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Frederik Julius Christian lensbaron Güldencrone (12. marts 1765 i København – 1. juli 1824 på Moesgård) var en dansk godsejer og stiftamtmand.

Han var en søn af gehejmeråd, lensbaron Christian Frederik Güldencrone, studerede ved Sorø Akademi, blev 1778 kammerjunker, ledsagede 1785 faderen til Wien, hvor denne var blevet gesandt, blev selv 1786 legationssekretær sammesteds og 1788 under faderens fraværelse chargé d'affaires. I slutningen af samme år blev han afsendt til Danmark for at overbringe investiturakten af Hertugdømmet Holsten og udtrådte 1789 af statstjenesten, da han efter faderens død havde arvet baroniet Wilhelmsborg. 1792 blev han kammerherre, 1795 deputeret i Det vestindisk-guineiske Rente- og General-Toldkammer, men hans svækkede helbred nødte ham allerede 1797 til at opgive denne stilling, som han havde røgtet med stor nidkærhed og dygtighed. 1799 blev han amtmand over Randers Amt, men måtte atter på grund af sygelighed opgive dette embede 1801 og blev sat på ventepenge. Imidlertid bedredes hans tilstand hurtig så vidt, at han 1804 kunne overtage stiftamtmandsposten i Aarhus Stift, og her virkede han nu, indtil han 1820 definitivt afskedigedes af statstjenesten.

Han blev 1808 Storkors af Dannebrog, 1812 Dannebrogsmand, 1813 gehejmekonferensråd og døde 11. juli 1824 på Moesgård. Han var en i høj grad pligtopfyldende og afholdt embedsmand, og han gjorde sig desuden fortjent ved de store forbedringer, han indførte på Vilhelmsborg og på Marselisborg, som han købte 1805. På Moesgård oprettede han et bibliotek med over 8.000 bøger. Han var i begyndelsen af 1800-tallet Aarhus bys største skatteyder, men gik fallit i 1821.

Han var gift 1. gang med Cathrine Marie de Thygeson (1774 – 1803), datter af justitsråd Thyge de Thygeson til Mattrup, 2. med Louise Charlotte f. komtesse Knuth, datter af gehejmeråd, greve Johan Henrik Knuth og Constance Alexandrine f. komtesse Cosell.

Kilder
 Georg Kringelbach, "Frederik Julius Christian Güldencrone", i: C.F. Bricka (red.), Dansk Biografisk Lexikon, København: Gyldendal 1887-1905.
 Frederik Thaarup, Fædrenelandsk Nekrolog, 1821-26.
 Gejl, Ib (red), Århus, byens borgere 1165-2000, Aarhus Byhistoriske Udvalg 2000.

Ekstern henvisning
 Biografi  i Dansk biografisk leksikon 1. udgave

Personer fra Aarhus
Frederik Julius Christian
Amtmænd fra Danmark
Diplomater fra Danmark
Lensbaroner fra Danmark
Godsejere fra Danmark
Personer fra København
Stiftamtmænd over Århus Stift
Danskere i 1700-tallet
Danskere i 1800-tallet
Personer i Dansk Biografisk Leksikon
Storkors af Dannebrog
Bogsamlere fra Danmark
Kammerherrer fra Danmark
Kollegiedeputerede fra Danmark
Gehejmekonferensråder fra Danmark

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Coronavirus: Ensure passengers are on alternate seats during flights, DGCA tells airlines
The DGCA also directed all air operators to ensure that there is one metre space between passengers at check-in counters and avoid bunching of people.
Mar 23, 2020 · 02:46 pm
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The Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Monday issued a set of guidelines on social distancing to all domestic air carriers amid the escalating coronavirus outbreak, asking them to ensure that passengers are seated in alternate seats during flights, ANI reported. COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has killed seven people and infected 415 people in India.
The aviation authority also directed all air operators to ensure that there is one metre space between passengers at check-in counters and to make sure that there is no bunching of people during boarding, exiting or security check.
All airlines must provide the staff and passengers sanitisers at the airplane entry, the DGCA added. The crew members must maintain adequate distance from passengers while serving them during the flight, the guidelines said.
Meanwhile, passengers have been asked to exhibit conscious social distancing by keeping distance from other travellers at the airport and sitting at a distance from others at the waiting area. Any other action deemed appropriate to maintain social distancing is encouraged, it added.
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued the following guidelines on social distancing to airlines&airport operators. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/RHbo5FC3q6
Over 80 Indian districts that have confirmed coronavirus cases or deaths went into lockdown on Monday. The Indian Council of Medical Research's last update said a total of 415 people were infected as of Monday morning.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, while announcing the lockdown in the national Capital on Sunday, had said all international and domestic flights will be banned from landing in the Capital. However, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation later clarified that domestic flights will be allowed to land in Delhi.
The Centre on Thursday announced that no international flights will be allowed to land in India from March 22 for a week, intensifying the measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
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If the application and supporting documents reveal that you meet the basic requirements, you will be contacted to write an educational exam known as SIGMA. If you have written the test previously while applying to another police service, you should advise us and we will contact them and obtain your results and apply them to your application in our process.
If you meet the basic requirements and have successfully completed the SIGMA test, you will be invited to attend a preliminary interview at which time your application will be reviewed with you in preparation for a background investigation.
An investigator will be assigned to contact people listed in your application such as family and past employers to determine if you are a suitable candidate for employment as a police officer. It is at this stage that you will be directed to attend at a designated police station to be fingerprinted for a criminal record check.
If successful in the previous stages you will be asked to take a POPAT test which is done at the U of S. The POPAT is an occupational requirement for police officers in Saskatchewan. It is an obstacle course type of test that simulates the physical fitness requirements related to police work. To pass the test, an applicant must complete the course in 4 minutes, 45 seconds to gain entrance to the Police College, and 4 minutes, 15 seconds to graduate.
The U of S runs a POPAT Training Program that assists applicants in preparing to take the test. This training includes two 90 minute sessions per week for two months and costs $210. The POPAT test costs the applicant $75 to run. http://m.recservices.usask.ca/getfit/human-performance-center/police.php That expense is the responsibility of the applicant. It is highly recommended that you take the training if you have not previously participated in the POPAT. Anyone who has successfully completed the POPAT in the previous year with another department may have their result applied to their application with the CPPS, however, if you are successful and are hired by the CPPS, your employment will be conditional on successfully completing the POPAT within 30 days of attending the Saskatchewan Police College.
At this stage, successful applicants will be invited to attend an interview to be conducted by a trained polygraph operator, to determine the truthfulness of the applicant. The basis of the test will be the questions on the personal disclosure form, which was completed in stage 1. This is why it is very important that applicants are truthful and forthright on their personal disclosure form. Any attempt at deception may result in the applicant being deemed unsuitable.
Applicants who have been successful up to this point will be invited to a formal interview with the Chief of Police to make a further assessment as to their suitability for employment as a police officer.
A medical examination by a qualified medical practitioner to certify that the candidate is suitable physically and mentally for employment as a police officer.
A vision examination to determine if the applicant meets the vision standards.
A passing POPAT test within 30 days of attendance at the Saskatchewan Police College.
Successful candidates will be enrolled in the Saskatchewan Police College and will be paid an allowance of $1250 every two weeks while in attendance at the College. Recruits are not eligible for any benefits at this stage. Upon graduation from the Police College the recruit will be sworn in as a police officer and will commence a period of probation of one year. After being sworn in as a police constable the member will earn a starting salary of $63,247 per year. The member will then be enrolled in the Municipal Employee's Pension Plan (MEPP) at a rate of %12.5, which will be matched by the employer. Medical and Dental coverage will commence for the member after the completion of three months service, at which time they will be enrolled in a coverage plan with Sun Life. Members are allotted three weeks of annual vacation per year. New members will be asked to agree to a three year contract of service before seeking employment with any other police service. This ensures that the employer, who has made an investment in the member's training, receives the benefit of that investment.
Recruits are enrolled at the Saskatchewan Police College, which is located on the grounds of the University of Regina. The recruit is provided with accommodations and meals while in attendance at the College. They undertake a 20 week course in a variety of policing studies which include law enforcement, self-defence, firearms, driving, physical fitness, drill and other skill sets. Upon successful completion of the course of study, recruits return to their home service for a period of field training. This involves pairing the officer with an experienced Field Training Officer for a period of three to six months for on-the-job training and assessment.
All officers will be expected to work shifts and coverage will be 24 hours. The current shift schedule is 12 hour shifts, but may be subject to change to meet the needs of the Service.
Uniforms and equipment will be provided by the Service. Each member receives an annual allowance of $510 to offset the costs of maintenance and upkeep. Footwear is to be purchased by the member as a part of this allowance.


