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It Takes Two to Tango: Movie Surveys 50-Year Love Affair
The movie "Our Last Tango" is nothing like "Last Tango in Paris" but it is as bittersweet. Mark Beech reports.
This is a preview of an article appearing in the next print edition of DANTE magazine. The movie was released in the U.K. on September 21.
Tango, we all know, is one of the sexiest dances imaginable. But study it, and you see why it takes two people to tango completely in harmony. The passionate embrace needs to be intimate; heads together, almost kissing at times; eyes staring into eyes; limbs locked; postures perfect.
© Gabriela Malerba
It is the elegant tuxedo and suggestive sequined dress, split skirt and high heels. It is a seductively slow-slow-quick-quick-slow routine; the hands clasping the back; the loving embrace of languid romance then the rushed syncopated steps in exact synchronization; the swishing skirt for the spins, the sheer trust as she leans back in a sultry dip and is picked up like a feather by her partner. It is the accordion-like bandoneon backing, which wheezes between mournful longing and matadorial pomp. And always the mystery: is this a dance of love, does it celebrate their individuality or partnership; sweet surrender, proud goodbyes, or all of the above? And yes I said yes I will Yes.
To do it right, it often helps if the partners are close and harmonious in more ways than one. So imagine what happens if you have the same professional tango partner for decades – nearly 50 years in fact. You practice together incessantly; you are practically married. This is what happened to María Nieves and Juan Carlos Copes from Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires. They indeed fell in love and married. They became the most renowned tango dancers in their district, their city, country and the most notorious couple in tango's history. They made tango more famous. This is a hot, sweet love story that gets increasingly bitter and cold, surviving many ups and downs. Somehow they always came back together. Until…
Now imagine what happens when one partner walks away for good, finds a new wife and new dance partner.
This is the springboard for a biopic documentary, Our Last Tango, which touchingly brings the two together for one final tango for the cameras. Juan is now 86, María is 83. They open up about their lives, loves, hates and passion.
© Personal Archive María Nieves
María was born in 1934. As a child, money was tight. She improvised dolls out of soda bottles, with skirts from pieces of cloth. The film has a young actress playing her. Then the old star comes on set to emotionally recall her early years. Her father died and she began work as a maid aged 11. Shortly after, she started going to a "milonga" (a social club with dancing) with her older sister Niata. María was too young and only allowed to watch. She did this for years, learning all the moves by heart and going home to dance with her broom in the kitchen.
One of her sister's partners was electrical-engineering student Juan, born in 1931. At 17, he discovered the world of tango by accident. He went to a milonga with friends and was fascinated in the dance which had swept Paris in the 1930s. He went to a different milonga every night, where he asked any woman he could to dance. He said it was the only entertainment the working class could afford. This was tango's golden age, when it was the "diversion of the poor people".
Finally Niata moved away from tango because she found a husband. María took to the floor and was fast-footed and fluid. In an echo of Holden Caulfeld in The Catcher in the Rye, Juan says that in her "I found my Stradivarius." Soon after they became romantically involved. Starting with the Atlanta, they toured dance halls across Argentina. Their reputation grew and they were cheered even by rivals. Nobody was as swift, as elegant, as passionate – and they made it look effortless, As María says: "Never again will there be a tango double like this."
They won the national tango competition in 1951. Juan decided to drop his university studies to start an uncertain but exciting career as a dance professional. They saved up every peso they had to rent a theatre and stage a show of their own. A producer in the audience loved it and they toured South America and Europe.
Ayelén Álvarez Miño – © Gabriela Malerba
By the mid-1950s tango clubs were closing, eclipsed by the dance phenomenons of cumbia and rock 'n' roll. So in 1959 they arrived in America only with "a suitcase full of dreams" because tango was little known there. They struggled to survive. María was homesick but loved Juan, and all he cared about was the tango.
Juan was determined to make the show as eye-catching as possible and partly in desperation he had the zany idea of dancing on a tiny table-top – knowing it was dangerous and one wrong move would be disastrous. María was reluctant but this became their breakthrough and trademark. They performed at the Waldorf Astoria, with the composer Astor Piazzolla, and were on The Ed Sullivan Show and Broadway.
At María's insistence, they wed during a visit to Las Vegas in 1964 – and she says it was only later they discovered the marriage certificate is not valid in all countries. Soon after this, "things started to fall apart." They returned home, but then Juan was off on a world tour without her.
Alejandra Gutty – © Gabriela Malerba
Not for the last time, she was devastated. She fell in love with a man she met at a milonga. Juan returned after two years to look for her. They started to dance and live together once more. But Juan was by now drinking, partying all night and seeing other women. He confesses this almost cost him his life and he was near suicide – but he was saved by his second wife Miriam Albuaernez, 20 years his younger. Soon she was expecting their first child. This was a huge shock for María. (In the movie, the sadness in her eyes is still real as she talks about her own desire for children, as much as her smile is wide when talking about tango.)
This was a time of open hatred. They couldn't live with or without each other and finally got divorced after nine years. The two didn't even speak a word to each other and for two decades met only on stage. The stormy affair seemed to fuel their act, where they danced cheek-to-cheek like true lovebirds, staring into each other's eyes. Both were painfully aware of the ironic contrast between the public persona and the private reality of heartbreak.
They were the lead dancers in the acclaimed Tango Argentino, which became a successful show choreographed by Juan. In 1983 Claudio Segovia brought it to Paris, and later they were off to tour Asia.
At this point, Juan's wife told him not to come home if María was still his dance partner. He spoke to her at last to say it was over. She broke down and threw up in the Japanese dressing room. María, now more than 60, was depressed, and for years lost her pride and self- confidence before gathering courage to dance again with a part in the musical Tanguera in 2000.
Meanwhile Juan's career was going strong. He choreographed Tango, The Movie, and taught Lisa Minnelli among others. His shows featured other middle-aged couples who proudly flaunted their wrinkles. Even now he continues to dance regularly in a Buenos Aires show. He has two daughters, one of whom, Johanna, dances with him, as does his wife. María teaches, judges, and sometimes still dances, always getting a warm reception. She lives alone. They don't see each other and the film is one of their rare reunions.
Apart from dancing, the couple loved the cinema. They were fans of Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Gene Kelly. In the new movie, it is left to younger stars to reenact the couple's glory days. They are impressive and include Pablo Verón (The Tango Lesson). The highlight comes after María recalls that they saw Singing In the Rain five times. This is coupled with shots of the newer stars, who look a little like the younger María and Jose themselves, dancing a fractured tango on a rainy bridge. This impressive sequence's magic is broken with an unnecessary interview insert where the new dancers comment that they look like Gene Kelly and his partner too.
The 80-minute movie starts with Juan and María coming together for a last tango. They come from opposite sides of the screen, the only time we see them together. They are interviewed separately – sometimes by the younger actors, or talking to an unseen questioner off-screen.
The dance partners reunited
The action cuts back and fore between reconstructions and pieces in sepia. The director manages to find some archive material, faded press cuttings, torn photos and grainy film. More of their TV appearances would have been welcome. There is a lot of pathos, contemporary footage of streets at sunset and an acoustic guitar theme which is haunting in small doses.
The film is written and directed by Germán Kral, who left his hometown of Buenos Aires to study in Germany. He had been thinking of telling a general story about tango until he talked to María and spotted her poise and composure on the story she must have recounted many times. She has a lot to say for herself while Juan is rather more the strong, silent type (all subtitled), but much is in his thoughtful autobiography ¿Quien Me Quita Lo Bailado?
The size of Kral's name on the posters is matched by his former teacher at Munich Film School, executive producer Wim Wenders, known for Pina, Buena Vista Social Club, and Wings of Desire. The two worked together on A Trick of the Light and Kral's Música Cubana.
The film, shot in 2014, has been shown at festivals since 2015, including Toronto, Adelaide, Miami and the Berlinale. Its reverence of Tango is often touching: the dance is an alluring anguish and celebration, they say: "I was born to tango and I will die doing it." A beautifully passionate movie.
Rating: ****.
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What to expect in housing trends and traffic as north Austin and suburbs grow
April 20, 2019 By Marcia Mosley In Uncategorized	No Comments
Census numbers show the increase in residents to the Austin-Round Rock…
AUSTIN (KXAN) — New census numbers out Thursday show the Austin-Round Rock Metro has grown to more than 2.1 million people.
Explosive growth is fueling record home prices and creating gridlock on our roads, and how to deal with those growing pains, especially in north Austin, was discussed Thursday at Austin Business Journal's North Austin Growth Summit.
About 450 people – realtors, builders, employers and other stakeholders – heard from transportation, housing, real estate and recruitment experts.
Vaike O'Grady, Austin Regional Director at Metrostudy, said "feverish" describes well the current housing market.
"Everybody is building at a feverish pace, but also builders are a little bit queasy," she explained. "They're having trouble finding lots. In some cases, they're having trouble finding labor, and there's a lot of pressure on supply."
According to Metrostudy's first-quarter survey, O'Grady said the area near the Domain and just northwest of the shopping center saw virtually no new home activity within the last 12 months.
She said builders started constructing only 179 new homes.
But the market is booming in neighborhoods further up north.
After Apple announced it's investing $1 billion to grow its presence on Parmer Lane, O'Grady said, in ZIP codes 78717 and 78681, homebuilders reported a surge, nearly a 30 percent increase, in monthly new home contract rates.
Those ZIP codes cover the Avery Ranch area and Round Rock.
O'Grady then went on to explain, the Cedar Park, Leander and Liberty Hill area is seeing tremendous growth.
"The youngest millennials are now 25-years-old," she said. "So they are starting families. They're starting to establish themselves, and they are looking for good schools."
The Cedar Park and Leander submarket have 77 active subdivisions, according to Metrostudy, and thousands of new homes are being built in those suburbs.
The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority is looking at how all these people will get to the Domain, Apple's campus and downtown.
Executive Director Mike Heiligenstein said the 183 North project, which will add two toll lanes in each direction and improve the existing stretch between Mopac and SH 45, according to its website, will help.
He said, "Once we get those four lanes constructed that will bring people over from Parmer to 183 North because there are now people who divert to Parmer and divert to Loop 1."
Heiligenstein said it's going to take about three years to finish the 183 North project.
Developments to watch in north Austin
The Parmer Innovation Center is going up fast near I-35 between Parmer and Howard Lanes. It's leasing space to Facebook and several Fortune 500 companies. East Village is on Parmer Lane across from the Samsung Austin Semiconductor plant. Developers plan to add up to 2,200 apartments and 450 single-family homes, along with office buildings, three hotels, a grocery store, theater and amphitheater. Near The Domain, there are plans to redevelop Broadmoor on Burnet Road. Arena Tower could be a 19-story office tower on Burnet Road just south of Braker Lane.
Marcia Mosley

