have ever felt mesmerised at the beauty of the Full Moon – shining her silvery light over your night time world – then you have also tapped into our moon's potential to transform. We all know that our moon follows a (roughly) 29 day cycle and that the ocean tides are pulled by the gravity of the moon and we can predict the high and low tides by just knowing the moon phase.
Couples plan conception according to lunar cycles; hospitals (e.g. A&E and maternity units) bring in more staff during the Full Moon period and I have heard many stories from mothers who find their small children are more prone to temper tantrums at this "full" energy time. Yet how many of us have also considered the potential of the moon and her cycles to positively impact on our ability to make change in our lives?
During the waxing phase of the moon it is much easier for cells in our bodies to draw things into themselves while during the waning phase of the moon it is much easier for the cell to release.
This means that any intentional work we do with vibrational medicine during specific moon phases can be supported by the energy cycles moving through us.
3. Allow yourself to flow with the natural energies around you. So many women (I was like this for many years) believe they need to demonstrate the same levels of energy 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Allow your body and spirit to experience the ebb and flow of energy and ensure you build in as much rest as you do "action" time.
4. Use natural modalities that bring you closer to your true nature and encourage you to FEEL more deeply. Flower essences can be very helpful as supports for change and transformation.
None of us need to go it alone – support is all around us whoever we are and wherever we live. This is a time of great change on our beautiful planet and the more we find ways to allow ease and grace to guide us forward, the more joyful our journeys will be.
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Bitton
Bitton – The Great Flood 1968
Oldland Common/ N. Common
Swineford
Willsbridge
Higby
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Spotlight Features
Ellacombe Chimes
Poor House & Lock-Up
St Mary's Church hall
St Anne's School
The Grange Bitton
The Lons
Upton Cheyney School
Brass Mills
Hat Making
Intier
Tranter/Carrier
Avon Valley Railway
Dramway
Sources and Links
There has been a Christian church on the St Mary's site since 500AD. The church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. A few Roman remains discovered near the site led to the idea that there may have been a Romano-British temple before that.
Although now in the Bristol Diocese, Bitton was previously in the See of Worcester and Gloucester, as the arms in the North window of the chancel show. St Mary Bitton is inscribed on one of the prebendary stalls at Salisbury Cathedral.
The Rev HT Ellacombe was Curate and Vicar from 1817 to 1850, and was succeeded by his son, Canon HN Ellacombe who was Vicar until his death in 1916.
Help needed to find more information about some of the names on the War Memorial:
A few names of soldiers from the Bitton area that are not on the village memorial. Also, there is some information that suggests some shown on the War Memorial actually survived.
If you can help, please contact us at the History Group
The Grade 1 building is thought to date from 1086. The church is Norman, but began as a tall Saxon structure with a rood screen over the chancel arch. The feet of that screen remain in situ; the head has been found, and the arm is on display in the chancel.
There are Norman archways and doorways.
The chancel was built in 1450 by John Grimsthorpe, who was later Dean of Wells.
The groined moulding of the vaulted roof shows the story of St Mary of Egypt, a popular penitent saint of the Middle Ages. The reredos was erected by Canon Ellacombe in memory of his sister. He also imported some Italian marble, now a major feature of the chancel.
The windows are early 19th century in high Victorian style using vibrant colours.
The south wall of the church leans, and so in the 1840s, the Rev HT Ellacombe installed a hammer-beam roof. It is of mahogany, popularly believed to have come from salvage in the Bristol Channel. The angels rest on gilded stone bosses, each one different and in the design of popular garden plants.
Prior to that, there had been a gallery, which was removed, along with a Georgian reredos, during the Ellacombe years. The Victorian pews, each with an intricately carved pew-end, and the pulpit were then installed. Prior to Tudor times, the church was an open space.
The original west door, destroyed at the Reformation, was replaced in 1968. These doors and the screen beneath the organ were designed by Mr. Ernest Caisley and donated as a memorial to his wife.
The Ellacombe chimes were installed in the church porch in 1821. People often say this was because of quarrels with the bellringers. The chimes allow one person to ring.
The church tower was built circa 1370.
