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Mapping Diaspora African American Roots Tourism in Brazil
Book | Written by Patricia de Santana Pinho | The University of North Carolina Press | 2018
Brazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the black Atlantic diaspora. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research as well as textual, visual, and archival sources, Patricia de Santana Pinho investigates African American roots tourism, a complex, poignant kind of travel that provides profound personal and collective meaning for those searching for black identity and heritage. It also provides, as Pinho's interviews with Brazilian tour guides, state officials, and Afro-Brazilian activists reveal, economic and political rewards that support a structured industry.
Pinho traces the origins of roots tourism to the late 1970s, when groups of black intellectuals, artists, and activists found themselves drawn especially to Bahia, the state that in previous centuries had absorbed the largest number of enslaved Africans. African Americans have become frequent travelers across what Pinho calls the "map of Africanness" that connects diasporic communities and stimulates transnational solidarities while simultaneously exposing the unevenness of the black diaspora. Roots tourism, Pinho finds, is a fertile site to examine the tensions between racial and national identities as well as the gendered dimensions of travel, particularly when women are the major roots-seekers.
272 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 4 halftones
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-4532-2
Published: December 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-4531-5
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https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469645322/mapping-diaspora/
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Panthers make quick work of Ironton as Koker earns first win at Southeastern
Southeastern swept Ironton on Tuesday in convincing fashion as Lori Koker earned her first coaching win with the Panthers.
Derrick Webb, Staff Writer
CHILLICOTHE — Late in the first set of their season-opener on Tuesday, Southeastern's Audrey Scott had a two-play sequence that seemed to expel the team's pre-game jitters.
Southeastern's Audrey Scott made her impact known early and often in Tuesday's win over Ironton.
With the score tied at 19-19, Scott sent a ball screaming to the floor to give her team a lead before recording a block moments later, making it a 21-19 ballgame.
And, frankly, from that point on, it was smooth sailing for the Panthers.
Behind strong performances from Scott, Hannah Lougheed, Lexie Lockwood, Alexis Bailes, Olivia Higley and a host of others, Southeastern (1-0) made quick work of visiting Ironton by a 25-19, 25-15, 25-10 final.
It was Southeastern coach Lori Koker's first win as a Panther.
"Our defense has been working so hard on covering each other and just the X's and O's," Koker said. "I think that was the key. And we built momentum. You could see that tonight."
After Scott provided a spark in the first set, she continued to frustrate Ironton.
Standing tall at the net, she ended the night with seven kills, three blocks and two aces.
"Audrey has worked really hard and we were fortunate to start in June, so we were able to get through all of our phases," Koker said. "She's continued to stay after it. We went with a two-setter system and she's wanted to work with each one of them. She's worked extremely hard. So we're really pleased with her and excited for her to have the game she did tonight."
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Meanwhile, Southeastern's defensive leader Lexie Lockwood did what she does best. The junior captain seemed to be everywhere, chasing down hits and providing security in the back.
"She's one of those players who has a green light. You have your certain places where you're supposed to be, but if Lexie can get to the ball, Lexie gets it," Koker said. "She's the only one that doesn't have to go by the book."
Bailes gave the Panthers the first lead of the night before the two teams jockeyed for position throughout the first set. At one point, Ironton (0-1) had a 10-7 lead before SE went on a 4-0 run to go ahead 11-10.
Later, thanks to Scott and Bailes' efforts, the Panthers ended the set on a 6-0 run to win 25-19.
From there, it was all Southeastern.
From the service line, Scott gave the Panthers a 4-0 lead out of the gate before Lougheed later made it 8-3 with a kill from the right side of the net. Southeastern then built leads of 16-8 and 23-10 before taking a 2-0 match advantage with a 25-15 victory.
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In the third, the Panthers jumped out to a 6-0 lead before Higley tallied an ace to make it 13-4. Later, up 17-7, Lockwood served two consecutive aces as the Panthers cruised to a 25-10 win.
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Lougheed led the team offensively with 14 kills alongside six assists and 12 digs. Lockwood finished with 14 digs, Scott had seven kills and three blocks, Bailes totaled five kills and six blocks, and Higley added 24 assists and 12 digs.
"I feel like the girls are undeniable working hard and they're so, so coachable," Koker said. "We made a lot of adjustments in that match. We switched a lot of people around. So for them to buy into it, you hope you can build from this and get better."
The Panthers will now turn their attention towards New Hope Christian Academy, where they'll travel to play on Thursday.
While Southeastern is off to a great start, there's still many things to work on.
"We need to work on communication when we do switch, so we know exactly where someone is at," she said. "We don't want those mishaps. We could also have a faster-paced offense. But to start like we did, I'm happy with it."
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Is it really a Choice or What?
An action by the Iraqi Democratic Left Movement
After the fall of AlBa'ath regime, and the formation of the Occupation Governing Council led by Bremer, who smartly attempted to show that the council is presenting all the Iraqis with all their thoughts, nationalities and religious differences, he called Hameed Majeed Mousa, the Iraqi Communist Party secretariat to be within this notorious council.
In 2010 elections, Ayad Alawi who has the well-known past and present with Ba'ath regime, made an alliance with the Iraqi Communist Party leaders and gave the party a ministry without any base or liability. After that, it rolled mistakes, and then the Communists voted for the constitution with all its mistakes and accepted to divide the country into regions.
They initiate to call a representatives of the Iraqi Communist Party each time the political crises get worse, just to invest the Iraqi Communist symbolic struggle in defending the rights of living a free and decent life and the heroic defending for the freedom and independence of the country.
Despite the fact that the Islamic pretenders has a great audience on quantity basis but they still feel that they are standing on a loose ground, their followers became aware about the selfishness, ignorance and corruption of their followings, and began to abandon them according to the degree of deception and ignorance that these forces are using.
Therefore, these forces are now accepting the red color within its audience once as a guest and sometimes as a participant depending on the situation and the seriousness of the crises, because they are now aware about the audience looking after the left forces, so they are showing the left forces as partner with all their decisions and corruptions.
Communist stood now with Al-Sader audience in the protesting squares, and in the same way (Hameed Majeed Mousa) has been called for the negotiation committee, and we don't know who is negotiating whom? And the Sadrist that the protestors protesting by his name is a main partner in the government and the parliament, and all the ruling Islamic forces have their presence among the protesters as well as the negotiators.
We want to say that: Does the party leaders are addicted to fixing the grim, corrupt and bad reputed faces since the occupation's Governing Council and so far? And does this behavior is the result of political ignorance or what?
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Dyson Racing–Historic 24 Hours of Le Mans Finish for Dyson Racing Junior Development Driver Matt McMurry
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Historic 24 Hours of Le Mans Finish for Dyson Racing Junior Development Driver Matt McMurry
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY – With the drop of the green flag on June 14th, 16-year-old Matt McMurry became the youngest starter in the long and storied history of the 24 Hours Le Mans, breaking the record for the French endurance classic set by Ricardo Rodriguez in 1959. And on the 15th, when the checkered flag finally waved, he entered the record books as the race's youngest finisher, beating fellow American Gunnar Jeannette's finish in 2000. The #42 Caterham Zytek-Nissan, which McMurry shared with Chris Dyson and Tom Kimber-Smith, finished tenth in the competitive LM P2 class on the Circuit de la Sarthe. Fielded by Greaves Motorsports, the car traveled over 2,700 miles in the 82nd running of the toughest endurance race in motorsports.
"This is a massive accomplishment for Matt McMurry, the McMurry family and for the Dyson Racing Junior Development program," said Dyson, Vice President and Sporting Director of Dyson Racing. "Congratulations to Matt's dad, Chris, on this Father's Day achievement. To come over here and break two significant records is a notable success. I know Matt is going to be hungry to come back here. This is such a wonderful international event and no matter how many times we race here, we always look forward to coming back."
