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THE GRASS IS ALWAYS BROWNER
Australia has four times more land area than neighbouring Bhakaria, with only one tenth of the population. The author stretches forward the raw elements of Australian civilisation —territory, climate and resources - to 250 years in the future, relating them to the populations of the two nations.
The scene is set in Meannjin, an almost deserted and flooded Australian city. Most of the population has dispersed to self-sufficient rural communes after a century of wars over coal and famine. They are governed locally with only a tiny national government, headed by an Aboriginal dynasty.
Abajoe is Australia's Prime Minister. He has a rare genetic mutation for sharing. His Messianic vision is of devolved and diversified lifestyles, in a nation where science has priority over religion and politics. He predicts Australia's relationship with Bhakaria by experimenting with a genetically modified animal, the rossit.
The political situation is tense, as Abajoe strives to renew a moribund political party from within. His ban on immigration is opposed by his lover in a tempestuous romance. His ban is also opposed by his political adversary, who gains government, outlaws his party and plans for free immigration. He leads a resistance movement against the government, which is aligned with Yamism, a religion, in an epic struggle with a dramatic climax.'
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Author: Martin Knox
Martin Knox was born in England in 1946. He became a Chemical Engineer and later a Management Scientist, researching alternative models of Government planning.
He worked in the UK, Canada, the USA and Australia in nuclear, tar sands, petroleum, coal and coal-to-oil industries.
He settled in Australia with his family, and at age 40 became a high school Science and English teacher.
He wrote full-time for several years a published course in Senior Multi-strand Science and went on to teach it on-line to distance education students.
Outside writing, he is active in public decision-making on development, population, growth, water and resources issues.
Abajoe had cared for them all their lives and yet they did not trust him at all. Sudden death was in their future. A white doe poised for flight, whiskers twitching and pink eye scrutinising his upper half, above the stable door of the lounge. What could she see of him? Tall, skin the colour of old hay, black hair, straight flat nose. Was his stillness gathering menace? Taking no chances, she thumped her foot once on the concrete of the fifth floor. It set off an explosion. Scratching claws shrieked on concrete as bodies hurtled into corners with percussive thumps. He squinted with pain as he watched 40 rossits pile up against the breakfast bar, clawing to bury their heads in the heaving mass of furry white bodies, like children hiding.
On this day in 2237, there were water restrictions, as usual. The water supply could only be used for drinking, hygiene, cooking and growing food. Since the Great Famine in 2220, when he was aged four, getting food had been Australians' top priority. The family's meat rabbits had died from disease and he had become a vegetarian. As an adolescent, he was a great success at growing vegetables but he grew tired of vegetables day after day and longed for meat. He experimented with a new disease-resistant animal, the rossit, with success. Today, at 21, he was proud to be preparing Australians for survival. He demonstrated his methods every week on the Government's 'Family Fare' self-sufficiency show.
"In a famine, people have nothing to share," he told their national audience. "It's every family for themselves. Self-sufficiency should be a lifelong strategy. Start a vegetable garden and a rossit hutch now! They won't let you starve!"
A rossit looked like a rabbit with a marsupial pouch and long bushy tail. They had engineered it with a possum's immune system, which was resistant to endemic rabbit diseases, along with a possum's reproductive system. Too bad, he thought, that rabbit genes for mob flight were integral with the genes for sociality. They were needed for intensive rearing and therefore couldn't be knocked out.
He let himself into the room, crossed to the corner and gently pulled apart the struggling mass, body by body. His ministrations seemed to calm them and they nosed around for food in the sawdust on the floor. He left them eating the vegetable peelings he had brought.
Then he inspected the bedrooms. One of the young does had her white chin hairs streaked with blood. In her terror, she had scoffed all her hairless, pink, blind kindle, born that day. Angry, he went to grab her by the ears to pick her up cruelly. Then he told himself she had behaved naturally, recycling protein that might be lost. He lifted her gently, with his hand under her heavy belly and took her to the buck in the next room. He watched him sniff her rear, mount her and, as she yielded entry, thrust once, then fall back and to the side. The protein would regenerate. 'Would she link the mating act with kindling again in 31 days?' he mused. 'What did sex mean to her?'
The Yabras did not need to grow their own food. His mother, Transcending One, famed for her dreaming and meditation, had been elected for a third term as Prime Minister of Australia the previous year. His father was Deputy. They received modest salaries. Their family's food-growing activities were broadcast to the nation as a model of self-sufficiency in a weekly nutrition show, 'Family Fare'. The show was based on the hydroponic gardens, poultry and rossits they grew in Family Fare Tower, the 80-apartment building their family alone occupied. His father had been deeply affected when his first wife had to abort Abajoe's half-brother in the famine of 2196. Since then, he had made sure his family would always have water and food. Marko and T One had bought the vacant building for next to nothing and transformed it into a model of self-sufficiency.
Poultry were on the ground floor. The four units on Floor One were his, his adopted sister Paula's, his grandparents' and his great-grandmother's. Floors Two, Three and Four were horticultural gardens. On the fifth floor were rossits. The sixth was storage. There were 14 empty floors above – no one had rented a unit during his lifetime. There was no electricity for the lift, and when they ran short of solar power for the pump, he had to carry water up from the basement.
They grew vegetables with water brought from lakes dammed by the embankments along the river. They prevented the sea from submerging the Meannjin River floodplain. The salt concentration from the breach had been diluted by storm run-off water and was low enough for hydroponics.
Their crops were safe in the building. Abajoe knew from experience that if he planted vegetables in the bare spaces between blocks, people would steal the produce. Civil society was still in disarray from the Great Famine. He had been only four, but he could remember the lines of people, who had come begging for water from his father's supply company and how he had shared their supplies until they went hungry themselves. Then he had guarded the building from the starving. Now, with the encouragement of the 'Family Fare' shows, Australians no longer crowded into cities and most people had a healthy diet of home-grown food.
His grandparents, Zelta, the former Prime Minister and Hugo, an energy consultant, had moved in when T One and Marko moved out to the prime ministerial residence at the stadium. Abajoe's great-grandmother, Charlotte 141, had been living there since she relinquished the Prime-Ministership to her daughter, Zelta, in 2185 after the Coal Wars. Her husband, Winston, had died three years previously, aged 131. Average age at death in Australia had risen to 136 and was still rising, due to ascetic and healthy lifestyles since the renunciation of materialism.
Abajoe and his adopted sister, Paula, grew food for all of them. Paula's parents had died in the Great Famine and T One and Marko had brought her up as his sibling. Also 21, she had studied with him, tutored by Marko and the elders and now helped with the animals and gardens for the shows.
Their weekly routine was to demonstrate the growing of vegetables and rossits and to research issues for the Middle Way Party (MWP) with John and Peter. They came to his flat every afternoon. As the nation's most eligible bachelor, Abajoe attracted a large personal following. The statuesque Paula had a segment on growing poultry and fruits. She was very popular, and fans, who at first had little interest in self-sufficiency, kept chooks and planted trees through admiration for her.
"Why don't more young people get into self-sufficiency, Chook?" asked Abajoe, using her affectionate name.
"Go on, tell me," she replied.
"They ain't figuring on starving!" he laughed. "It won't happen to us!" he mimicked the fashionable speech and pose of a 16 year old, born since the last famine.
He and Paula also broadcast from the family's market garden plot in a former football stadium nearby. T One and Marko lived there, in the prime ministerial residence under the grandstand. They occupied several former press boxes and studios built for football hype, that were now used for his mother's participation in virtual meetings of the Parliament. Most of the time, they were away visiting places that had requested help from the national government.
T One was mostly involved in making sure only essential developments went ahead because her Government had been elected to bring in a non-material, spiritually diverse society. Sudarta, who led the Opposition, had a different idea of the future lifestyle for Australia – a return to materialism. Her party, the Progress Party, wanted Australia to join the South East Union, which would bring population growth, industrial development and free movement of people between countries.
"Growth must be stopped," T One told the media. "We can't feed any more people – the drought could worsen. We have to prevent another famine."
"Food can be brought from overseas," said a journalist.
"By then it's too late. Ships take two months to load and sail here, and another month for the little that isn't stolen to reach the interior. Hungry people don't last that long."
"So how are you going to get food to them soon enough?"
"People have to be self-sufficient. That's why 'Family Fare' has been our major strategy."
"What else are you aiming to do this term?" It was two years until the next election.
"We will deliver on our promises. Anti-discrimination. Devolution. Population and water control. Co-ordination of the councils."
"What about defence?"
"There is an old saying that people with resources need never lack friends," she said. "On the contrary, we have resources and never lack enemies. We need good friends, who will come to our aid. I believe that we should share our resources with kin, people who will share their's with us. We can help each other against enemies."
Besides his work as an actor on 'Family Fare', Abajoe was learning and helping in the family business of national leadership through the MWP. He had inherited the Yabra's propensity for inclusive leadership of opposed factions. His genetic make-up was extraordinary and his take on most situations was radical and inspirational. He had been elected Leader of the MWPs Youth Organisation.
He was preparing his keynote address to the Annual Youth Conference and had almost finished.
"Australia has four times more land area than our neighbour, Bhakaria, with only one tenth of the population. Our population of 50 million is therefore 40 times less dense. It is the least dense of any nation. This may not be a good thing. Bhakarians feel sorry for Australians, their lack of community and the emptiness of their social lives. Lifestyles are quite different, neither better nor worse – It's a matter of what you get used to.
"Energy resources are also unbalanced. Bhakaria was once the world's greatest coal exporter but their resources are nearing depletion. Australia's precisely-known measured and indicated coal resources are ten times that of Bhakaria, or 100 times more per person.
"Australia's other mineral resources are also much richer. Mineral assets are 20 times higher in value, or 200 times more per person. Compared with Bhakarians, Australians are obscenely wealthy in mineral resources.
"We do not have to feel lucky or greedy or selfish about these disparities. The Australian environment is harsh and unable to sustain much development. However, Bhakaria is campaigning for sanctions against us for not rejoining the South East Union. Our membership of the regional economic bloc would give Bhakaria unhindered access to Australia's coal and other mineral resources. Their development could be sustained long enough for high profits.
"Joining the SEU would allow people to move freely between Bhakaria and Australia. If Bhakarians immigrate in large numbers, the possibility of famine could increase. Bhakaria has a thriving material economy and high density living. The immigrants may see the solution to be industrial development. But Bhakaria has reliable rains and is able to feed its people using factory farming methods.
"But, Australians, who have experienced famine, reject industrial development and high density living because they were not able to obtain food in a drought and there was not enough water and energy for electricity production or for much industry or transport of supplies. Consequently, they have been reluctant to take on more mouths to feed and have been keeping the number of guest workers and immigrants to a minimum."
Abajoe wanted to finish off with discussion questions. If he could get people's attention to Australia's population problem without being too alarmist, the conference could be led to accept T One's policy of voluntary population control. Malthus, around 1800, had shown how demand for food would inevitably exceed supply but T One's Government was refuting this by population control that was 'voluntary'. He would have to be careful how he explained this: few people would accept the Government telling them how many kids they could have.
He had always been interested in ideas about Australia's ultimate population. Australia was almost down to zero growth. Reduced demand for material goods and services had been offset by a binge in purchasing personality and group-role development programmes.
People were buying experiences and technologies to develop exquisite and unique personalities esteemed within their diverse communities. For example, an Aborigine might follow tradition as one of a kangaroo tribe and learn their beliefs, didgeridoo music, dance and song, staying in costume and in role permanently. A person of European descent might train to become a conversation 'cat': cool, composed and soliciting those with resources. Creating experiences for these 'characters' to enjoy kept many people employed. Everyone had become their own work of art, with help from expert services and exotic technologies.
Because Australia's water and renewable energy resources were limited, the nation had a maxim of 'copulate and perish'. The birth rate was below the replacement level. Immigration had declined to a trickle. The reluctance to take migrants created friction with Bhakaria, where the population was increasing despite the Government's priority of voluntary birth control. If Sudarta were elected, she would allow population growth, material growth, mass markets, resources export and an open-door immigration policy. She would join the SEU and share Australia's resources with Bhakaria.
Abajoe had discussed this with his mother the previous week.
"Share? Why should we share with them?" the Prime Minister told him. "Property ownership is a sovereign right of our culture and also theirs. They don't really expect us to share with them. They think they have the right to come and help themselves."
"What evidence do you have for that?"
"They are demanding we join the SEU!"
"You are on that old yellow peril bandwagon!" said Abajoe. "Bhakarians wouldn't dare come here uninvited."
"They would if they ran out of resources."
"They should be able to get them from us without invading," he said in his soft, giving voice. "I believe in neighbourly sharing."
"Hmph! I know sharing is in your genes, but the reason it is rare and recessive is because it has a low survival value. If a person shares their resources, they don't survive. It's that simple."
"Not true. That is how our people survived droughts, by collaborating with kin. Collaboration is a survival strategy that has worked, through collectives. Humans have entered a new age of collectivity," he said smiling, as if it was self-evident.
"Collectivity? History is full of failed collectives." His mother's voice was sceptical, hard-edged.
"Unless we share, we may not survive. We could share our mineral resources with people, who would help us with food in a drought," he reasoned.
"It wouldn't work because people are inherently selfish. They wouldn't give us food when we need it."
"Indigenous people are not selfish…Why are you smiling like that? I'm serious."
"You're so like Arnhem, your great-grandfather. He was brought up in the tradition of always sharing with your kinfolk. With those beliefs, it was difficult for him to make it to the top in a dog-eat-dog world of national politics. He overcame racial barriers to sharing and brought the segregated races together in a collective. Then, under his leadership, Indigenous Australians chose to forego being top of the heap. Arnhem brought our peoples together as a united nation."
"He was a great man. Our family should take the lead again, in sharing with Bhakaria."
"What have they got that we want a share in?"
"Food, when we are in drought."
She thought for a moment.
"You may be right. Perhaps we should trade minerals for food. Can you bring me a policy proposal I can take to the Party?"
Abajoe was delighted. Their study group had discussed it and had a proposal ready. Now he needed the right words to end his speech. He dictated a closing paragraph into the memory of his communicator.
"Australia is out of step with her neighbours' free immigration policies. But if the flood gates were opened, would Australia be swamped? Would Australian culture survive? Would it create a racial schism preventing unity? To prevent famine, should we barter our minerals with the people next door, for food in an emergency? Or should we allow them in to help themselves?
"Those are some of the questions we need to address during this conference."
'There, that should nail it,' he thought. It would give participants plenty to talk about. He would like to have included a further question: 'Would Bhakaria be able to slow down their population growth as their resources ran out or would they obtain them from Australia?' He wasn't sure humans had ever voluntarily reduced demand as they reached the bottom of the resources barrel. With petroleum, they hadn't until after the collapse in world supply. Would hardship teach people to anticipate scarcity and moderate demand, even when costs were held down? Perhaps they would have as little anticipation of starvation now as before the famines.
He could test this with rossits. The role of environmental factors in controlling their reproduction might be similar to humans. Rossits raised in cages on pellets had artificially low costs of obtaining food. With abundant food, they could populate rapidly, reaching sexual maturity five months after conception.
He needed an answer to these questions: 'Will the rossits slow down their breeding and keep their numbers steady if I keep the food supply steady? Or will they suffer a famine cycle of starvation and death followed by overpopulating reproduction? Would any famine-averting learning take place?'
When he proposed the experiment to Paula, at first she was against it.
"How many can a pair breed to?" asked Paula.
"Under ideal conditions, one doe produces 7800 adults after a year and after two years more than 3,000,000,000."
"That's unbelievable!" said Paula. "What are these ideal conditions?"
"Plenty of food and space, with no disease or deaths, with an average of five female kits per kindle of 10, every 46 days."
"But humans control their own fertility," she objected, "with abstinence, withdrawal, hormones, prophylactics or abortions."
"So can rossits," he replied. "Rossits have possums' sixth sense of food availability. When conditions are bad they absorb foetuses, eject their babies from the pouch or cannibalise their kindle. These are three natural strategies, whereas humans have only artificial methods."
"There's also celibacy."
"That's unnatural."
"Ha-ha. It's a cruel experiment," she told him. "You could have rossits dying like flies from thirst or hunger. I really do not want to have anything to do with it. Isn't there any other way of doing an investigation? Why do you have to use rossits?"
"I can't do a controlled experiment on humans. Imagine the outcry if government food aid was withheld from a district, simply to see what would happen to population numbers. I could use mice or rats but they build up to plague proportions and migrate. I am more interested in capacity for voluntary population control. Rossits stay in their territories, like possums."
"But rossits aren't like humans. They're dumber."
"At talking, yes. But in self-control to avoid adversity, humans may be just as dumb. Take obesity. It can kill you but people are fatter than ever. Did you ever see an obese animal in the wild?"
"But rossits aren't wild. Domestication may have lost them their self-control. They reproduce irresponsibly."
"We are finding out whether self-control of reproduction is acquired and can adjust with the environment. If we get evidence, which refutes that reproduction is automatic in rossits, then if we assume that humans have at least as much self-control, we will be refuting that human sex is automatic. But without that evidence, human reproduction is out of couples' control."
"But setting up rossits to suffer droughts and famines is cruel."
"We need to study reproduction in a controlled setting. The conditions are those they could encounter in nature. Nature is hard but it is not cruel by intent. We will euthanize individuals that are in pain and the animals will have the same standards of care that are normal in ethical scientific experiments."
"Except that we will be deliberately creating hardship."
"Only if they would be bringing it on themselves by reproducing... We are studying reproduction under hardship. We can't get away from it."
"How will you limit their pain?"
"We will monitor loss of appetite, weight loss, dishevelled appearance, withdrawn behaviour and response to handler. If three or more of these are unsatisfactory, they will be euthanized."
"Okay," said Paula. "I don't like it but I can see how this data could be useful."
"So, we'll do it?"
They applied to Meannjin's Animal Representatives Committee. Although the rossit representative objected to their use at first, Abajoe showed that the conditions would simulate conditions in the wild to understand their reproduction. Rossits were the most suitable variant species. He obtained a committee majority approval for use of up to 5000 rossits per year.
He and Paula set up the experiment with a buck and a doe in each of two pens. The large pen was a lounge room and the other a bedroom with one quarter the area. There was a wall between them. He labelled the lounge 'Australia'. It would get green feed and one 20kg sack of pellets per week. The bedroom was 'Bhakaria', with a quarter of the area. It would get ten times more green stuff and ten sacks of pellets per week because of the ten times higher human population. Daily food quantities would be randomised in Australia but held constant in Bhakaria, reflecting the effects of the different climates. The rossits would be able to breed freely. Numbers and biomasses of the two populations were to be the dependent variables monitored.
"It isn't a perfect model of the situation," Abajoe admitted. "But it has the major factors."
"I wonder what we'll find out," Paula said.
"We may find that cognition and voluntary control of reproduction is more important than geobiology and innate sex drives," Abajoe mused.
"In which pen?"
"What if it shows Australia has too many people already?"
"We would need population control."
"That's unpopular. Who would take it on?"
"Someone with vision."
"Someone prepared for a fight."
"Someone with enough support."
"Someone like me," he groaned. "Would I have to do it?"
"Because you're a Yabra," said his sister. "It's your duty to your country."
He sighed. "I suppose it is. Okay. I'll do it. But hopefully it won't be necessary."