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The Toyota Fortuner is one of the most popular SUVs currently available in India. The massive size of the Fortuner and off-roading capabilities make it an SUV that has buyers lining up for it be it the regular Indian or powerful politicians. Let's take a look at the crazy ways (this is India after all) that people are using the Fortuner for.
The Toyota Fortuner is one of the most capable SUVs currently on sale in India when it comes to off-roading. With its four-wheel-drive set-up augmented by a low-ratio gearbox, the Fortuner can tackle almost any terrain. An example of this insane off-roading capability can be seen in the video above, where one owner decides to drift the Fortuner about on snow. The driver shows exceptional control as he makes the SUV dance on the snow, which is something that needs a whole lot of practice and exceptional car control skills.
The tractor is the go-to vehicle for Indian farmers as they can easily move through both soft and rough sections of the terrain with ease, thanks to the low-end torque output and massive tyres, which offer a big contact patch for better grip. However, many farmers, especially in Punjab, have been seen putting the Fortuner to use on their fields with a plough attached to the rear end.
Thanks to the 4WD traction and the low-end grunt, the Fortuner makes ploughing a field look easy, while also ensuring the person behind the wheel is as comfortable as possible.
The Toyota Fortuner has a braked towing capacity of 3,000 kilograms when equipped with the manual gearbox (auto is 2,800 kg), which means that it has been used to rescue vehicles from some rather unfortunate situations. The old Fortuner's 3.0-litre engine offered up 343 Nm of peak torque and this combined with the low-ratio gearbox allows it to pull out a school bus that had got badly stuck in a ditch on the side of a road out with absolute ease. The Fortuner has been seen pulling out even heavier vehicles like trucks out of such situations.
The Fortuner is known for its off-roading capabilities but with the massive amount of torque it has on offer, it is inevitable that some people have used it to pull off some rather insane burnouts as seen in the video above.
Lexus is Toyota's luxury marque and it comes as no surprise that many owners both here in India and abroad try and make their Fortuner's look like its more premium cousins. For those wanting that massive spindle grille seen on the Lexus LX SUVs, the only options seem to be aftermarket body kits as seen in the video above. The Fortuner seen in the video has been fitted with a widebody LX sport body kit from NKS, which transforms the Fortuner into an extremely cool copy of the Lexus LX. While this particular vehicle is in Vietnam, NKS kits have been seen on quite a few Fortuners in India as well and can be bought online.


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MaxGrip announces Cees Maaskant as CEO
September 13, 2019 - MaxGrip's shareholders approved the appointment of Cees Maaskant as the company's CEO. Former CEO Jakob Boelens will transfer to AVEVA as part of the acquisition of MaxGrip's software portfolio by AVEVA earlier this year. Cees Maaskant will lead MaxGrip into a new chapter in which the company specializes exclusively in Asset Performance Management (APM) consultancy.
Cees Maaskant has a well-established track record in leading successful consultancy practices. Before joining MaxGrip, he was the Managing Director of Balance, a Dutch consultancy firm that focuses on the management of complex projects in infrastructure, energy and the environment. Before that, Cees worked in executive positions at IBM and other companies.
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Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults is a 2004 psychology and sociology book on cults by Janja Lalich. It was published by University of California Press.

Lalich had previously studied Heaven's Gate and the Democratic Workers Party (DWP) for her doctoral dissertation titled "Bounded Choice: The Fusion of Personal Freedom and Self-Renunciation in Two Transcendent Groups", and that research was incorporated into the book.

Lalich's methodologies were influenced by the work of Anthony Giddens, Herbert Simon and Robert Lifton. Heaven's Gate, a UFO religion, was used as a model for analyzing the cult structure.

According to Rubina Ramji's review, Lalich identifies four structures to cults: charismatic authority, a transcendent belief system, systems of control, and systems of influence. They interlock to create "true believers" who end up in a state of "bounded choice" in the cult.

Reception
Marion Harmon wrote "Lalich's research culminated in a new theory to explain how the combination of ideology, social structure, and commitment constrains the choice of true believers."

Richard Erik Ocejo in Contemporary Sociology compliments Lalich's research as "extensive". He writes that her work avoids being a "quasi auto-ethnography" despite the DWP being fairly unknown to academia. Ocejo believes the work "demystifies the cultic group" and documents the "potential consequences (both positive and negative) for the individual and society as a whole".

