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Covid and Conservation in Africa – more than a threat to people and wildlife
Date: August 6, 2020Author: somervillesustainableconservation 0 Comments
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FOCUS on Wildlife & Pandemics: Covid and Conservation in Africa – more than a threat to people and wildlife
FOCUS on Wildlife & Pandemics
Across Africa, governments have imposed a variety of restrictions on domestic movement, travel in and out of countries, and permitted activities within those countries in response to COVID-19. These have now been in place for months affecting every aspect of life ranging from farming to tourism. Keith Somerville explores the impact the pandemic is having not just on economically-vital tourism and people's livelihoods, but on the continent's conservation efforts to thwart wildlife poaching, trafficking and other threats. He also signals a warning on how such illicit activities could in fact encourage the outbreak of new, even more debilitating viruses.
Keith Somerville
Pangolin – a possible source of the current COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: UN)
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Governments started introducing lockdown measures following the first known COVID cases in Africa (Egypt and Algeria) in February 2020 and advice in March from the World Health Organization for all countries to take measures to contain the spread of the virus. At a stroke, lockdowns, quarantine and international travel restrictions halted tourism to African destinations. (See Global Geneva article on pandemics, climate change and UN reform)
This has had serious economic consequences for foreign exchange earnings, employment and local industries that serve the tourism industry. The African Development Bank estimates that about 8.7 million jobs across the continent are directly a result of tourism; another 20.5 million are created both directly and indirectly through tourism, travel, hospitality and service sectors, especially small local businesses, roughly 7.1 per cent of formal employment in Africa.
There is no doubt that tourism has become an important economic sector for many African states over the last two decades. This is the result of increased domestic and international investment, aggressive marketing, and reforms to business regulations and taxation to encourage growth in tourist numbers and income. A recent report by Adam and Kimbu stated that in 2018 about 67 million international tourists visited Africa in 2018, generating US$38 billion for the continent. While some tourism is related to beach-style holidays (notably Gambia, Kenya, Seychelles, Tunisia and Zanzibar) or historical and cultural tourism (as in Egypt, Morocco, Ethiopia and Zanzibar), wildlife, such as safaris, birdwatching or reef scuba diving, represents a crucial component in Eastern and Southern Africa. It contributes to national income, local employment and habitat conservation.
Many African economies rely heavily on tourism from Europe, North America and Asia to enjoy the continent's wildlife. The revenue it brings in helps enormously with the funding of conservation efforts and supporting local communities. Aerial view of Mwagusi Safari camp in Tanzania's spectacular Ruaha National Park. (Photo: Mwagusi Safaris)
In many cases, however, the local impact is limited. One reason is the heavy profit-taking by externally-based or owned companies and the creaming off by governments of revenue. The end result is that only a small proportion goes to local communities or to direct conservation work. Nevertheless, conservation efforts rely heavily on its all too inadequate income from safari tourism and hunting earnings.
This has been made even worse by the pandemic. There has been an almost complete collapse of outside tourism, particularly from Europe, North America and Asia. Some safari camps, hotels, touring companies and other travel operations have not received a single guest since March. A number of operators have sought to continue paying their staff while others have seen their enterprises collapse. As one luxury camp director in Tanzania noted: "We have not had a single guest since the Christmas holidays."
Africa's natural beauty and wildlife remains key to encouraging tourism and effective conservation. (Photo: African Development Bank)
Wildlife tourism and conservation: crucial to economies
The World Travel and Tourism Council, which is also involved in countering the illegal trade in wildlife, notably the ivory, rhino horn and exotic bird trade, says that wildlife represents 3.9 per cent of global tourism value, or $343.6 billion; a figure equivalent to the entire GDP of South Africa. Of equal significance is the fact that worldwide, some 21.8 million jobs or 6.8 per cent of total jobs can be attributed to wildlife. This is higher in terms of direct and indirect employment and income in countries such as South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The safari industries in those countries bring in $12.4 billion annually, according to SafariBookings.
The jobs, income and role that tourism, such as photographic or hunting safaris, plays in wildlife conservation are all being hit, and hard. The UN's World Tourism Organization has already noted that after a six per cent rise in tourist numbers in 2019, in the first quarter of 2020 (before most lockdown measures had come into force) visitor arrivals in African destinations had fallen by 12 per cent. After mid-March, they dried up completely. I was due to go on a safari in South Africa and Botswana in April, but regulations restricting international travel and the temporary closure of national parks and private game reserves meant the cancellation of bookings. Some southern African parks have now reopened, albeit with social distancing restriction and only for domestic tourism. While a sizeable sector in South Africa and Namibia, this does not represent a source of valuable foreign exchange for any of the wildlife tourism destinations.
Wildlife tourism normally contributes nine per cent of Kenya's GDP. Foreign tourism has almost completely dried up because of COVID-19 not only threatening the existence of many tour operators, but also local people who rely on them for jobs. (Photo: Kenya Safaris)
It is a different situation in East Africa. Kenya, for example, generates 9 per cent of its GDP from tourism, primarily foreign. This has completely dried up, and with it tourism's contribution to the perpetually cash-strapped Kenya Wildlife Service (declared technically insolvent in 2017) as well as private game reserve operators. This is severely reducing their ability to maintain anti-poaching and habitat protection work. It is also reducing the income and employment that local communities derive from tourism.
Medical team in New York earlier this year with a coronavirus patient. As a pandemic, COVID-19 has affected the entire planet. It's disastrous impact on national economies ranging from airline travel and banking to tourism worldwide is far from over. However, as scientists and health specialists warn, unless coordinated and effective longterm action is taken, we may well see more debilitating if not deadly virus outbreaks. Medical researchers increasingly believe that wildlife trafficking may also be linked. (Photo: UN)
For most local communities, such as towns and villages bordering parks and game reserves, however, the share in international tourism income is very low. This is often a source of anger and resentment amongst people living in wildlife areas. At the same time, what little they do derive can be important enough for their survival. All this has now evaporated, or is in the process of doing so. This is leading to impoverishment and the need to look for alternative ways of feeding their families.
Bushmeat, such as this crocodile and monkey, is an important source of protein and income for many Africans, but bushmeat-related activities have been linked to numerous EID outbreaks, such as Ebola, HIV, and SARS. (Photo: UN)
Traditionally in times of economic hardship and food shortages, rural communities have always fallen back on hunting game. Since colonial times, however, this has been designated as "poaching". Government responses have always been to impose fines and imprisonment. Another price for daring to hunt for food is the danger of being shot by Anti-Poaching Units (APUs).
In South Africa, wildlife tourism from abroad, including trophy hunting, has stopped dead with little prospect of resuming in the coming months. SANParks, which runs national parks, such as the world famous Kruger, has had to cancel all bookings, both existing and new ones. Small operators running safaris to Kruger and other wildlife parks or reserves are badly hit. They have little or no prospect of government support.
The Reuters news agency recently reported on the catastrophe facing one operator, Khimbini Hlongwane, who had invested his meagre savings in a new vehicle to take foreigners on tours of Kruger. His income had doubled in 2019, but he has lost all his bookings for this year and cannot afford to pay for the 21-seater outdoor tour bus. The agency also noted that a survey of 500 businesses in the areas adjacent to Kruger indicated that 90 per cent of them feared they would not survive the COVID tourism shutdown.
COVID-19 is affecting all aspects of Africa economies ranging from farming to tourism. Local communities are struggling for survival. (Photo: African Development Bank)
Will wildlife suffer as tourism falls away?
One of the serious concerns expressed by conservationists and tour operators with whom I've corresponded or who have told Western media outlets of their fears, is that the decline in tourism income for governments, wildlife departments and private reserves will mean that at some point they will be unable to mount viable anti-poaching operations. Nor will they be able to prevent incursions by impoverished local communities to hunt for food or gather firewood. Many, too, are being drawn into organized poaching by gangs (often linked to drugs and weapons trafficking according to INTERPOL) killing for ivory, rhino horn and lion skins or body parts. A major portion of this illegal trade is smuggled to Southeast Asia and China.
According to one East African operator specializing in wildlife tourism for over three decades, the direct involvement of local communities through jobs and other services, such as selling fresh vegetables to camps, is one way of ensuring effective conservation. "But the moment they are left out in the cold, they're going get into wildlife trafficking or poaching in order to survive. They have no other option," he said.
Wilderness Safaris Botswana Rhino Introduction Project. Tourism helps fund such initiatives to save African wildlife. The Botswana-based Wilderness Safaris company also employs 3,000 people plus operates anti-poaching units (APUs) on its private safari concessions in different southern African countries, plus Kenya. (Photo: Wilderness Safaris)
The Botswana-based Wilderness Safaris, which also operates in Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Rwanda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, employs 3,000 people and operates APUs on its private safari concessions. The presence of APU patrols and safari vehicles taking tourists on game drives, usually early morning and evening, help act as a deterrent to poachers. Wilderness has expressed the fear that poaching could increase as COVID brings game drives to a halt (drivers and guides can report any unusual activities) and reduces funding for patrols.
In South Africa, environment minister Barbara Creecy announced in July that over the first six months of 2020, mainly as a result of the lockdown, rhino poaching had fallen to 166 (compared with 316 in the same period of 2019). Between the start of lockdown on 27 March and the end of June only 46 rhino were poached, she said, none were killed in Kruger NP's intensive protection zone. She did warn, however, that there were signs that as COVID-19 restructions were eased, poaching had begun to accelerate. The concern is that as the loss of tourist income becomes more apparent, it will reduce anti-poaching funds. (See Global Geneva article on whether a legal horn trade can save rhinos)