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CHATHAM CHORALE SINGS MOZART'S REQUIEM
100 Voices, Top Soloists, and Full Orchestra with Basset Horns Promise "A Concert to Remember"
Chatham, MA / October 31, 2014 – Chatham, MA / October 31, 2014 – For the first time in two decades, the Chatham Chorale will bring Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's celebrated and beloved Requiem to Cape audiences. The 100-plus singers, meticulously prepared by music director Joseph Marchio, will be joined by a full orchestra and stellar vocal soloists in a single not-to-be-missed performance on Sunday, November 16, at the acoustically superb auditorium of Mattacheese Middle School in West Yarmouth.
"This Requiem holds such a special place in the choral repertoire," says Marchio, "and I wanted to make sure we had the right forces assembled to do it the best style." Since taking the reins of the group four years ago, Marchio has worked to hone the unified sound and vocal technique the work calls for. He has also engaged top-flight instrumentalists from the Cape Symphony and Boston to play the timeless score—including the rarely heard parts for two basset horns.
What's a basset horn?
"Basically it's an oversize clarinet with a bend near the top and additional keys that give it an extended lower range and a darker, richer timbre than a standard clarinet," says Marchio. Mozart loved the sound of this instrument and used it in several important works—never more memorably than in the Requiem, where the basset horn solo that begins the first movement establishes the mood of the piece: "lyrical but melancholy, full of gravitas, sort of like a dark cloud approaching on the horizon." That darkness can be heard as foreshadowing Mozart's impending death; he left the Requiem not even half finished.
The first basset horn part in the Requiem will be played by Chester Brezniak on a basset horn owned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A noted wind player and instructor at UMass Boston and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Brezniak is the former principal clarinet of the Sao Paulo Symphony in Brazil. He notes that while Mozart exploited the instrument's low notes in other works, "in the Requiem, the basset horn parts are written quite high. This makes them technically challenging but imparts a sweet yet haunting quality, like a mezzo-soprano voice."
The solo vocal quartet for this Requiem is a distinguished group. Singing the exquisite soprano part is Rachele Schmiege, who has earned raves for her performances in both opera and concert settings; she was heard with the Chorale last May in the Cape Symphony concerts of the Verdi Requiem. Taking the mezzo role is Desiree Maira, who has appeared with the Chorale twice before, most recently in Haydn's "Lord Nelson" Mass last year. Maira performs widely in opera and oratorio repertoire and has taught at Boston Conservatory. Tenor Matthew White appears in oratorio and opera in the Boston area and Florida, his current home. Baritone Colin Levin, who recently joined the faculty of the Tanglewood Institute, also reunites with the Chorale after previous solo turns in Beethoven's Mass in C and Vaughan Williams's Dona Nobis Pacem.
More than any other classical work, Mozart's Requiem has become embedded in popular culture—especially since the 1989 hit film Amadeus portrayed the composer dictating one of its movements on his deathbed. We've heard bits and pieces of the score—especially the hair-raising "Dies irae" (Day of wrath) and the tender "Lachrymosa"—in more than 20 movies, from The Big Lebowski to X-Men 2. We remain fascinated by its mysterious origins—it was commissioned anonymously by the eccentric Count von Walsegg—as well as its almost miraculous completion by Franz Süssmayer, Mozart's relatively unknown contemporary. But it's on the strength of the glorious music that the Requiem ranks so high among favorite choral works for audiences and singers alike. Cape Cod rarely enjoys a performance like this one, Marchio promises, "done in the classic Mozartean style."
Marchio draws attention to the unusual orchestration Mozart used for the Requiem: "not just the basset horns, but he has three trombones and no flutes at all, very rare for the typical classical-era band. The whole effect he achieves is solemn and monumental but never depressing, always beautiful and even dance-like at times."
To kick off this all-Mozart program, soprano Rachele Schmiege and the orchestra will perform the composer's brilliantly virtuosic solo motet Exsultate, jubilate. Hailed for her "crystalline voice" and "absolutely thrilling" portrayals, Schmiege performs a wide range of repertoire throughout North America; she debuted at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2008.
Chatham Chorale is one of Cape Cod's longest-established choral ensembles, for 44 years presenting an annual concert series with programs ranging from choral masterworks to Broadway, pops stylings, and premieres of new works by regional composers. The Chorale also regularly collaborates with the Cape Cod Symphony—for example, in its upcoming program "Opera's Greatest Moments" and last season's Verdi Requiem—and sings in service to the community.