Rubina Rumji in her review for Sociology of Religion argues the book is a good introduction to thought-reform for those unfamiliar with the academic study of new religious movements, but it adds little for those already familiar with the field. Rumji also argues that the book does not take into account the adherents of cults who leave the groups out of their own volition.

Thomas Robbins writes for Nova Religio the book leaves out interesting details about the DWP from her analysis, particularly the fact that the leaders were primarily women. He also believes that the book reads like a "demonology" or an "indictment" of the groups on top of an socio-psychological analysis.

Folklorist Elinor S. Levy thinks the book was interesting from a folkloric point of view; however, Levy believes that Lalich wanted to memoir about the DWP "but realized that the only acceptable academic approach would be analytic and comparative" to other groups.

Dennis Tourish for the journal Leadership compliments Lalich's contribution to the area of leadership studies, and he believes the book is "replete with potential avenues for further study by leadership scholars" interested in cults.

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External links
Using the Bounded Choice Model as an Analytical Tool, Janja Lalich, Ph.D., Cultic Studies Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2004

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Books by Janja Lalich
Psychology books
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A group of men meet every Friday morning for prayer in the church cafe. Come join us!
10:27 Family Day at the Lake – hanging out as a family at the lake for the day.
No evening services tonight at Highland!
Due to the threat of additional inclement weather, we will be cancelling all evening activities at HBC tonight.
Meeting after worship in the Fellowship Hall to go over 2018 opportunities and vision. Bring a Dish for 10 to share.


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Запорíзька Січ — проміжна залізнична станція 4-го класу Запорізької дирекції Придніпровської залізниці на електрифікованій лінії Апостолове — Запоріжжя між станціями Дніпробуд II (6 км) та імені Анатолія Алімова (5 км). Розташована у самому центрі найбільшого острова Хортиця на Дніпрі та лівому березі річки Старий Дніпро у Вознесенівському районі міста Запоріжжя. До складу станції, у парній горловині, входить пасажирський залізничний зупинний пункт Платформа 168 км.

Історія
Станція відкрита 1932 року, під час будівництва Дніпровської ГЕС. Таку назву станція отримала, на честь старовинного козацького поселення Січ — найвідоміша розташовувалася саме на цьому острові.

У 1935 році станція електрифікована постійним струмом (=3 кВ) — в складі однієї з найперших в Україні залізничних ліній на ділянці Довгинцеве — Запоріжжя.

У 1932 році побудований невеликий вокзал. Це прямокутна будівля з різнорівневими обсягами: одноповерховий зал чекання з квитковою касою, а також двоповерхова — зі службовими приміщеннями і кабінетом начальника станції. Унікальною будівлю робить його фасад, який облицьований рожевим вулканічним туфом, який був придбаний з Вірменії. Таким же каменем облицьована адміністративна будівля Дніпровської ГЕС. Розкішне оформлення вокзалу можна пояснити генеральним планом Запоріжжя 1949 року: на острові Хортиця планувалося велике селище з безліччю автошляхів і садами, а вокзал зі станцією завершували цю композицію. Під час Другої світової війни вокзал зазнав деякі руйнування, але вже до 1953 року він був повністю відновлений у первинному вигляді, в якому можна спостерігати його і понині.

Пасажирське сполучення
На станції Запорізька Січ зупиняються приміські електропоїзди сполученням Нікополь — Запоріжжя.

Біля станції розташована зупинка «Запорозька Січ» міських автобусних маршрутів № 10, 30, 36, 38, 39, 55, 58, 87, 91, 92, 96.

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 Розклад руху приміських електропоїздів по станції Запорізька Січ
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 Залізнична станція Запорізька Січ на сайті Вікімапія

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I am using a MacBook Pro Touch Bar with latest OSX. To it I connected two Vega 64 cards in an external Akito external GPU case. I am getting consistent hash rate of 1,100 H/s on each card mining Electroneum. I shoudl check on XMR as well, not sure if it will be the same.
Everything is stable, though, I would like to bump up the hashrate to what I see on Windows ~1900... will keep experimenting.
Unfortunately I doubt the Mac is going to reach the Windows mining speed as the AMD drivers aren't the same and Apple prefers Metal to OpenCL... maybe we'll get a Metal kernel someday though and see whether it can improve the situation! I'll try compiling xmr-stak 2.0 for amd though, it may improve things a little.
Cool! I also have NVIDIA external GPU up and running. Trying to get ccminer working, but unable to, will ask for help there. But if you are interested in getting LyraRev2 working, I am interested.
Is that with 2.1 and is it any improvement? Lyra2Rev2 has no GPU miners that work on macOS, the vertcoin devs say they 'might' look in to it when their official miner is closer to release.
Are the x2 vega 64's you're running in a single Akitio enclosure or in their own (dual)?
If the latter, would you know if you can run a triple setup?
do you have something for bctp- bitcoin private?


Note: Since its relaunch in October 2015, there hasn't been much activity around Wigify. The most recent reviews (which were from over a year ago) indicate that there hasn't been any support since the company was bought. Until I hear otherwise, it might be best to seek other Shopify affiliate software options.
Wigify is an affiliate management app for Shopify that was relaunched in Oct 2015 by Impact Digital. There is not much documentation about the software, and it appears from the reviews that the app has either been non-functional or support has been non-existent since the acquisition. Unfortunately I don't have much to base this breakdown or review on, so until I find out more information on what's going on with the app, it's probably best to seek other Shopify affiliate software options.
Wigify only offers a one-size-fits-all plan. You set the commission percentage you're willing to pay for each sale and then pay Wigify a fee equal to 20% of all affiliate payouts. For example, if your affiliate commission is 10% and they generate $1,000 in sales, then you pay the affiliate $100 and Wigify $20.
Limited: Fees are calculated by a flat percentage of commissions paid to affiliates.


Most sports fans have heard of HGH human growth hormone. Many people also have a false perception that causes them to associate it with cheating and/or steroid use.
HGH human growth hormone is a natural testosterone booster that is produced on its own and provides a variety of important benefits. It is naturally produced in the pituitary gland and plays a critical role in the regeneration of cells, growing and maintaining healthy human tissue, including the brain and other vital organs.
HGH remains active in the bloodstream for just enough time for the liver to convert it into growth factors. The most important of these growth factors is the insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1), which has growth promoting properties on every cell in the body.
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What are the 5 top benefits of HGH human growth hormone?
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Overweight individuals have a limited response to human growth hormone stimuli release. Growth hormone also accelerates lipolysis and impaired secretion of HGH human growth hormone leads to loss of the lipolytic effect.
Published studies have shown that those administered the growth hormone experienced a 1.6-fold loss in weight. The greatest weight loss was, particularly to visceral fat. Lean body mass was lost in those using the placebo group and increased in those taking human growth hormone. HGH human growth hormone has shown to serve a therapeutic role in helping overweight individuals lose weight.
HGH human growth hormone can improve the overall quality of life and sense of well-being in growth hormone deficient adults. Studies have investigated concentration, mood, and overall cognitive functioning when human growth hormone is administered. The 6-month extensive study showed a significant improvement in mood and overall cognitive function. This study suggests that human growth hormone can be a potential treatment to improve cognitive function and mood in those who are growth hormone deficient.
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A lack of sleep can alter the growth hormone release time. Individuals who go through sleep deprivation commonly have these issues.
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Massive alligator captured in Florida park: 'This may be the largest gator we've ever responded to'
A 13-foot alligator was captured in Shamrock Park. (Sarasota County Sheriff's Office)
Florida officers may have encountered a record-breaking gator.
A 13-foot alligator was captured in Shamrock Park in Venice, Fla., on Sunday, the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office said. The department wrote on Facebook that Animal Services Supervisor Carl Sellitti, Sgt. Tim Bauer and Deputy Rob Lowen were at the scene assisting until a trapper came to take the gator away.
"According to Supervisor Sellitti, who has been with SCSO for 20 years, this may be the largest gator we've ever responded to," the sheriff's office said.
It's unclear what events led to the gator's capture. The sheriff's office shared a photo of the giant reptile, which gained more than 2,200 reactions and 3,200 shares as of Monday afternoon.
The gator was captured in the same park where two German shepherds were attacked last week. One of the dogs died.
Susan Kosterman and Dr. Alan Knapp were walking their dogs, Rio and Lucy, when the dogs ran off while they were briefly off leash, Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported.
Knapp told officials he "heard one loud yelp from one of the dogs and he heard splashing and saw Rio take off into the water." Rio came out of the water "bleeding heavily."
The other German shepherd's body was never found.