The loss of tourist presence and its possible effects on anti-poaching capabilities is very worrying in Botswana's Okavango Delta. Rhino poaching has been a serious threat to the small populations of black rhino and white rhino, which were reintroduced by the Botswana government in cooperation with Wilderness. (See Global Geneva article on COVID's impact on rhino poaching) A staggering 46 rhinos were killed between May 2019 and March 2020. Botswana's Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP), Wilderness and groups like Rhinos Without Borders are now working to relocate the animals to small, tightly protected reserves. Since the end of March, however, six rhinos are reported to having been taken. The DWNP and its partners have also been dehorning rhinos in the Delta to make them less attractive targets for poachers, but even this is not necessarily a deterrant.
At least one dehorned rhino has been killed by poachers. Conservation sources have told the author that four white rhinos were "lost" during the dehorning operations. On Chief's Island, the main home in the Okavango for the rhinos, they could only find 11 rhinos out of an estimated population of 40-50. Overall, 105 rhinos have been dehorned and another 30 are being tracked. This suggests that a very small population remains compared to previous estimates of 200 white and 50 black rhinos.
One veteran conservationist in Botswana, Map Ives (founder of Rhino Conservation Botswana), has said that the poaching in 2019 and early this year has proven a calamity. But COVID could make it far worse. With fewer tourists or guides driving round the reserves, conservation efforts have lost "hundreds of sets of eyes and ears" in the delta. "I'm sure poachers know this – they watch these camps closely and see tourism activity." (See article on who is behind ivory trafficking in Africa)
Wilderness is also well aware of the economic effects of the virus on families of laid-off workers or local communities involved with tourism. Many are struggling to feed and clothe their families, Dr Neil Midlane, Wilderness Safaris Group's sustainability manager, maintained that "this desperation can easily, and understandably, force good people into poaching wildlife for meat and money." Companies such as Wilderness, which have had to reduce salaries or retrench workers during the shutdown, are trying to help those being pushed into poverty. But people wonder for how long.
There is a trenchant fear that a prolonged shutdown and the loss of tourism income will produce a highly negative long-term trend. Communities losing benefits also means a loss of tolerance for dangerous and destructive wildlife, including animals that attract tourists. People will resort out of sheer necessity to hunting for meat or wildlife products, such as ivory and horn.
Bushmeat for sale along roadside in West Africa. (Photo: UN)
Conservancies losing income
In Namibia, the virus has similarly wrecked tourism. It has cut income from foreign tourists to zero. This has in turn affected its community conservancies which had previously relied on such funding to manage their land by mixing pastoralism with wildlife tourism and safari hunting. These conservancies have worked well since independence in 1990 by enabling wildlife to recover, particularly desert-adapted elephants and lions as well as endangered black rhino.
Although the country's Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) says it is continuing anti-poached and habitat protection work, this loss represents a serious a long-term danger. Fortunately, some donors are stepping up. A glimmer of hope has come from a German government grant of £14.84m (19.49m USD) to support Namibian conservation tourism, much of which may go to conservancies.
Gail Thomson, writing on the Namibian Chamber of the Environment website, has warned that conservancy income will drop drastically. In 2018, conservancies generated N$61m (3.64m USD) in income and N$65m in salaries for conservancy residents through tourism and hunting. The loss of this income, Thomson says, "will likely result in many job losses among conservancy residents and severely hamper the conservancies' ability to pay their game guards". This could threaten the success rate of MEFT and conservancies, aided by the police, in reducing poaching.
Namibian Environment Minister Pohamba Shifeta announced in July that the country had seen a reduction in rhino poaching numbers from 78 in 2018 to 49 in 2019 and 17 so far this year. For elephants, the reduction was from 27 in 2018 to 13 in 2019. A note of caution is needed. In April, a month after lockdown, two rhinos were poached in the Purros conservancy in Kunene province, the first to be killed in the Kunene and Erongo regions for nearly three years.
Bushmeat poaching is one of the most serious threats facing wildlife in Africa today and may also contribute toward the spread of viruses. Lions are being increasingly hunted for meat or alive for other purposes. (Photo: UN)
COVID will test to breaking point conservation across Africa
Similar worrying narratives are emerging across Africa, as income from wildlife tourism falls. As APUs are more and more starved of funds, empty reserves stand out as an open target for both poachers and impoverished local communities. Rhinos are clearly at risk (horns are valued at 65,000 USD per kg on the illegal market) as are elephants, fungulates (hoofed mammals) for their meat and, increasingly, lions for their skins, claws, teeth and bones. (Lion bones and other parts are increasingly used as a substitute for highly-coveted tiger remains believed by some to have medicinal properties). There has been a reported spike in lion poaching in Botswana recently, with bones illegally smuggled from the Ghazi region into South Africa; young lions are also being trapped and sold live to dealers. (See Global Geneva article on lions in conflict)
The depletion of charismatic species, while often exaggerated in Western narratives of impending extinction, is a clear concern environmentally but also for the wildlife tourism industry in East and Southern Africa. Lose the animals and you lose the income. As COVID worsens, the threat can only increase.
As Peter Lindsay of the Lion Recovery Fund has warned, "Conservation in Africa is already critically under-funded, but the COVID-19 crisis is exacerbating this massively…Many people in Africa will suffer great hardship as a result." Elevated poverty and reduced food security, coupled with the influx of people from cities to their rural homes during lockdowns, he further noted, is likely to increase pressure on natural resources. Apart from poaching, Lindsay added, "we expect increases in other illegal activities such as logging, artisanal mining, and illegal livestock grazing in wildlife areas." (See article on Inger Andersen, head of UNEP, and sustainable development)
Rising worries about the effects of COVID-19 have been used by prominent scientists to urge that the effects of the pandemic be used as "an opportunity for a paradigm shift to more sustainable, equitable and inclusive conservation." Roe, Dickman and other conservationists urge that globally there should be a move towards greater engagement of local people in conservation decisions. These should include a devolution of rights over resources, more investment in resilient tourism approaches, and conservation approaches that are based on both local economic priorities and wildlife needs. These are important crisis recommendations that could help bring in much-needed reforms.
Fighting locust invasion in Ethiopia. The current pandemic is not only damaging tourism and wildlife conservation, but is also denying communities the revenue to counter other disasters. (Photo: UN)
While the continuing long-term effects of the current pandemic could damage the tourism industry and wildlife conservation beyond repair, it may still take many years to recover. However, there is another key issue that could prove even worse. This is the looming impact of so-called 'bush meat' and wildlife trafficking, including the smuggling of wildlife products across the globe, that could severely contribute toward the emergence of new incapacitating or deadly viruses. (See Global Geneva article on the possible sources of the worldwide COVID pandemic)
Possible sources for COVID-19, for example, are believed to have been bats, pangolins and other wild animals. (See article in Nature) African bushmeat, a catch-all description for hunted wildlife for food ranging from crocodiles and monkeys to snakes, cane rats and even chimpanzees and gorillas, is important protein and income sources for many Africans. But there are also serious potential health hazards. Bushmeat-related activities have been linked to numerous EID outbreaks, such as Ebola, HIV, and SARS. Suspected sources are also believed to be the wetmarkets with trafficked wildlife in China and other parts of the world. (See Global Geneva article
Some scientists and health specialists have been warning about this for decades, and yet they were ignored by most European, Asian and North American governments, some of whom severely cut their funding for anti-pandemic programmes. The fatalities and economic degradation currently caused by COVID-19, however, might be nothing compared to new environmentally-linked contagions.
Professor Keith Somerville is a member of the Durrell Institute of Conservation at the University of Kent, a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
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When did Ken Livingstone quit Labour, what has he said about Hitler and Zionism and who's accused him of anti-Semitism?
KEN Livingstone has finally quit Labour two years after being suspended over anti-Semitism claims.
What did Ken Livingstone say about Hitler and Zionism?
Ken Livingstone, claimed Nazi leader Adolf Hitler "supported Zionism" when he first came to power in 1930s Germany.
Speaking to BBC's Vanessa Feltz back in 2016, Livingstone said Hitler's support came "before he went mad and killed six million Jews".
At this time, Livingstone was defending then-newly elected Labour MP Naz Shah, after she re-posted a Facebook meme in 2014.
Ms Shah expressed regret for sharing the post which called for Israeli's to be relocated to the United States.
What did Ken Livingstone's resignation statement say?
After much consideration, I have decided to resign from the Labour Party.
I do not accept the allegation that I have brought the Labour Party into disrepute – nor that I am in any way guilty of anti-Semitism. I abhor antisemitism, I have fought it all my life and will continue to do so.
Under Labour's new General Secretary I am sure there will be rapid action to expel anyone who genuinely has antisemitic views.
I am loyal to the Labour party and to Jeremy Corbyn. However any further disciplinary action against me may drag on for months or even years, distracting attention from Jeremy's policies.
But Livingstone insisted her comments were "over the top and offensive", but not anti-Semitic.
Who has accused Ken Livingstone of anti-Semitism?
Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti slammed Livingstone for likening Jews escaping Nazis with Nazis themselves.
Baroness Chakrabarti said his comments had brought shame to the Labour party and he should be thrown out of the party forever.
She also claimed he had "aggravated" the situation earlier this month by claiming that Zionists "collaborated" with Hitler.
Baroness Chakrabarti, former director of the civil rights group Liberty, said it was "incredibly disappointing" that the party had not implemented all the recommendations in her 2016 report.
The former mayor of London got into a spat with Good Morning Britain presenters Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid over his views on September 5, 2018.
Livingstone stated: "I said that in the 1930s Hitler supported Zionism.
Morgan hit back: "When you say Hitler supported Zionism, if I'm a British Jew listening to a senior Labour politician as you were at the time saying that.
"I'm going 'hang on a second, what do you mean he supported Zionism'. He exterminated six million Jews."
Has Ken Livingstone come under fire before?
In 2006 a High Court judge said Livingstone made "unnecessarily offensive" and "indefensible" remarks when he likened a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard.
In February 2018 he sparked fury by appearing on Iranian TV on Holocaust Memorial Day to ask whether the genocide has been "exploited".
Livingstone reiterated that his claims about Hitler were historically accurate and that his suspension from the party was due to a "political struggle".