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False Flag comes to Canada
Sorry but this latest news report is absolutely ridiculous. MSN news is reporting "Canadian police say they have arrested two men and thwarted a plot to carry out a major terrorist attack on a Via passenger train in the Greater Toronto Area." Bullsh*t. It's like a bunch of kids who start telling a lie then get more and more absurd to try and get people to believe their lie.
This Canadian false flag arrest comes just as Parliament debates a bill that gives police the right to arrest people without a charge. Another Violation of the Charter of Rights I mentioned in my Ebook.
The investigation was part of a cross-border operation involving Canadian law enforcement agencies, (including CSIS) the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. There ya go. US bullsh*t crossing the border. Operation Northwoods was real. We need to discuss that. The Joint Chiefs of Staff who approved Operation Northwoods went to Europe and implemented the same plan in Operation Gladio. They didn't just talk about it, they actually did it.
Today's' case reminds us of the Toronto 18. No kidding. That was another ridiculous scam of entrapment. At least Canada hasn't killed innocent civilians yet. They just make up these ridiculous stories the US Homeland security feed them under the watchful eye of the CIA. Who as we know have a long history of drug trafficking.
Vic Toews is the one that said if we don't support his crime bill we support pedophiles. Then when the media pointed out his crime bill gave the police the authority to put people under surveillance who have not been accused of committing a crime he said he was surprised to find that out. Exactly. He didn't even read the bill. This is why we need to examine 9/11. If we let them get away with that, there's no end to the insanity they will keep pulling.
The RCMP send out a press release and the media run with it. What about Richard Barszczewski? He was that high ranking RCMP officer that pulled the plug on pressing charges against the Hells Angels when 2 and 1/2 tons of cocaine were seized in the Western Wind. Julian Sher reported "It would have been a success if not for Richard Barszczewski, says one Canadian police officer, noting it was Barszczewski who pulled the plug not once but twice on the operation."
Oh yeah, he's in Whiterock and won the lottery. Says he wants a summer cottage in Halifax with his buddies. Come to think of it, David Giles was the one implicated in that cocaine shipment. He's from Halifax. Skelletor was in court today to fix a date part of E-Predicate. The Hobo clown still hasn't made bail.
Richard Barszczewski was named in yet another RCMP sexual harassment case. Money talks and the bullsh*t never stops. What about Michael Riconosciuto? Keeping an unlawful secret is unlawful. A Noble Lie The Oklahoma City Bombing
Bo Grits Oklahoma City Bombing
Sadly, Justine Trudeau's Liberals are actually supporting the bill in defiance of his father's charter. The NDP are the only ones expressing a concern about the timing of the bill. They still might support it but they are expressing a concern about the timing. Why is it that the socialists in Canada are the only ones concerned about human rights and protecting the charter when the capitalists are not? I guess that's another misconception. Thomas Mulcair one, Justin Trudeau zero. Stephen Harper – go directly to jail.
deeperdarkness April 22, 2013 at 6:07 PM
The FBI is blatantly entrapping kids and creating supposed "terrorists" for us to fear by using undercover agents. The government is in control in most of these "terrorist plots" we hear about and we are never actually in danger, nor do these "terrorists" ever gain possession of something that is actually dangerous to anyones safety.
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-plot-against-occupy-20120926
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html?pagewanted=all
You may have seen this, but in my opinion is something kind of new for the mainstream news to report on...... http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/18/3349829/graham-fbi-report-raises-questions.html
Not going to get into whether what is in that article is correct or not, but kind of refreshing to see a mainstream news source acknowledge that 9/11 seems like a sketchy investigation.
Dennis Watson April 22, 2013 at 6:49 PM
My favorite is the car bomb weapon of mass destruction that had a toy clock for a timer: http://uk.reuters.com/article/slideshow?articleId=UKTRE6410CK20100504#a=16
That suspect was also connected to the CIA:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/times-square-bomber-linked-with-cia-controlled-terror-group.html
http://www.infowars.com/faisal-shahzad-portrait-of-a-patsy/
Dennis Watson April 22, 2013 at 10:28 PM
In fact, has there even been a terrorist that the CIA hasn't trained? I think if we stop letting them sell crack in public and cut off all that drug trafficking revenue, they won't have the budget to train all these terrorists and the world would be a much safer place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a36_CwzA0bk
Forex April 23, 2013 at 4:21 PM
RE: The Toronto 18
They police thought it was suspicious that some of those suspects were flying over - or near - the nuclear power plant. I believe it was in Pickering, Ontario.
The fact is that the airport they flew from is very close to the plant, they were not in restricted airspace and I would think that a popular attraction from the air would be a nuclear power plant - since it's so close to the airport.
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The Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest is a United States National Forest in the north-central Sandhills region of the U.S. state of Nebraska. The area of the national forest is . The forest is managed as part of the U.S. Forest Service's Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands, from ranger district offices in Halsey, Nebraska. The national forest is entirely within Cherry County, Nebraska.