The Lady Chapel
The Lady Chapel, built in 1299, is dedicated to St Catherine who was martyred on the wheel, and was a chantry chapel. The triple Sedalia is the seating for the priest who said prayers for the dead. On the wall is the Millennium patchwork that contains the signatures of many local residents, and was stitched by a dedicated group to commemorate the beginning of the 21st century. From 1822 until 1830 it served as the village school.
The churchyard
The oldest part of the churchyard is on the west side, somewhat sparse of tombstones because prior to the Reformation people spent money on masses said for the dead and not on tombstones. There are many fine 18th and 19th century tombstones. Canon HN Ellacombe's is located on the east side. Rev HT Ellacombe is also buried in the churchyard. The lych gate, for the resting of coffins before committal, was erected as a memorial to him.
The stone War Memorial, in the form of a Celtic cross on a stepped base, is located on the north side of the churchyard.
Jim Allen remembers ringing the Church bells on New Year's Eve 1938, heralding in a year that was to bring The Second World War: KEEP THEM CLEAR by Jim Allen
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November 29, 2017 Admin album, classical, pop, single
The demand for classical music has been on the decline in recent years, with the rising trend in pop music overshadowing other genres. However this has not stopped the undeniable beauty classical composers are producing every day. One of these composers goes by the name of Yiruma; a man with unquestionable talent and creativity in the classical genre.
Born and raised in South Korea as Lee Ru-ma and going by the stage name Yiruma, the musician has gained an exceeding amount of popularity for his unique twist on the classical genre. From an early age there was no doubt Yiruma would go on to be one of the greats, beginning to play piano at age five before moving to London at ten to continue his education at the Purcell School of Music. After graduating from Purcell he went on to complete a composition major at King's College London and by the end of his education had released his first album, Love Scene. In 2001, he released the album he is most attributed to, First Love, containing his most popular piece 'River Flows In You.'
Listen to 'River Flows In You' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsTjI75uEUQ
'River Flows In You' is nothing short of audio beauty, the composition and performance of the piece expressing a tear inducing abundance of emotions. The track has a direct attachment to your heart strings and Yiruma is playing every single one of them perfectly. Yiruma's influence of the romantic music of Paris is apparent in all of his music but none more than 'River Flows In You.' The composition takes you on a journey of the soul, easing you in before showcasing Yiruma's talent with the ivory keys. 'River Flows In You' is possibly the number one song for people's first dance because of how it bursts forth with feelings of love and romance, ending on a melancholy note that just leaves you wanting more.
In 2003, Yiruma went on to release his third album, From the Yellow Room, which saw pre-orders reaching over 30,000 copies and hitting top rank on popular music charts like Phono and Hot Tracks. This album included the equally popular 'Kiss The Rain', a twinkling piece that could have been plucked directly from the end of a romance movie that leaves no dry eye in the room.
Listen to 'Kiss The Rain' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so6ExplQlaY
The piece strikes as one of realisation of something known beneath the surface finally coming to light. The repeating chords resonate deep in your psyche, connecting on a truly emotion level. The track soars high before falling into a soft end that echoes the beginning, giving the piece a feeling of total completion. 'Kiss The Rain' is a pretty and admirable piece that leaves the listener in wonder and awe.
After his fourth album (POEMUSIC) and fifth album (Spring Waltz), Yiruma gave up his British citizenship to enlist in the Korean Army, as all South Korean males are required to do. The break in music did not lesson his talent, however, for he returned in 2008 with the Yiruma Come Back Tour. The tour consisted of twenty cities in Korea and followed on with Yiruma becoming a DJ for KBS1FM Yiruma's Music All Around The World in 2009.
Yiruma's musical style is unlike famous composers of eras gone by, recognising the rapidly changing world he lives in and adjusting accordingly. Whilst still creating music belonging to the classical genre, Yiruma's music has been labelled 'new age', likened to music used in film scores or television dramas. The modern twist placed on his music has allowed multitudes of fans to connect on an almost intimate level with his compositions, continuing to boost his popularity.