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The 2014 edition of the Clunkers Programme begins Tuesday for natural persons, with 17,000 available vouchers that are electronically allocated to dealers, and those who will scrap their old car will receive a bonus of RON 6,500 when they buy a new automobile, Environment minister Attila Korodi announced yesterday in a press conference. Applicants can go, starting today at 11.00 AM, and enter the programme at the dealers validated in the programme, in order to receive their vouchers. This year too, they will receive, besides the scrapping bonus of RON 6,500, an eco-bonus worth RON 500 for purchasing a new automobile conform to the Euro 6 pollution standards, the acquisition of a new vehicle whose engine generates carbon emissions under 100g/km and the purchase of a new automobile with hybrid propulsion system, but no more than two eco-bonuses can be cumulated.
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This is a list of people who have appeared on the postage stamps of Portugal

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 Adam, first man, according to the Bible (1998)
 Afonso I, king (1926; 1940; 1947; 1955; 2009)
 Afonso II, king (1955)
 Afonso III, king (1955)
 Afonso IV, king (1955)
 Afonso V, king (1994; 1996)
 Alfonso de Portugal, Grandmaster (2013)
 Joaquim Agostinho, cyclist (2005)
 Agrippina the Elder, Roman matron (1993)
 Albert I, prince of Monaco (1996)
 Matias de Albuquerque, colonial administrator (1928)
 , tenor (2001)
 Woody Allen, American filmmaker, actor and musician (2000)
 Brites de Almeida, heroine of Independence (1927)
 José de Almada Negreiros, painter (Self-Portrait 1993; 2005)
 António José de Almeida, politician (1979)
 Almeida Garrett, poet, playwright, novelist (1957; 1999)
 Nuno Álvares Pereira, general, saint (1926; 1928; 1931; 1933; 1949; 2009)
 Dino Alves , fashion designer (2004)
 Laura Alves, actress (1996)
 Manuel Alves , fashion designer (2004)
 Amélia de Orleães, queen (2005)
 José de Anchieta, missionary (1997)
 Angel of the Annunciation, archangel (1993)
 Carolina Beatriz Ângelo, feminist (2009)
 António de Lisboa, Franciscan saint (1895; 1931; 1933; 1981; 1995)
 , cartoonist (2005)
 , foundation president (1996)