History
In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt issued a proclamation establishing the Niobrara Forest Reserve, later the Niobrara Ranger District of the Nebraska National Forest. On October 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon designated the Niobrara Division the Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest after former Governor Samuel R. McKelvie.

Flora and fauna
The forest is a combination of prairie grasslands and pine forest "islands". Most of the existing forested sections were manmade, planted by hand over the past 75 years. The protein content of the native grasses is among the highest found anywhere in the world and numerous lease options are provided to local ranchers. Planted trees include eastern juniper, Scots pine and ponderosa pine which continues to need replanting as it is harvested but has also managed to spread throughout the region independently.

Indigenous wildlife such as pronghorn, white-tailed deer, mule deer, coyote and fox are plentiful. Of the 150 species of birds known to inhabit the forest, pheasant, grouse, hawk and wild turkey are the more commonly found.

Recreation
The forest has a small campground. Immediately to the south and east of the national forest is Merritt Reservoir, a dam on the Snake River. The reservoir is stocked with sport fish; it is considered one of the better fishing destinations in Nebraska. Merritt Reservoir is managed by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.

Management and additional lands
The Nebraska National Forest is managed by the Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands Supervisor's Office in Chadron. Additionally, this office manages the following public lands:
Nebraska National Forest
Buffalo Gap National Grassland
Fort Pierre National Grassland
Oglala National Grassland

See also

List of U.S. National Forests

References

External links
 Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest - Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands
 Cool State Parks: Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest

Protected areas established in 1971
Protected areas of Cherry County, Nebraska
National Forests of Nebraska
1971 establishments in Nebraska

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Hybocoptus dubius is een spinnensoort in de taxonomische indeling van de hangmatspinnen (Linyphiidae).

Het dier behoort tot het geslacht Hybocoptus. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1950 door J. Denis.