Matt was just ten when he first saw the race with his dad and 12 when he set his sights on becoming the youngest driver to race in thhe event. Speaking after the race, Matt observed that "everything about Le Mans was new, big and incredible. I'm so happy to have had the chance to experience everything about it, the whole week long. Our team did a great job, I learned a lot from Chris and Tom, and we got a good result — we ran all 24 hours and had a respectable finish. I arrived with an eye on becoming the youngest driver ever at Le Mans, and thanks to everyone I'm now also the youngest finisher. It was a memorable day for Dyson Racing, Greaves Motorsport and me. Thanks to all the people over the years – and there were a lot of them – who made this possible for me."
Tom Kimber-Smith has won the LM P2 class twice at Le Mans. "It's an achievement simply to finish such a challenging race," he said. "There as so many things that can go wrong, so many opportunities to make that little mistake with the big consequence. We had a lot of goals going into the race but number one was to support Matt's quest for the record and I'll tell you, he did a great job. His first stint was in the rain, which wasn't easy. But as a racing driver he's mature beyond his years – he looked as if he had been driving on wet tracks for years. It's incredible he's only 16.
Kimber-Smith also noted that "Chris drove fantastically all week, never putting a wheel wrong and he did the stints you'd expect to see from a two-time ALMS champ. It whas a real pleasure to drive with these guys and I cannot wait until the next event." And that next event won't be long in coming. The trio will be back in Europe next month, driving the Greaves Motorsports Caterham entry in the third round of the European Le Mans Series at the Red Bull Ring in Austria, July 19-20.
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Poderi Aldo Conterno belongs to an elite group of historical Barolo producers who have truly shaped the history of winemaking in the Langhe. The essential resource the Wine Atlas of the Langhe writes: "Gran Bussia is universally acknowledged as one of the finest interpretations of Barolo. Created in 1970 from a selection of the estate's best grapes, Gran Bussia – released only in the best vintages – has shown how it is possible to achieve a perfect marriage of aromas and flavor with unhurried cellaring. Recent tastings of all the vintages have confirmed the staying power of the wine, which exalts the majestic nose of Nebbiolo while offering a palate that becomes increasingly velvety with the passing years."
The story of Poderi Aldo Conterno is a tale of great passion for winemaking that winds back through the generations and crosses international borders. It starts in the 19th century, when the forefathers of Aldo Conterno emigrated to Argentina. After only a few years they went back to Italy to the small family farm and winery in Monforte d'Alba where they returned to producing the local wine. With their return, the Conterno family increased the production of wine, to be sold in casks not only in Piedmont and Liguria but as far away as the Americas, thanks to a relative who had stayed out in Argentina. At this time, the Conternos felt the need to create a superior Barolo, to be produced exclusively in the best vintages, which saw long vinification periods and was extremely ageworthy. In the 1920s, the first Barolo Riserva was bottled. At the end of the '30s, the business was handed over to son Giacomo, who continued his father's tradition with commitment and foresight, while teaching the business to his sons Giovanni and Aldo.
In the mid-'50s, Aldo set out for the United States, hoping to establish a winemaking business in California, with the help of an uncle who lived there. Upon his return to the family business in Italy around 1961, father Giacomo handed over the winery to his sons: it was a thriving and prestigious business, recognized throughout most of the country. Yet, the five-year experience in the United States had kindled within Aldo a desire to establish a business of his own. After working for a considerable time alongside his brother, Aldo bought the "Favot" farm, founding the estate "Poderi Aldo Conterno" in 1969.
The farmhouse is situated in the Bussia hamlet, a section of the Monforte d'Alba village. At present, the farm comprises about 25 hectares of vineyards considered to be some of the very best plots in all of the Langhe. At an altitude of about 400 meters above sea level, the terrain is oriented south-southwest and is composed of gray-brown compact layers of sandy soil alternating with white and bluish calcareous marls, rich with calcium carbonate and iron. All fruit is strictly hand harvested in mid-October. Fermentation occurs in temperature-controlled stainless-steel tanks. The estate's four Barolos are vinified in the same manner: they are all fermented in horizontal fermenters, "which are different from the more violent rotary fermenters" according to Conterno. Fermentation and maceration lasts 2-3 weeks, depending on the vintage. The wines are then aged exclusively in Slavonian-oak casks ranging from 25 to 75 hectoliters, which are changed every 15-18 years. Selected yeasts are never used. The wines are remarkably approachable and tend to show a lot of sweet fruit in their youths as well as notes of spices and vanilla. These are very clean and polished wines of great elegance. All the other wines are aged in French-oak barriques.
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If you're a .NET programmer you might be familiar with using SqlConnection and SqlCommand objects to perform database queries.
You might think the liberal use of 'using' statements disposes of all the resources that might still be lingering around after execution of this method completes. You might think that there are no 'leakages' happening here. This might be true in most cases however this blog post is going to pose a counter-example.
Consider the scenario where just before the process releases the "Exclusive (X) lock" it has on the resource it is INSERTing, the command timeout expires.
At the time of the [command timeout] the transaction is not rolled back unless transaction abort (XACT_ABORT) has been enabled. The client needs to submit a rollback. If the client does not submit the rollback and continues other processing the transaction remains open and the behavior scope of the application becomes undefined.
What Bob Dorr is saying is that in the above code, MyInsertMethod1, fails to defensively handle the command timeout exception because it does not end the transaction if such an exception occurs. The transaction can be ended by a COMMIT or ROLLBACK. Furthermore, the side effects of this are not good. The transaction still holds onto any locks that it has, or in other words the transaction is still open and it will "leak".
To fix this, we should catch the command timeout exception and explicitly commit or rollback the transaction to close it properly.
"Stale" SQL transactions that are not closed properly can cause poor database performance. They can cause other transactions to block on any locks that they have, thus causing more command timeouts and the problem can snowball.


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CAPT AMARINDER SINGH LAYS FOUNDATION STONES OF VARIOUS DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AT SULTANPUR LODHI & DERA BABA NANAK
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(HNI BUREAU) : Taking development of the holy city to new heights, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday laid foundation stones of six projects, to be completed at a cost of nearly Rs. 40.75 crore, in Sultanpur Lodhi
After attending the function on closing ceremony of 550th Prakash Purb celebrations of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji here, Captain Amarinder Singh laid the foundations stones of the conservation of Qila Sarai Project at a cost of Rs. 6.5 crore, Grid Tied Roof Top Solar Power Plant at Government Senior Secondary School at a cost of Rs. 1.25 crore, Smart School for Rs. 9.5 crore, Sewerage Treatment Plant worth Rs. 20 crore, Sub Division Administrative Complex at a cost of Rs. 3 crore and Five Smart Aanganwari Centres at a cost of Rs. 45 Lakh.
Listing some other projects that had been announced and completed at Sultanpur Lodhi during the 550th Prakash Purb, the Chief Minister said that the beautification of the holy Kali Bein was done at a cost of Rs. 10.8 crore, while Guru Nanak Dev ji Centre for Invention, Innovation, Incubation & Training had been set up at a cost of Rs. 319 crore. The Bebe Nanki College for Girls had been established in this area in this period, he said, adding that the widening and construction of six town roads had been completed at Rs. 30.7 crore, along with upgradation of the Railway Station to facilitate Sangat and other travellers.