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 Robert Baden-Powell, British general and founder of scouting (2007)
 Nuno Baltazar , fashion designer (2004)
 João de Barros, historian (1996)
 Bartolomeu dos Mártires, theologian and archbishop (1990)
 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (1976)
 Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, poet (1966)
 Miguel Bombarda, psychiatrist and politician (2001)
 João Domingos Bomtempo, composer (1974)
 José Bonifácio, Brazilian statesman (1972)
 Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, painter (2007)
 Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, artist, cartoonist (1992; 2005)
 Teófilo Braga, writer and politician (1979)
 Fernando II, Duke of Braganza, nobleman (1965)
 João Carlos de Bragança, nobleman (1980)
 Louis Braille, musician and inventor of braille (2009)
 João Branco , fashion designer (2004)
 João de Brito, missionary and saint (1948)
 Félix Avelar Brotero, botanist (1944)
 Luís Buchinho, fashion designer (2004)

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 Adelaide Cabete, physician and feminist (2009)
 Pedro Álvares Cabral, explorer (1945; 1969; 1992; 2000)
 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, explorer (1969; 1994)
 , bacteriologist (1966; 1999)
 Luís de Camões, poet (1898; 1911; 1924; 1972; 1980)
 Diogo Cão, explorer (1945; 1986; 1991)
 Bento de Jesus Caraça, mathematician (2001)
 Carlos I, king (1892–93; 1895–96; 1996)
 António Óscar Carmona, president  (1934; 1945; 1970)
 , cartoonist (2005)
 Rómulo de Carvalho, poet (2006)
 Camilo Castelo Branco, writer (1925; 1990)
 Álvaro de Castro, politician (1980)
 João de Castro, viceroy of India (1994)
 Ana de Castro Osório, feminist writer (2009)
 João Chagas, journalist and politician (1979)
 , cartoonist (2005)
 , physician (1999)
  journalist (1964)
 Christopher Columbus, explorer (1988 - Madeira, 1992)
 José Correia da Serra, naturalist (1966)
 João Vaz Corte-Real, navigator (ship shown on stamp, 1966)
 Jaime Cortesão, historian and politician (1980)
 Pêro da Covilhã, diplomat and explorer (1988)
 Afonso Costa, politician (1979)
 , sculptor (1971)
 Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz, priest, blessed (1960)
 Álvaro Cunhal, politician (2005)
 Marie Curie, Polish physicist and chemist (1998)

D

 Charles Darwin, English naturalist (2009)
 Humberto Delgado, air force general and politician (2006)
 João de Deus, poet (1996)
 Bartolomeu Dias, explorer (1945; 1992)
 Dinis I, king (1955; 1976; 1997)
 Walt Disney, American filmmaker, animator and entrepreneur (2001)
 , architect (1949)
 José Domingues dos Santos, politician (1980)
 Martinho de Dume, archbishop and saint (1953)

E

 Gil Eanes, explorer (1945; 1984; 1991)
 Eça de Queiroz, novelist (1995; 2000)
 António Egas Moniz, neurologist (1966; 1974; 1983; 1999)
 Albert Einstein, Swiss physicist (2000; 2005)
 Eleanor, queen (1958; 1985)
 , journalist and politician (1979)
 Elizabeth of Portugal, queen and saint (1958)
 Robert Esnault-Pelterie, French spaceflight theorist (1975)
 Florbela Espanca, poet (1994)
 Ricardo Espírito Santo, banker and philanthropist (2003)
 Eusébio, footballer (2005)

F
 Filipe Faísca, fashion designer (2004)
 , Galician count (1983)
 Pedro Fernandes de Queiroz, navigator (1994)
 , colonial liberator and governor (1968)
 Fernando, prince and saint (1949)
 Fernando I, king (1955)
 Fernando II, king of Aragon (1994)
 Fernando II, duke of Braganza (1965)
 Fernando IV, king of Castile (1997)
 , merchant and philanthropist (1993)
 José Maria Ferreira de Castro, writer (1998)
  (1853-1923), chemist (1956)
 Fialho de Almeida, writer (2007)
 Filipa de Lencastre, queen (1949)
 Francis of Assisi, Italian monk and saint (1982; 2009)
 Francisco Xavier, missionary (1952; 2006)
 , sculptor (1971)
 Luís Fróis, missionary (1997)

G

 Gabriel, archangel (1962; 1993)
 Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, aviator pioneer (1923; 1969; 1972)
 Vasco da Gama, explorer (1898; 1911; 1945; 1969; 1980; 1992; 1996; 1997; 1998)
 Ruy Roque Gameiro, sculptor (1971)
 , oncologist (1999)
 Robert H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (1975)
 Bento de Góis, missionary, explorer (1968)
 Damião de Góis, philosopher (1974; 2002)
 Guilherme Gomes Fernandes (1850-1902), firefighter (1953)
 Diogo Gomes, explorer (1991)
 Estêvão Gomes, cartographer and explorer (1993)
 Francisco Gomes Teixeira, mathematician (1952)
 José Manuel Gonçalves, fashion designer (2004)
 , patriot (1973)
 Joana de Gouveia, heroine of Independence (1928)
 Guerra Junqueiro, poet (1951)
 Guiomar de Sá Vilhena, landowner (1996 - Madeira)
 Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian oil pioneer, philanthropist, art collector (1965; 2006)
 Bartolomeu de Gusmão, inventor (1983)

H

 Paul Harris, American founder of Rotary Clubs (2005)
 Henrique, o Navegador, prince, patron of exploration (1894; 1935; 1949; 1960; 1994)
 Henrique de Borgonha, count of Portugal (1996)
 Alexandre Herculano, novelist and historian (1977)
 , cartoonist (2005)
 , singer (1996)
 Rowland Hill, English postal reformer (1940; 1990)
 , poet (2004)

I

 Innocent III, pope (2009)
 Isabel, queen of Portugal and saint (1958)
 Isabel de Portugal, Duchess  of Burgundy (1991)
 Roberto Ivens, explorer and colonial administrator (1998)

J

 James the Greater, apostle and patron saint of Spain (1984)
 Jesus, central figure of Christianity (1974; 1977; 1979; 1981; 1983; 1995; 2000)
 Joana, princess and blessed, called saint in Portugal (1953)
 João I, king (1926; 1983; 1949; 2004; 2007)
 João II, king (1981; 1992; 1994)
 João IV, king (1926; 1940; 1995; 2004)
 João VI, king (2008)
 João de Deus, saint (1950; 1995)
 John XXI, pope (1977)
 John Paul II, pope (1982; 2000)
 , hygienist (1966; 1999; 2008)
 José I, king (1969; 1995)
 Joseph, saint, husband of Mary (1974; 1977; 1979; 1981; 1983)

K

 Alfredo Keil, composer and painter (1990)
 Robert Koch, German physician (1982)

L

 , painter and cartoonist (2005)
 José Leite de Vasconcelos, ethnographer (1966)
 , medical historian (1966)
 José Leitão de Barros, film director (1996)
 Leonor de Avis, queen (1958; 1985)
 João de Lisboa, navigator (1993)
 Duarte Lobo, composer (1974)
 Carlos Lopes, long-distance runner and footballer (2005)
 Fátima Lopes, fashion designer (2004)
 Fernão Lopes, chronicler (1949; 1995)
 Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, poet and playwright (1990)
 , navigator (1994)
 Fernando Lopes-Graça, composer (2006)
 António Lopes Ribeiro, film director (1996)
 Ilse Losa, novelist (2013)
 Luís I, king (1862–64; 1866–67; 1867–70; 1870–76; 1879–90; 1880–81; 1882–83; 1884–87; 1884; 1892–1893; 1980; 1989; 2002)