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Amaze-wing Facts About The Resplendent Quetzal For Kids
The resplendent quetzal (pharomachrus mocinno) definitely qualifies as the largest bird in the trogon family native to the Cloud Forest in Central America. Quetzals can be found from Chiapas, Mexico to western Panama. There are two subspecies of resplendent quetzal namely pharomachrus mocinno and pharomachrus mocinno costaricensis. They are an important part of Mesoamerican mythology. Pharomachrus mocinno is also the national bird of Guatemala. They are known for their colorful bodies. Most of which is green, but it is iridescent from green-gold to blue violet with red on their breasts. As the light hits their body, the quetzal's feathers can shine in various colors like green, yellow, or cobalt. Resplendent quetzals (pharomachrus mocinno) have green-colored tail plumes that cover and hide their tails. Males have particularly fabulous tails, which are longer than their bodies along with a crest that is shaped like a helmet. They used to have very thin skin that could be easily torn, but the species has now evolved a thick plumage to protect it.
They are found in montane cloud forests from southern Mexico to western Panama. They are known to be weak fliers. They can be found in vegetated ravines, open areas with scattered trees, and pastures in Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica. They are known to be arboreal and altricial, as well as non-migratory. Resplendent quetzal bird symbolism facts are even more interesting, which you'll get to know here. After reading these interesting resplendent quetzal facts, do check our other articles on the blue and yellow macaw and the great green macaw.
Resplendent Quetzal
Small frogs, insects, lizards, small frogs
2-3 eggs
6.30-7.40 oz
15-26 in
Iridescent green body, long tail feathers
Humans, ornate hawk eagles, golden eagle
Near Threatened
Tropical Moist Forests
Pharomachrus Mocinno
Trogonidae
Pharomachrus
Resplendent Quetzal Interesting Facts
What type of animal is a Resplendent Quetzal?
Resplendent quetzals are a type of bird found in the Central and South American regions. They are known for their beautiful iridescent plumage.
What class of animal does a Resplendent Quetzal belong to?
The resplendent quetzal belongs to the class of birds or Aves of the animal kingdom. Like all birds, they are oviparous and lay eggs.
How many Resplendent Quetzals are there in the world?
The population of resplendent quetzals is near threatened due to habitat loss and hunting for feathers and illegal trade. The numbers are said to be decreasing, which is a cause for concern.
Where does a Resplendent Quetzal live?
Resplendent quetzals are found in the cloud forest and montane forest of central America. They range from Southern Mexico to Panama. They are found in the countries of Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica.
What is a Resplendent Quetzal's habitat?
Resplendent quetzals are found in lush green vegetation or in very moist rainforest zones, or cloud forests, and live in a nest hole. They are found in the cloud forest and montane forests of Central and South America. They are high altitude birds often found in high mountain ranges from 4000 to 10,000 ft. They live in the canopied trees of the rainforest. A female resplendent quetzal also prefers inhabiting decaying trees, stumps, and old woodpecker hollows. They are loud birds that can camouflage themselves within their natural habitat of the rainforest. Quetzals are also found in the forests of Costa Rica and El Salvador.
Who do Resplendent Quetzals live with?
Resplendent quetzals are solitary birds and like to live alone. They gather in large numbers only on one tree during eating. They are found in pairs only during their mating seasons.
How long does a Resplendent Quetzal live?
Resplendent quetzals can live for up to 10 years. The species may not live for a longer duration due to illegal hunting for their feathers by trophy hunters. They are a near-threatened species of birds.
The breeding season for resplendent quetzals is from March to June. The male resplendent quetzal will perform courtship dances along with calls and loud singing to attract the females. They dig holes in a decaying tree's bark but do not fill it up with nesting materials like thatch or leaves. They simply deposit their eggs on bare floors. Resplendent quetzals are called hole-brooders due to this behavior. The male and female birds will dig these holes together. They nest 15-45 ft above ground and the holes are around 4.5in in diameter. After this, they will mate inside these chambers. The female will lay two pale blue eggs on the floor of these chambers, and the eggs hatch after the incubation period. Both the parents take turns, especially the female, incubating the eggs for a period of 17-18 days. They have separate times to take care of the eggs during this period. The females will brood during the midday and night, while the males will brood during late afternoons and early morning. The hatchlings will be naked with closed eyes and white egg teeth near the tip of their upper mandible. Their eyes will remain close for the first week, after which they will grow rapidly. Resplendent quetzals have fully covered bodies with feathers, with the exception of their head. The feathers are soft and pale. The hatchlings will look like their mothers during this period with muted tones of grey and dull greens. In the first week, the parents will feed them only insects. The parents will keep their nest extremely clean by disposing of any debris or waste. As the young ones reach two weeks of age, the parents will start feeding them fruits, frogs, lizards, snails, and other vertebrates. The young will remain in chambers under the care of their parents for three weeks. Then the male birds will teach them to fly by the third week. As they learn to fly more confidently, they will abandon their nests. The young will continue to spend time with their parents after this transition too. The male quetzals do not develop their magnificent plumes until they are three years of age.
The conservation status of resplendent quetzals is Near Threatened as per the IUCN Red List. However, in many countries, their habitats are being declared as protected areas as they are attractive species for birdwatchers and eco-tourists. The population of resplendent quetzals is near threatened due to habitat loss in cloud forests, hunting for feathers and illegal trade.
Resplendent Quetzal Fun Facts
What do Resplendent Quetzals look like?
Resplendent quetzals, as the name suggests, are beautifully colored birds, with red breasts. They are known for their colorful bodies. Most of which is green, but it is iridescent from green to gold or blue to violet with red on their breasts. As the light hits their body, the feathers can shine in a variety of colors such as cobalt, yellow, or ultramarine due to the presence of the melanin pigment. They have green-colored tail coverts which hide their tails. Males have particularly fabulous tails, which are longer than their bodies. The males also have a helmet-like crest. The bill, covered by filamentous feathers, is yellow in males and black in females. They have a strong beak which is short. They have olive-gray-colored feet with four toes on each foot. The resplendent quetzal female is more muted in tone than breeding males. Blue-green plumes cover their entire tail, which in some cases can be more than a meter long.
The young quetzals are not just cute, but they are outright beautiful with their brilliantly colored plumage and long tails in the males.
They are noisy birds. They can be heard during cloudy dawns and misty afternoons. They are usually quiet during sunny or windy days. Their songs are treble syllables. They have six specific calls which are recorded.
How big is a Resplendent Quetzal?
The resplendent quetzal is the largest creature among the trogon family. They grow up to 14-16 in long with tail streamers which are a length of 12 in. Some of the birds of this species have tails that are almost one meter long.
How fast can a Resplendent Quetzal fly?
Resplendent quetzals are weak fliers. These birds with colorful plumage are mostly sedentary birds that are found on the branches of trees.
How much does a Resplendent Quetzal weigh?
The resplendent quetzal weighs about 7.4 oz. These members of the trogon family are medium-sized birds with large tail streamers on the males.
The male and females of these species do not have a specific name. They are known as male resplendent quetzals and female resplendent quetzals. In terms of plumage, the males and females have a similar appearance but the females do not have the same red breast, long tails, and green crest as males.
What would you call a baby Resplendent Quetzal?
Baby resplendent quetzals do not have a specific name.
The adult quetzals are fruit eaters. However, they do eat insects like ants, wasps, and larvae, and small creatures like frogs and lizards. They are fond of wild avocados and other fruits of the laurel family. They will swallow the fruit whole and regurgitate the pit later. They feed during midday. They will use the method of hovering and stalling to select a fruit.
Are they dangerous?
Resplendent quetzals are not dangerous at all. In fact, they are an endangered species and need concentrated efforts to be protected.
They would make a very good pet provided you can give them the cloudy, misty high altitude, lush green habitat they prefer. Due to their flimsy skin, they do not do well in captivity, however, they are hunted for their feathers and illegal trades.
The bird is known to kill itself in captivity, which is why it is used as a symbol of true liberty.
When is Resplendent Quetzal mating season?
The breeding season for resplendent quetzals is from March to June. The males will perform courtship dances along with calls and loud singing to attract the females. They dig holes in a decaying tree's bark but do not fill it up with nesting materials like thatch or leaves. They simply deposit their eggs on bare floors. They are called hole-brooders due to this behavior. The male and female birds will dig these holes together. They nest 15-45 ft above ground and the holes are 4-4.5in in diameter. After this, they will mate inside these chambers. The female will lay two pale blue eggs on the floor of these chambers. Both the parents will take care of the eggs during the incubation period of 17-18 days.
Resplendent Quetzal symbolism facts
There are many symbolic facts associated with resplendent quetzals. Quetzals have a lot of significance in Mesoamerican mythology. Being the national bird of Guatemala, this species features on the flag and coat of arms of Guatemala. As a matter of fact, the currency of this country is also known as the Guatemalan quetzal.
Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly animal facts for everyone to discover! Learn more about some other birds including the California quail and the quetzal.
You can even occupy yourself at home by drawing one of our resplendent quetzal coloring pages.