In another step to ensure easy movement of devotees and traffic towards Gurudwara Ber Sahib, three high-level bridges have been constructed on the Pavittar Bein at a cost of Rs Rs. 9.30 crore, in addition to two foot over bridges at Pavittar Bein (Rs. 1.4 crore) and two Pontoon Bridges over the Pavittar Bein at Rs. 2 crore. The local rest house has also been developed at a cost of Rs Rs. 2.4 crore, while Rs 6 crore was spent on upgradation of the bus stand, in addition to setting up of 66 KV sub Station at a cost of Rs Rs. 11 crore.
Later, at Dera Baba Nanak, another historic town associated with the first Sikh Guru, the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, accompanied by PPCC President Sunil Jakhar, Cabinet Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and MP Preneet Kaur, dedicated to the people all projects taken up in the 63 villages and 14 towns visited by Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji (Rs. 77 crore).
Besides, the Chief Minister also laid the foundation stone for Heritage Street (Rs. 3 Crore), and Guru Nanak Dev Sugarcane Research and Development Institute, Kalanaur, to come up in 100 acres, as well as Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Museum and Clock Tower (Rs. 80 Lakh).
Thanking the Chief Minister for all the development projects including Sugarcane institute, Cabinet Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said that the institute would prove to be a shot in the arm for the Sugarcane growers. Besides, the heritage street would give fillip to the religious tourism and give facelift to the region.
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There were four high-scoring South SFA Regional Challenge Cup first round ties played last weekend with two on Friday evening and the other two on Saturday.
Although Gretna 2008 managed to score the same amount of goals in their match against Mid-Annandale the Lockerbie side managed to find the net on two occasions and in fact held a half time lead.
Nathan Muir opened the scoring for Mids ten minutes into the match but 11 minutes later Ian Anderson levelled the tie. Before the break Denver Milligan latched onto a mistake by Gretna keeper Vinnie Parker to give his side a slender lead to the home side at the interval.
However it only took Gretna a minute after the re-start to equalise when Scott Milligan scored and in the 64th minute the visitors took the lead for the first time through Sam Aitchison. Twelve minutes from time Milligan secured victory from the penalty spot to end the scoring.
The two cup ties played on Saturday again saw the winning sides scoring four goals each with St Cuthbert Wanderers seeing off neighbours Fleet Star 4-1 and Threave Rovers taking four off Wigtown and Bladnoch at Trammonford Park with the home side only replying twice.
At St Marys Park Star were holding Saints to a one all draw with Roman Soltys opening the scoring after 14 minutes for the home side and Steven Hogg levelling the tie 11 minutes later. Saints though came out for the second half with all guns blazing and after six minutes Stuart Maxwell gave them the lead followed a minute later with a goal from Andrew Donely. With 15 minutes left Maxwell found the net again for his second and his sides fourth to ensure victory for Saints to progress to round two where they will meet Stewartry neingbours Threave Rovers victors over Wigtown.
There were four South of Scotland League matches played on Saturday with Edusport Acadmey increasing their lead at the top to five points following a 5-2 victory over Heston Rovers at Palmerston Park although finishing the match with ten men.
Crichton started the day in second place only two points behind Edu but a 4-3 reverse at the hands of Creetown saw them slip to five points behind. Crichton were cruising with a three goal lead until the home side fired into life. Goals from Ben Herries, Scott Philips, Stewart Taylor and an own goal saw the home side take the three points from an exciting encounter.
Upper Annandale took a two goal lead against visitors Newton Stewart before the Creesiders fought back through Scott Whannel and Johnny Fisher to level the match. Fisher gave Newton the lead just before the finish but Uppers found the net for a late goal to deny the three points from the visitors.
Goals from Kieran Kreuse, Blair Steele and Cammy McDougal penalty was enough for Lochar Thistle to record a 3-1 victory over Nithsdale Wanderers at Sanquhar.


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The Mystery of Mini-House
Mini-House
In the backyard of our 1920s home sits a garage, a seating area and a white structure that we like to call "Mini-House." Others have called it by other names, including "a storage shed," "The Original Mancave," and my favorite came from our electrician, who calls it "A Playhouse Gone Horribly, Horribly Wrong." It's quite an odd little structure to see right in the middle of town and visitors always ask our neighbors what it's used for. Up until a few weeks ago, we used it for storage.
Mini-House is the square footage of a small bedroom and has 1970s wood paneling. It has a variety of windows on each side – some are newer than others. It also has an extra wide front door, hookups for television and phone, as well as an air conditioner and a small heater. When we closed on the property, we inherited some clues about Mini-House and Clarence, the previous owner.
Clarence and his wife bought the property in 1968, and when we came along, we acquired some of the belongings he left behind. It was clear that the Mini-House was Clarence's domain. It had a massive metal desk that overlooked the yard through a large window. A phone line ran through the desk and a large, black rotary phone sat on the left corner. Bolted to the largest wall, was an entertainment center that had seen better days. Its door had fallen off and the fake wood was peeling. When we removed the entertainment center, there was cement underneath it. Someone had cut the cobalt blue carpeting to fit snugly around the piece.
In the back corner is an imposing brick oven with a brick chimney – something that was there long before Clarence. It's the piece of the puzzle that makes everything even more interesting.
Mini-House was a man cave of sorts for Clarence. The handyman added a walkway between Mini-House and the garage, which he rigged into a work area. Fifteen Mason jars filled with nuts and bolts spin on a homemade spindle hanging from the ceiling and scrap lumber fills nooks and crannies of the garage. You never know when you might need something that the garage holds.
Clarence's hold on the property and its use is clear, but what was Mini-House and its oven used for before that? A read through the home's abstract didn't yield any clues; except that the home has had seven previous couples live in it. (One man gave his wife part of the mortgage in exchange for "love and affection.")
A conversation with a friend over coffee introduced a new theory about the structure's history. She thinks Mini-House was originally a summer kitchen, a place to get the cooking done without heating up the house. The proximity to the backdoor and the brick oven fits into her theory, but it will take quite a bit more research to determine if that was the intent of Mini-House.
Last week, I set it up as a place to update furniture with new upholstery. I use the walkway to get to the garage, which (as you know) is where the painting is done. The cobalt blue carpet in Mini-House got a solid vacuuming – it took a half an hour to get it up to good-looking condition. The cobwebs got wiped away and the paneling got a good scrub. Now two banquet tables line the walls and totes serve as storage. Sheer curtains hang on a few of the windows and a stained glass butterfly greets the neighbors' garden on the other side of the window.
It took a while to figure out what Mini-House would be for us. For now, it's got a solid purpose, with the ability to adjust as needed, just as it's done for years before us.
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leah says
Before and after remodeling photos? Guided photo tour? Maybe I've been reading too much younghouselove :)


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The suffering Jesus in Shawn Copeland's theology
African American spirituality and God's act of solidarity
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Knowing Christ Crucified
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The cross is a book, St. Francis of Assisi reportedly said. In seven provocative, incisive essays, M. Shawn Copeland "reads" the book of the cross across centuries of African American experience and culture. This is not a systematic treatise, but together these pieces sketch a bold constructive theology that integrates black liberationist commitments with contemporary critical theory, Roman Catholic spirituality, and post-Vatican II thought. Copeland retrieves and reenvisions Christology within a "practical-political theology" that names and directly confronts social suffering—especially that which has been spawned by white supremacy, slavery, segregation, and ongoing racial injustice. Though this is an erudite work of academic theology, ideal for use in seminary or college classrooms, pastors, lay people, and activists also will profit from it.