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Hi, I'm Tim 🙂 I'm a marketer, creative, DIYer, disc golfer and, most importantly, dad. I'm the founder of Today Creative (though my official title is "Captain"). Today Creative is a team of marketers and creatives with a love for creating beautiful content for our clients. What we do truly is a team effort.


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WontFIX: A Pragmatic Scala FIX Engine
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This library is work-in-progress. APIs can change anytime. Nothing is
true and everything is permitted. Fnord.

### Composing messages

Unlike most other FIX engines, messages in WontFIX are strictly immutable.
You can construct arbitrary FIX messages with standard and custom fields.

Here's an example for MDEntryRequest message from FIX 4.4:

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      MsgType -> MarketDataRequest,
      MDReqID -> 1001,
      SubscriptionRequestType -> SnapshotPlusUpdates,
      MarketDepth -> 0,
      MDUpdateType -> FullRefresh,
      NoMDEntryTypes -> FixGroup(
        Fix(MDEntryType -> Bid), Fix(MDEntryType -> Offer)
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What is the History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day?
HomeAnswersCulture
By Patricia, Facty StaffUpdated: Apr 4, 2019
On the third Monday of January, the United States celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Most people see this as an uncontroversial holiday and take for granted that Dr. King's significant contributions to securing equality of all Americans should be celebrated. However, this was not always the case. Civil rights advocates fought for years to get this holiday recognized, and there were significant disagreements and controversies along the way. Some states still hesitate to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day today.
Who Was Martin Luther King Jr.?
Martin Luther King Jr. is most famous for his contributions to the American Civil Rights Movements. Although the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution had freed black people from slavery in 1865, they still suffered from significant discrimination and legal penalties nearly a century later. In the 1950s, King and other concerned citizens began protesting this unequal state of affairs. King quickly emerged as a leader due to his powerful speeches and charismatic personality.
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A Commitment to Peace
King wasn't simply good at rallying people to the cause. He was also a brilliant tactician and knew how to get things done. He believed that equality must be achieved through peaceful means. This was partially due to practical concerns, as he was worried that white Americans would never cooperate with a violent movement, and partially due to his strong Christian faith. King's primary tactics were marches, sit-ins and other forms of civil disobedience. The police frequently reacted with violence, but his followers remained peaceful.
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Civil Rights Milestones
King's first major success was organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. African-Americans and their white supporters refused to ride the buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregation. This would eventually lead to a court case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ordered Montgomery to desegregate its buses.
King continued to organize protests throughout the 1950s and 1960s, but his most famous one may be the March on Washington. The march attracted 250,000 supporters, and King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, which is considered one of the most famous speeches in American history. The event garnered massive support, and just one year later the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed to make racial discrimination and segregation illegal.
Not everyone was happy with King's successes. He received many death threats over the years and had even survived an assassination attempt. In 1968, he was in Memphis, Tennessee, to support striking city workers who were protesting the lower wages and unfair working conditions that black employees experienced. While standing on the balcony of his hotel room, he was shot by James Earl Ray, a white man who supported segregation. King was rushed to the hospital but died later that night, at the age of 39.
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The Early Fight for a Holiday
After King's death, his supporters were eager to ensure his legacy was not forgotten. They began to campaign for a holiday in his honor. King had been a staunch supporter of labor rights, so some of the earliest appearances of the holiday were in contracts negotiated between labor unions and employers. The Democratic Congressman from Michigan, John Conyers, also spoke in Congress about creating a holiday just four days after King's death, but at the time he received no political support. However, he continued to persist and reintroduced his bill every year.
Public Support
As Conyers and others worked to create an official holiday, they decided to see if they could garner public support. In the late 1970s, the King Center began a massive public relations campaign. It really took off in 1980, when popular musician Stevie Wonder released a single called "Happy Birthday" in support. A petition was also created and received around six million signatures, which is one of the largest public petitions in American history. Elected representatives began to take note, and Conyers began receiving a significant amount of support in Congress.
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Strong Opposition
Not everyone was in favor, however. Jesse Helms and John Porter East, both senators from North Carolina, were some of the most vocal opponents. Helms even created a 300-page document designed to smear King's reputation. He focused on King's opposition to the Vietnam War and support of labor unions to suggest that King was a communist and anti-American. This document enraged some of his colleagues so much that one, Senator Patrick Moynihan of New York, marched onto the Senate floor, threw it down and stomped on it while denouncing it as filth. Other congressmen were less concerned about King himself as with concerns about whether creating a new federal holiday would be too expensive.
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A Federal Holiday is Created
In 1983, 15 years after King's death and the first calls for a holiday, President Reagan finally signed a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day into law. The bill has passed 78 to 22 in the Senate and 338 to 90 in the House of Representatives, which was a landslide victory that made it safe from veto. The holiday was to be observed on the third Monday of January, which is close to King's birthday of January 15. The first Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially observed on January 20, 1986. He became the first private citizen to have a holiday honoring him in the U.S.
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A Rocky Road to State Acceptance
Martin Luther King Jr. Day was not always recognized in every state. It took until 1991 for all states to observe some form of the holiday, with New Hampshire being the last. Many states observed it as Civil Rights Day or Human Rights Day instead of naming it after King himself. That began to change throughout the 1990s, and all states eventually renamed their holidays to officially honor King. Utah was the last to do so in 2000. As of 2019, Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi also celebrate Robert E. Lee's birthday as a joint holiday. Lee was the general who led Confederate forces in the Civil War. The joint holidays are controversial, as many people believe it is disrespectful to honor both a Civil Rights Movement leader and a man who fought to keep African-Americans enslaved.
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International Observance
King's legacy impacted more than just the United States, and some people in other countries have created events and holidays to recognize him. The cities of Toronto, Canada, and Hiroshima, Japan, honor him every year in recognition of his efforts to create peace. There is also an annual banquet honoring him in the city of Wassenaar in the Netherlands. Civil Rights Movement leaders are invited to attend, and it serves as a remembrance of King's life and a celebration of peace and equality.


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Die Zimapán-Talsperre (spanisch "Presa Fernando Hiriart" bzw. "Central Hidroeléctrica de Zimapán") befindet sich am Río Moctezuma in Mexiko in den Bundesstaaten Hidalgo und Querétaro 30 km südwestlich von Zimapán. Die Stauanlage wurde nach dem Ingenieur Fernando Hiriart Balderrama benannt. Entworfen wurde die neue Staumauer von Giovanni Lombardi.

In den Stausee fließen außerdem der Rio San Juan und der Rio Tula hinein; sie vereinigen sich darin zum Rio Moctezuma.

Das Wasserkraftwerk verfügt über zwei Pelton-Turbinen mit je 146 MW Leistung. Mit ihnen kann jährlich eine Energiemenge von 1.292,4 GWh erzeugt werden. Die erste Generatoreinheit ging im September 1995 in Betrieb. Betreiber ist die Elektrizitätsgesellschaft Comisión Federal de Electricidad.

Das Absperrbauwerk ist eine bis zu 207 m hohe Bogenstaumauer in einem engen Tal; andere Angaben sprechen von 203 m Höhe.