M

 Bernardino Machado, president (2001)
 Fernão de Magalhães, explorer (1945; 1993)
 , journalist and statesman (1978)
 Ferdinand Magellan, explorer (1945; 1993)
 José Malhoa, painter (2005)
 Manuel I, king (1995; 1996)
 Manuel II, king (1910)
 João Abel Manta, cartoonist (2005)
 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor (2000)
 Maria I, queen (1997)
 Maria II, queen (1853; 1935; 1953; 2003)
 Mark the Evangelist, apostle (1993)
 Bernardo Marques, painter (painting shown 1998)
 Martinho de Dume, archbishop and saint (1953)
 Osvaldo Martins, fashion designer (2004)
 Jaime Martins Barata, painter (1999)
 Jacinta and Francisco Marto, siblings who saw visions of Mary (1992; 2000)
 Mary, saint, mother of Jesus (1946; 1950; 1956; 1967; 1974; 1977; 1979; 1981; 1983; 1993; 2000)
 Fernão Mendes Pinto, explorer (1980)
 Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian president (1973)
 , graphic artist (2006)
 Gonçalo Mendes da Maia, knight, military commander (1927)
 Michael, archangel (1993)
 Carolina Michaëlis, philologist (2001; 2009)
 , mathematician (2008)
 Jean Monnet, French statesman (1988)
 , politician, promoter of autonomy for the Azores (1995 - Azores)
 , politician, promoter of autonomy for the Azores (1995 - Azores)
 , fashion designer (2004)
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (1993; 2006)

N

 Natália Correia, poet (1996 - Azores)
 Vitorino Nemésio, poet (1999 - Azores, 2001)
 , football (soccer) enthusiast (2005)
 Manuel da Nóbrega, missionary (1954)
 José Norton de Matos, politician (1980; 1999)
 João da Nova, Galician explorer (1992)
 Pedro Nunes, mathematician and geographer (1978; 2002)

O

 Hermann Oberth, Romanian rocket scientist (1975)
 Manoel de Oliveira, film director (2008)
 Joaquim Pedro de Oliveira Martins, historian and politician (1994)
 Our Lady of Fátima (1950; 1967)
 Our Lady of the Conception (1946; 1997)

P

 Duarte Pacheco Pereira, explorer and cartographer (1993)
 Gualdim Pais, crusader, knight (1928)
 Passos Manuel, politician (1986)
 Vincent de Paul, French saint (1963)
 , cinema pioneer (1996)
 Pedro I, king (1955)
 Pedro IV, king, also emperor of Brazil as Pedro I (1972; 1984)
 Pedro V, king (1855–56; 1856–58; 1961; 2002)
 António Pedro, painter, writer, actor (2009)
 António Xavier Pereira Coutinho, botanist (1966)
 Soeiro Pereira Gomes, writer (2009)
 Bartolomeu Perestrelo, explorer (1990)
 Fernando Pessoa, poet (1975; 1985; 2000)
 Raul Maria Pereira , architect (2007)
 Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (1991)
 Philippa of Lancaster, queen (1949)
 , conspirator (1927)
 Manuel Pinto da Fonseca, Grandmaster (2013)
 Pius XII, pope (1951)
 Marquis of Pombal, statesman (1972; 1982; 1999)
 Marcos Portugal, composer (1974)
 Henrique Pousão, painter (2009)

Q
 Virgínia Quaresma, (1882-1973), journalist (2009)
 Antero de Quental, poet (1991)

R

 João das Regras, jurist (1927; 1949)
 José Régio, writer (2001)
 Pedro Reinel, cartographer (1985)
 José Relvas, politician (2008)
 Aquilino Ribeiro, novelist (1985)
 Pilar Ribeiro, mathematician (2011)
 , painter and engraver (1986)
 João Rodrigues Cabrilho, explorer (1969; 1994)
 José Rodrigues Miguéis, writer (2001)
 Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer (1993)

S

 Francisco Sá Carneiro, political leader (1990)
 Sacadura Cabral, aviator (1923; 1972)
 , fashion designer (2004)
 António de Oliveira Salazar, prime minister, dictator (1971)
  (known as "Sam"), cartoonist (his character Guarda Ricardo shown, 2005)
 José Saramago, novelist (1998)
 Luís Sanchez , fashion designer (2004)
 Sancho I, king (1955)
 Sancho II, king (1955)
 Sebastião Sanhudo, cartoonist (2005)
 , sculptor (1971)
 Lúcia Santos, nun who saw visions of Mary (1992)
 , physician and art historian (1999)
 Vasco Santana actor (1996)
 Sebastião I, king (1990)
 Carlos Seixas, composer (1974)
 António Sérgio, thinker and educator (1980)
 Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, explorer and colonial administrator (1980)
 José António Serrano (1851-1904), surgeon, anatomist (1966)
 , industrialist (2008)
 António Silva, film actor (1996)
 Agostinho da Silva, philosopher (2006)
 Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, footballer (2005)
 Manuel da Silva Passos, politician (1986)
 Diogo de Silves, explorer (1990)
 José Simões de Almeida (sobrinho) (1880-1950), sculptor (1971)
 Tomé de Sousa, governor-general of Brazil (1972)
 João de Sousa Carvalho, composer (1974)
 Emília de Sousa Costa (1877-1959), feminist, women's education advocate and author (2009)
 Aristides de Sousa Mendes, diplomat (1995)
 Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, painter (1987)
 Heinrich von Stephan, German postmaster general (1999)

T

 Manuel Teixeira Gomes, politician and writer (1980)
 António Teixeira Lopes, sculptor (1971)
 José António Tenente , fashion designer (2004)
 Teotónio, saint (1958)
 Teresa de Leão, countess of Portugal (1996)
 Luísa Todi, mezzo-soprano (1974)
 Miguel Torga, writer (2007)
 Nuno Tristão, explorer (1991)
 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (1975)

V
 Francisco Valença  (1882-1962), illustrator and cartoonist (2005)
 Luís Mendes de Vasconcellos, colonial governor and Grandmaster (2013)
 Tristão Vaz Teixeira, explorer (1990)
 Maria Veleda (1871-1955), feminist (2009)
 Gonçalo Velho, explorer (1945, 1989 - Azores)
 Cesário Verde, poet (1957)
 Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (1993)
 José Vianna da Motta, composer (1969)
 Gil Vicente, playwright (1937)
 Angelina Vidal, feminist writer (2009)
 António Vieira, missionary, writer and orator (1997; 2008)
 Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, painter (1996; 2008)
 Filipa de Vilhena, patriot (1926)
 António Manoel de Vilhena, Grandmaster (2013)
 , jazz musician (2009)
 Vímara Peres, count of Portugal (1995)
 Vincent of Saragossa, patron saint of Lisbon (1995)
 Virgin of the Annuciation (1993)

W

 Richard Wagner, German composer (1993)

Z

 João Gonçalves Zarco, explorer (1945; 1968; 1981; 1990)
 Zeno, saint (1962)

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I could not live without this bassinet. It's the best invention ever, I swear! My baby loves hers. She goes right to sleep and typically stays asleep all night. For some reason, the little night lights calm her when she's fussing. They come in super handy when it's dark and your trying to change a diaper and feed your baby. I love how it swivels so I don't have to get out of bed to put her down and she can sleep right next to me! It has a vibration setting and a white noise setting. It plays lullabies as well. The mattress is comfy and the cover is removable so you can wash it. I also love how I can push the side down to easily pick my baby up while I'm in bed. I would recommend this to anybody with a new baby! It's a lifesaver!
This is well-worth the price! It hovers over the side of the bed so you're basically co-sleeping with your baby; it swivels out of the way to make it easier for you to get out of bed or make the bed in the morning; the drop side is SO convenient for getting baby out and putting her back in after feedings; the low nightlight is perfect for checking on baby and the brighter one is great for peeking at baby while she eats ... This product is awesome!
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Q: How to set maximum connection axis camera? I use the AXIS P5532-E camera. I need more connections to cam. However, I get the error "503 service unavailable, the maximum number of clients are already connected".
Is it possible to increase the maximum number of connections to the camera?