Nintendo is continuing to release new info for Pokemon Sun and Moon leading up to its release later this year for the Nintendo 3DS. The newest trailer for the game highlights the six new Pokemon that gamers will be able to capture in the two new titles.
Game Informer picked up the story from a recent post by the official Pokemon channel, where they revealed the six Pokemon in a two minute trailer.
The first of the six is Wimpod, a crustacean inspired Pokemon that looks like a mix between an isopod and a copepod. The little critter is considered as a bug and water type, which is not surprising at all. This new Pokemon Sun and Moon entry has an ability called Wimp Out. I have no idea what this move actually does but it looks like the Wimpod literally just wimps out of a fight after taking a hard hit. I imagine this is more of a comedy Pokemon used for giggles more than effective team battles, but it may have some other abilities unbeknownst to gamers that will be revealed at a later time.
Next on the list is Bounsweet, a plant-like Pokemon that is actually a grass type. It has two abilities called Leaf guard and Oblivious. It reminds me of a smaller and less well armored version of a Bulbasaur.
Comfey is yet another new Pokemon added to the Sun and Moon mix. It looks like a season wreath with a flower sprite at one end. It's actually a fairy type with the ability to use Flower Veil and Trigge. Unfortunately we don't really get to see how well it can be utilized in a fight, and only see the animations for Flower Veil before the trailer moves on to the next Pokemon.
And speaking of the next Pokemon... the Sun and Moon trailer from Nintendo also introduced Mudsdale, which reminds me of a Jamaican Clydesdale horse. The Mudsdale is appropriately classified as a ground type Pokemon with the abilities Own Tempo and Stamina. It's actually a pretty cool Pokemon that could prove to be very effective in a lot of battles. When attacked it has the chance to automatically raise its stamina and give it some extra gusto when retaliating against foes.
Next on the list is Mimikyu, it looks like a Pikachu that was submitted to the psyche ward. This Pokemon is appropriately classified as a ghost and fairy type. It has the ability to disguise itself using the upper part of its body (the part that looks like a badly drawn Pikachu face). This could actually prove to be a very cool Pokemon when used properly in battle thanks to its decoy ability.
Bewear is the last on the list, looking like a bear cosplaying as Lucky Chloe from Tekken 7. The Bewear is a normal fighting type Pokemon, with the ability to use Fluffy to smash opponents into the ground.
The trailer rounds out by talking about the global tournaments, hyper training and a reminder that Pokemon Sun and Moon are both set to launch on November 18th for the Nintendo 3DS.