Siehe auch
 Liste der größten Talsperren der Erde
 Liste der größten Stauseen der Erde
 Liste der größten Wasserkraftwerke der Erde
 Liste von Kraftwerken in Mexiko
 Liste von Talsperren der Welt (Mexiko)

Weblinks
 La pesquería en la presa Zimapán
 Foto auf S. 9

Staumauer in Mexiko
Wasserspeicherkraftwerk in Mexiko
Wasserspeicherkraftwerk in Nordamerika
Stausee in Mexiko
Stausee in Nordamerika
SZimapantalsperre
Bogenstaumauer
Bauwerk im Bundesstaat Hidalgo
Bauwerk im Bundesstaat Querétaro
Erbaut in den 1990er Jahren


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Relationship advice → Dating → Early stages of dating → Dating firsts
What would be the best thing to say to get a girl to kiss you?
by Greenbean 3 hours ago
theodox
"I really like you a lot" (not I love you) Get into a conservation about kissing (preferably first kiss)
ryanwareham
Hey honey, i really missed you today. seriously though, if you're not in a relationship with a girl, your chances of getting a random kiss are in the 1-3% range i would say, unless you're the world's most charming man (but you can't be because i already have that title).
Grimble
"Hey baby, I'm a poet, you wanna hear some poetry"... Then go in for the kill!! Works for everytime!
mikemega
"I bet you're a really good kisser."
If a girl asks you for anything, a drink, a ciggarete whatever just answer with " Maybe if you give me a kiss" in a kind of a jokey way, I done that before and its worked. They can only say no as my Mother would say!
Mircat
If you paid enough up front you don't have to ask.
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"Hey, I'll give you twenty bucks for a kiss."
What's the worst thing to say after a first kiss?
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Ladies, what would be the worst first date movie a man could take you to see?
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The Fight of a Dancing Thinker
Daniel Fromson 12:00 am, Dec 07, 2007
Before she came to New Haven, before she brought dance to the Yale curriculum, and before she began her crusade to have dance accepted as a legitimate part of an Ivy League education, Emily Coates introduced Twyla Tharp to the Blue Book. At the time, Coates was 29. Taking classes at Fordham University, she had forgone full-time college to pursue a career in dance, first with the New York City Ballet, then with veritable dance god Mikhail Baryshnikov, and finally with Tharp. Both her mentors thought she would be crazy to leave dance and enroll at Yale. But Coates persisted, which is why, on a July day in 2003, she sat in a cramped dressing room in Manhattan's Joyce Theater, watching a legendary modern dance choreographer leaf through the Yale course of study. She remembers Tharp hovering close to the book and peering at it through thick black glasses, looking for classes in western civilization or Greek history and advising her to be a classics major. Coates smiles as she recalls the moment. "Twyla meets the Blue Book — a great juxtaposition of worlds."
Since coming to Yale — first as an undergraduate, now as the artistic director of the World Performance Project and a lecturer in theater studies — Emily Coates has sought to unite these worlds. Twyla and the Blue Book. Performance and academia. Dancing and thinking. In each case, Yale, like other Ivies, has traditionally embraced the second and excluded the first. "I myself, for the record, was at Harvard as an undergrad and then at Columbia as a graduate student," says Northwestern professor Susan Manning, who is president of the Society of Dance History Scholars. "And certainly the story of dance at the American college and university system largely has bypassed the Ivy League." Each Ivy boasts a thriving extracurricular dance scene with over a dozen groups and hundreds of students (in Yale's case, which is on the low end, 15 and about 450 respectively), but only Cornell and Columbia offer a major in dance. Princeton has a certificate program, while Brown, Dartmouth, and Harvard each have a dozen or more classes, of which only a handful count for course credit. Yale is even more lacking. As English and Theater Studies professor Joe Roach points out, "We have the dubious distinction of having the least, except maybe for Penn."
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But change is in the air, and the place of dance in elite academia is shifting. Brown, Princeton, and Stanford are designing and building multi-million dollar arts centers with performance and practice spaces suitable for dance. In 2005, Harvard unveiled the Harvard Dance Center, which boasts a 4100 square-foot dance studio, and this year it created a "secondary concentration" in dramatic arts, effectively letting students minor in dance. Last year, Duke created a dance major. Some academics are skeptical, such as Mark Franko, who spent years planning a graduate dance studies program at Columbia that never materialized. Many schools, he says, are just "going to build a building and stick a bunch of artists in there on a rotating basis," rather than changing their curricula. But others view the efforts as seeds of revolution. "Dance studies is still a very, very young discipline," says Janice Ross, a dance historian at Stanford who points to the changes at Stanford, Harvard, and Duke as signs of change. "I think that this is the moment that it begins to amass a history and a past, and that's what I think is going to crack things open, along with visionaries and movers who are positioned where they have the freedom and the job security to do this." Emily Coates, she adds, has the credentials and the intellect to be just that kind of visionary.
At Yale, performance — specifically dance — is being highlighted as never before through the World Performance Project. A Mellon grant-funded initiative founded by performance studies expert Joe Roach and directed in part by Emily Coates, the WPP facilitates performance events and an introductory course in performance studies, which examines cultural events of all kinds and draws on fields as diverse as dance, linguistics, and sociology. In 2006, Coates taught a yearlong course in dance theater featuring ballet, modern, and postmodern dance; this year, the number of dance classes has grown to four and includes THST 335: Contemporary Dance of African Expression and THST 319: Project O, which will combine dance and theater for a new take on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Dance historians such as Janice Ross call Joe Roach a visionary, but Roach is quick to emphasize that Coates has been the greater catalyst for change. "As a matter of putting dance in the curriculum and on the agenda of Yale as a great university, someone like Emily is really essential," he says. "A dancer, thinker…" He trails off, but the meaning of his words is clear. A bridge between dancing and thinking. Between Twyla Tharp and the Blue Book.
As Coates puts it, her two great passions have always been reading and books and ideas, and dancing. "My whole life has been about trying to have both in my life at a very high level and not wanting to sacrifice one for the other," she says. Coates began taking ballet lessons when she was five, and soon she was "good at it," taking second place at national competitions. Growing up in Pittsburgh, she continued ballet through middle school, and she attended a summer program at the School of American Ballet in New York City and realized that New York was where she wanted to be. "I begged my parents to let me move there when I was a sophomore in high school," she says, "so when I was 16 I shot out of the house and landed in Lincoln Center."
After two years at the School of American Ballet, Coates began dancing professionally with the New York City Ballet. Six years later, a modern dance choreographer did a project with the company, and as Coates puts it, "It absolutely changed my life." She left ballet to explore modern dance and was unemployed and taking modern dance classes when she contacted Mikhail Baryshnikov to ask about transitioning from ballet to modern, a shift he had made when he founded the White Oak Dance Project in 1990 after a lengthy ballet career. A woman called her saying that "Misha" wanted her to call him. It turned out that he knew her dancing and was a fan, having seen her in the New York City Ballet, and he invited her to join his company. "At 25 I was dancing duets with Mikhail Baryshnikov all over the world and sort of barely able to believe how wonderful my life was," she says. When Baryshnikov disbanded his company in 2001, Coates began dancing with modern choreographer Twyla Tharp, and two years later she was sitting in a dressing room at the Joyce Theater, introducing Tharp to the Blue Book.
Coates came to Yale in 2003 and became an English major. She took a break from dancing and delved into writing classes, but in her second year she took it up again. "In returning to my art form I became very interested in looking at scholarship that dealt with performance and dance," she says, and as she voiced her curiosity to professors, most of them told her to seek out Joe Roach. She sent him an email, and they met at Book Trader Cafe over spring break. "In his email, he said, 'I'll see you by the dance books,'" she recalls. They spoke about her dance career and her decision to come to Yale, and about graduate work and performance studies, and afterward Coates asked if he would be willing to work with her that fall on an independent study of performance studies readings. Because the next semester would be her last before graduating, (her degree, between Fordham and Yale, took 13 years), he said yes.
That September, Coates climbed to the fourth floor of Linsley-Chittenden Hall and presented Roach with a syllabus. "He pushed it back across the table," she remembers, "and said, 'This is great. We will read. We will write. This is what we do. But we need to tie this to a creative practice." He shook his fists. "It was as if the universe opened up," says Coates. "A professor at Yale was giving me permission to think on my feet. Up until that point I had found Yale to be a place that was wonderfully cultivating of the mind — in a very still fashion." In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Coates teamed up with fellow dancer Bronwen MacArthur to create "Memory Suite," a performance based on Roach's book Cities of the Dead, which explores the cultural landscape of a pre-Katrina New Orleans. Uniting dance and academics as always — after all, how many dance pieces are directly inspired by a book? — Coates used the piece to explore Roach's concepts of surrogation and kinesthetic imagination, and she asked Roach to step in as a performer. He obliged.
In December, before the performance, Joe Roach went to his mailbox and found he had been awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — a three-year grant to promote the humanities. It was worth $1.5 million. "I'm not a religious person," says Roach, "but it did seem providential that a very large sum of money did come our way just when we were trying to figure out what to do next about dance at Yale." A performance Coates describes as "deeply meaningful" sealed the deal. "We had shared this sort of performance studies high, and then with the arrival of funding, I came in for one of the last [independent study] meetings that I had and Joe Roach said, 'Do you want to stay on at Yale and work with me and help me develop this performance studies project?'" Coates didn't think long before saying yes. The World Performance Project was born.
Since Coates's arrival, the presence of even a few dance classes in the Yale Theater Studies department has generated what Theater Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies Toni Dorfman calls "euphoric, ecstatic buzz." Coates's dance theater class, contrary to popular student belief, is not the first dance class ever offered for Yale course credit (a dancer named Barbara Feldman taught a college seminar on modern dance some 14 times between 1981 and the late nineties), but it is the first to be taught through an academic department and the first to spur widespread anticipation of a Yale dance program. "I think there's a lot of excitement on campus about dance," says Eliza Kelly-Swift '09, co-president of campus group Yaledancers and a former apprentice with the Cincinnati Ballet. "The number of people who are involved in dance both through the groups and the classes is significant, and there's a growing feeling that Yale is going to have a dance program, that this is coming."
According to students who took the class, last year between 45 and 75 students tried out for Coates's dance theater seminar, of whom 14 were admitted. Former dance theater student Tasha Eccles '07 adds that about 50 pre-frosh visited the class during Bulldog Days. "I've never been to a class that had more than two [visitors] there," she says. "There's clearly as much interest from the outside as there is from the inside." The excitement has carried over to this year, with students praising "Contemporary Dance of African Expression," taught by West African dancer Lacina Coulibaly. As Theater Studies professor Dorfman puts it, "Students come in and they are blushing and leaping off the floor and they say, 'Oh my god, this is the morning I get to go to Professor Coulibaly's class!' And I say, 'Are you excited about it?' And they say, 'I live for it!'"