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Paris is a city defined by its neighborhoods, also known as arrondissements. They start in the very center of Paris, and spiral out clockwise from the 1st (where the Louvre is) to the 20th (home to the Pà¨re-Lachaise cemetery). This marks the first in our series of "Paris Neighborhood Spotlight" posts, where we hope you gain some insider information and expertise you can explore like a Parisian local.
Today, we are going to spotlight the 7th arrondissement, one of the most famous (and expensive) neighborhoods in all of Paris. Fortunately, you can explore the glitz and glamour without having to buy a 2 million euro flat in the area.
Nary a visitor to Paris can resist visiting one of the world's most treasured landmarks. Be sure to arrive early, or late, or with a pre-arranged entry time to minimize your wait time as queues can get outlandish at the tower.
A famous Parisian open-air market where you can purchase some of the 400 gourmet French cheeses, fish, and fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables. Certainly a can't miss, truly local market experience. Don't forget to greet the shop owners, as a "Bonjour Madame" is quite customary in France.
Dedicated to its namesake, Rodin, and his legendary sculptures and life, this museum is stunning. Pay special attention if you go on a day with lovely weather, as the museum's huge windows are often open and allow a wonderful indoor/outdoor touring experience.
Home to impressionist, post-impressionist and even some more modern works, the d'Orsay's collection is second only to the Louvre's. There are collections my Renoir, Van Gogh, and Monet. While the impressionist collection is their most famous, the museum houses a number of unforgettable works.


Where do you want the stadium to be?
Where do you want to see the new stadium be built?
1. Where do you want to see the new stadium be built?
It seems certain that the Upstate will soon have a new baseball team and stadium. So, based soley on location, in which city would you rather the stadium be built?
I was at Falls Park yesterday and also strolled down to the proposed baseball site. There was a decent size crowd downtown and at the park as well. Many businesses were closed but the ones that were open were doing a good business. I noticed a new business had opened on Pendleton (now renamed S. Main), and the space next to it is renovated and available for lease. The Riverplace construction is taking shape as well.
I think putting the baseball stadium in the West End is a no-brainer if there ever was one. So much money has already been invested in Main Street and the West End, both private and public money. The ballpark would serve as another anchor for redevelopment, just as the Peace Center, Hyatt Regency and Falls Park already have.
The current stadium is in Mauldin. In it's isolated location, it did not foster additional economic development around it.
A ballpark in either Greer or Mauldin would put more traffic on either I-85 or 385, often during afternoon rush hour. Who wants to deal with that? I only get on I-85 if it is unavoidable. Going to a ball game is suppose to be a relaxing event. Dealing with traffic to get there would detract from that.
Also, the Mauldin proposal would be mostly paid for with public tax money, not private investment. That alone should nix that option.
If only the brain-dead county council had coughed up a million or two a couple of years ago, a West End stadium would be finished now, and all this drama and controversy would never have happened.
I agree completely with vicupstate. build the stadium where it can easily survive, rather than a location where you must do more work to keep it alive. I believe that all of the pieces areeither already set, or are being set in place for the true success of a ballpark in the West End district of Greenville. On top of that, you've got a great part of history, which relates to the game, right in that exact location in downtown. Shoeless Joe Jackson grew up only a couple of blocks down the road, and no baseball player has ever had a higher profile in Greenville than he.
Also, downtown Greenville is the epicenter of both business and tourism in the upstate, so it only makes sense that anything requiring an audience to support it for survival, should have less trouble in the long run if it is located there.
Someone else must've voted to bring this to the top, so I voted too.
P.S. I voted for the West End.
I think you have chosen well, Greenville.
Why is this thread up at the front? Has somebody been in a cave?


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2016 BMW X3 - Comfortable and fun to drive.
It's generally fun to drive. Peppy but with better visibility than a car. It drives like other German cars with tight responsive steering. It does also have selections for comfort mode, sport mode, or fuel economy mode. I do like the interior finish quality--the leather seats are comfortable, and the dash panel has a good design that allows me to operate it hands free. The back seats are roomy enough for adults and can be folded down when I need more cargo space. The quality seems luxurious overall, but I did have a problem with the auto back door latch. As far as looks, I think it looks really sleek and modern.
I've popped the back door and used it for tailgating at football games. Much nicer than a truck!