Copeland discerns a cruciform shape in African American slave narratives; she begins with the inception of race-based chattel slavery in the colonial Americas and ends with the hate crime and mass murder in Charleston and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. She explores the "dark wisdom" in these narratives, forged by a people ripped out of their ancestral lands, stripped of their cultural and religious traditions, rent from their family members at auction blocks, beaten, sexually abused, and terrorized; but she also uncovers a fervent and persistent faith in the God who raised the crucified Jewish Messiah from the dead. Echoing the political theologian Johann Metz, Copeland reckons these narratives as "dangerous memories, memories that challenge" us even today, as we seek to embrace a discipleship marked by cruciform praxis in solidarity with the dispossessed.
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A striking biblical spirituality permeates these stories. Slaves typically were forbidden to congregate, worship, sing, and drum together. Still, in fleeting hours of leisure or in the dark of night, slaves would steal away into the woods to pray, an act of resistance. Copeland recounts the story of "Praying Jacob," a devout Maryland slave who defiantly asserted—even when held at gunpoint!—his right to halt his tasks three times a day for prayer. "Praying Jacob disarmed slavery's power over his body through committed Christian discipleship. Death had no power over him; he was a follower of Jesus of Nazareth in word and deed," she writes.
The enslaved also were deprived of the right to read or even possess Bibles on pain of whipping, maiming, or even death, yet they crafted and handed on an aural and oral biblical tradition—pruning scripture of proof texts used to legitimize slavery (like the curse of Ham) and affirming a God who promises freedom to the captives. This living text, encoded in prayer, lament, and song, ranged from the Exodus narratives, to Jesus' subversive Kingdom praxis, to bracing apocalyptic visions of the end of days.
Copeland warns against a voyeurism that reifies black bodies, appropriating the struggles of the past for mere edification. These were real individuals who suffered, hoped, and died; the devastating story of a Bermuda slave named Hetty, a pregnant woman beaten to the point she later miscarried and then died, offers no redemptive arc but elicits horror at the dehumanization slaves endured on a daily basis.
Still, the abiding human dignity of the slaves shines through these stories. Drawing upon Catholic thinker Bernard Lonergan, Copeland reads the black freedom struggle as manifesting the innate human drive toward transcendence, through creative and transgressive acts of cultural transformation.
Likewise, Copeland eschews the temptation of making the slave narratives grist for a theodicy that would render social suffering theoretically innocuous. God does not will evil in its myriad manifestations but opposes it, full stop. She shares feminist worries that atonement theologies are often used to condone, legitimize, and sanctify suffering as a good in itself. In her view, African American spirituality understands the cross as God's act of solidarity in, with, and for those who suffer. The slaves, Copeland writes, "knew Jesus as a friend with whom they could share their secrets, a savior to whom they could entrust their hopes and fears, a companion with whom they could walk through life's deep shadows, a healer who could make the wounded whole, a fellow sufferer who knew in his body the story of the lash, enduring with them what was their daily portion." Copeland names this "apophatic" wisdom, in the sense that it is a hope in a coming time of justice that was (and is) as yet unseen.
Copeland also reads the text of the crucified in that quintessential art form, the spirituals. These songs, as scholars have shown, served myriad functions, including giving coded, practical direction for those, say, seeking escape along the Underground Railroad. Copeland brings her own Catholic spiritual perspective to bear on these songs. Take, for example, these lyrics from one of the best-known spirituals: "We are climbing Jacob's ladder . . . Every round goes higher, higher." Copeland connects this Christ-centered pattern of ascent with the mystical teaching of Catherine of Siena, who taught that the body of the crucified serves as bridge and staircase to God.
The spirituals unite individual and corporate experience. Though these songs rose up from the moans of slaves in specific contexts, they evince universal implications. "In the spirituals, a distinctive history of salvation takes place, and we are included in it," Copeland writes. Traditional African worldviews, whose root paradigms continued to shape the lives of slaves, albeit covertly, interwove past, present, and future, ignoring the dichotomies of Westernized, linear time: We were there when they crucified the Lord; we were there when the angel proclaimed startling news to the women disciples.
One essay stands out uniquely. In it, Copeland reconstructs Christology to embrace the experiences of gay, lesbian, and transgender believers. I wish this chapter had been integrated more explicitly with the others. Still, its focus on Christ as liberator links it to the others in the book.
Pointedly wrestling with Roman Catholic social teaching, Copeland starkly asks: "Can Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of God, be an option for gay, lesbian, and transgender people?" Her constructive response remains rooted in an incarnational and eucharistic Catholic ecclesiology: as we are all extensions of the body of Christ, no one should be excluded from the common table. Amid the oppressions of empire (two millennia ago and also now), Jesus' own preferential optional for the marginalized models a new, inclusive agenda for discipleship today, one which advocates for embracing the full diversity of identities and modes of erotic fulfillment. Such faithful praxis—in solidarity with all the marginalized—is the authentic path, she argues, to discerning the cross of Christ today.
A version of this article appears in the print edition under the title "Slavery and the cross."
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"Montgomery County's Folk-Life Play" is not your typical community theatre, it is "theatre genealogy" — telling true stories of ordinary people from a small community.
Through this project, Southern culture, traditions and local history are researched, documented and introduced to future generations. At its foundation, Hill Fire works to preserve the oral accounts of Southern customs by those who still remember.
"Since my roots are deep in Montgomery County, I love the stories about the people and their families of the area," said Sue Stidham, director of the Winona Chamber of Commerce and long-time Montgomery County resident. "I certainly think that it is always an event that brings visitors to our area as well as bringing out our home folks. It also keeps the history of our County fresh in the minds of our younger generations."
Hill Fire volunteer Kayla Amason said her favorite thing about the program is the historical aspect.
"Most people would never know about stories like Brother Wade saving a man from a well or Judge Boatman and his croaker sack of we didn't tell them about them," Amason said. "It's always important to know where you come from. Hill Fire also gives opportunities to those who may not have had the chance to perform, an outlet where thy can be creative, make connections in the community, meet and make friends with new people and discover the hidden talents most of them didn't know they had."
Paula McCaulla, executive director and the founder of Hill Fire, said this program can revitalize the community economically and culturally.
"It honors the cultural traditions and diversity of all and preserves the historical and cultural traditions of our area," McCaulla said. "Hill Fire opens lines of communication between all the citizens of the Winona/Montgomery County area and it could bring us all together with a sense of pride and accomplishment that would be unsurpassed."
Hill Fire began in 2001 when McCaulla moved back to Winona to live in the home she grew up in on Union Street. She had retired from Shelby County Schools in Barlett, Tenn., where she was very active in community theatre.
Just before moving back to her hometown, her friend David Gibson of Nashville and a Winona native, sent a letter and a tape about a musical production in Colquitt, Ga. called "Swamp Gravy."
"I knew I had found the perfect project for Winona," McCaulla said.
Swamp Gravy began in 1991 and has been tremendously successful. The production is always called "Swamp Gravy" but the theme and stories are different each year. At the end of each production, cast members gather and someone will start singing "Amazing Grace" very softly. One by one, they all join in as they hold lighted candles. Then a cast member will raise his candle and say the name of a person who has passed away and say "I remember you."
"David said that he knew I would love it because it tells true stories of ordinary people from a small community," McCaulla said. "It's 'theatre genealogy,' as David called it. And, he felt that some town in Mississippi should start a production like this one."
The first production was held in 2003, but there was a lot of work to be done. Just a few years ago, the production moved from the Montgomery County Show Barn into a historic building in downtown Winona, serving as the Montgomery County Performing Arts Center.
Volunteers have spent countless hours, not only working on sets, writing songs and rehearsing, but making repairs and remodeling.
As "Montgomery County's Folk Life Play," they hope to continue to encourage local participation while reaching out to provide opportunities in surrounding counties, and become a major tourist attraction within the state.