The only students who might be disappointed are those who seek technique-focused, conservatory-style dance training. "Yale won't offer it straight-up," maintains Ayesha Faines '08, who has trained with the New Jersey Ballet and the Dance Theater of Harlem. "Advanced ballet — Yale would never do that." But that is precisely the point. As both Coates and Dorfman make clear, dance courses at Yale seek to unite practice and theory: the goal is to make dance part of an Ivy League liberal arts education, not to train professional dancers. "In my class, we are considering the socio-historical context in which these works were created as it impacts the physicality of the technique," says Coates, who requires each student to read several books a term and write between 28 and 34 pages over the course of the year, in addition to watching videos, creating short movement studies, and choreographing and presenting a final project using dancers from the class. "We are learning excerpts of choreography, of seminal works by canonical artists, and the doing of the choreography informs our readings, and the students' understanding deepens from having considered the work from multiple angles."
Coates's former student Jacob Liberman '10, who is now choreographing pieces for Yale student groups Yaledancers and A Different Drum, agrees. "You'd be reading about a piece one day and dancing it the next morning," he says, "and you'd get to really see the theory in practice in a way you normally wouldn't be able to." He also notes that Coates's work with choreographers like Twyla Tharp and Yvonne Rainer — both of whom the class studies — gives her firsthand experience that most teachers lack. "She would say, 'When I danced this piece with X, Y, and Z, she'd say this image was supposed to be like pulling off a sweater, and this one is supposed to be like throwing rose petals on the floor,' and we'd be like, 'oh…' None of that was in the book."
Like Coates, most Ivy League dance program directors — including Barnard's Emily Cochran, Brown's Julie Strandberg, and Harvard's Elizabeth Bergmann — embrace a model of teaching that unites theory and practice, a tendency that helps dance fit into the context of Ivy League academics. Indeed, nearly everyone from dance historians to Yale students believes that the struggle to include dance in the Ivies is primarily a struggle to prove its academic legitimacy. Yale students were reminded of this last March, when Charles Long, deputy provost of the university, commented in the Yale Daily News on the presence of dance classes in the Yale curriculum. "It's wonderful to do or to have, but it isn't really part of an intellectual education," he said. "You could imagine having a couple credits in things that are sheer performance, but how much is too much?" Following criticism of his remarks in a letter to the News and a reference to them in a New York Times article, Long denies having made them. "It's certainly not something I believe or have ever said," he says. "I love dance. I like ballet more than I like opera. I would love to have more dance."
Students and professors offer many theories as to why the Ivy League has resisted dance in the curriculum, ranging from an ingrained conservatism that values classics over modern and interdisciplinary fields to the historical division between the university and the conservatory. But dance historians and experts in performance studies point to two main factors: dance's status as a traditionally female pursuit, and more importantly, how dance, as an art form rooted in the body, is at odds with a Cartesian mind-body dualism that privileges mental activity as the basis of academia. With a history as all-male institutions that value intellect, the Ivies have been naturally inhospitable to dance, whose peculiar bodily nature sets it apart from other art forms. As Roach notes, "Where you have a text as in drama or music, where you have a printed artifact, it's easier to see how it can fit in with subjects such as French literature and history."
When dance programs arose in American higher education, they positioned dance not as an intellectual or artistic pursuit, but rather as a non-masculine form of physical education. Stanford's Janice Ross notes that elite male universities historically encouraged physical activity and competitive sports because they were thought to prepare men for leadership roles beyond college. "When dance entered the academy in 1917," she says, "it was for women and it had to be positioned as doing precisely the opposite of all those things, and I think that's one of the most pernicious legacies that still shadows the Emily Coates – Joe Roach initiative at Yale." As a case in point, Ross, the president-elect of the Society of Dance History Scholars, notes that her office is located in Stanford's women's gymnasium.
In 1917, Margaret H'Doubler, a former basketball coach, taught the nation's first curricular dance class at the University of Wisconsin, which in 1925 created the country's first dance major. "It was not about dance as art," says Ross, who has written a book on H'Doubler's impact on dance in higher education. "It was about dance as a path to self-discovery and physical well-being. It was definitely not competitive. It was not for an audience. You can go down the line and look at everything that men's sports were doing and they said 'Women's physical education will not do this.'" While dance programs throughout the US also grew out of a second model — that of small liberal arts colleges such as Bennington College, which harbored modern dance pioneers like Martha Graham beginning in the thirties — H'Doubler's influence has been profound. Dance began moving into arts and drama programs in the late sixties, but it is telling that this semester Yale is offering 14 dance classes in Payne Whitney Gymnasium and two in its classrooms.
While other Ivies are building arts centers, or, in Harvard's case, have opened a dance center, the gym remains the home of dance at Yale. Of the five dance studios with sprung floors available to Yale's undergraduate dance groups, two are located on the fifth floor of Payne Whitney. (Sprung floors, which are cushioned by springs or rubber, are critical for the health of high-impact dancers, who develop sprains and joint conditions if they dance on normal wood.) Student dancers call the studios small, and just one of them has a Marley surface, a non-slippery vinyl mat necessary for dancers who use pointe shoes, the flat-toed ballerina slippers. On the ninth floor of the gym is a studio that Anna Goddu '09, the president of student group A Different Drum, calls "an absolute last resort": the place Yale's dancers go if a production is near and they can't find anywhere else to practice. The floor — not sprung, slippery, and covered with splinters — is scratched as if people have been dragging furniture around the room for years. Off-white paint is peeling from the walls, and a two-foot brown splotch blooms on the right side of the leaky ceiling, above a rusty radiator and a couple three-inch nails. In the room's center hangs a punching bag whose unraveling top reveals black and purple felt.
Outside the gym, student dancers practice in studios in the Trumbull and Silliman basements and in the Off Broadway Theater near the Yale Bookstore, and curricular dance classes meet in the theater studies ballroom at 220 York Street, but the mere fact that a studio of "absolute last resort" exists demonstrates Yale's shortage of dance facilities. Emily Coates and Joe Roach consider a dance curriculum their primary focus, but establishing dance studios and performance spaces for both classes and the 450 members of Yale's student dance groups is also important. Coates notes that although the Theater Studies ballroom is satisfactory, it isn't ideal. "An actor's studio is different from a dance studio," she says. "We can dance there, we can move, but it's not a dance studio. A dance studio is larger. It does not have couches and furniture regularly pulled into its center." It has a Marley floor, mirrors, a barre, and high ceilings so you don't jump and hit your head on a chandelier, like one of Coates's students did last year.
Coates has been active in bringing dance to Yale, but equally important have been the efforts of students, particularly with regard to facilities. As Stanford's Janice Ross notes, the Ivies, despite poor dance offerings, still attract students with strong dance backgrounds, and in many ways they are the force for change. At Yale, students have lobbied the administration under the auspices of the Alliance for Dance at Yale (ADAY), a coalition of the college's 15 extracurricular dance groups. Last February, for example, Yale banned student dancers from numerous practice spaces without the appropriate sprung floor — including the Off Broadway Theater — after a student dancer sued the university, alleging she had been injured. Working with ADAY, A Different Drum president Anna Goddu started a letter-writing campaign to urge Yale to renovate the Off Broadway Theater, as well as to consider goals like dance courses in the curriculum and more dance facilities. She collected about 400 letters from students, faculty, and alumnae, and met with Yale College deputy provost Lloyd Suttle. The university preempted the campaign by announcing plans to renovate the theater, and the letters were never presented, but since then Goddu has continued her activism, forming the Committee for Dance and Performance Studies with Emily Coates and Joe Roach to discuss the role of performance at Yale. Following her campaign, the university has made plans to renovate space on Chapel Street to create new dance studios.
Like Anna Goddu, Coates admits that she views her efforts to bring dance to Yale as arts activism. So does Joe Roach. "You could think of it as re-actionary," he asserts. "I'm trying to get back to the Greeks. Even Plato, who banned a lot of the arts from the Republic, was going to allow dance." As the World Performance Project continues through this year and the next — after which the Mellon grant will be exhausted — Coates and Roach are mapping new plans. "Right now the focus is on enabling a dance focus within the Theater Studies major," says Coates. "Ideally, a tenured professor line would need to be created as a next step." A separate Dance Studies program, she notes, is much further down the road.
Roach says the WPP has budgeted for a "dancer – scholar – thinker" to come to Yale next year as a visiting artist, which will show what it's like to feature someone who does first-rate choreography and has several books. But he knows his grant will fund dance courses only for the next three semesters, and then it will be up to Yale's faculty, administration, and students to determine if dance will continue in the curriculum. "I feel that there are sympathetic ears," he says, "but the issue is in doubt. I don't know if we'll be funded beyond next year." Coates is more optimistic. "There have been very hopeful, positive, promising conversations," she says. Most importantly, she notes that "on one basic level, our impact has been to get people talking." As she puts it, "I think we have started conversations. There is revolution in conversations."
For now, however, Coates will continue pushing for dance at Yale, and she will continue to teach her dance theater class, which is why on a recent Monday she sat silently with ten of her students by the windows of the Theater Studies ballroom, watching a girl in a t-shirt and sweatpants perform a movement study. The girl moved slowly under the chandelier, and the only sounds were the squeak of socks on hardwood floor, the crack of a joint, the soft hum of ventilation in the background. When she finished, Coates asked her to do it again, and she put on sneakers, noting that it felt unnatural without them. "We usually look at it twice," said Coates, "and then talk about it and look at it again. As you're watching this for the second time, think about two key questions. What do you see from the work that we've studied? And two, what strong points stand out?"
After the second round came the discussion. One girl noted that the dancer's averted gaze recalled Yvonne Rainer's "Trio A," and another said the movements resembled the work of Merce Cunningham. Coates agreed. "There were moments when the arms were seemingly operating independently from the legs in a way that's very Cunningham," she said, and with that she launched into an explanation of how the dancer's use of sneakers the second time around recalled the birth of postmodernism, and her words, as always, revealed that thought is inseparable from dance.