My favorite feature is the look of the interior. It is one of the most comfortable cars I've ever driven for my average height. I also like that I have Wi-Fi and can stream music through the car. The last thing that I absolutely love is the extended sun roof. It's so nice to have natural light when you're stuck driving for a while or when you've been cooped up in an office all day.
I don't like paying for premium fuel, and it is not a super fuel-efficient car. I'm not a huge fan of BMW, so sometimes I wish this was another more low-key brand of car that didn't have so much of a stigma around it.
2016 BMW X3 - The BMW X3 seems to have it all.
So after several years with a larger, fairly common, German SUV, I got really tired of the poor gas mileage and $1,000 visits to the dealer. I was hesitant to get another SUV (or SAV as BMW calls it), so I looked for something a bit smaller and with better fuel economy. The BMW X3 seems to have it all. Yes, space is a bit smaller than many SUVs, but the 1.8L, turbo charged engine averages nearly 30mpg and I still have room to fit two bicycles in the back (seat folded down, front wheels off). Power is good, braking is good and the suspension is just right. I drive it like a car with almost no body roll or fear of getting out of shape. The interior fit and finish of the car is also excellent with just enough luxury to make you feel good. Everything is pretty much where it needs to be.
Once, I couldn't find my key at work so I tried using the BMW Connected app to remotely open the car doors once. It worked perfectly. Neat!!
Great ride, excellent gas mileage, some nice luxury features and well built!
The lack of a spare tire (in exchange for run-flats), doesn't make me feel good. Also, I didn't cough-up for the lighting package, so standard is the old, dingy halogen lights with LED driving lights.


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Czechs pass $3.6-billion religious property restitution 14 июля 2012, 14:58
Czech lawmakers passed a bill Saturday on the restitution of assets worth up to 2.95 billion euros ($3.6 billion) seized from 17 religious denominations by Czechoslovakia's communist regime in 1948-89.
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Czech lawmakers passed a bill Saturday on the restitution of assets worth up to 2.95 billion euros ($3.6 billion) seized from 17 religious denominations by Czechoslovakia's communist regime in 1948-89, AFP reports. Shortly after midnight and after a debate lasting more than six hours, the bill, which will now proceed to the upper house before being signed into law by the president, was backed by 93 lawmakers of 182 present in the 200-seat lower house. Under the bill, the denominations including Christian and Jewish religious institutions will regain 56 percent of properties seized by the communist regime -- toppled in 1989, four years before Czechoslovakia's peaceful split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. They will also receive 59 billion koruna (2.3 billion euros, $2.8 billion) in compensation for the remainder of their properties in 30 annual payments, with the outstanding sum to be indexed for inflation every year. The properties to be returned are worth a total 75 billion koruna. However, the state will stop using public funds to cover clergymen's salaries under a 17-year transition scheme. The new bill fixes this period including an initial three-year wage package, which will then be cut by five percent annually for the remaining 14 years. The approval process is likely to be delayed in the Senate, dominated by the leftist opposition. If it turns the bill down, the legislation will return to the lower house probably in September for a second vote of approval and then go straight to the president for signature. After two decades of fruitless talks between the state and religious bodies, the current centre-right Czech government led by right-winger Petr Necas finally made good on a 1991 pledge to return the assets. The bill comes as a relief to regions and municipalities that have had to care for the seized church assets up to now, and as less of a relief for the austerity-minded government at the time the country has entered recession. The central bank of the export-focused central European country of 10.5 million expects the economy to post zero growth this year, after growing by 1.7 percent last year. But the government is still seeking to cut the public deficit to under the EU's threshold of 3.0 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) next year from 3.5 percent expected this year. Last December, a poll by the STEM agency showed that seven in ten Czechs opposed the restitution of church assets seized by the state. A 2011 census showed Roman Catholics were the strongest religious group in the Czech Republic with more than a million believers. But almost five million Czechs or half of the population left the religion column empty, while 3.6 million said they were non-believers.