Hill Fire is funded in part by the Mississippi Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information about Hill Fire and advance tickets, contact the Montgomery County Arts Council at P.O. Box 644, Winona, MS 38967 or call (662) 283-3750 or (662) 310-0199; e-mail at hillfire@bellsouth.net ; or check out the website at http://www.hillfire.org.
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Transpacific carriers imposing fee on intermodal cargo
TSA says truck and driver shortages, rail and terminal congestion have pushed up intermodal rates and cargo handling costs.
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The Transpacific Stabilization Agreement, a discussion agreement among 15 container carriers that handle more than 90 percent of container cargo in the transpacific trade, said that they will imposed a charge on containers moving under intermodal "store-door" delivery through rates from Asia to the U.S.
TSA said, "Congested U.S. port terminals, harbor, and over-the-road truck and driver shortages, slower trains, and longer rail terminal dwell times due to increased domestic rates have not only disrupted service but also driven intermodal rates and cargo-handling costs up sharply. Asia-U.S. container lines, still heavily reliant on intermodal service, have now been forced to respond with intermodal door delivery charges to recover those costs."
It said most TSA lines will begin imposing charges of $100 per 40-foot container and $90 per 20-foot container, effective on or around Nov. 15, but no later than Dec. 1.
Brian Conrad, the executive administrator of TSA, said that congestion and associated costs are the result of a convergence of factors, among them equipment interchange issues, railcar shortages, freight backup at intermodal terminals, and a shift of intermodal cargo to more costly pure-truck moves.
"These are systemic issues that will get resolved over time, but in the midst of the peak season and with demand still strong, we don't have time," he said. "Carriers are doing their best given the service and infrastructure constraints we see across the supply chain. For now, as we all work on solutions, the key is cost recovery."
The TSA members are APL, China Shipping, CMA CGM, COSCO, Evergreen, Hanjin, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine, "K" Line, Maersk, MSC, NYK, OOCL, Yang Ming, and ZIM.


Genesis Energy customers on a multi-rate tariff trial in Auckland are reducing their electricity consumption by an average 8 per cent and their bills by about 10 per cent.
The trial, involving 225 account holders in the Waitemata area, hasn't even included any new tools to help customers change their use. Genesis Energy expects the savings being made will "significantly increase" once they are available.
The trial is one of a string of initiatives the state-owned generator has underway as part of a strategy to put its customers at the forefront of the business.
The move is a fundamental change of the way the company - the country's biggest electricity and gas retailer - operates. Its goal is to cease being an engineering-driven provider of a commodity energy product and instead focus on the retail energy needs of its 676,000 customers.
In the past year it has replaced almost its entire senior management team and is reorganising the business in order to deepen its connection with those customers by becoming more useful and relevant to them.
By having the most effective customer focus in the industry, it aims to differentiate itself from its rivals and reduce costs from the high rates of churn the sector is seeing.
In the past year Genesis Energy has installed 100,000 advanced meters, taking its total smart meter count to more than 260,000, offering 54 per cent of its customers the chance to save money through better management of their power consumption.
And the company is now developing a deeper range of products to help its account holders do that.
Earlier this year Genesis Energy launched a Smartphone application that allows its customers to view their energy usage anytime, anywhere, and measure it against their average monthly use or their own pre-set budget.
The company has also signed an agreement with Ecospring to promote hot water heat pump technology. Customers are able to save between 50 and 70 per cent on water heating costs when they buy into this technology and receive a $300 credit on their power bill.
And in April the company established a partnership agreement with California-based GreenWave Reality to distribute its plug-in home energy management tools. The units, currently being tested as part of the company's 15-home Tomorrow Street trial on the North Shore, could be available later this year.
The new approach appears to be paying off. Despite the high customer churn rates seen during the Electricity Authority's switching campaign last year, Genesis added 10,000 new accounts. Its churn rate in the year to March averaged 18 per cent - 3 percentage points below the industry average.
In the period under review it increased its share of the retail electricity market to almost 27 per cent, and lifted its share of the gas market to almost 44 per cent. The LPG customer count almost doubled to 6,684 at December 2011.
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Siri Andersson-Palmestav, egentligen Sigrid Regina Palmestav, ogift Andersson, född 17 december 1903 i Gävle församling, Gävleborgs län, död 6 mars 2002 i Jönköpings Sofia församling, Jönköpings län, var en svensk missionär och författare.

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Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine, Mather Philippe D
Автор: Mather Philippe D
Название: Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine
Перевод названия: Филлип Д. Матер: Стэнли Кубрик на страницах журналов
Издательство: Wiley
Фотографии: коллекции
Кинорежиссёры, кинопродюсеры
Иллюстрации: Illustrations
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Подзаголовок: Authorship and genre in photojournalism and film
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
Автор: Kolker, Robert
Название: Stanley Kubrick`s 2001: A Space Odyssey
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Описание: Though Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey boasts a large and ever-expanding fan-base, there are few among even the most avid enthusiasts that fully understands the film's inheritance, complexities, and ironies. The essays in this collection, commissioned from a wide variety of scholars, examine in detail various possible readings of the film, its historical context, and its status as a quintessential science-fiction genre piece.
Название: Stanley kubrick
Издательство: Eurospan
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Presents 17 essays which examine the career and films of director Stanley Kubrick. This collection provides a case study of "Eyes Wide Shut", with four very different essays focusing on the film`s use of sound, its representation of gender, its "carnivalesque" qualities, and its phenomenological nature. It also discusses his impact on filmmakers.
Автор: Edited by Stuart Y. McDougal
Название: Stanley Kubrick`s A Clockwork Orange
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
Описание: Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' brings together new and critically informed essays about one of the most powerful, important and controversial films ever made. Following an introduction that provides an overview of the film and its production history, a suite of essays examine the literary origins of the work, the nature of cinematic violence, questions of gender and the film's treatment of sexuality, and the difficulties of adapting an invented language ('nadsat') for the screen. This volume also includes two contemporary and conflicting reviews by Roger Hughes and Pauline Kael, a detailed glossary of 'nadsat' and stills from the film.
Автор: Chion, Michel
Название: Kubrick`s cinema odyssey
Издательство: Springer
Описание: Stanley Kubrick`s "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), is one of the most ambitious films ever made, an epic of space exploration that takes in the history of humanity (as well as speculation about its future). This book argues that "2001" is an `absolute film`, a unique assemblage of cinema`s elements, through which pulses a vision of human existence.
Автор: Broderick Mick
Название: Reconstructing Strangelove: Inside Stanley Kubrick`s "Nightmare Comedy "
Описание: With rare access to unpublished materials, this volume assesses Dr. Strangelove`s narrative accuracy, consulting recently declassified Cold War nuclear-policy documents alongside interviews with Kubrick`s collaborators
Автор: Naremore, James
Название: On Kubrick
Описание: Presents a study of Stanley Kubrick`s career, beginning with his earliest feature, "Fear and Desire" (1953), and ending with his posthumous production of "AI, Artificial Intelligence" (2001). This work offers an analysis of each of Kubrick`s films together with information about their production histories and cultural contexts.
Автор: Kapferer Bruce
Название: 2001 and Counting: Kubrick, Nietzsche, and Anthropology
Описание: Despite mixed critical reception, Stanley Kubrick`s 2001: A Space Odyssey mesmerized audiences at the time of its initial screening in 1968 and went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of the decade. In this book, the author revisits the film, making a case for its continued cultural relevance.