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NC voter fraud, 145 voters may be ineligible, 10k names tagged by DMV as legally present, 600 or more could be ineligible, Tip of voter fraud prosecuted
Posted on October 23, 2014 | 13 Comments
"On Monday June 23rd, 2008 the SBI initiated an investigation into allegations that employees of the Alamance County Health Department specifically Dr.
Kathleen Shapley-Quinn and Nurse Karen Saxer were knowingly and willingly falsifying patient medical records."
"At the request of some patients, Alamance County Health Department provided work notes and prescriptions in alias names. Providing these services would assist illegal aliens with maintaining assumed or stolen identities, which may be a violation of state, or federal law. (Identity Theft, Fraud, etc.)"
"Veronica Arias, of Texas, reported on May 2nd, 2008 to the ACSO that someone in Swepsonville, NC had stolen her identity and was using same to be employed.
Maria Sanchez was arrested on May 6, 2008 by investigators of the Alamance County Sheriff's Office for stealing and using the identity of Veronica Arias.
Sanchez used the name, SSN, DOB, of Veronica Arias who is a living resident of Texas."…Alamance County NC Sheriff 2008 report
"North Carolina is the latest state featured by Project Veritas in its series on how America's electoral system is extremely vulnerable to voter fraud. During last week's North Carolina primary, James O'Keefe and his colleagues demonstrated how easy it is to obtain ballots even if the person has publicly professed not to be a U.S. citizen."
O'Keefe also tells WND about his group's visit to the University of North Carolina, where a dean and a program director laugh off confessions of voter fraud and even seem to encourage it. Yet a day later, both officials tell conservatives that voter fraud never happens."…WND May 15, 2012
"We control life, Winston, at all its levels. You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable."…George Orwell, "1984″
Now that the longtime Democrat presence in NC government has been eradicated and a new NC voter ID law has been passed, perhaps we can come closer to insuring that our elections are fair.
From the Winston Salem Journal October 23, 2014.
"The State Board of Elections will not be able to verify before the early-voting period begins today whether all of the nearly 10,000 names that it has flagged as belonging to possible ineligible voters are in fact ineligible, according to interviews with elections and transportation officials.
Elections officials estimate that most are likely eligible to vote, but the uncertainty has led some state lawmakers to question why the verification process is happening now.
The Winston-Salem Journal reported Wednesday that, according to the SBOE, a specific search of those 10,000 names on the state's voter rolls turned up 145 that belong to immigrants in the U.S. under the federal program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which provides qualified applicants with a two-year reprieve from deportation.
The number has been pared down to 119 after more research, said Josh Lawson, a spokesman for the SBOE."
"The SBOE is in the process of sending letters to the 119 DACA license holders seeking proof of citizenship, said SBOE spokesman Josh Lawson. Separately, Lawson said that the SBOE is also working to verify all of the nearly 10,000 names. The Journal has asked to receive that information when it becomes available.
The DMV sends data to the SBOE on a regular basis, Charbonneau said.
That data includes license holders who are tagged as "legally present," which includes anyone who was not a U.S. citizen when he or she got a license.
The DMV has been "assisting" the SBOE on verifying the names at this time — as the early-voting period begins — because the SBOE requested the assistance on Monday, according to Charbonneau.
Apart from the DACA license holders, the names on the list of nearly 10,000 belong to license holders who were not U.S. citizens when they got a license. They may have been green-card holders, foreign workers or foreign students, for example. Most have become U.S. citizens since getting a license, according to an estimate by elections officials based on a sample of the overall list.
Earlier this month, State Board of Elections officials sampled about 1,600 of the 10,000 names, Lawson said. They cross-checked the names against a U.S. Department of Homeland Security database, known as SAVE, and found that 94 percent of those 1,600 are in fact U.S. citizens, Lawson said."
http://www.journalnow.com/news/elections/local/early-voting-starts-today-eligibility-for-not-verified/article_ceeb3ca4-5a60-11e4-8cfa-001a4bcf6878.html
From the Raleigh News and Observer June 28, 2014.
"When Chuck Stuber shows up, politicians are in trouble.
He's the FBI agent who put handcuffs on former House Speaker Jim Black and former U.S. Rep. Frank Ballance Jr.
He's the one who booked a top aide to former Gov. Mike Easley and then played a major role in Easley's felony conviction."
"Last week, Stuber started work as an investigator at the state Board of Elections, where he will focus on rooting out fraud and campaign violations. He is expected to take up several pending inquiries – into questions of voter fraud, about possible campaign violations by state lawmakers, and an ongoing probe of a major campaign donor in the last statewide election cycle."
http://www.newsobserver.com/welcome_page/?shf=/2014/06/28/3969919_meet-former-fbi-agent-chuck-stuber.html%3fsp=/99/100/&ihp=1
From Citizen Wells April 3, 2014.
"Raleigh, N.C. – House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) and Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) issued a joint statement Wednesday in response to more alarming evidence of voter error and fraud discovered by the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
Initial findings from the Board presented to the Joint Legislative Elections Oversight Committee today show:
765 voters with an exact match of first and last name, DOB and last four digits of SSN were registered in N.C. and another state and voted in N.C. and the other state in the 2012 general election.
35,750 voters with the same first and last name and DOB were registered in N.C. and another state and voted in both states in the 2012 general election.
155,692 voters with the same first and last name, DOB and last four digits of SSN were registered in N.C. and another state – and the latest date of registration or voter activity did not take place within N.C.
These findings only take into account data from the 28 states who participated in the 2014 Interstate Crosscheck, leaving out potential voter error and fraud in the 22 states that do not participate in the consortium.
Additionally, during an audit of death records from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Board discovered:
50,000 new death records that had not previously been provided to the State Board of Elections.
13,416 deceased voters on the voter rolls in October 2013.
81 deceased voters that had voter activity after they died.
The findings were made possible by a new election reform law passed by the General Assembly last year, which called on the Board to improve the accuracy of voter registration lists and combat potential fraud by cross checking information on voting records with those of other states.
"While we are alarmed to hear evidence of widespread voter error and fraud, we are encouraged to see the common-sense law passed to ensure voters are who they say they are is working," said Tillis and Berger. "These findings should put to rest ill-informed claims that problems don't exist and help restore the integrity of our elections process. We appreciate the State Board of Elections bringing this critical information to light.""
https://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/massive-nc-voter-fraud-discovered-over-35-thousand-voters-same-first-and-last-name-dob-registered-in-nc-and-another-state-voted-in-2012-senate-leader-phil-berger-and-rep-thom-tillis/
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13 responses to "NC voter fraud, 145 voters may be ineligible, 10k names tagged by DMV as legally present, 600 or more could be ineligible, Tip of voter fraud prosecuted"
citizenwells | October 23, 2014 at 1:29 pm |
From ABC News August 12, 2011.
"Authorities have charged four Wake County residents with voter fraud in connection with the last presidential election.
Twenty-six-year-old Kierra Fontae Leache of Pheiffer Drive in Raleigh, 46-year-old Shelia "Sheilia" Romona Hodges, also of Pheiffer Drive in Raleigh, and 25-year-old Brandon Earl McLean of Bethune Drive in Raleigh, allegedly cast two ballot votes in 2008.
All three are registered Democrats."
http://abc11.com/archive/8301269/
Pete | October 23, 2014 at 2:04 pm |
CitizenWells,
I think your research and vigilance is spot on. The voter fraud discovered is clearly only the "tip of the iceberg". Voter fraud is endemic in the democratic party. We need uncover, expose, and prosecute to protect the voice of the American people and not disenfranchise the majority of law abiding citizens.
Pete.
It is bad enough in NC.
However, it is out of control in some states.
It probably gave Kennedy the 1960 election.
RMinNC | October 23, 2014 at 3:36 pm |
EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE FOR HOLDER'S WIFE…? SAY WHAT !!!!
from Drudge this p.m.
"The document details the Attorney General Holder's personal involvement in managing the Justice Department's strategy on media and Congressional investigations into the Fast and Furious scandal. Notably, the document discloses that emails between Attorney General Holder and his wife Sharon Malone – as well as his mother – are being withheld under an extraordinary claim of executive privilege as well as a dubious claim of deliberative process privilege under the Freedom of Information Act. The "First Lady of the Justice Department" is a physician and not a government employee."
This appears to be the FIRST TIME IN OUR HISTORY that Executive Privilege has been claimed for someone NOT in government……
this should tell every first grader that Obama, Holder and anyone associated with Fast and Furious they are guilty as hell……guilty of providing weapons that have killed innocent Americans on American soil…….
What else is need……what a shame it is that the president has to go to these lengths to protect his $ss and Holder's too.
I don't think we have heard the last of this ..Fast and Furious is back on the front burner !.
"Latest updates / N.Y.C. says hospital testing doctor with Ebola-like symptoms"
http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.622308
It's time for Obama to enact some EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE for BO his half white, half black, mongrel dog …Bo has an inside track into Michael's bedroom…….and he might spill the beans about what happens behind those "Green Doors", like Duke, the talking dog does about those wonderful Bush pork&beans…..
oldsailor82 | October 23, 2014 at 6:54 pm |
CW…….
Didn't the lady lawyer in Mission Viejo,California uncover over 100,000 illegal votes in that state? Yet nobody evn took an interest in it to see if it was true. In reality the blame isn't entirely that of the perpetrator,rather I would blame the POLITICIAN MORONS who refuse to look at such criminal behavior. I would say that somebody needs to get all the DEAD people who voted back into their graves.
CW…..
In actuality we have an out of control society,who thinks anything is OK. They lie around doing nothing constructive,and watch fantasyland movies and think that the movies are REALITY. Some of the more TWISTED people even think that they can "leap tall buildings in a single bound." When you look closely you will see a comic book stuffed into their hip pockets. Therein lies that person's reality.
Some of the fantasyland people even dress up in costumes worn by the subjects of their comic books. Such people think that they are either Batman,or Superman. A number of years ago there was one New Yorker who thought he could FLY when he wore his Superman costume. To prove this he jumped from the top of the Empire State building,and SPLATTERED on the pavement below. That was the end of his Superman reign.
…………..the HATCHET MAN has struck! One officer critical,and one with a wrist cut. Another STINKING A$$ED, LOW IQ, CONVERT,has put one New York officer in critical condition with a huge gash in the back of his head.It is possible that the officers life is over. The attacker was only wounded. Why the hell are the cops playing around. Surely they saw what the Seargent of arms did in Canada. Such a mental derelict should have had such a hail of police bullets put on him that he would look like a SWISS CHEESE.Now the Media,and the police are trying to figure out if this was workplace violence,or jihadism. har har.In New York UP is definitely DOWN.
oldsailor82 | October 23, 2014 at 10:25 pm |
I can't help wonder when a JIHADI is going to show up with a screaming chain saw.
porterville63139 | October 23, 2014 at 11:35 pm |
Charlie Dooley's son allegedly linked to 18 area convenience store robberies
http://fox2now.com/2014/10/23/charlie-dooleys-son-linked-to-17-area-convenience-store-robberies/
If you are from St. Louis this is pretty funny…….Exiting Thug in a suit St. Louis County Executive has a thug in a suit son…..Go Rick Stream!!
citizenwells | October 24, 2014 at 7:45 am |
oldsailor.
Jerry Brown.