A: Most likely it is not. According to the Axis FAQ it may be limited due to hardware limitations.

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Mehmed Baždarević, född den 28 september 1960 i Višegrad, Jugoslavien (nuvarande Bosnien och Hercegovina), är en jugoslavisk/bosnisk före detta fotbollsspelare som tog OS-brons med Jugoslavien vid de olympiska sommarspelen 1984 i Los Angeles.

Baždarević blev i december 2014 Bosnien och Hercegovinas förbundskapten i fotboll när han efterträdde Safet ''Pape'' Susic. Detta med uppgiften att leda sitt land till EM-slutspel 2016; något han dock misslyckades med efter att laget blivit utslaget i playoff-mötet med Irland. Efter det misslyckade kvalet till VM 2018 löpte Baždarević kontrakt med förbundet enligt gällande avtal ut.

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Baždarević på sports-reference.com

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Jugoslaviska fotbollsspelare
Jugoslaviska landslagsspelare i fotboll
Spelare i FK Željezničar Sarajevo
Spelare i FC Sochaux-Montbéliard
Spelare i Nîmes Olympique
Spelare i Jugoslaviska förstaligan i fotboll
Spelare i Ligue 1
Spelare i Ligue 2
Spelare i Europamästerskapet i fotboll för herrar 1984
Jugoslaviska olympiska bronsmedaljörer
Olympiska bronsmedaljörer 1984
Tävlande vid olympiska sommarspelen 1984 från Jugoslavien
Tävlande i fotboll vid olympiska sommarspelen 1984
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Födda 1960
Levande personer
Personer från Višegrad
Spelare i Étoile Carouge FC


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Watergate Is Now History
Shunning drama for depth, Stanley Kutler focuses on the facts
By Leonard Bushkoff Leonard Bushkoff is a freelance book reviewer specializing in history and politics.
I CONFESS to having opened this superb book with no great expectations. I had lived though the Watergate crisis, watching closely as the president's men were indicted, convicted, sentenced; as John Dean's plausibility gave way on television to John Ehrlichman's arrogance and Alexander Haig's slipperiness; as we heard ominous phrases like ``the Saturday Night Massacre'' and ``the smoking gun'' and - above all - ``What did the President know and when did he know it?'' What, I wondered, could another book tell me?
A great deal, I now realize. Not that Stanley Kutler brings us juicy tidbits or revelations. He is a sober, academic historian (University of Wisconsin), not a sensation-hunting popularizer. It is balance, breadth of vision, documentary research, historical context, and insight that Kutler provides - lucidly, gracefully, and far better than anyone before him.
So there is perspective in his pages: not only the obvious significance of the Vietnam War in spurring White House skulduggery, but also the intensely bitter, vengeful visions that possessed Richard Nixon - and Lyndon Johnson before him.
There is historical depth: not merely isolated remarks about, say, the Federalist Papers or the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, but a rich, precise understanding of the constitutional and judicial history in which Kutler has long specialized.
And there is lucidity: not simply a chronological narrative of events, of history as one thing after another, but a sense of proportion and periodization, of turning points and decisive moments.
Kutler tacitly demonstrates that, no matter what Nixon may have accomplished internationally, his leadership of the Watergate coverup constituted a direct attack on the Constitution and the rule of law on which the republic stands.
Hence this book should be regarded as the definitive reply to Nixon's attempts at rehabilitation, attempts that some Americans accept out of partisanship, moral/intellectual slovenliness, or indifference to the historical record.
Kutler demonstrates, however, that history is in us and around us. It surfaces whenever Nixon asserts again that Watergate was unimportant because neither graft nor bloodshed were involved; or that it was no worse than other political crimes such as the - as yet unproven - theft of Illinois for Kennedy by the Daley machine in 1960; or that it occurred only because Howard Hunt, Gordon Liddy, and other adventurers were poorly controlled by John Mitchell; or that it was blown out of all proportion by a ruthless Eastern establishment, out to get Nixon by any means and at all costs.
What actually happened? Unlike those writers who strive for drama by beginning with the break-in of June 1972, Kutler digs deep into background, into the various ``wars of Watergate,'' which, beginning under Lyndon Johnson in 1965, grew more destructive after Nixon's election in 1968, creating a battlefield atmosphere in a White House that knew no restraints.
Vietnam obviously came first, but there were also the no-holds-barred campaigns against the antiwar movement, the civil rights movement, the congressional opposition, and the mass media. Less obvious but hardly less vital, was the ``War of the FBI Succession,'' to determine who would succeed J. Edgar Hoover.
Finally, there was the war within Nixon's soul, between ``the good Nixon,'' striving for agreements in Vietnam, with China, and with the Soviet Union, and ``the bad Nixon,'' constantly musing to his confidants about retaliation, and indeed revenge, against all his American enemies, real or imagined.
The result was a painful irony: As the tumultuous '60s made civility, consensus, and healing ever more vital, the republic was saddled with two successive presidents - Johnson and Nixon - who epitomized suspiciousness, double-dealing, and lust for power. Certainly, Vietnam would have tried the most saintly of presidents. But both men embodied dark forces that divided the nation still further.
And these we find in Kutler's fascinating account of the White House coverup of 1972-73. It was orchestrated by John Dean but warily supervised - the data Kutler provides are convincing - by Nixon himself.
Here Kutler switches from the telescope to the microscope, using the White House tapes to convey the mood and actions of a conspiratorial band straight out of ``The Maltese Falcon.''
The language is all too similar - ``set up,'' ``fall guy,'' ``take the fall,'' ``twisting slowly in the wind'' - as all trust and cohesion vanished, and everyone scuttled for cover while Nixon searched frantically for someone (Mitchell? Ehrlichman?) to throw to the wolves.
It didn't work. The machinery of the law began focusing on Nixon himself from mid-1973 onward, a process Kutler describes with a clarity and precision that should appeal even to those who ordinarily find legal battles tedious and confusing.
Kutler is different: While not ignoring the importance of personalities or public opinion, he also has a firm grip on legal procedures and the key issues that help us define right and wrong.
In the final analysis, this book is about ethics, ends and means, and the dangers of an imperial presidency.
The republic owes Kutler a reward. It need not be elaborate: Americans need only to read him - and take his book seriously.
Tantalizing 'what if's' 40 years after Watergate
'Being Nixon' portrays a president divided against his better self
John W. Dean: shocked by 'blatant dishonesty, duplicity, and criminality' of Nixon tapes