Автор: Pezzotta Elisa
Описание: Although Stanley Kubrick adapted novels and short stories, his films deviate in notable ways from the source material. In particular, since 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), his films seem to definitively exploit all cinematic techniques, embodying a compelling visual and aural experience. But, as author Elisa Pezzotta contends, it is for these reasons that his cinema becomes the supreme embodiment of the sublime, fruitful encounter between the two arts and, simultaneously, of their independence.Stanley Kubrick's last six adaptations--2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), and Eyes Wide Shut (1999)--are characterized by certain structural and stylistic patterns. These features help to draw conclusions about the role of Kubrick in the history of cinema, about his role as an adapter, and, more generally, about the art of cinematic adaptations. The structural and stylistic patterns that characterize Kubrick adaptations seem to criticize scientific reasoning, causality, and traditional semantics. In the history of cinema, Kubrick can be considered a modernist auteur. In particular, he can be regarded as an heir of the modernist avant-garde of the 1920s. However, author Elisa Pezzotta concludes that, unlike his predecessors, Kubrick creates a cinema not only centered on the ontology of the medium, but on the staging of sublime, new experiences.
Название: Philosophy of stanley kubrick
Описание: In films like 2001: "A Space Odyssey", "Eyes Wide Shut", and "Dr Strangelove", Stanley Kubrick explores the world honestly, mirroring the vast complexity of the world of philosophy. Divided into sections on war, love, history, and other topics, this work investigates Kubrick`s art to illuminate his unique view of reality.


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The 2013 Nobel Winners for Medicine
Medicine Nobel Goes for Revealing a Cell's Transportation System
Three scientists who worked independently share the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discoveries that could be key to understanding and combating diseases like Alzheimer's and diabetes.
By Darren Orf Published: Oct 7, 2013
Three U.S.-based scientists—Randy W. Schekman, James E. Rothman, and Thomas C. Südhof—won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine today for their work on understanding the human cells' complex transport system. The three scientists worked independently of one another at separate universities, but each contributed to uncovering a long-time medical mystery about how these systems can go awry and lead to disease. Defective transport systems are evidence of many types of diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Diabetes, and greater understanding can lead to better treatment.
Proper cell function requires certain molecules such as insulin and various neurotransmitters to arrive at the right place at the right time. When a cell creates these molecules, they are packaged within vesicles—these small, bubble-like organelles are instrumental in a variety of bodily functions but also serve as a vehicle that delivers molecules where they're needed. The prize-winning research looked into how vesicles carry out this complex operation.
Enter Schekman, Rothman, and Südhof. Schekman discovered genes encoding proteins that help to direct vesicle traffic. He compared normal cells to genetically mutated yeast cells that exhibited poor traffic control. In so doing, he learned that the cellular traffic jam in yeast was genetically based and categorized the genes responsible for vesicle control.
As vesicles travel along this well-timed cellular highway, they must dock with cells to release their payload of molecules. Rothman discovered that proteins on the vesicle and the cell interlock much like the teeth on a zipper. The wide possible combination of proteins between cell and vesicle allows certain complementary proteins to interact for each specific function. These proteins ensure that the right molecules go to the right place.
The missing piece was the timing: How the vesicles deliver their cargo at just the right moment. To figure out this last problem, Südhof studied the body's most impressive timekeeper—the nervous system. He found that when a vesicle filled with neurotransmitters docks with a nerve cell, molecule machinery senses Calcium ions and triggers fusion. This explained how vesicles work with such acute timing.
Together, this trio of scientists uncovered one of the most complex cellular functions and lead us one step closer to understanding how to fix these systems when something goes wrong—a potential benefit for millions of patients.
Darren Orf
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'We don't have to wait until we get sick': Alice Waters on the threads that link diet, health, education
Chef and food activist Alice Waters, this year's Premier Chefs Dinner keynote speaker, on the threads that link diet, health, education
May 15, 2017 • By Rachel Tompa / Fred Hutch News Service
Chef, author, restaurateur and food activist Alice Waters will visit Seattle this week as the keynote speaker of the 2017 Premier Chefs Dinner. Photo by Amanda Marsalis
Alice Waters wants you to ask more questions before you take your next bite of food.
In a society that's increasingly "at the mercy of fast food culture," we need to demand transparency about what we eat, said Waters, a world-renowned chef, author, activist and owner of the 46-year-old Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California.
When we go to a restaurant or eat prepared food, Waters wants everyone to ask: Where is this food from? Who grew it? How does the grower or producer define terms that might be important to us, like "grass-fed" or "cage-free"? And if answers are not forthcoming, she said, then we need to bypass prepared foods entirely and do more cooking ourselves.
"We are not only what we eat but how we eat," she said.
Many of us are used to thinking about the ties between what and how much we eat and our health, but Waters believes we need to think more broadly. She is concerned with the entire chain of production — from soil to sit-down dinner. It's not just a question of fixing our health and using diet as preventive medicine, as important as those are. For Waters, it's a question of fixing everything.
The conversation is taking place "within the medicine world rather than in the place of culture and agriculture, and I think those need to be emphasized," she said. "The real health begins in the ground."
This week, Waters will travel from Berkeley to Seattle to give the keynote speech at Sunday's Premier Chefs Dinner, a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center fundraising event that brings together Northwest celebrity chefs and wineries for an elaborate four-course meal. Now in its 26th year, the event has raised more than $7.7 million to support Fred Hutch research.
This year, the focus of the fundraising event matches closely with Waters' lifelong passion — disease prevention. Although the public health researchers at Fred Hutch take a different tack, their ultimate goal is the same as Waters': to improve our health by preventing disease before it starts.
In her speech Sunday, Waters will also talk about a project near and dear to her heart: the Edible Schoolyard Project, a gardening and healthy eating education curriculum she started in a Berkeley middle school more than 20 years ago and which has since spread to thousands of other schools around the world. For Waters, this kind of approach should be at the core of human health.
"We can learn when we're in kindergarten," she said. "We don't have to wait until we get sick."
The birth of a farm-to-school movement
The Edible Schoolyard Project got its start through a merging of events in Waters' life. She'd been running Chez Panisse for 12 years when she had her daughter, Fanny. Waters was already championing the approach to organic, local eating that has since spawned the burgeoning farm-to-table movement, but becoming a parent made her think even more deeply about what the future of American cuisine and eating would look like as her daughter grew up.
And then one day Waters got a call from the San Francisco County Jail. Cathrine Sneed, an attorney, had founded a gardening program for the inmates and wanted to know if Waters would buy their produce for her restaurant. Waters said of course she would, if it was up to her specifications, and Sneed asked if she would come meet the inmates. Waters didn't really want to go out, she said, but Sneed talked her into it. When she got there, Sneed asked the inmates if some of them would talk to the chef about their work in the garden.
"And this one kid raises his hand," Waters said. "He says, 'I shouldn't be saying anything because it's my first day in the garden, but it's the best day of my life.'"
That visit opened her eyes, Waters said. She saw how growing food "could be transformational. And I said, 'If you can do it in a jail, you can do it in a school.'"
After that, she approached the principal of a Berkeley school near Chez Panisse, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, with an idea for a farm-to-school project similar to what she'd seen at the jail.
"I thought about public education and how it's our last truly democratic institution," Waters said. "We have an opportunity to reach every child in school, and that's an amazing thing."
To teach her own daughter about food, Waters had drawn on her past training in Montessori education, which emphasizes hands-on learning. She just let Fanny roam free in their vegetable garden, she said, letting her explore what she wanted. Her daughter loved foraging for green beans, peas, and strawberries, and later grew to espouse many of her mother's approaches to cooking and cuisine. Waters found the same principles to be true on a larger scale, with the older children she worked with at the middle school.
"The big lesson from the edible schoolyard is, if you grow it and you cook it, you eat it, and that's without exception," she said. "If they grow it and they cook it, they eat it. … No matter what it is. They're that invested; they're that empowered."