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The dramatic descent from YouTube glory of CoverGirl's first male spokesperson James Charles
By Muri Assunção
In this file photo, James Charles attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Camp: Notes on Fashion" exhibition on Monday, May 6, 2019, in New York. (Charles Sykes/Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Easy, breezy, beautiful, OverGirl?
Beauty guru mogul James Charles, the YouTuber from Bethlehem, N.Y., who became the first male spokesperson for CoverGirl in 2016 , built his massively successful social media empire by posting video tutorials teaching his devoted fans how to achieve glitter, highlights and contour perfection, among other makeup techniques.
At the peak of his career, the openly gay 19-year-old internet personality, who's worth an estimated $12 million, had nearly 17 million subscribers. And he has some serious social media power to back it up: In January, a visit to a mall in Birmingham, Ala., brought the city to a standstill. Earlier this month, he attended the celebrity-certified Met Gala, among the crème de la crème of fashion elite.
But the world of E! People's Choice Awards' Beauty Influencer of 2018 started to crumble in spectacular fashion last week, after he got into a social media fight with his former friend and mentor Tati Westbrook.
Tati, 37, is a makeup artist, fellow YouTube personality and, until recently, one of Charles' BFFs. On Friday, following a friendship-shattering episode that happened at Coachella in April, she posted a 43-minute video accusing Charles of betrayal, backstabbing, shade, and even attempting to "trick a straight man into thinking he's gay, yet again." She was referring to an incident that happened at her birthday celebration.
"He's 19 and I'm afraid of him," she said in the video, which has been viewed nearly 44 million times.
Later that day an uncharacteristically un-glamorized Charles, wearing no makeup and a black hoodie, posted a video where he admits he's wronged Tati, and apologizes to her. "What sucks the most is that I know there's nothing I can say or do to ever earn that friendship or trust back," he said.
The apology wasn't as well-received as intended. By Wednesday morning, five days after it was posted, the video received over 2.8 million dislikes, and only 612,000 likes — cracking the top 10 most disliked videos in YouTube history, according to entertainment news site Dexerto.
Just three days after the vira-friendly feud, plus the influencers' selfie-style apologies, Charles lost nearly 3 million YouTube subscribers, while former-BFF-turned-hurt-ex-friend Tati has seen her subscriber count double to nearly 10 million followers.
Some savvy YouTubers are also profiting from the drama.
Several live-stream YouTube videos showing the rise and fall of the makeup divas turned into the equivalent of must-see-TV for the Instagram generation. One of them has been liked over 3,000 times in the first 11 hours of streaming.


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Li Nina (Liaoning, 10 januari 1983) (familienaam is Li) is een Chinese freestyleskiester die gespecialiseerd is in het onderdeel aerials.

In 2005 en 2007 won Li bij de wereldkampioenschappen goud op de aerials. Ook won ze bij de Olympische Winterspelen 2006 zilver, een prestatie die ze vier jaar later tijdens de Olympische Winterspelen 2010 herhaalde. In het seizoen 2004/2005 won Li Nina de algemene wereldbeker.

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Wereldkampioenschappen

Wereldbeker

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Mobile robots are increasingly being used for tasks like remote surveillance, sensing and maintenance. Some of these tasks are critical and require intelligent decision making for successful completion. It is not always possible to rely exclusively on robot level intelli- gence to make high impact decisions and hence human supervision is needed during task execution. To facilitate human-in-the-loop task servicing, the task executing robot is re- quired to remain connected to a remotely located human operator. However, robot communication range is typically limited and hence multiple mobile robots might be deployed to perform the tasks. These robots must coordinate with each other to dynamically form and maintain a communication link such that network connectivity exists between the robot servicing the task and the human operator positioned at a sta- tionary base station. The development of connectivity aware coordination algorithms is complex due to limited communication range and presence of obstacles in the search region. In this thesis, we present a distributed multi-robot algorithm for task servicing with human-in-the-loop con- straint. Robot control and mission execution is independent of the human operator and is fully autonomous. The algorithm facilitates indirect collaboration amongst the robotic agents and uses a combination of graph theoretic and gradient descent based approaches for path planning. Robots exercise independent decision making on task and role assign- ment by following a self allocation strategy. This allows dynamic task reassignments and role exchanges amongst the agents based on increased situational awareness. Our solution successfully implements obstacle avoidance and deadlock resolution while being scalable and robust to network and robot failures. To substantiate the claims, we present results from extensive simulations.