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Metering: GB prepaid charges plus Nigerian plan to improve low metering rates
Ofgem has said that power suppliers must stop charging customers to install prepaid metersPrepaid meters charges under fire in GB
Ofgem, the electricity and gas regulator in the UK has found that 40% of providers charge customers for the installation of prepaid meters, while another 5% charged for the removal of these meters.
Charges of up to £180 were being enforced, and Ofgem has given these utilities until "the autumn" to remove all charges.
"Ofgem is concerned that charges and costs for using a pre-payment meter fall on those least able to afford them," said Philip Cullum, of Ofgem in a statement.
"That is why we want to remove barriers, deliver greater protections and offer more choice for pre-payment customers to ensure they are able to find the best possible deals."
According to MoneyExpert.com: "The highest charges for installation reached £180, whilst the highest charges for removal could reach up to £160."
Citizens Advice Bureau CEO, Gillian Guy, reiterated: "Pre-pay energy consumers pay more for a second-rate service. Too many pre-pay customers can also feel locked out of the best deals by unfair charges."
EDF Energy and BT Supply Chain join forces
In other GB metering news, EDF and BT Supply Chain will be working together, as BT Supply Chain uses its distribution centre and national network to distribute over six million meters across the UK on behalf of EDF.
In a release, EDF Energy programme director for smart metering and efficiency, Rich Hughes said of the arrangement: "EDF Energy's smart metering programme focuses on delivering the rollout to our customers both safely and efficiently, while providing excellent customer service. Smart metering is a great opportunity for customers and UK but full of technical and logistical challenges at both an industry and company level."
NERC may excuse consumers who have not been metered
In Nigeria, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said it will likely excuse electricity consumers from paying electricity rates, if they have not been metered by their distribution networks.
According to the This Day newspaper, unmetered customers will be exempted from paying electricity as it was due to the "reluctance of distribution companies (discos) to fully carry out their metering plans." The report seemed to imply that the distribution companies preferred to continue with estimated charges instead of installing meters.
Dr. Sam Amadi, Chairman of NERC, told reporters the Commission had decided to employ these means in pushing the Discos to engage in widespread metering of electricity consumers in their networks.
The proposal will apparently by subject to review by industry operators after which "a 16 months grace period will be granted to the Discos to exercise their full metering plans or lose revenues from consumers who they fail to meter by virtue of their exemption from paying for electricity consumed."
Amadi was quite clear that: "The situation has not improved as there is still abysmally low level of metering in the NESI [Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry]. As at today, over 50 per cent of all the registered customers are either unmetered or have non-functional meters."
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AdventHealth makes leadership changes in West Volusia
SPECIAL TO THE BEACON
COUNTY CHAIR — Volusia County Chair Jeff Brower addressed members of the news media and the public at a press conference concerning the county's distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
Volusia County: Have patience with COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Department of Health says it is learning from Daytona Beach event
Jeff Brower, the recently elected chair of Volusia County, addressed the public and members of the news media about the distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations today, Jan. 6. Joining Brower were Volusia County Department of Health Administrator Patricia Boswell and Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood.
"We're not getting it as rapidly as everyone wants to," Brower said, later adding, "We've never tried to roll out a vaccine as it's being produced. It's not going to be easy; there are going to be bumps in the road."
Brower and Boswell said no further vaccination events would be announced until the Department of Health has more doses of the vaccine. The DOH is expecting another shipment soon, but Boswell said distributions from the Florida Department of Health are "very unpredictable" in terms of when the county will receive vaccinations and how many it will get.
The officials commented on the traffic jams at the first two vaccine clinics in Daytona Beach, and the large numbers of disappointed people who were turned away.
"Things have not gone as smoothly as we would have liked," Boswell said. "We have learned from this, and improved our process and learned that we are efficient at administering vaccine," she said. "The COVID vaccine is very limited in supply. We are waiting to hear when our next shipment will arrive and how many that will be."
The Daytona Beach events, the first in the county to vaccinate members of the general public, were criticized by many for their first-come, first-served approach.
"I do apologize for anyone that was impacted in a negative way," Boswell said. "We're going to go with an appointment system at this point, and we're going to work closely, very closely, with our county partners and our city partners to try and make it the best possible experience for those that are coming out to be vaccinated."