What she and her fellow activists and educators have built in the years since ties together many aspects of Waters' personality and background: the Montessori school teacher, the chef, the organic and local food advocate, the mother.
Students who participate in the Edible Schoolyard Project not only learn about organic gardening, they learn about cooking, healthy eating, slow food, diverse cultures, and nutrition around the world, Waters said. Just as she thinks what we eat should be part of a healthy, nourishing web that connects earth to farmer to consumer, so too is the schoolyard project vision integrated through the children's school experience.
"We can teach about nutritious foods around the world and learn about different cultures as part of our school lunch program," Waters said. "We can discover it all together as a state or as a nation and really embrace the diversity and the biodiversity."
Rachel Tompa is a former staff writer at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. She has a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of California, San Francisco and a certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Follow her on Twitter @Rachel_Tompa.
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Here's How Scott Disick Reportedly Felt After Seeing Sofia Richie's Sexy Bikini Posts In Turks & Caicos
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Scott Disick reportedly has no problem with his girlfriend Sofia Richie flaunting her body for the world to see.
Richie recently returned from Kylie Jenner's Carribean girls trip in Turks and Caicos. While on the trip, Richie shared scantily-clad photos of herself in multiple bikinis on her Instagram page. Although her 4.9 million followers received a front-row view of the influencer's curves, Hollywood Life reports that Disick had no problem with sharing his girlfriend with the world. The Flip It Like Disick star was also reportedly "okay" with Richie's decision to go on a solo trip for several days.
"Scott did have some FOMO when he saw Sofia's sexy bikini pictures but he did not react the way he would have a few years ago. The old Scott would have pulled some drama, like running off to Miami with his boys for a big party binge but now, no reaction. He just stayed home and hung out with his kids and worked," a source revealed to HL.
The source also added that Disick and Richie don't have a "co-dependent" relationship with one another and Disick only cares about his girlfriend's happiness. He was reportedly "very happy" to see Richie with Jenner and her close friends on the trip.
The Inquisitr previously reported that Jenner invited Richie, her bestie Stassi Karanikolaou, Draya Michele, and more of her friends to join her in Turks and Caicos in celebration of her new venture, Kylie Skin. The beauty mogul also brought her boyfriend Travis Scott and baby Stormi Webster along for the trip. Richie, who is close in age with Jenner, was reportedly "thrilled" that she was asked by Jenner to tag along on the trip.
"Sofia is feeling very grateful that she's been able to have this time to just relax and unwind with Kylie and it's a great way for them to reconnect," a source said.
Salty but sweet
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The trip also reportedly shows how close Richie has gotten with the Kardashian-Jenner clan since she and Disick became an item. The influencer and Disick's ex Kourtney Kardashian have reportedly squashed any drama they may have had when Richie joined Kardashian, Disick, and their three children in Mexico for a pre-Christmas trip. The trip was reportedly what gave Richie the stamp of approval to spend time with Kardashian's sisters.
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Disick recently went on a trip without Richie as well back in June. He joined his ex, their children, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, and their children in Costa Rica, where they filmed scenes for Keeping Up with the Kardashians, per Us Weekly.
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September 23, 2020 By Jack Bauer
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Until last year, there were only about 7 men who could were capable of podiuming at major race (Hobie, Cody, Atkins, Killian, Woods, Hunter, and Albon). All of that changed in 2019. Suddenly, predicting the top finishers was no longer as easy as it used to be. OCR fans may have been surprised to see Johnny, Veejay, Ryan Kempson, Tyler, and Aaron emerge as contenders, but they were all trending in that direction for years. Let's take a look at some athletes who I think will make a similar jump next year, assuming OCR returns to normal at some point in 2021.
Richard Hynek (@richard_hynek)
If you someone hadn't heard of Richard Hynek before the Trifecta WC last year, you definitely knew the name afterwards. Richard ran a dominating Beast on the final leg of the Trifecta WC to win the title by 4:13 over Woods, Killian, Atkins, Newell, and the best racers from throughout Europe. However, his performance in Greece shouldn't have been much of a surprise. After all, he finished 3rd behind Jon Albon and Albert Soley the year before. Additionally, Hynek finished 14th at Tahoe a month earlier and 16th in 2018. Not a bad resume for someone who is only 21.
Richard Hynek is essentially the Veejay Jones of Europe. After collecting his first podium at the ripe-old age of 18, Richard has added over 20 more since. Seven of those podiums have taken place in the Middle East. What do you get if you combine his experience racing on sand in the Middle East, his phenomenal downhill running skills, and confidence from beating the world's best racers in Greece? A serious threat to podium at the 2021 Spartan Race World Championship in Abu Dhabi.
Mark Gaudet (@markgaudet85)
There haven't been too many obstacle races in 2020, but there have been several notable challenges involving OCR-specific fitness this season. One of those was the Burpee 10k, which consisted of 12 rounds of running 800m then doing 20 burpees. Mark completed this challenge in an absurd 45:38.
Let's break that down real quick. If it took Mark 3 seconds per burpee (a very solid pace for 240 total burpees), that'd be 12:00 worth of burpees. Subtract that out and it means Mark would've run his 10k in about 33:30 (5:24 mile pace). That's absolutely ridiculous, especially considering how much of a toll that burpees take on your body. Needless to say, Mark is one of the best compromised runners in OCR.
Then there was the Ultra Virus 12-hour race in which athletes ran as many 5-mile loops as possible within 12 hours. Mark finished 2nd with 85 miles (8:24/mile pace) during that race, just behind another Mark (see below). The 4x Best Ranger competitor also finished 4th at 2018 World's Toughest Mudder with 85 miles. Between his military background and ultra-endurance performances, Mark can suffer with the best in the sport.
Mark has steadily improved at major races over the past two seasons, improving from 23rd to 11th at West Virginia last year. After closing out 2019 with a 15th place finish at Tahoe, Mark started the 2020 season strong with a 7th place finish at Jacksonville. Now that he has a full US National Series of experience, expect Mark to continue to gain on the lead pack with consistent top-5-10 finishes at major races next season.
Mark Batres (@mgbracing)
Everyone has known about Mark Batres for years. He's the super-talented runner who has the potential to win every major race, but he hasn't been able to put it all together for a whole season. Next year will finally be his breakthrough year in OCR.
I honestly thought 2019 was going to be Mark's breakthrough season. Mark finished top-9 at all 2018 US National Series races, including 3rd in Chicago and 7th at Tahoe. The 2019 season was starting off with two very flat courses in Jacksonville and Alabama. It seemed as though Mark was destined for an amazing 2019 season, but he essentially spent all of 2019 injured.
Finally healthy again to start the 2020 season, Mark narrowly missed the podium with a 5th place finish in Jacksonville. All signs pointed to a great comeback season for Mark, but then Covid-19 happened. As a result, he decided to see how far he could run in 12 hours at ORM's first Ultra Virus race. He did ok. And by "ok," I mean ran 85 miles and would have broken the 100-mile world record if he continued that pace after the race ended.
There aren't too many venues in the US that consist of sandy terrain, but Mark has absolutely dominated those that do (Laughlin and Arizona). Given his quick stride and success on sandy courses, I'd argue that Mark is OCR's best sand runner in the US, which is great news for him in Abu Dhabi. Additionally, Mark is very heat-acclimated from living in southern California, so he won't suffer due to the heat in Abu Dhabi. Temperatures in Abu Dhabi in December often reach into the 80s, so athletes who aren't as heat-acclimated as Mark may not perform as well. Don't be surprised if Mark is battling for a podium spot at next year's Spartan Race World Championship.