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The difference between Independents and other politicians
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Lacking the numbers to vote as a group, Independents align with a party.
by Jerrie South-DeRose
June 1, 2017 at 10:03 PM June 1, 2017 at 10:03 PM
Most Americans are confused about the role of Independents in the political process once they are elected. Independents lack the numbers to vote as a concentrated group so most voters don't believe voting for an Independent would make any difference in the end. Independent candidates who do get elected to public office caucus with the two primary political parties. Independent Bernie Sanders caucuses with Democrats and moderate Independent Angus King caucuses with Republicans. Independents do not always vote on the side of the party they caucus with and sometimes reach across the isle hoping for a compromise.
Other political figures, once they lose an election, may become Independent in an attempt to get back into public office without telling voters that in all actuality they are still partisan.
Most Independent candidates dislike Conservative and Liberal ideologies
Independent candidates, many of whom have more moderate views, are disgusted by the partisan war between the far left and the far right as to which party is more in tune with voters. Political Moderates are typically more open-minded and much more likely to compromise. Independents, for the most part, try to avoid partisan stances on most issues, and believe that common sense governance is long overdue, while millions of Americans are tired of the extremism of both established parties.
Americans who say they are Independent focus on candidates they believe best represent them and the issues of "all Americans." They believe Liberal Democratic and Conservative Republican ideologies have created huge divisions within society.
The American Independent Party is not representative of Independent voters and candidates
Oddly enough, when The American Independent Party was first established in Bakersfield, CA in 1967, the party's Manifesto read more like that of Conservative Republicans and included limited government, the rights of states to govern themselves with little federal interference, and the preservation of national sovereignty.
Sadly, most voters who consider themselves Independents do not realize that the American Independent Party is not truly moderate or independent.
The Republican party and the Religious Right increasingly incorporated the Independent Party Manifesto into their extreme right wing ideologies. The Independent Party ideology says that being independent means "freed from the lawless oppression of Liberal rule," yet there is absolutely nothing about being freed from conservative or religious rule. Like Conservative Republican ideology, the American Independent Party is strictly pro-life, and believes marriage should only be between a man and a woman. What is more disturbing is that the party platform stands on the premise that the Republic established by our Constitution is the greatest of all pro-life institutions.
Many state voting laws force voters to declare themselves Democrats or Republicans in elections
One thing that has come to anger voters -- especially voters under the age of forty -- is that many state laws require voters to register as either a Democrat or Republican in order to vote in local, state, and federal elections. The only time most Independent voters can vote for either party is on the presidential ticket. A large number of states also only allow voters who declare themselves Democrats or Republicans to vote in caucuses and primaries. The growing anger of Millennials, Moderates from both parties, Independents and some Republicans was apparent in 2016, when Independent candidate Bernie Sanders was snubbed by the Democratic Party, insulted, and made the butt of jokes by Conservative Republicans. That anger has not abated.
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The Saint Vincent Gallery presenting artwork by four Benedictine monks as its first exhibition of the 2015-16 academic year. "Monk-Artists of Saint Vincent" will include works in a variety of media and styles.
The featured artists are Father Vincent de Paul Crosby, O.S.B., Brother Mark Floreanini, O.S.B., Brother Etienne Huard, O.S.B., and Father Robert Keffer, O.S.B.
The exhibition continues through Sunday, October 4. Gallery hours are from 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays and at other times by appointment. The Gallery is closed on Mondays.
The Saint Vincent Gallery is located on the third floor of the Robert S. Carey Student Center, on the campus of Saint Vincent College in Latrobe.
Father Vincent, a native of Buffalo, is a 1962 graduate of the Buffalo Diocesan Preparatory Seminary. He received a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy in 1966 from Saint John Vianney Seminary and a master of divinity degree in 1972 from Saint Vincent Seminary. He did further studies at Tyler School of Art at Temple University, earning a bachelor of fine arts degree in 1974. That was followed by a year of independent art studies in Rome. Specializing in fabric art, he earned a master of fine arts degree from The Catholic University of America in 1976. He has been a member of the monastic community at Saint Vincent Archabbey since 1967 and was ordained a priest in 1972.
The Archabbey consultant for monastic environment and art, Father Vincent has lectured widely on art and the environment for worship and serves as liturgical consultant to churches that are undergoing renovation. He also works as an artist in the Archabbey community, specializing in the design and execution of vestments for the Liturgy, and has been director of the Archabbey Studios since 1991. His work has been commissioned by parishes, religious communities, organizations and individuals around the world, including His Holiness Pope Saint John Paul II. In addition, Father Vincent has created two sets of altar linens that will be used by His Holiness Pope Francis at each of the Masses he will be celebrating when he visits Philadelphia in September. Father Vincent has overseen the successful restoration and renovation of the Archabbey Basilica, the monastic refectory and, most recently, the Basilica Crypt. He is also coordinator of the Archabbey's ongoing renovations. He served as artistic consultant for construction of the Catholic Chapel at Penn State University in 2012 and as artistic consultant for the Mary, Mother of Mercy, Mausoleum Chapel at Saint Vincent Cemetery in 2013.
Brother Mark, a native of Alliance, Ohio, is a 1974 graduate of West Branch High School in Beloit, Ohio. He received an associate degree in fine art from Sinclair Community College in 1987. He earned a bachelor's degree in studio art from Saint Vincent College in 2001, a master of arts degree from Saint Vincent Seminary in 2003, and a master of fine arts degree from the Savannah College of Arts and Design in 2005. He has been a member of the monastic community at Saint Vincent Archabbey since 1997.
After completing his master of fine arts degree, Brother Mark was appointed to the Saint Vincent College Department of Visual Arts and is now a tenured faculty member. He creates stained glass windows, paints and works in various other media including spinning wool and crocheting. He began working for the monastery in stained glass in 1996 and founded Archabbey Stained Glass. He is a member of the Greensburg Art Center, Pittsburgh Fiber Arts Guild, and the Loyalhannon Spinning Guild.
Brother Etienne, of Conception Abbey, Missouri, is a graduate of Bishop Carroll Catholic High School in Wichita, Kansas. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Conception Seminary College in 2009. Brother Etienne's early interest in photography developed further while he was with Lawrence Photography in Wichita in 2003, working both in photographic sales and an on-site art gallery. Contact there with professional photographers and artists prompted him to pursue his own art and photographic studies. Brother Etienne entered Conception Abbey as a novice in August 2009 and took monastic vows in August 2010. He worked as Admissions Director for Conception Seminary College and assistant vocations director for Conception Abbey from 2010 through 2013. Brother Etienne began graduate theological studies at Saint Vincent Seminary in 2013; he is currently pursuing a masters of divinity and a masters of arts in systematic theology.
Father Robert, a Connellsville native, first studied art at the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, with an emphasis on painting. Years later he continued his art education at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, studying graphic design and advertising. He entered the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank in Sparta, Washington, in 1989 and was ordained a priest in 1995. He studied Biblical exogenesis and philosophy at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and the Angelicum in Rome, Italy. His monastic formation took place at the Abbey of Hauterive in Switzerland.
During his years as a Cistercian monk, Father Robert took workshops at the Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia with the internationally acclaimed portraitist Nelson Shanks and his team. He has had private lessons with Philip Salamone, a graduate of the Grand Central Academy in New York City, and Peggy Baumgaertner, a nationally known portraitist. Father Robert concentrates on oil painting utilizing traditional techniques, combined with nostalgic and surrealist subject matter. He currently has a small studio on the Saint Vincent campus where he paints in his free time. He has exhibited in Saint Vincent's Juried Catholic Art Competition and Exhibition and the Fred Rogers Juried Art Show. Most recently he has concentrated on allegorical portraiture. He is also working on a written presentation on the religious art of Salvador Dali that he hopes to present to the campus this fall. Father Robert works as a hospital chaplain at Excela Health Latrobe Hospital and as campus minister at Seton Hill University.
For more information, contact the Saint Vincent Gallery at 724-805-2197.
Photo: Father Vincent de Paul Crosby, O.S.B., Brother Mark Floreanini, O.S.B., Brother Etienne Huard, O.S.B., and Father Robert Keffer, O.S.B.
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BELFAST, Maine — Last summer, a battle over the budget raged for months in RSU 20, with antagonistic factions staking claims over the pros and cons of personnel and program cuts.
The budget failed twice at referendum vote before voters finally mustered the resolve to pass a $33.39 million plan that resulted in the communities having to raise an additional 10 percent in property taxes to support their schools.
This year, the board of directors in the eight-town district and Superintendent Brian Carpenter are trying a different strategy as the $35.5 million budget starts to make its way through the system. It reflects an increase of about 6.5 percent over the last budget.
The directors approved the proposed budget at the end of April, though directors Christopher Hyk of Belfast and Debra Riley of Northport both voted against it. The district also includes the communities of Belmont, Morrill, Searsmont, Searsport, Stockton Springs and Montville.
Carpenter said that the proposed budget for the next school year would cause another increase in tax assessments for schools — this time 7.3 percent for the communities, on average. It includes funds to pay for a nearly 10 percent increase in health insurance premiums and a 6.5 percent increase in property insurance. It does include reductions of about $421,000, after cutting money from the contingency fund and continuing a single bus run for students in Stockton Springs and Searsport.
Last summer's budgetary back-and-forth, as voters vacillated between making dramatic cuts to personnel and programs and putting all the money and more back in, was trying for the administrators, Carpenter said.
The school district is also struggling with decreasing numbers of students. Next year, 2,372 students are expected to attend the district's schools — down about 100 from this year.
Carpenter said that he would like people concerned about the cost of education to direct their questions to Augusta. The state has never met its voter-mandated mark of funding 55 percent of education. In RSU 20, the state funds a little less than 40 percent of the costs of education.
"If you want the programs and the education, you have to pay for it, because the state's not," he said.
Voters in the district are urged to look at the budget, which is available both online and at the superintendent's office, before coming to the public hearing on the proposed budget that has been scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, May 29, at Troy Howard Middle School in Belfast.
The budget can be accessed on the district's website at www.rsu20.org/home/budget-news.


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Postcard of the Natural History Building
ID: SIA2011-2277 (front) and SIA2011-2278 (back)
Creator: Capitol Souvenir Company
Form/Genre: Postcard
Date: c. 1937-1945
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 84, Folder: 25
Postcard of the Natural History Building, now the National Museum of Natural History, with its roof painted red, even though the dome is painted a gold color. The sky is blue with white and pink clouds. There are blue, yellow, and red cars parked in front of the museum. The message side is blank, but it has a printed note about the museum: "Facing the Smithsonian Institution Building on the opposite side of The Mall is the Natural History Building, U.S. National Museum, a four-story white granite structure built at a cost of $3,500,000. It contains the collections and laboratories of natural history, including biology, geology, ethnology, and archeology [sic], and also the National Collection of Fine Arts." The front of the postcard has a white border.
United States National Museum
Natural History Building
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
The Natural History Building, called the United States National Museum, opened to the public on March 17, 1910. The U.S. National Museum was first housed in what is now known as the Arts and Industries Building. The Natural History Building is now the National Museum of Natural History.
The postcard is numbered C-225: 83006. Produced by Capitol Souvenir Co., Inc., Washington, D.C.
This postcard is located in Accession #11-271, which is part of Record Unit 95.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 84, Folder: 25
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Museum buildings
Architecture--Washington (D.C.)
SIA2011-2277 (front) and SIA2011-2278 (back)
Number of Images: 2; Color: Color; Size: 5.5w x 3.5h; Type of Image: Postcard; Medium: Linen