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CNY2022 - Our Inspiration
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I think it would be an understatement to say that 2021 didn't quite go the way that anyone thought it would. Back in 2020, we thought that by mid-2021, we'd be back to pre-pandemic living with Christmas parties, travelling again and possibly without masks. But it didn't play out that way. The plans we made for 2021 would have to be shelved for yet another year.
Yet in their place, we found our own time to be intentional about the things that we did do. With restrictions on social gatherings, we had to consciously choose the things we spent time on, the people to meet, places to visit and restaurants to try. We cheered when they announced rules that two could dine out, then five. We cheered when families of four could finally come over to visit - that meant larger Sunday dinners. We cheered when we could go back to visit the zoo or do a staycation, or go on play-dates again. Even though we could not go on big overseas trips or have big parties, we learnt to find joy in the smallest things.
When it came to designing this year, we were equally intentional, and we chose to celebrate all the little things.
We kicked off the start of 2021 with our two part CNY2021 "One World" launch, a Classic Disney collection, a Classic Pooh collection, a Mickey Go Local collection, a Baby Essential collection and a Disney Princess launch.
Each of our collections this year celebrated something - celebrated staying home with a full Classic Pooh loungewear collection, celebrated being in Singapore all year with Mickey Go Local and celebrated year-end parties with Disney Princess.
When we started designing CNY2022, we looked through all your feedback for CNY2021 - your children loved the pleats of the wrap cheongsam, loved our soft t-shirt jersey material, wanted more tween styles and looked forward to our lace collection. Moms liked our casual tops and wanted more dresses especially with pleated skirts. Dads wanted a size up. We intentionally checked off this "wishlist" when we put our 2022 collection together.
We want elly to be top-of-your-pile in your children's wardrobe. We want them to be able to wash and wear it week after week. When we started this year, 2022 was full of unknowns. We wanted to create pieces which could be worn whether we celebrated CNY in large or small groups. If we ended up celebrating in small groups, we'll be having catch-ups everyday with different friends. Rather than invest in multiple cheongsams or festive outfits that your child may not want to wear after CNY, we created tops that could be paired with a variety of colours to create new looks!
Every piece in this year's collection is designed with the different children we've met over our nine years at Cluny Court in mind; children who love twirly dresses, children who love dressing up, children who will not wear a cheongsam or high necklines, children who do not like wearing dresses, children who hate fussing with zips, children who love maxi dresses, and the list goes on. This year, we bring your ole favourites back like the Summer Dress and the Twirly Cheongsams and added in a few more which we know will soon be your favourites (look out for the Madelyn Dress)!
In terms of prints, CNY2022 will see a step away from the licensed prints over the last two years, and back to fully elly-designed looks. For the Year of the Tiger, we wanted a bold fresh palette of colours so if your children have been growing up with our CNY collections over the year, we want you to give you a selection of different colours and looks year after year! This year, you will have 16 prints to choose from and 4 colours of lace.
Since we spent 2020 and 2021 exploring Singapore, we drew our inspiration from home this year. We decided to bring the White Tigers from the zoo, and his friends, the Elephants and Penguins, on all the holidays we couldn't go on. In our prints, you'll find the Tigers fishing at sea or headed to his holiday with his sunnies. If you look hard enough, you might even see a Lucky Tiger! When given the first chance, the Elephants grabbed their suitcases and headed for the tropics, whilst the Penguins headed for the beach to build sandcastles. The fun and whimsical prints are quintessentially elly.
And while the animals went on holiday, we rolled out the rest of our collection to bring in the Lunar New Year with traditional CNY icons such as flowers, lucky coins, the lion dance and zodiac animals. We kept it classic and festive for the visitings you may do! We also added cheongsams this year in your favourite jersey fabric!
And to our muse, Lil S, who started us on our journey years ago, we celebrate her and her tween style and the start of her teen years in 2022 with pieces created with her input (yes even during her PSLE year!).
We kept our photoshoot small this year and done in our own office. We bought used wooden backdrops and upcycled them. Carol and her team painted the wooden backdrops and recycled the wooden frame used in our CNY shoot two years ago. Together, they painted a scene from a home with the sunset peeking in from a window. I love they come up with fresh ideas every shoot! From the conceptualisation of ideas to the final outcome, it's a passion on their sleeves every year. Their attention to every little detail, whether it's to do with photoshoot sets or popups, is always inspiring.
Celebrating the little things means that we celebrate not just during CNY but throughout the year. With our collection this year, you can wear a piece of elly to wear throughout and beyond the 15 days of CNY.
Presenting CNY 2022 - The Little Things
x, Audrey