While there were bumps in the road, Boswell and Brower said they were glad people over the age of 65 have begun to receive the vaccine, and that the high demand is exciting.
"While it may be small amounts at this point, we are making an impact," Brower said.
The number of inoculated people in Volusia County is slowly increasing. According to Sheriff Chitwood, first responders will begin receiving vaccinations today, Jan. 6, through AdventHealth hospitals. Chitwood said he is happy, but concerned that more deputies have not signed up to receive vaccinations.
"We have roughly 470 sworn deputies; a little over 100 signed up to get vaccinated. While we're not mandating, we're strongly encouraging it," he said. "Having had [COVID-19] myself, I would hope that more of them would get themselves vaccinated. That's a concern that more are not getting vaccinated."
According to a press release from AdventHealth, some 1,000 Volusia County first responders including "police, fire, EMS, beach safety, corrections and animal control staff" have signed up to receive vaccinations this week at AdventHealth Daytona Beach.
COVID-19 is on the rise in Volusia County, as Boswell pointed out, and rollout of the vaccine comes as Volusia experiences the highest volume of positive cases since July.
Brower and Chitwood said they do not intend to get the vaccine until later.
"I'm not getting the vaccine, nobody in my family is getting the vaccine, until everyone in Volusia County who wants it has had it," Brower said, adding that he considers his decisions about the vaccine his alone, and not something he felt ought to be shared.
Chitwood recovered from a bout with COVID-19 in August.
Updates about vaccine distribution in Volusia County will be posted to the Department of Health website, here. The next distribution event will be in Deltona, Jan. 7-8, and registration for the event is already closed.
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Latest Additions to the Bibliography, March 2021
March 10, 2021 / Nicholas Barron and Janet Steins / 0 Comments
This page displays our most recent batch of citations; a comprehensive bibliography of citations we've collected since 2016 (going back as far as 2013) and a search tool are also available.
We welcome suggestions from readers. If you come across something of interest during your own fieldwork in the library, whether that be physical or virtual, please let us know by emailing us at bibliographies@histanthro.org.
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Allen, Rebecca, and Ben Ford, eds. New Life for Archaeological Collections. Society for Historical Archaeology Series in Material Culture. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology, 2019.
Appleton, Nayantara S., and Caroline Bennett, eds. Methods, Moments, and Ethnographic Spaces in Asia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.
Bozell, John R., Gayle F. Carlson, and Robert E. Pepperl, eds. Archeological Investigations at Engineer Cantonment: Winter Quarters of the 1819-1820 Long Expedition, Eastern Nebraska. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
Brooks, Alasdair. The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Cohen, Theodore. Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Falser, Michael. Angkor Wat: A Transcultural History of Heritage. 2 vols. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
Foks, Freddy. "Constructing the Field in Interwar Social Anthropology: Power, Personae, and Paper Technology." Isis 111, no. 4 (2020): 717–39.
Gao, Jie. Saving the Nation Through Culture: The Folklore Movement in Republican China. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2019.
Geroulanos, Stefanos, and Todd Meyers. The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Hawkes, Kristen, James O'Connell, and N.G. Blurton Jones. "Hunter-gatherer studies and human evolution: A very selective review." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165, no. 4 (2018): 777–800.
Houlton, T.M.R., and B.K. Billings. "Blood, Sweat and Plaster Casts: Reviewing the History, Composition, and Scientific Value of the Raymond A. Dart Collection of African Life and Death Masks." HOMO 68, no. 5 (2017): 362–77.
Howard, Victoria. Clackamas Chinook Performance Art: Verse Form Interpretations. Edited by Catharine Mason. Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
Jarrett, Simon. "Consciousness Reduced: The Role of the 'Idiot' in Early Evolutionary Psychology." History of the Human Sciences 33, no. 5 (2020): 110–37.
Jebens, Holger, and Dietrich-Reimer-Verlag. Nicht alles verstehen : Wege und Umwege in der deutschen Ethnologie. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2019.
Kubica, Grażyna. Maria Czaplicka: Gender, Shamanism, Race: An Anthropological Biography. Translated by Ben Koschalka. Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Lambek, Michael. Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte. Anthropological Horizons. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018.