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A: You can use the &lt and &gt like below
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I'm clubbing at The Beat, the 'gay club' in Fortitude Valley. The guy I'm dancing with snatches up one of my dreads, inspecting it like it's a dead spider skewered on a pin.
"Do you have cobwebs in your hair?" he asks.
His friend closes in and begins stroking my dreads, marveling at how rough they are.
Rather than the girl in the cute dress with the freshly washed dreads, I am the filthy insect who's landed on the birthday cake.
Like John Butler, who, sick of being labeled the "million dollar hippy", cut off his 13-year-old dreads, I was over being pigeonholed by society's assumptions. Wide-eyed children with pointing fingers stared at me, and when I smiled at them, they hid behind their mothers' legs. Adults on public transport were no better.
My dreads caught their eyes like a shiny disc on the ground. When I returned their gazes with a smile, they looked at me in disappointment or shock, as if they realised I was an old piece of foil, not a shiny coin. Only when the train filled at peak hour, did someone sit in stiff silence on the seat beside me.
I'm at work at the small delicatessen specialising in local and organic produce.
"So you're getting dreads, hey?" Jodie, my boss, asks me. Oops. Should I have checked whether it's cool with her before announcing my plans in a Facebook post?
She recalls an encounter she had while waiting at the Fortitude Valley train station."I was heavily pregnant at the time and carrying my one-year-old son in my arms. A woman approached me and asked where she could score." Jodie nods grimly at my outraged look.
"After that, I wasn't so in love with my dreads," she tells me. She cut them off soon after.
And she doesn't try to dispel any myths about how hygienic her hippy hair had been.
Last year, in an Indian hostel, twenty-three-year-old Tara chatted with her mother over Skype. After a while, her mother paused.
"And what have you done to your hair?" she trilled, voice jumping up and down like an indignant child.
"Err, surprise Mum! Dreadlocks!" Tara replied, smoothing her blonde dreads with her hands.
Mostly, Tara has positive reactions to her dreads, which are loose around her face and brush the bottom of her shoulder blades. Wearing a long skirt and toe rings, she smiles as she lists her 'hippy' traits. She avoids wearing shoes, is vegetarian, has dream catchers all over her house, and studies ecology.
Tara confesses she was drawn to dreads because they were outside the mainstream."I grew up in northern NSW. It's wall-to-wall hippies, so pretty much anything you do there is acceptable," she explains.
Despite her relaxed look, Tara works at a market research call center.
Still, Tara makes more of an effort to dress neatly for work now that she has dreads. She keeps a pair of sandals in her car for when she forgets to wear shoes to the office, which, she admits, is often.
Her work operates on an ability-based system, Tara explains, so she feels she would have got to where she is now, even if she'd had dreads from the start.
"Appearance doesn't have any bearing on how well you do your job," she says, smoothing her dreads away from her face. I'm curious about what Tara's boss thinks of her dreads.
"Oh god, he hates it so much!" she laughs, explaining her boss is critical of anyone who deviates from the norm. But he doesn't let his personal dislike of dreadlocks affect his professional dealings with her, she adds.
Tara remembers one time her boss commented on her appearance. She came to the office for a meeting wearing casual clothes and with her dreads loose. Her boss's eyes raked her up and down, fastening on her hair.
"The dreadlocks are out are they?" he said, eyebrows in his hairline.
"Hey, dreads are dreads," he replied, walking away before she could respond.
While Tara's superiors tolerate her look, all around the world dread discrimination is making news.
Last year in Oklahoma, a seven-year-old African American girl changed schools after she got in trouble for having dreadlocks. She was sent home in tears because she was 'violating a school policy' of the dress code, which referred to dreadlocks as an unacceptable, 'faddish' hairstyle.
I ask Tara for her message to the 'haters' who seek to eradicate dreadlocks from the public sphere.
Four years ago, Max was a teenager sitting on his computer chair proudly documenting the latest addition to his look: A dinosaur spine of matted hair in a strip along the top and back of his head.
Back then, when his dreads were mere babies, he looked like a cutesy anime character.
Now twenty, Max's dreads have grown into smooth, dark ropes that fall halfway down his back. "I'll show you the two Bulbasaurs," he grins, gripping two fat 'dreads' which did resemble the small toad Pokémon.
"I find it impossible to get ones to group together because they're rock hard now," he laments, fiddling with the loose ends.
"My dreads were carnivorous; the big ones always tried to eat the little ones," I smile.
"Like tree vines," he says with a goofy grin. I bet he's thinking of Bulbasaur's 'vine whip' attack.
Max says he doesn't notice outright intolerance towards his look, though he admits with a grin that he is 'pretty sketchy-looking'.
"I'm sure people have assumed I'm a stoner," he laughs, confessing that it's partly true. Max grows the odd marijuana plant in his basement, is vegan, and does informal web design work.
Yet fulfilling the typical stoner stereotype does not equate to being a bad guy. Max informs me he once rescued a fly trapped in a spider's web. I gently point out the futility of this exercise; the spider will catch another fly.
I tell Max about my uncle teasing me about having red-back spiders in my dreads. My uncle's prediction reminded me of Freaky Stories, a 90's TV show of cautionary tales for children. In one episode, a lady sprays her beehive hairdo into rock-solid perfection rather than bothering to style it every day. It eventually becomes so itchy that she has to shave her hair off to scratch. But when she does, she gets a nasty shock—a nest of spiders is living inside.
Did people actually see my dreads as spider-infested? Weren't my dreads cuddly Bulbasaurs like Max's? I ask Max what he wants 'dread haters' like my uncle to know.
With a cheeky grin, Bianca admits her tendency to emphasise her alternative look.
"Often I think 'society frowns on this, so I'm going to do it more!'" She throws me a mischievous grin.
When Bianca was done for possession, one of the policemen she dealt with was surprised to learn she studies at university, lives out of her parent's home, and works to support herself.
One of her greatest joys is surprising people who have pigeonholed her as a free-love, dole-bludger hippy. She also loves that because she's happy to talk to anyone, strangers surprise her all the time. She recounts going for a jog along the Kedron Brook bikeway during her stage of barefoot running. When her hair came out of its knot, her waist-length dreads whipped wildly behind her like a horse's mane. She didn't bother tying it up again. A man coming from the opposite direction fell off his bike when he twisted around to stare.
"You do realise why I fell off my bike, don't you? Don't often see someone like you," he teased her, dusting himself off. The pair got chatting and realised that they had a lot in common.
Thinking back on my conversations with Jodie, Tara, Max, and Bianca, the maxim 'don't judge a book by its cover' keeps popping into my head.
Many books' covers are graced with the image of the nuclear family with a dog and a white picket fence to boot. Inside, however, are punks, transgender people, Goths, hippies and every other 'alternative' group that makes you look twice. Some are exactly what you would expect them to be, but more often than not people are "different" in all the right ways.
I mark my place in the book with a dreadlock, a difference I cherish.