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Updated 26 May, 2018 - 14:00 ancient-origins
The Dead Tell Us of a Diverse Londinium
Rebecca Redfern /The Conversation
Our knowledge about the people who lived in Roman Britain has undergone a sea change over the past decade. New research has rubbished our perception of it as a region inhabited solely by white Europeans. Roman Britain was actually a highly multicultural society which included newcomers and locals with black African ancestry and dual heritage, as well as people from the Middle East.
For the most part, these findings have been welcomed by the public, and incorporated by museums into displays and educational content. But, post-Brexit referendum and in an atmosphere of growing nationalism, they have also been rejected and ridiculed .
The research behind this dramatic change in our understanding comes from my field of bioarchaeology, a sub-field of archaeology which focuses on the study of human remains using a variety of techniques drawn from osteology and forensics. Bioarchaeology's aim is to understand the lives of past people in context, combining data about their skeleton with information about the society in which they lived.
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Who exactly are the Roman dead? © Museum of London
We can investigate further than ever before by looking at people's diet and childhood origin using light stable isotopes : naturally occurring chemicals in drinking water and food sources, which are used by the body to make bones and teeth. We also use new techniques in analyzing ancient DNA to understand aspects of their physical appearance, diseases and population affiliation. The new perspective on Roman Britain that this research has uncovered is explored in the Museum of London's latest exhibition , which I helped curate.
People vs objects
History is always subject to bias – what kind of bias and the scale of it just depends on the sources of evidence. There's a dominance of male authored primary sources in the Roman period, for example, which distorts our perspective. One important source of information about the movement of people in the Roman period are inscriptions, particularly from tombstones. These show that people had come to Britain from the Mediterranean, France and Germany. But this heavily skews our understanding towards men, people with a military connection, and elites.
But skeletons provide a unique perspective on the society and environment in which a person lived. These factors shaped their health, and bones and teeth retain this evidence, revealing information such as where they spent their early childhood. These are datasets which are therefore independent of many sources of bias. Bioarchaeological studies of Roman-period skeletons have really challenged knowledge based upon traditional sources of archaeological evidence.
Take evidence from material culture, such as jewelry. In the past, when items with a continental origin were found in a burial, all too often a direct connection was made between the origin of these items and the person laid to rest. Take the unique burial of a 14-year-old girl in Southwark (London), whose grave goods included glassware and a carved ivory clasp knife in the shape of a leopard, rare items with connections to the wider empire.
Examples of Roman grave goods. © Museum of London
The original site report of the excavation suggested that the girl had come from Carthage, because of the leopard imagery and use of ivory. But intriguingly, later forensic ancestry, stable isotope and aDNA analyses revealed that she grew up in the southern Mediterranean and then spent at least the last four years of her life in London. She had white European ancestry, blue eyes and the genetic group to which her maternal DNA belonged was HV6, which is found today in southern and eastern Europe.
This case – and there are many others like it – demonstrates the importance of applying new scientific techniques to help solve these important archaeological questions. It also challenges a traditional overreliance on material culture to explore migration.
Discerning information from most burials is not very straightforward, reflecting the adage that "the dead don't bury themselves" – families and social groups also make choices about the deceased's funeral. Similar cases have been found elsewhere in Roman Britain, particularly at settlements with military garrisons.
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Model of the first bridge over the Thames (85-90AD) at the Museum of London. Image: Steven G Johnson /CC BY SA 3.0
In London, these questions become more difficult to answer. Informally established by traders and merchants around 48AD, five years after the Claudian invasion, Londinium soon became the heart of the Imperial administration for the territory.
Unlike many others in Britain, the majority of excavated burials in London either have locally or British-made objects or else none are present (wood and fabric rarely survive to discovery). And the few tombstones we have only survived because they were used to build the Medieval city wall.
In this situation, where many hundreds of people remain anonymous in death, bioarchaeology is the only way to understand the nuances of this unique population. Many of these anonymous people included women and children who had travelled as free people or as slaves, from Italy and Germany, as well as the southern Mediterranean. Only bioarchaeological methods allow us to unpack the true diversity of London's population at this time. These methods have enabled us to show that people with black African ancestry travelled to and were born in London throughout the Roman period.
The skull of a woman buried in Southwark with curator Meriel Jeater. © Museum of London
We have discovered, for example, that one middle-aged woman from the southern Mediterranean has black African ancestry. She was buried in Southwark with pottery from Kent and a fourth century local coin – her burial expresses British connections, reflecting how people's communities and lives can be remade by migration. The people burying her may have decided to reflect her life in the city by choosing local objects, but we can't dismiss the possibility that she may have come to London as a slave.
The evidence for Roman Britain having a diverse population only continues to grow. Bioarchaeology offers a unique and independent perspective, one based upon the people themselves. It allows us to understand more about their life stories than ever before, but requires us to be increasingly nuanced in our understanding, recognizing and respecting these people's complexities.
Roman Dead Exhibition is showing at the Museum of London Docklands from May 25 to October 28 2018.
Top image: Skull from Roman Dead exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands © Museum of London
This article was originally published under the title ' The Roman dead: new techniques are revealing just how diverse Roman Britain was ' by Rebecca Redfern on The Conversation , and has been republished under a Creative Commons License.
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Cousin_Jack wrote on 28 May, 2018 - 00:57
The area of Britain in which I live has quite a history to it. Since the area was until recently heavily mined I've heard of many artifacts which have been found, from coin hoards in mounds, to iron age gold stater coins found in streets. Roman oil lamps and figures found in tin gravels, hollowed out log canoes with axes in them found in river banks, to greenstone axeheads found near mine entrances. This is the problem, since the artifacts were found they usually remained in the finders possession, these artifacts now being lost. Even the artifatcs which were in the old town musem are lost since it was shut down. Artifacts relating to the church seem to be the only things left.
In Anglia et Cornubia.
15 July, 2021 - 02:01 Nathan Falde
HS2 Excavation Hillingdon Hoard of Potins a "Once-In-A-Lifetime Find"
While searching for artifacts in a secluded spot in the West London borough of Hillingdon in August 2020, a team of archaeologists assigned to the HS2 high-speed rail project hit the jackpot, both...
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Henry III's Rediscovered Westminster Abbey Sacristy Opens to Tourists
The long-lost Great Sacristy of Henry III, built nearly eight centuries ago and rediscovered in 2020, will be open to the public for the first time this summer. The 13th century king ordered this...
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14 April, 2021 - 00:03 dhwty
Richard II: The Tragic Life, Love and Death of the King of England
Taking the throne at the early age of ten, Richard II was a 14 th century King of England, whose life was shaped and manipulated by those surrounding him in their constant quest for power. Even his...
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6 February, 2021 - 21:22 dhwty
Helle's Toilet: Three-Person Loo Seat was Unusual Medieval Status Symbol
Helle's Toilet is the name given to a Medieval toilet seat that was discovered during an archaeological excavation in London. It is most notable for being a rare example of a triple toilet seat...
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Ending the Historical Atrocity of Virginity Tests?
Since medieval times, many Muslim communities have regarded the hymen, the tiny piece of skin known as the vaginal membrane, as proof of virginity and a woman's moral virtue. Even today in the United...
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22 December, 2020 - 00:43 ashley cowie
A Secret Grail Crypt Under A London River? The Search Is On
An amateur archaeologist in England claims the Holy Grail is buried in a secret "Grail crypt" under a river in Hounslow, London. And an environment agency plans to drain the river to find out if the...
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Big - 1988
Movie: Big - 1988
Director: Penny Marshall
Synopsis: Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks) is a normal 12 year old boy before he encountering a fortune-telling called Zoltar Speaks at an amusement park. He makes a wish to be "big" - and finds himself an adult the next morning. While his best friend Billy (Jared Rushton) tries to find out where Zoltar has been moved to, Josh must try to make the best of things. After encountering a toy executive (Robert Loggia) at FAO Schwarz, his childlike enthusiasm gets him a job, and a salary, and eventually a girlfriend.
Scene: On their first "date" Josh takes fellow executive Susan Lawrence (Elizabeth Perkins) to his favorite amusement park. After riding the roller coaster and sharing a snack. Susan suggests that they go to the music tent and dance.
Monogram: The music stands of the band. We came up short on identifying them, but we like their KF logo.
Contributed by: Joanne Roth


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Effects of post-privatization governance and strategies on export intensity in the former Soviet Union
I Filatotchev, N Demina, DM Wright, Th Buck
Erasmus School of Economics
Journal of International Business Studies
Filatotchev, I., Demina, N., Wright, DM., & Buck, T. (2001). Effects of post-privatization governance and strategies on export intensity in the former Soviet Union. Journal of International Business Studies, 32(4), 853-871.
Filatotchev, I ; Demina, N ; Wright, DM et al. / Effects of post-privatization governance and strategies on export intensity in the former Soviet Union. In: Journal of International Business Studies. 2001 ; Vol. 32, No. 4. pp. 853-871.
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WFYHP 0209 Jim Stavis 0
Jim Stavis was diagnosed with Juvenile Type 1 diabetes when he was 17 years old. At that time, he was told that he would live a shortened life span with health side effects such as kidney and heart disease, blindness, and amputations. He could have become depressed and allow that diagnosis to impair his life ambitions, but instead, he used the diagnosis to motivate him to achieve even greater success. He started a business while in college that became successful called Pace Setter that manufactured automotive aftermarkets products for the new import cars that were flooding into the market. After 15 years, he started another business in steel distribution that is still operating today after 31 years. Unfortunately, as Jim grew older, many of the complications of diabetes that were forecasted to occur did in fact happen. As he approached his 50th birthday, Jim required a triple organ transplant of his heart, kidney, and pancreas in order to survive. The problem was such a transplant combination had never been performed. Jim would be the first. He has a great perspective on what's it like to experience great adversity and to not only survive but thrive.
WFYHP 0208 Laura Pennington Briggs 0
Laura Briggs is a former inner-city teacher turned entrepreneur, freelance writer, and author. She's also a military wife, domestic violence advocate, and Ph.D. candidate in public administration and policy writing my dissertation. Her first book is in the top ten in the Business Category for the "Author Academy Awards." She's also delivered two TEDx talks on the freelance economy.
https://betterbizacademy.com/
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Mr. Wasser graduated from Nova Southeastern University with a Masters Degree in Marital & Family Therapy and a certificate in Sports & Fitness Psychology from California State University. He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Addictions Professional (CAP), and Certified Hypnotherapist. Mr. Wasser is also a Certified Neuro- Emotional Technique (NET) practitioner, Certified Pre-Marital Counseling Provider for Dade and Broward counties and Florida Qualified Supervisor for Registered MFT and MHC Interns. As a Clinical Member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, he is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor and has served as a past Board Member for the Broward Association for Marriage & Family Therapy. Jason is also a Certified Business Finishing School Coach.
Mr. Wasser works with children, couples, individuals and families and is the Founder and Clinical Director of The Family Room Wellness Associates.
WFYHP 0206 Ashley and Gianna - Quilt 0
Ashley Sumner is the CEO & Co-founder of Quilt. She's a community builder obsessed with designing unique ways to connect people in a more meaningful way. She started her career as a performer (tap dancing was her favorite), quickly learned about her fascination with connecting people, which led to a career in matchmaking, and ultimately realized that she wanted to build accessible, welcoming communities.
Gianna's second start-up is Quilt, which formed in the effort to rebuild the feminine connection. She started her first company, One Roof, while living in Melbourne, Australia. She is passionate about connecting in safe spaces, like homes, through simple meaningful experiences, like conversation. She believes anything is possible and that we don't need to follow the current structures that have been built. There is always an opportunity to build something new and more human.
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Maki Moussavi is a transformational success coach focused on helping people create lives defined by their desires rather than societal or familial constructs of success. Too many put up with a life spent surviving rather than thriving. Maki's passion is helping people discover their personal programming and the patterns in which they operate in order to break through to a life where they unapologetically live according to their own expectations, not those of others. She specializes in providing a process around transformation to streamline the path to change. Maki has a Master of Science degree in genetic counseling and counseled patients before embarking on a 12-plus year corporate career prior to becoming a coach.
Her upcoming book, The High Achiever's Guide: Transform Your Success Mindset and Begin the Quest to Fulfillment will release in October 2019.
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Caroline helps everyday people fast track through the stress and confusion of creating an e-commerce business so they can make huge profits and have a business that runs on autopilot while they can live their life without financial stress. The founder of the #1 marketing service for newbie Shopify stores and the host of the Winning With Shopify podcast. She mentors merchants looking for that edge in business.
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Holding Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemistry and Human Biology and a Doctorate in Chiropractic, Amir A. Rashidian is the founder of the Mid-Atlantic Chiropractic Center. Established in 2006 and serving over 18,000 patient visits annually, the Mid-Atlantic Chiropractic Center focuses on high-tech diagnostics to detect and correct disturbances in the nervous system. The doctors at the Mid-Atlantic Chiropractic Center, promoting drugless health solutions, work with patients to eliminate the causes of disease and not merely the suppression of symptoms.
As a consultant, Dr. Rashidian has worked with 18 chiropractic practices. 16 of which were startup businesses that all reached profitability within the first 3 months of business launch. Dr. Rashidian attributes his success in opening practices to an intensive systematized marketing plan implemented 3 months prior to business launch. He has personally opened two very successful chiropractic practices.
A very active speaker at corporate events, conventions, and churches, he is also frequently interviewed by the local TV, radio, and newspaper. Additionally, Dr. Rashidian serves on the Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity and is a major financial supporter of their local building projects. Furthermore, Dr. Rashidian also serves as the chairman of the Elder Leadership Team at Grace Community Church. He has won multiple honors and awards including Business Leader of the Year and Philanthropist of the Year.
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SPANIARD [1], THE. AKA - "Spanyard (The)." English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "The Spaniard (1)" was first published with directions for a country dance by London publisher John Playford in the first edition of his The English Dancing Master (1651).
The melody was known in the Netherlands as "Bockxvoetge" (Goat-foot), a reference to the pipe-playing god Pan. The title is from a text by Dutch poet Stribee, who published it in his book Chaos, set to the tune called "Mooren-dans" (Moor's Dance) or, in England, "The Spaniard" (Spanyard). As "Bockxvoetge", the tune was published in the Netherlands in 1649 in a volume called Der Fluyten Lust-Hof (The Flute's Garden of Delights) by Jacob van Eyck (c. 1590-1657), a recorder player, carillonneur of the Utrecht Dom Cathedral, and director of all the bells and clock-chimes of that city.
A minor-mode version of the tune, "The Minor Spaniard," was adapted by Jenny Beer (2000) for her dance of the same name (Barnes, vol. 2).
Printed sources : - Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes), 1986. Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2), 2005; p. 85 ("Minor Spaniard"). Karpeles & Schofield (A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs), 1951; p. 25. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; pp. 31 & 40.