Langlitz, Nicolas. Chimpanzee Culture Wars: Rethinking Human Nature alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
LaPier, Rosalyn R., and David R. M. Beck. City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893–1934. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Leakey, Meave, and Samira Leakey. The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
Leggett, William H., and Ida Fadzillah Leggett, eds. Field Stories: Experiences, Affect, and the Lessons of Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century. Lexington Books, 2021.
Leonard, Douglas W. Anthropology, Colonial Policy, and the Decline of French Empire in Africa. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Link, Adrianna, Abigail Shelton, and Patrick Spero, eds. Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
Nicholas Barron: contributions / website / nbarron@unm.edu
Janet Steins: contributions / website / janet.steins@gmail.com
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Tyler Cameron Just Called Out Kanye West for His Disapproval of Kim Kardashian's Met Gala Look
By Jessica Bowman | Oct 16, 2019, 3:50 PM EDT
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Kanye West might not have approved of Kim Kardashian's dress for the 2019 Met Gala, but Bachelor Nation member Tyler Cameron apparently doesn't approve of Kanye.
Cosmopolitan reports that The Bachelorette star took to Twitter this week to call out Kanye's behavior in the most recent episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. The model tweeted a clip of the episode with the caption:
"What not to do... You should want your significant other to be sexy and feel sexy. Ye lost his confidence. Fellas if you can't stand the heat get out the kitchen. Encourage your significant other to be all they can be. Not hold them back."
What not to do... You should want your significant other to be sexy and feel sexy. Ye lost his confidence. Fellas if you can't stand the heat get out the kitchen. Encourage your significant other to be all they can be. Not hold them back https://t.co/xETmGXDhjY
— Tyler Cameron (@TylerJCameron3) October 15, 2019
'Atta boy, Tyler! It takes guts to stand up to the infamously cocky 'Ye.
And Tyler wasn't the only one to shut him down for his disapproval. In case you missed it, the episode shows Kim wrapping up eight months of wardrobe planning for the Met Gala the following day. Kanye begins rambling about how the he doesn't feel comfortable with her now iconic, corseted Thierry Mugler dress.
"You are my wife and it affects me when pictures are too sexy," the Grammy-winning musician states to Kim. But luckily, she wasn't having it. "You built me up to be this sexy person and confidence and all this, and just because you're on a journey and transformation doesn't mean I'm in the same spot with you," the KKW Beauty founder retorts.
Kim obviously wore the dress in the end, so everything worked out, but with all the backlash, maybe Kanye will think twice before telling his lady she is dressing too sexy.


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How an Abandoned Barracks Near Lisbon Became an Unlikely Tourist Hotspot
This abandoned Portuguese military base attracts many adventurous visitors | © Markel Redondo / Culture Trip
Lucy Bryson
In peace-loving Portugal, a desolate military base is drawing a stream of adventurous visitors.
It's an uncharacteristically chilly, damp day in October, and a handful of sharply dressed young Lisboetas (Lisbon locals) are shivering under low-lying clouds at a deserted army barracks on a remote hillside 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of the famously sunny Portuguese capital.
Camera-clutching visitors are making brisk clothing changes in the autumnal air, slipping into their most photogenic threads to pose inside, astride and beside three enormous Vickers cannons poised to take aim over the Atlantic.
The abandoned military base is on a remote hillside 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Lisbon | © Markel Redondo / Culture Trip
Nearby, others pose precariously in the empty windows of fortified buildings whose whitewashed walls have become a canvas for street artists.
Perched on a rugged cliffside in the middle of the vast Arrábida Natural Park – a wild expanse of pine-covered mountains harbouring some of Portugal's most beautiful unspoilt beaches – this is the long-abandoned barracks of the 7 Bateria de Outão (7th Battalion).
Today, graffiti adorns these abandoned buildings | © Markel Redondo / Culture Trip
This sprawling complex of buildings once formed part of the Regimento de Artilharia de Costa (RAC): eight coastal military bases in Lisbon and the nearby port city of Setúbal. Inaugurated in the immediate aftermath of World War II, the RAC aimed to protect Portugal's seaports and prevent a possible naval invasion.