I have a round pinkish orange non-coated pill with 714 on one side and a capital M. What medication is this? ## This tablet is manufactured by Mylan Pharmaceuticals and they list it as containing 35mgs of Risedronate, which is used to treat osteoporosis. The NIH lists the typical side effects as possibly including nausea, dizziness, headache, aggravation of asthma, and joint aches. Is there anything else I can help with?
Are my body aches due to constant use of risofos35 (pain in soft tissues, hamstring and to some extant in bones of the leg.) ## Based on my research, Risofos (Risedronate) has a number of different side effects relating to bodily aches/pain: leg cramps dull, aching pain in the hips, groin, or thighs muscle spasms, twitching, or cramps back pain chest pain stomach pain weakness headache Most of these side effects however, are considered to be serious symptoms that you should report to your doctor immediately, upon seeking relief. You can learn more about this drug on the page for Risedronate Details I hope this info helps!
can we use this drug for the women having histotomy ## Well, one drug is a safe as any other, they all carry risks and are worse for some people than others, so no drug is really considered completely safe. In the U.S. this is sold under the trade name Actonel and is used to treat or prevent Osteoporosis and bone degeneration. I do not how safe it us to be used for women having a hysterectomy or how soon after surgery it could be used. The information available on it is here: Do you work in health care?
0093-7771 Risedronate Sodium 150 mg Oral Tablet, Film Coated by Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.
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Book Review: Kingdom of Strangers by Zoë Ferraris
June 17, 2012 / Julie Christine Johnson
Kingdom of Strangers: A Novel by Zoë Ferraris
There is a change in style and purpose in this third iteration of Zoë Ferraris's take on criminal investigation in the shifting cultural sands of Saudi Arabia. Kingdom of Strangers is the most straightforward crime novel of the three and regrettably, the least stirring.
Although this thriller can be read independently of Ferraris's << Nayir al-Sharqi #1 and #2, aka Finding Nouf and City of Veils >>, a familiar cast of characters creates the scenes. Here again is forensic technician Katya Hijazi, an ambitious young woman stifled by her culture. She is oppressed at work by male colleagues who can barely tolerate the shadowy presence of women in distant offices, much less consider them for advancement. She is engaged to the loving but pious desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi, who plays a secondary role in this novel. Katya is conflicted about her upcoming nuptials, as she fears marriage to a devout Muslim will mean the end to a career she loves. Her own connection to Islam is forced and arbitrary as she struggles against Saudi subjugation of women. We also catch glimpses of Osama Zahrani, but it is his brother and fellow police investigator, Ibrahim, who takes the helm in Kingdom of Strangers.
The brutal and symbolic handiwork of a serial killer is uncovered in the desert outside of Jeddah. The bodies of nineteen women, whose corpses span a decade, shake a police force which assumes serial killers are a phenomenon of the corrupt West.
As the investigation unfolds, Detective Ibrahim Zahrani becomes mired in a personal dilemma. His mistress, Sabria, has vanished. He must keep his search a secret as the crime of adultery is punishable by death. He trusts one colleague only – Katya Hijazi. Katya risks her career and impending marriage by helping this superior who holds her in high professional regard.
Ferraris has become a true master of the literary thriller; she devotes more energy to the details of the crimes and to the criminal investigation than in her two previous novels.The scenes set in Jeddah's Homicide unit and in the field are fascinating. We witness the machinations of the ambitious, the corrupt, the earnest and the fanatical, within the context an authoritarian culture dominated by religious strictures. The crimes and the investigation run with all the real-time urgency of the best television crime shows.
It is no surprise that the oppression of women in Saudi culture again dominates Ferraris's thriller. In Kingdom of Strangers the net of control is tossed wider as we learn of the brutal treatment of migrant workers – foreigners brought in from Africa, Southeast Asia and India as menial laborers. Many of these workers are in fact victims of human trafficking. The most vulnerable – the women – become slaves in the households of Saudi's wealthiest. Those who escape have no means, finanacial or diplomatic, to leave the country, so they form cities of slums underneath freeway underpasses, becoming Jeddah's "Kingdom of Strangers."
But in all honesty, this theme is getting to be a drag for this reader. Because the circumstances of their daily lives have not changed, there is little development in the characters of Katya and Nayir. The claustrophobic mores of Saudi Arabia are so intractable that they dominate every scene. The plot is weighed down by the impossibility of the stifling culture and rather than shocking, the oppression becomes monotonous.
I rate this highly because it is an excellent read, but I hope the Ferraris's literary world takes us out of Saudi Arabia. I remarked in my review of City of Veils that I feared the author would paint herself into a corner by pursuing the same themes and settings in each story. As sublime a writer as she is, the paintbrush is dripping.
Burqua, Human trafficking, Islam, Jeddah, Literary Thriller, Saudi Arabia, Zoë Ferraris
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On Saturday 24 November 2018, Substitute Provincial Grand Master, Brother Gordon McD. Heggie, attended with a Deputation from the Provincial Grand Lodge of Glasgow at Lodge Easterhouse, No. 1591. The occasion was the Lodge's Annual Installation of Office Bearers.
Brother Heggie was accompanied by Brother William Daly, Provincial Grand Inner Guard and Brother Ronald Davidson, a member of the Board of Stewards. The Provincial Deputation witnessed Brother Jack Taylor being installed as Master of the Lodge.
After the ceremony the Deputation were treated to some fine hospitality by the Master and Brethren of Lodge Easterhouse. They thoroughly enjoyed the day and our congratulations are extended to Brother Taylor and his Brethren.


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The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) is a business cycle indicator for the Swedish economy, produced by Swedbank in cooperation with Silf. The PMI is produced both for the manufacturing and the service sector. The aim of purchasing managers' index is to get a quick measure of the current state of the economy. Each month purchasing managers are surveyed and an index calculated. An index level above 50 indicates expansion, while an index level below 50 signals a contraction. The purchasing managers' index for the manufacturing sector is published on the first banking day of each month at 08:30, while the corresponding index for the service sector is published on the third banking day of each month at 08:30.
The PMI registered a marginal increase in March to 52.8 from 52.7 in February. This marks the second consecutive month that the index has risen, but in reality is more a sign that manufacturing activity has stabilized than that it has strengthened, says Jörgen Kennemar, who is responsible for analysis of the PMI at Swedbank.
The PMI rose to 52.5 in February from 51.7 in January after having fallen two months in a row. It is positive that manufacturing activity strengthened in February, though from low levels. But at the same time production plans have become less optimistic, indicating increased uncertainty about growth prospects going forward, says Jörgen Kennemar, who is responsible for analysis of the PMI at Swedbank.
The PMI fell in January to 51.5 from 51.8 in December, reaching the lowest level since February 2016. This means that manufacturing activity continued to slow in the first month of the year. The reason for increased caution going forward is the trend in new orders and order backlogs, which fell to the lowest level in three years, says Jörgen Kennemar, who is responsible for analysis of the PMI at Swedbank.
The PMI dropped in December to 52.0 from 55.4 in November, reaching the lowest level since the beginning of 2016. The December reading showed a broad decline and means that Swedish industrial activity lost momentum at the end of 2018, says Jörgen Kennemar, who is responsible for the analysis of the PMI at Swedbank. Monthly readings should be interpreted with caution, however, because of which the next months will be critical to where the economy is headed, Jörgen Kennemar notes.
The PMI rose in November to 56.7 from 55.0 in October, indicating a continued expansion in Swedish manufacturing. The outcome has to be seen as a show of strength against the backdrop of the lower PMI readings from the eurozone and other areas and the concerns about the global economy.
The PMI saw little change in October, falling 0.2 points to 55.0 compared with September. This means that the total index is still in the growth zone but at a lower level than the beginning of the year, signaling a slowing growth rate in the manufacturing sector.
The PMI rose to 55.2 in September from 52.5 in August and means that the manufacturing sector remains in the growth zone, though at lower levels than at the beginning of 2018. The PMI has trended downward since the beginning of the year but stabilized in the third quarter. The biggest contribution to the increase in the PMI in September came from the sub-indexes for new orders, employment and suppliers' delivery times.
The PMI fell to 52.5 in August from 57.4 in July. Despite the decline, the outcome supports a continued manufacturing expansion. The biggest negative contribution came from the sub-index for production, followed by the sub-index for new orders. The sub-indices for employment and delivery times also contributed negatively to the PMI. A three-month moving average for August fell to 54.7 from 55.8 in July. Individual months should be interpreted with caution.
The PMI rose to 57.4 in July, which is 3.2 points higher than in June. The outcome supports a continued expansion in manufacturing. The sub-index for production was clearly the biggest contributor to the PMI, followed by the sub-indexes for new orders and employment. The sub-index for suppliers' delivery times produced a marginal contribution. A three-month moving average for July rose to 55.8 from 54.8 in June. Individual months should be interpreted with caution.
The PMI fell to 54.2 in June from 55.8 in May. The outcome supports a continued expansion in manufacturing, however. The sub-index for new orders produced the biggest negative contribution to the PMI, followed by production and employment. Suppliers' delivery times positively contributed to the PMI. A three-month moving average for June fell to 54.8, which is 0.6 points lower than the corresponding average for May. Individual months should be interpreted with caution.
The PMI rose to 55.8 in May from 54.5 in April, rebounding after a two-month decline. The PMI consequently remains at a healthy level. The sub-index for new orders contributed the most to the increase, followed by employment. Inventories also contributed positively to the PMI, while suppliers' delivery times produced a slightly negative contribution. A three-month moving average for May was 55.4, which is 1.4 points lower than the previous average. Individual months should be interpreted with caution.
The PMI fell to 54.5 in April from 55.9 in March. This is the second month in a row that the PMI fell, but developments in the manufacturing sector remain expansionary. The sub-index for new orders contributed the most to the total decrease, followed by the sub-indexes for production and delivery times. Inventories and employment, on the other hand, contributed positively to the PMI. A three-month moving average for April was 56.8, which is 0.8 points lower than the previous average. Individual months should be interpreted with caution.
The PMI fell to 55.9 in March, down 4.0 points from February. Despite the decline, the reading indicates a continued expansion in manufacturing. The sub-index for production was the biggest negative contributor to the PMI, followed by the sub-indices for new orders and employment. A three-month moving average for the PMI registered 57.6, which was 1.5 points lower than in February. Individual months should be interpreted with caution.
The PMI rose to 59.9 in February from 57.0 in January, a gain of 2.9 points. The high number is an indication of the continued strength in manufacturing. The sub-index for new orders contributed the most to the increase, adding 2.0 points to the PMI. A three-month moving average for the PMI fell 1.1 points compared with January. Individual months should be interpreted with caution.