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Archangel Sandalphon is the Archangel of music, poetry and prayer. Sandalphon receives and delivers prayers to the Divine so they are clearly heard and answered. Call upon Sandalphon if you're having doubts that your prayers are being heard, and he will help to update you on the progress of your request, and tune into anything you need to do to transform your prayers into positive blessings unfolding in your life.
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The presence of Sandalphon to me feels tall, but grounded… Like a gentle, stable, and consistent energy which reminds you of your interconnectedness with everything. His guidance is soft but powerful, accurate, and almost poetic. He may even guide you through a song, a clever poem, or show up as angelic sounding music.
Sandalphon has a wonderful way of helping people to realign with their truth… And then aligning synchronicity so you connect with the right people at the perfect time to validate your inspiration, answer questions, and help you to progress further into alignment with joining Sandalphon in being present, grounded to Earth, and fully connected to the Divine light above.
I had one really nice lady tell me that a very tall angel stays with me. I do not have the correct spelling but his name is pronounced ESEFFEROUS a Serphim. Do you recognize this name? Or is she pulling my leg? Really need to know…. this is always on mind….
I believe in Angle's. They are out there. .
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FISHER, Thomas I (1515/16-77), of St. Sepulchre's, Warwick.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
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b. 1515/16, s. of Thomas Hawkins alias Fisher, fishmonger and bro. of John Fisher I. m. (1) by 1547, Winifred (d.1557), da. of William Holte of Aston, Warws., 1s.; (2) Susanna, da. of John Hornyold, s.p.
Servant of John Dudley, Visct. Lisle; steward and bailiff, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics. 1542; servant of Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford by 1544, sec. by 1547; constable, Warwick castle 1545-53, keeper, Banbury castle ?1550-68 or later; j.p.q. Warws. 1554, from c.1559; escheator, Warws. and Leics. 1559-60; Exchequer receiver, Leics., Warws. and Coventry 1559-72 or later.
By the accession of Elizabeth, Fisher, through his association with great men, was possessed of an impressive accumulation of church lands and property, including a house on the site of St. Sepulchre's priory, Warwick. He conformed in religion under both Mary and Elizabeth, though he was classed as an 'adversary' of true religion in the 1564 reports. He remained on good terms with Sir William Cecil throughout his life, and his connexion with the Dudley family was never broken. The Earl of Leicester stayed at St. Sepulchre's in 1571, and so did Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, often, in 1572 bringing the Queen herself. It was perhaps through Dudley influence that Fisher obtained the receivership for Leicestershire and Warwickshire, his vigorous exploitation of which brought accusations of fraud; his account was later charged with a debt of £4,000. The protection of the Dudley family was extended to Fisher's heir Edward, who, in 1581, was saved by the intervention of Leicester from a heavy fine when prosecuted by the lord keeper, John Puckering, in the Star Chamber for making a fraudulent conveyance.
Fisher died 12 Jan. 1577 and was buried in St. Mary's, Warwick, beside his first wife. His heir wasted his estate and died in the Fleet.
DNB; Dugdale, Warws. i. 349, 442, 457-8; Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. xii), 20; Stratford Birthplace Trust, Archer mss; St. Nicholas's churchwardens' accts. 3-4 Ph. and M.; LP Hen. VIII, xx(1), 1335, g. 7; Stowe 571; CPR, 1558-60, pp. 27-8; Lansd. 1218, f. 33; Cam. Misc. ix(3), p. 7; Black Bk. of Warwick, 29; Nichols, Progresses Eliz. i. 318-19; CSP Dom. 1591-4, p. 498; C142/183/94.
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Xiphosura (with especial reference to Limulus polyphemus)
Shuster, Jr., C.N. 1957. Xiphosura (with especial reference to Limulus polyphemus). Geol. Soc. Am. Memoir. 67:1171-1174.
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Horseshoe "crabs"-- in former years, during the month of May, these animals dominated Delaware Bay shores
Shuster, Jr., C.N. 1960. Horseshoe "crabs"-- in former years, during the month of May, these animals dominated Delaware Bay shores. Estuarine Bull. 5:3-9.
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The Crab that Crawled out of the Past
Gosner, K. 1965. The Crab that Crawled out of the Past. Atheneum, New York.
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Limulus polyphemus, the horseshoe crab
Rudloe, A. 1971. Limulus polyphemus, the horseshoe crab. Pages 263-267. The Erotic Ocean. E.P. Dutton, Inc., New York.
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Shuster, Jr., C.N. 1971. Xiphosurida. Pages 766-770 (pages of 5th edition, this is 3rd). McGraw Hill Encylclopedia of Science and Technology.Third. McGraw Hill Book. Co., Inc., New York.
The disappearing horseshoe crab: its contributions to physiology
Cheung, Y.M., W.F. Poon, and J.C. Hwang 1971. The disappearing horseshoe crab: its contributions to physiology. Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts.
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The incredible horseshoe crab
Rosa, N. 1972. The incredible horseshoe crab. Oceans Mag. 5:38-40.
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The Chelicerates
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The coming of the horseshoe crabs
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Biology of Limulus polyphemus.
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ended, we started another with the same players. The new campaign was another of Paizo's adventure paths, Serpent's Skull. I did something unheard of: I decided to try playing a character with a high charisma.
My character was Malje, a descendant of evil racist colonialist nobles. And yes, this meant that she was a racist colonialist noble too. Not evil though. She was an oracle, a spontaneous divine caster who was haunted by mischievous spirits.
As I suspected, I had trouble playing the high charisma. Malje wasn't supposed to be as quiet as I played her, and a lot of chances passed by as I waited for a suitable spot to speak. Also, one of the other characters was supposed to be Malje's servant and I just didn't know how to play that. I think there was a lot of wasted potential there. I considered many times that I should just switch characters and make one that I'd have an easier and funner time playing. I probably tried too much with her.
Nevertheless, despite the troubles, Malje had some good moments and at least one of the other players seemed to really like her.
When the characters were at level 12, we ran across an awful gigantic worm that spit acid and ended up killing Malje. To be honest, the worm would have probably killed all of them but our huge damage dealer Mogashi hit it so hard that it decided to flee. Mogashi could have healed Malje before she died, but he ran after the worm in a rage. Our healer Kuros could have easily raised Malje within one round or so of her death, but he was too far away. Also, I was okay with her dying, so she died.
Of course, at level 12, there are plenty of options for bringing back a dead character. If you know Finnish, read what happened in Malje's character sheet (the chatlog at the end). Briefly in English: She didn't have a will, so Kuros casted speak with dead and asked whether she wanted to come back. He got no answer, so he wouldn't raise her. The reason why she didn't answer was that she truly believed that she couldn't die. I had decided that pretty early in the campaign because her healing saved the others many times, plus she was an oracle of bones (death). And of course a person with a wisdom of 8 would never die! I didn't immediately know what this would mean if she died, but by that time it was clear. She could not answer questions about her death because she wouldn't be dead. She went to the place where chaotic neutral people go after death and was most likely recruited by some powerful entity to fight in some wars in the afterlife.
My next character was something a lot more traditional for me: Teak, an elven skillmonkey archer-fighter with charisma 8 and ridiculous CMD. Teak is an actual Pathfinder and isn't afraid of the numerous sewers under cities.
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More Pathfinder: Serpent's Skull
After the campaign I wrote about in this post ended, we started another with the same players. The new campaign was another of Paizo's adventure paths, Serpent's Skull. I did something unheard of: I decided to try playing a character with a high charisma.