When the military technology became outdated, and the threat of invasion became remote, the RAC was deactivated in 1998, and the last armed guards left this site in 2001.
This sprawling complex of buildings once formed part of the Regimento de Artilharia de Costa (RAC) | © Markel Redondo / Culture Trip
Portugal is currently ranked as the fourth most peaceful country in the world by the World Peace Index, behind only Iceland, Austria and New Zealand. The nation remained neutral during WWII and managed to stage a bloodless coup against a fascist dictatorship in the Carnation Revolution of 1974. These ferocious-looking defences were never put to the test.
The romantic appeal of abandoned places
Today, the deserted officers' quarters, underground bunkers and workshops sit in varying states of degradation. Heavy armaments stand firm nearby, while the tanks sit empty and rusting. The heavy concrete letters that once spelt out the name of the battalion lie upended on the ground.
Today, the deserted officers' quarters, underground bunkers and workshops sit in varying states of degradation | © Markel Redondo / Culture Trip
Daniel Coelho runs off-the-beaten-track jeep, bike and sidecar trips with Bike my side. "Having grown up near Arrábida Mountain, this place was a source of fascination to me as a child, passing it in my parents' car on the way to the beaches and seeing the military guarding the entrance," he says. "Even today, when I walk in with customers for a visit, the child in me returns. You can spend hours inside discovering hidden corners or simply admiring the incredible views over the Atlantic. As a bonus, many urban artists took the stronghold by storm and made it their canvas with incredible graffiti."
On a clear day, the barracks' location allows visitors to pose against a backdrop of white-sand beaches and water in varying shades of turquoise, with views encompassing the nearby industrial port town of Setúbal and out towards the Alentejo Region. In gloomier weather, the mist-swathed compound of turreted buildings feels unnervingly like the setting for a horror film.
The long-abandoned barracks of the 7 Bateria de Outão (7th Battalion) lie in the Arrábida Natural Park | © Markel Redondo / Culture Trip
"When I first came here, I would be the only visitor," says photographer and historian Rafael Oliveira, who has been visiting since 2014. "But in the last year or so, word has spread on Instagram about this fascinating place with the beautiful backdrop of beaches and nature. Each time I visit, it is busier and, unfortunately, more vandalised."
As one of Europe's oldest cities, Lisbon has famously seen many an adventurous traveller set sail in search of new lands and opportunities. The same rings true today, with many people from the area stepping out of their comfort zone and exploring the areas around them.
The barracks have become canvases for street artists | © Markel Redondo / Culture Trip
Lisbon's relationship with its neglected sites
Lisbon's city council actively encourages street artists to bring colour to centuries-old buildings with vibrant murals, and Vhils – Lisbon's most celebrated street artist – uses innovative techniques to create bold portraits by blasting away layers of history.
Although the city's economy has been boosted by an enormous tourism boom in recent years (in itself partly driven by Lisbon's status as one of Europe's most peaceful capital cities), years of financial struggle are evident in the many abandoned buildings. While many are neglected, others become officially recognised attractions. One example is the Miradouro Panorâmico de Monsanto, a formally abandoned restaurant in the middle of Lisbon's Monsanto Forest Park. It attracted hordes of illicit visitors keen to snap photos in the deserted locale, before being officially opened to the public and hosting major events, such as the Festival Iminente, an urban art festival.
For some, the barracks bring back childhood memories | © Markel Redondo / Culture Trip
At present, there are no plans for the 7th Battalion to undergo similar treatment. And for Rafael Oliveira, that's just fine. "Although the regions of Setúbal and Lisbon are densely populated, there are still places like this that offer surprises," he says. "These are places abandoned by man and given over to the passage of time and that are both close and remote at the same time. And if there is a background of blue sky and blue sea, better still."
Visiting the 7 Bataria de Outão
The 7 Bataria de Outão is about an hour from Lisbon, but due to its remote location, it is difficult to access by public transport. Hikers can reach the base via rugged trails, but a guide is essential. It is possible to visit by car, but the easiest option for out-of-towners is to take a jeep or bike tour.
The RAC is about an hour from Lisbon | © Markel Redondo / Culture Trip