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Home Financial Markets Asia Hebei Construction Group Won Bid for Beijing-Dezhou Expressway Project
Hebei Construction Group Won Bid for Beijing-Dezhou Expressway Project
Link Xiong'an New Area with Beijing New Airport; Contract amounts approximately RMB1.19 billion
HONG KONG, CHINA – Media OutReach – 15 October 2019 – Hebei Construction Group Corporation Limited ("Hebei Construction Group" and its subsidiaries, together, the "Group", stock code: 1727) is pleased to announce that the Company received the letter of acceptance, stating that the Company has won the ZT2 bid section of main body construction project of Beijing-Hebei boundary to Jinshi Expressway section along Beijing New Airport – Dezhou Expressway (the "Project"). The contract amount of the Project is approximately RMB1.19 billion and the construction period is 19 months. The Project is expected to be completed in 2021.
The Project is located within the jurisdiction of Langfang City, Hebei Province, which starts from Beijing-Hebei boundary in the east of Jijiazhuang Village, Gu'an County, Langfang City, and links to Beijing section (the connecting line between the north and south terminals of the new airport) with the roadbed being 14 kilometers in length and the road surface being 14.4 kilometers in length. The Project is an integral part of Beijing-Dezhou Expressway. Upon completion, the Beijing-Dezhou Expressway will become the main expressway from Xiong'an New Area to Beijing new airport and an important link between Xiong'an New Area and southeast Hebei and western Shandong.
The Board believes that winning the bid for the Project demonstrates the Company's strong strength and leading position in the construction industry in Hebei Province and will create good opportunities for the Company to further expand its market and business, improve its profitability and realize cross-regional development.
Hebei Construction Group has laid a solid foundation in Hebei Province in its long history. Leveraging on its high quality construction engineering services and geographical advantages, the Group has played an important role in the construction of Beijing new airport and Xiong'an New Area. Being the only non-state-owned company to participate in the construction of key components of Beijing Daxing International Airport, the Group has accumulated contract value of more than RMB3 billion. The development potential of Hebei Xiong'an New Area will continue to be growth drivers of the Group.
Early this year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the State Council of China have approved the "Master Plan for the Hebei Xiong'an New Area 2018-2035″. On October 10, Xiong'an New Area released the "Notice for Transfer the Right to the Use of State-owned Construction Land of Xiong'an Business Service Center Project" 《雄安商務服務中心項目國有建設用地使用權出讓公告》in which land of construction projects will be supplied through public transfer of rights. This implies Xiong'an New Area has transformed from planning stage to full-scale construction. More infrastructure projects are expected to commence in full fledge in the future. As one of the leading non-state-owned construction enterprises in China, the largest non-state-owned construction enterprise in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and the largest construction enterprise in Hebei Province, the Group is expected to continue to benefit from the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and construction of Xiong'an New Area in the future.
Mr. LI Baozhong, Chairman and Executive Director of Hebei Construction Group, said, "Beijing new airport 'has caught the eye of the entire world and we are the only non-state-owned enterprise to participate in its construction. Winning the bid for the Beijing-Dezhou Expressway implies that we will participate in the construction of the main expressway from Xiong'an New Area to Beijing new airport as well. As a leading player in the construction industry of Hebei Province, we are set to embrace great development opportunities from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei strategic development zone and Xiong'an New Area. We will work closely with the government, financial institutions, central and state-owned enterprises and major property developers to actively explore mutually beneficial cooperation opportunities and create more value."
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Developing Learning Progressions in Support of the New Science Standards: A RAPID Workshop Series
by Aaron Rogat
The hypothetical learning progressions presented here are the products of the deliberations of two working groups of science education researchers, each group also including a state science curriculum supervisor, organized by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE),with support from the National Science Foundation. Their charge was to produce hypothetical learning progressions describing the pathways students might be expected to follow as they acquire deep understanding of two of the core learning goals set by the National Research Council's (NRC) Committee on a Conceptual Framework for the New K-12 Science Education Standards. The goals in question address students' understanding of the structure, properties, and transformations of matter in the physical sciences and of the flow of matter and energy in ecosystems in the life sciences. These two core goals were chosen because a good bit of research has been done on children's learning in these areas, some of it carried out by members of our working groups. These hypothetical learning progressions are intended to inform those who are working on the new national science standards, to serve as tools for those charged with developing curriculum and assessments to implement the new standards, and to encourage others to undertake the theoretical and empirical work needed to fill important gaps in our knowledge about learning progressions.
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Title: Developing Learning Progressions in Support of the New Science Standards: A RAPID Workshop Series
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This safari will introduce you to the super amazing country of Rwanda. You will visit mountain Gorillas, trek Golden monkeys in the volcanoes national park and enjoy the game drives which will avail you will many wildlife species in Akagera National Park, and you will also pay a visit to the Rwanda Genocide Memorial.
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This day, you will have an amazing adventure that waits you, have breakfast and then drive back to the mountains for a half day adventure with the golden monkey. After, you will then return to the hotel for your lunch and then participate in a community walk.
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 Spanish Synagogue (Prague)
 Spanish Synagogue (Venice)