Some operators are progressing from network functions virtualization (NFV) management and orchestration (MANO) trials to the launching of commercial services, according to a new report from Current Analysis.
While some of those commercial services are at the virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) levels of orchestration, some are at the virtual network function manager (VNFM) level and even the NFV orchestrator level, the analyst firm says. This is happening even though ETSI hasn't released final MANO specifications.
Current Analysis says that many vendors have strong MANO product portfolios. Plus, vendors are doing a good job of addressing interoperability despite not having final specs.
"Good NFV MANO is very important to getting the best out of NFV in terms of performance and agility," writes Current Analysis analyst David Snow, author of the report, in an email to SDxCentral.
Snow evaluated NFV MANO products from 10 vendors including Cisco, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Huawei, Nokia, and ZTE, and determined that NetCracker is leading the pack.
Specifically, Snow praises NetCracker for its Agile Virtualization Platform (AVP), noting that it can support the operator through many different stages of virtualization. He also notes that while NetCracker's platform is comprehensive, it may also be too "heavyweight" for smaller carriers.
Regarding Current Analysis' selection of vendors to evaluate, Snow says that all 10 firms are considered prominent players in the NFV MANO space and there are many companies that didn't make the list. He also believes this is an area ripe for consolidation. "The market will inevitably consolidate," he writes.
Asked about the two open source MANO initiatives launched earlier this year — Open Source MANO (OSM) and Open-Orchestrator Project (Open-O) — Snow says he believes open source represents a major cultural change for telecom operators. And he adds that truly open source development can only occur if there are multivendor contributions.
With more than one open source MANO initiative, Snow wonders if there is "too much of a good thing" happening.
OSM launched last February and is based on the OpenMANO work started by Telefónica about a year ago. It includes code contributed by Rift.io and Canonical, and the project is hosted by ETSI.
Open-O launched last March and is hosted by the Linux Foundation. Its founders include service providers China Mobile and China Telecom.
Further reading: What's the Difference Between Open-O & OSM?


Judy Baca in Conversation with Amalia Mesa-Bains Dec 2.
Judy Baca's "Balance" at CSUN Art Galleries for "The Great Wall of Los Angeles: Judith F. Baca's Experimentations in Collaboration and Concrete." The PST: LA/LA sponsored exhibition closes December 16. Baca and Amalia Mesa-Bains will talk about the "Collaboration and Concrete" at a free panel Saturday, December 2, at 2 p.m. My post on the show is up at LA Observed.
Fire is the element of potency. This ever-changing force can both destroy and create, to burn and to enlighten. The discovery of it by our ancestors has led our survival as a human race: to cook, to keep warm, and to see in the dark are all part of our discoveries of higher consciousness that places us above all other animals. It is no accident then that our affinity for this element seems incomprehensible. Jose Clemente Orozco might have tapped into this primal part of our psyche when he painted Prometheus at Pomona College in 1930, a politically-charged fresco depicting the mythical Greek Titan stealing fire from the Gods and giving it to the people. And what did the people do with this fire, both after Prometheus and after Orozco himself?
Mexican-born artist Adela Goldbard's ephemeral performance, A World of Laughter, A World of Fears, carried on the inquiry of our complicated relationship with this dualistic element of force through her retelling of an explosive and violent history of Mexico's student protests.
Staged at Pomona College, Goldbard set the stage with a recreation of her 2014 sculpture Microbus along with papier mache cacti, a sound recording component, and orchestrated pyrotechnics.
In a crowd of hundreds of students and faculty, the performance began with a night scene evocative of what one might find in the barren deserts of Mexico. Subtle recordings of protesters chanting in Spanish accompanied the arrival of Microbus onto the amphitheater-like stage. Progressively, the chanting grew more voluminous as recordings of helicopters and sirens amplified through the speakers.
A loud explosion inside Microbus took the crowd by surprise. Then, recordings of gunshots, screams, cries for mercy, and sobs that could only be associated with a kind of terror as instinctual and primal as fire itself. At one point over the audio someone shouted, "Puto," a Spanish expletive directed at whomever fired the shots.
As the recordings of gunfire progressed from single shots to continuous ammunition, the sounds of human voices dimmed until there were only the sounds of machines. Coordinated pyrotechnics accompanied the scene with each papier mache cactus exploding in fireworks and engulfing in flames, lighting up the silent night skies over Pomona College with the eerie remnants of ghostly black smoke.
Where would we be without fire? It is an element which destroys, yet through its flames we experience rebirth. Violence is an unpleasant subject of which to be reminded. What does a student protest that happened in Mexico, or elsewhere in the world, have anything to do with us here in the United States? When we can so easily turn our televisions on and off, ignore our social media feeds, and switch to news about entertainment, Goldbard leaves us all with a question to ponder: now that we have seen the light, what will we do with it?
Goldbard concluded her multi-media performance with another familiar recording: the Disney song, It's A Small World. What was just minutes before a noisy crowd of Pomona undergrads talking about soccer and which roommate was the most annoying was all but silenced as we listened to its lyrics.
Goldbard's use of this song at the end of the performance was no accident. It asks the question of "Why?" Is it sinister? Is it kind? Are we guided by a fantasy of a world that doesn't actually exist? Does our society care more about spectacle and entertainment than action to help our fellow man? Or is it something else altogether? Maybe A World of Laughter, A World of Fears returns us to the moments, as children, we realized that the world was actually not very nice.
"The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez," restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2016, was the closing night film of the fourth annual Cinema Culturas Film Festival held Sunday in Moreno Valley. Those in attendance witnessed a special moment as actors Pepe Serna, Tom Bower and Edward James Olmos joined director Robert Young for an intimate Q&A session by Dr. Carlos E. Cortés following the film.
Based on true events, the film's themes of family, police brutality, and the importance of language continue to resonate in today's social climate. The western, now beautifully restored, was released in 1982 and produced by American Playhouse. Originally shot in Super 16mm format and blown up to 35mm, the original materials presented a considerable technical challenge in restoring the print. The result is beautiful, crisp images transporting the audience through time and space to Gonzalez, Texas, in 1901 to witness the Texas Rangers on a manhunt for a killer, Gregorio Cortez.
When asked why Edward James Olmos wanted to work with director Robert Young, he noted what he learned about the director when they worked together on the film "Alambrista." "I was exposed to an aesthetic," recalls Olmos. "His aesthetic is so simple that when you say it people grasp it, but to try to do it is immensely difficult in art form. He doesn't gratuitize. He doesn't romanticize. He doesn't glamorize. He doesn't exploit."
Edward James Olmos, Robert Young, Tom Bower and Dr. Carlos E. Cortés.
EXTRA FOOTAGE: Randy Haberkamp (above), Managing Director of Preservation and Foundation Programs Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. About the Academy's Experience working with the Getty on the Pacific Standard Time LA/LA Initiative" "They've been a great partner. We wanted it to be all encompassing for the Academy because we have a library, we have an archive, we have an oral history program, we have public screenings, we have film preservation, and so all of those things are involved in our initiative here. We recorded 26 oral histories with filmmakers from all over Los Angeles and Latin America including Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and Mexico City. Everyone from Alfonso Cuarón and Edward James Olmos to Mexican directors who might not be as well known here whose work we are showcasing in the coming weeks. We have Lucrecia Martel coming from Argentina, we have Arturo Ripstein coming in from Mexico and more.
The audiences have been terrific. This is like a demographer's dream because I was seeing young people of all different colors, shapes and sizes and men and women. It's a different audience for the Academy to be reaching out to, which is why we're very happy to be involved.
We're restoring 'El Norte', which is going to be our closing film in the series. Needless to say that movie unfortunately is more timely than ever so it's very interesting for us to see another generation discovering those films."
at the Cinema Culturas Film Festival.
More on the Academy's upcoming screenings (tickets still available).
Sandra Eleta (Panamanian, b. 1942), "Edita (la del plumero), Panamá" (Edita [the one with the duster], Panama), 1977, from the series "La servidumbre (Servitude)" 1978-1979. Black and white photograph. 19 × 19 in. (48.3 × 48.3 cm). Courtesy of Galeria Arteconsult S.A., Panama. Artwork © the artist.
At "Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985" this photograph is hanging at the Hammer, "Edith (a del plumero) Panama," which translates to "Edith [the one with the duster] Panama." Artist and photographer Sandra Eleta tells the viewer what object to focus on: the feather duster, leading this defiance against being a symbol of domestic servitude.
The duster is now a regal scepter with an indigenous feather work crown.
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The 1977 photograph from Eleta's series "Servitude" is all informal pose changes the hierarchy of any social status. Her daring stare says this is not simply the fantasy of a domestic worker; she believes it and expects us to accept her authority.
Edita (la del plumero), Panamá in situ at the Hammer Museum.