Mohammed Mira (@mohammedmira5359)
Before I reveal names, which OCR athlete's running PRs do you think are most impressive?
If you picked "E", then you chose Mohammed Mira. Here are the rest of the answers: "A" = Max King, "B" = Ryan Woods, "C" = Mark Batres, and "D" = Hobie Call.
As you can see, Mohammed Mira is one of the fastest pure runners in OCR history. All of the other names on that list have had plenty of OCR success, so there's no reason to think Mohammed won't follow in their footsteps. In fact, he already has, winning last year's Spartan Middle East/North Africa (MENA) Regional Championship by over 4 minutes.
You might think to yourself, "Yeah, but he probably didn't face as good competition as he would in the US or Europe." That's true in terms of depth of the field, but the top athletes who race in the Middle East are truly world-class OCR athletes. Mira beat Egor Belousov (13th at Tahoe last year), Sergei Perelygin (3 straight podiums at OCRWC 3k and the 2018 Spartan European Regional champion), and Armin Botha (14:16 5k PR and one the best obstacle racers in South Africa), among others.
Based on the research I've done, I'd put Mohammed Mira as one of my dark-horse podium picks for the 2021 Spartan Race WC in Abu Dhabi. Mohammed won't need to travel 10+ hours like many of the top athletes and he's an incredible runner on sand. Don't be surprised if you see Mohammed Mira leading much of next year's Spartan Race World Championship.
Nikita Kriukov (@nikita_kriukov)
What do Zuzana Kocumova, Claude Godbout, and Marco Bedard have in common? They were all Olympic or world-class cross-country skiers before switching to OCR. How good was Nikita Kriukov at skiing? Let's take a look:
2 Olympic medals in cross-country skiing
— Gold medal at 2010 Winter Olympics (Individual Sprint)
— Silver medal at 2014 Winter Olympics (Team Sprint)
Cross-Country Skiing World Championships
— 3 gold medals (2013 Individual Sprint, 2015 Team Sprint, 2017 Team Sprint)
— 1 silver medal (2015 Team Sprint)
— 1 bronze medal (2011 Team Sprint)
The guy even has a Wikipedia page, so you know he's legit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Kryukov
Unfortunately, Nikita he may not be able to compete at OCRWC in Vermont next year. Many top Russian OCR athletes (including Sergei Perelygin) have been unable to obtain a travel visa to compete in the US. That's why you never saw most of the top Russian athletes at Tahoe.
However, Nikita could certainly compete for the Spartan Race world title in Abu Dhabi. Realistically, Nikita would probably do better at OCRWC due to his obstacle proficiency. Seriously, watch some of his Instagram videos for proof that he's truly an obstacle racer now, not just a good endurance athlete who can fake their way through harder obstacles.
Now for the bad news: Nikita received lifetime doping ban in 2018 after his bloodwork from the 2014 Olympics was retested. However, that ban was reversed, meaning he was later cleared of wrongdoing. What if he does well at major international OCR events? How will OCR fans deal with the fact that he potentially may have been doping throughout his athletic career? Will most assume he is guilty by association since so many other Russian Olympians cheated the system this decade? We'll know the answer soon once Nikita Kriukov starts beating some of the best in the sport.
Kris Brown (@krisbobbrown)
Raise your hand if you think you could have won the Tahoe Ultra Beast last year by 48 minutes then come back the next day to finish 25th in the Beast at the 2019 Spartan Race World Championship? That's what Kris Brown did last year, so unless your last name is Atkins, Killian, or Albon, you should put your hand down.
The OCR story of Kris Brown is a unique one. After winning the 2010 Malibu Sprint, Kris finished 2nd at the 2012 Sacramento Beast between Hobie Call and Hunter McIntyre (whose shoe fell off during the race). He then disappeared from obstacle racing for 6 years before winning the 2018 SoCal Beast by 12 minutes. And by "disappeared," I mean he became a professional trail runner who finished top-10 at the prestigious Western States 100 [Miler].
Competition was much deeper in after Kris returned to OCR in 2019 compared to what he faced in the early years, so he didn't experience the same immediate success. After finishing 12th-19th at three US National Series events and 25th at Tahoe, Kris pulled off a 10th-place finish at the Trifecta WC in Greece. Now that he has had a year of improving his obstacle proficiency and carries, expect big things from Kris Brown in 2021 if he takes OCR seriously next year.
Peter Mlynar
The second former Olympic cross-country skier on my watch list, Peter Mlynar can climb with the best athletes in OCR. After sitting in the top-10 throughout the first hour of the 2018 Spartan World Championship, Peter dropped to 25th due to obstacle failures. However, Peter has podiumed in 12 of his 14 career Spartan Races. Last year was his first full season as an OCR athlete, so Peter will surely continue to improve due to the experience he gained last year.
Other Names to Watch
— Benjamin Morin Boucher
— Daniel Sorensen
— David Magida
— Forrest Bouge
— Hawk Call (still in college)
— Jaryd Flank
— Jase Kraft
— Joshua Riedinger
— Logan Broadbent
— Nic Maszk
— Nicholas Ryker
-– Christopher Woolley
-– Liam MacKenzie
-– Matt Murphy (making a comeback)
— Alexis Dewet
— Igor Gorbunov
— Ivan Degtyarev
-– Juan Jose Rodriguez Garcia
-– Luca Pescolderungg
— Peter Ceniga
-– Piotr Lobodzinski
-– Samuel Castela
— Til Leipziger
-– Armin Botha
— James Meredith
-– Dailong Sheng
— Elias Tabac
— Gabe Heck
-– Niu Zhiming
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Jayna Oso (Kaneohe, Hawái; 17 de agosto de 1981) es una actriz pornográfica estadounidense.

Biografía
Jayna nació y se crio en Kaneohe, Hawái. En 2002 se introdujo en la industria del porno con el nombre de Malaysia y en 2003 cambió su nombre artístico por el de Jayna Oso. En 2004 alcanzó una gran fama en la industria del porno, en especial gracias a la película Weapons Of Ass Destruction 3 de Jules Jordan, y según ella misma afirma, ese fue el año en el que comenzó a tomarse su carrera en serio.

Jayna es célebre por su aspecto exótico eurasiático, gracias a su mezcla étnica mitad de Brunéi y mitad de Irlanda, por sus extremas escenas, mayoritariamente gonzo muy duras, en las que es habitual verla practicando sexo anal, penetración doble, penetración anal doble y garganta profunda.

Jayna afirma que le encanta su trabajo en la industria X y que es una persona salvaje sexualmente, ya que el porno es lo único que consigue satisfacer plenamente su sexualidad.

En la actualidad Jayna ha trabajado para las mayores productoras de porno de Estados Unidos y ha rodado más de 100 películas, mayoritariamente de género gonzo, pero también features, convirtiéndose en una de las actrices porno euroasiáticas de actualidad con más éxito.

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Master Sergeant Debra Clayton
Master Sergeant Debra Clayton was shot and killed when she encountered a wanted murder suspect in the parking lot of a Walmart at the intersection of Princeton Street and John Young Parkway.
The subject was wanted for murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend and for shooting her new boyfriend three months prior. After shooting Sergeant Clayton, the man carjacked a vehicle and fled the scene. A captain from the Orange County Sheriff's Office spotted the vehicle moments later and was shot at as he got behind it. The suspect continued to flee and remains at large.
During the ensuing search Deputy First Class Norman Lewis, of the Orange County Sheriff's Office, was killed in a motorcycle crash at the intersection of Pine Hills Road and Balboa Drive when another vehicle turned in front of his motorcycle.
Sergeant Clayton had served with the Orlando Police Department for 17 years. She is survived by her husband and two children.
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