I don't think I'll be playing a character with a charisma higher than 14 again.
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There is sadly nothing quite like checking out a game that is just in the middle. It's not good, it's not terrible, but it's just so meh. Usually, I will at the very least remember when I have played a super awesome game like Dragon Quest Heroes II or an incredibly terrible game like Yasai Ninja. Playing a game that's in the middle just leaves me with nothing to remember. That's how I felt when I played the new Bethesda-published game, Prey. Developed by Arkane Studios, the team behind Dishonored, Prey is an odd reboot that took the place of the canceled sequel to the first Prey. While it has nothing to do with the cancelled sequel, I can't help but wonder why we couldn't have gotten the sequel instead of a reimagining that has barely anything to do with the original. Well, let's dive in and see what the damage is.
You play as a male or female Morgan Yu, a scientist who is set to go into space to a station called Talos I. After taking some tests to be qualified for such a task, the scientists testing Morgan get attacked by oily black blob monsters known as mimics. You then wake back up in your sky-high apartment, and get a call from some unknown individual telling you to get out of your apartment. You grab a wrench and break open the window to find that you are actually in space in the Talos 1. Unfortunately, the station is now mostly deserted, with the monsters running around and maybe a few survivors. It is up to you to find out what exactly is going on and to find out what is going on with you. The story is set up with the philosophy that the overall plot is barely the focus, with a lot of what happens hidden behind backstories found in recordings and emails. Actually, that's how you find some of your side quests. It can be interesting at times, and when you first break out of your apartment, it can be quite shocking and trippy, but I have more problems with the story that I want to share later.
Prey is a first-person sci-fi horror game, with a lot going on that's like a bucket list of what were in other games. You have crafting/blueprints for items, inventory management, survival elements, horror elements of facing the monsters and corrupted machines, exploring the massive station of Talos I, first-person shooter/combat elements, customizable abilities, and suits that will help you traverse the rather large station. There are definitely a couple of elements to watch out for. You have a stamina bar, armor degradation, and a meter below your health that will lower if you run the stamina meter low. The game is basically very open-ended, but it's not an open-world game. I wouldn't call it Metroidvania either. You will be able to find keys, hack systems, and repair machines to help you get through the massive station. Along the way, you might be wondering why you are scrounging around for garbage that is filling up that precious inventory slot. Well, you will come across blueprints and machines that will craft special items with said junk, which can help you, including weapons, ammo, and whatever else you can find blueprints for. If you wanted to, you can get special alien powers, like being able to transform into any items in your area or an energy blast. However, if you decided to invest into those powers, better beware that turrets will shoot at you. The one thing this game can't lie about is its length. You get about 20 or so hours. The replay value comes in the form of different builds and playing the game from a different point of view. Though, in some regards, you might not want to do that. But I will get to that issue later.
Graphically, the game does look great. While Talos I might be a bit sterile and fancy looking for a station that just got ransacked by a slew of shapeshifting blobs, the game is consistently good looking. Slick graphics, very little performance issues on the PlayStation 4, and the animation on the characters and aliens were pretty smooth. The voice acting is well done. I found everyone included in the cast to do a good job. It's not super corny or trying too hard. It a good balance of characters you would probably find in a lot of sci-fi films. The music is probably my favorite aspect of the game. When the music by composer Mick Gordon is playing, it really sets the mood. Then again, this is the same guy behind Season 1 & 2 of the new Killer Instinct, 2016's Doom, and 2014's Wolfenstein: The New Order. Granted, some of the sound mixing was rather terrible, and the horror elements were undone by the music blaring up when you were by the monsters, but luckily, some of it was patched over to make it a more atmospheric and dreadful (in a good way) experience.
To me, the biggest problem with Prey is that it has an identity crisis. It doesn't really know what it wants to be, because besides the hacking and non-melee stuff, everything else is pretty subpar. It has stealth mechanics, but they are not fleshed out. They have gunplay, but it's not tight, or satisfying to use a gun. The game wants you to play as you want, but it really does want you to play it in a specific way. It has elements of System Shock, Deus Ex, Bioshock, but with the exceptions I listed above, it doesn't do them all that well. It wants to also be a bit more like a horror survival game, but the music, while pretty good, makes it way too obvious when you are in a room full of the boring forgettable monsters. I wouldn't mind fighting these repetitive and generic blobs if the combat was any fun, but until you upgrade to a certain point, combat is a horrible way to start a build in the beginning hours.
Yeah, that's another problem; you can start off the game woefully in the red if you choose to customize your character down a certain path. They say you can literally play this game however you want, but there are definitely routes that you can take that will be easier for you as a player. Now, some could argue that's part of the charm and consequence, but at the same time, other games have had this same problem, like Elder Scrolls: Battlespire, and yet no one gave that game's problems a free pass. If you really want to be able to play however you want, then you need to make that 100% possible. This is why it's problematic when games offer you the idea that you can play however you want, but then punish you for not playing it one specific way. You can get cool abilities, like being able to shapeshift and mimic other items like the monsters do, but if the melee combat and the gameplay is not doing it for me, then why should I care that I can do cool stuff like that?
I could honestly get over these problems if the story was any good, but I just couldn't find myself getting fully invested the entire time I was playing. I was more worried about scavenging for items to make stuff, ammo for guns, and stuff to repair my suit than the actual story. I honestly forced myself through the game. Now, some side-stories can be interesting, and to be fair, the overall idea of Prey's world and story are not terrible. I even liked some of the trippy beginning hours, when you realize your character was possibly living a lie, and how you become more paranoid in terms of who you trust throughout the game. Who's being honest, and who's lying? But these types of games usually forget that while you can have backstory and lore behind the scenes, the main story still needs to grab you. What hurts the story experience more is the fact that this game's side-quests are pretty much you walking from one place to another to find something or turn something back on and then going all the way back. Not the most riveting side-quests and especially not great ones compared to the quests you go through in Horizon Zero Dawn, Dragon Quest Heroes II, and Nier Automata.
Am I saying that Prey is not that great of a game? Personally, I think it's just okay. It's not the worst, since a few games have already popped up that can be considered the worst of 2017, but I personally didn't care for it. Of course, if you like everything about this game, then that's perfectly okay as well. This review is just my opinion, and in my opinion, I would have rather them just reboot the cancelled sequel from the ground up, instead of reimagining the entire game from the ground up with no connections or reason to call it Prey, besides cynical copyright holding. If you like this game or think anything in this review sounds appealing, then you can buy the game or rent it. I would probably wait for a sale, but that's just me. I feel like Prey could have been more interesting if it simply focused on certain elements instead of trying to do everything within the kitchen sink. I would probably consider it one of the few blunders so far of 2017. Maybe it should have mimicked a more interesting game.
This game gets a 5 out of 10.
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