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Lo sciarrano (Serranus scriba ), conosciuto anche con i nomi di sciarrano scrittura, boccaccia e buddace, è un pesce osseo marino appartenente alla famiglia Serranidae.

Distribuzione e habitat
Popola il Mar Mediterraneo, dove è molto comune, e il Mar Nero nonché la parte orientale dell'oceano Atlantico, dal golfo di Biscaglia alla Mauritania.

Predilige i fondali rocciosi e le praterie di Posidonia oceanica. È un pesce quasi esclusivamente costiero e, sebbene si conoscano catture a 200 metri di profondità, normalmente è raro incontrarlo sotto i 30.

Descrizione
Ha un aspetto simile a quello della perchia ma con il muso più appuntito, la fronte dritta e bocca leggermente più grande.

La livrea è variabile ma generalmente presenta un colore di fondo rossiccio o brunastro che diviene via via più chiaro sui fianchi e sul ventre dove è presente una caratteristica macchia di colore azzurro più o meno scuro. Sono presenti 5-7 fasce verticali brune accoppiate a due a due che non raggiungono il ventre. La coda ed il peduncolo caudale sono di colore giallo. Sulla parte superiore della testa e sulla gola sono presenti delle sottili linee azzurre e aranciate intrecciate che possono assomigliare ad una scrittura da cui il nome specifico scriba. Sulla testa sono presenti anche delle macchie rossastre.

Raggiunge 36 cm di lunghezza massima, normalmente si ferma a 25 cm.

Biologia

Comportamento
È una specie solitaria, spiccatamente territoriale. Difende con aggressività il proprio territorio dalle intrusioni di suoi conspecifici. Al contrario della perchia è un animale piuttosto diffidente. Quando è in procinto di attaccare una preda assume una caratteristica posizione obliqua con la testa rivolta in alto.

Riproduzione
È una specie ermafrodita, in cui uova e sperma arrivano a maturazione contemporaneamente, anche se non si ha mai l'autofecondazione. Le uova vengono deposte tra le rocce nei pressi delle coste nei mesi primaverili ed estivi.

Alimentazione
Si nutre prevalentemente di piccoli pesci (particolarmente latterini) e crostacei, occasionalmente anche di policheti e molluschi. Si nutre anche dei resti del pasto dei polpi: la sua presenza è quindi spesso indice della vicinanza di uno di essi.

Predatori
È predato fra gli altri dallo Scorfano rosso.

Pesca
Come la perchia si cattura molto spesso con tramagli e nasse e abbocca facilmente alle lenze innescate con esche animali di qualunque tipo, anche se predilige piccoli molluschi e piccoli vermi..

La carne è buona ma le piccole dimensioni fanno sì che non abbia un mercato specifico finendo nel misto di pesce di scoglio per la zuppa di pesce.

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Bibliografia
 Costa, F., 1991 Atlante dei pesci dei mari italiani. Gruppo Ugo Mursia Editore S.p.A. Milano, Italy. 438 p.
 Soljan, T., 1975 I pesci dell'Adriatico. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Verona, Italy.
 Smith, C.L., 1981 Serranidae. In: W. Fischer, G. Bianchi and W.B. Scott (eds.) FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes. Eastern Central Atlantic; fishing areas 34, 47 (in part). Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and FAO.
 Bauchot, M.-L., 1987 Poissons osseux. p. 891-1421. In: W. Fischer, M.L. Bauchot and M. Schneider (eds.) Fiches FAO d'identification pour les besoins de la pêche. (rev. 1). Méditerranée et mer Noire. Zone de pêche 37. Vol. II. Commission des Communautés Européennes and FAO, Rome.
 Arculeo, M., C. Froglia and S. Riggio. Food partitioning between Serranus scriba and Scorpaena porcus (Perciformes) on the infralittoral ground of the south Tyrrhenian Sea. Cybium, 1993; 17(3): 251-258.

Voci correlate

 Actinopterygii in Italia

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Collegamenti esterni

Serranidae
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Norris is charged with one count each possession of crack cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of contraband within the Adult Detention Center, carrying a dangerous weapon on his person and transporting a concealed handgun in a vehicle. Strine is charged with one count of possession of heroin, and four counts of possession of drug paraphernalia.
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So much fun and some great pics as well.
Looks like a great Santa to visit! Great pictures!
This looks like such a fun experience to meet Santa! I'll have to make a visit soon. Merry Christmas.
aww so cute love Santa photos with the kidos. Thanks for the contest giveaway on the other post and thanks for the chance.
I wish we had a mall like that near us. Ours is pretty small and most of the store have moved out.
That looks like such a fun way to see Santa!
This looks awesome! The Elf-Ray Vision and the Naughty or Nice Meters sound especially fun! I love that they collect donated toys too.


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Chrisis Michail (gr. Χρύσης Μιχαήλ, ur. 26 maja 1977 w Limassolu) − cypryjski piłkarz grający na pozycji defensywnego pomocnika.

Kariera klubowa
Karierę piłkarską Michail rozpoczął w klubie z rodzinnego Limassolu o nazwie AEL Limassol. W 1997 roku zadebiutował w jego barwach w pierwszej lidze cypryjskiej. Już w pierwszym sezonie stał się podstawowym zawodnikiem drużyny. W 2001 roku zajął z tym klubem 3. miejsce w lidze, a w 2002 roku powtórzył to osiągnięcie. W AEL grał przez 6 sezonów. Rozegrał dla niego 139 meczów, w których strzelił 22 gole.

Latem 2003 roku Michail został piłkarzem APOEL-u Nikozja. W APOEL-u, podobnie jak w AEL Limassol, stał się zawodnikiem wyjściowego składu. Już w pierwszym sezonie gry w tym stołecznym klubie wywalczył mistrzostwo Cypru, a latem 2004 wywalczył także Superpuchar Cypru. W 2006 roku został z APOEL-em zdobywcą Pucharu Cypru, W 2007 roku został po raz drugi mistrzem kraju, a w 2008 zdobył kolejny puchar krajowy, a następnie także superpuchar. W 2009 roku trzeci raz wywalczył z APOEL-em mistrzostwo ligi, a w 2011 roku - po raz czwarty.

Latem 2011 Michail przeszedł do Enosis Neon Paralimni.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
W reprezentacji Cypru Michail zadebiutował 15 sierpnia 2000 roku w zremisowanym 0:0 towarzyskim meczu z Albanią. W barwach kadry narodowej występował w eliminacjach do MŚ 2002, Euro 2004, MŚ 2006, Euro 2008 oraz do MŚ 2010.

Bibliografia
 Profil na stronie National Football Teams

Reprezentanci Cypru w piłce nożnej
Piłkarze AEL Limassol
Piłkarze APOEL FC
Piłkarze Enosisu Neon Paralimni
Trenerzy piłkarzy Olympiakosu Nikozja
Urodzeni w 1977
Ludzie urodzeni w Limassolu