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module SleepingKingStudios::Shinkansen::Models::Adaptable::Errors
  class RecordNotFoundError < AbstractRecordClassError
    def initialize model_class, record_ids, found_records: nil
      super(model_class)

      @record_ids    = record_ids
      @found_records = found_records
    end # method initialize

    attr_reader :found_records, :record_ids

    def details
      return nil unless record_ids.count > 1

      array_tools = SleepingKingStudios::Tools::ArrayTools

      str = "Expected ids: #{array_tools.humanize_list record_ids}."

      if found_records && !found_record_ids.empty?
        str << "\n  Received ids: #{array_tools.humanize_list found_record_ids}."

        str << "\n  Missing ids:  #{array_tools.humanize_list missing_record_ids}."
      end # unless

      str
    end # method details

    def found_record_ids
      found_records && found_records.map(&:id)
    end # method found_record_ids

    def missing_record_ids
      found_records ? record_ids - found_record_ids : record_ids
    end # method missing_record_ids

    def problem
      record_string = model_class.record_class_name || 'record'

      if record_ids.count > 1
        array_tools = SleepingKingStudios::Tools::ArrayTools

        "Unable to find #{record_string.pluralize} with ids "\
        "#{array_tools.humanize_list record_ids} "\
        "(found #{(found_record_ids || []).count} of #{record_ids.count} "\
        'records).'
      else
        "Unable to find #{record_string} with id #{record_ids.first}."
      end # if
    end # method problem

    def resolution
      "The requested record#{record_ids.count > 1 ? 's' : ''} may have been "\
      "deleted, or the record id#{record_ids.count > 1 ? 's' : ''} may be "\
      'incorrect.'
    end # method resolution
  end # class
end # module

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(PR.co.nz) Integration and EDI specialists Flow Software's plans to enter North America have taken a significant leap forward by entering into a collaborative agreement with San Diego State University (SDSU).
The collaboration with the university will provide Flow with 4 months of in-depth USA market research by some of its top executive MBA students.
"Having established a significant presence in NZ and Australia with customers spread across South Africa, Hong Kong and United Kingdom, the US market is our next market to target", says Flow's GM and Director David Masters.
"The project's aim will be to analyse relevant sectors and to identify potential distribution partners," says Masters. "The timing of being selected for the programme couldn't have been better for us. We acquired the www.flowsoftware.com domain late last year and we are in the early stages of planning our US market entry. The Executive MBA program will add significant value to this process".
Martina Musteen, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at San Diego State University will be overseeing the project and has been working with the MBA students in the context of her International Business Opportunity Development (IBOD) program since 2007. In the last two years the program was extended to also include the Executive MBA students. Flow was supported in its application by Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED).
The project will last 4 months and is the culmination of 2 years work for the MBA students bringing together a variety of disciplines. Raj Bali who heads Asia Pacific Sales for Flow and is based in Sydney is leading the programme from Flow's side. "I've met all the students involved and the calibre is excellent. They have extensive business experience, are senior managers within their respective areas and bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise. They are as excited about the opportunity as are we".
Auckland's local economic growth agency ATEED alerted Flow to the opportunity to work with the university. "When the opportunity came up through ATEED we jumped at it," says Masters. "ATEED offers a range of business growth support and connectivity to opportunities and I think more companies ought to be taking advantage of this".
Flow Software Limited is an innovative software company specializing in the development, marketing and support of Rapid Deployment Integration and EDI software. Flow software facilitates the transfer of electronic information between software applications and between B2B trading partners. It works alongside almost any application and many of the most popular Accounting, ERP, ecommerce, POS and CRM software packages.
Established in 2007, the International Business Opportunities Development (IBOD) program is a collaborative project between MBA students at the San Diego State University (USA) and small- and medium-sized companies in other countries (although US-based companies can also participate). The goal of the project is to pair small student teams with companies interested in developing business opportunities in the U.S. market (or occasionally in other countries) whereby the students undertake market research on behalf of such companies as a part of their coursework. Under the guidance of Dr. Martina Musteen, the students develop the most appropriate strategic plan for entry into the U.S. market. To date, students have successfully collaborated with firms from New Zealand, Slovakia, Germany, Chile, Rwanda, Mexico, India, Jordan, US and South Africa.


We were invited to screen the film in Berlin at this cool festival -- the program looked amazing!
Writer/producer/director Shoshana Rosenbaum was one of nine invited filmmakers to The Attic Lab at Stranger With My Face International Film Festival, where she continued to develop the feature-length version of the short film, called THE GOBLIN CHILD. The lab culminated in a pitch for an industry audience.
We won Best Narrative Short, Best Sound Design, and Best Visual Effects at the Indie Capitol Awards!
Writer/Producer/Director Shoshana Rosenbaum and DP/Co-producer Aaron Shirley.
Goblin Baby wins Rosebud Award!
"The Goblin Baby" won a Rosebud Award at the Rosebud Film & Video Festival in Arlington, Virginia on January 25, 2015 -- placing it in the top 5 films of the festival! Congrats to our cast, crew & supporters! More info on the winners here: https://www.arlingtonmedia.org/projects/rosebud-festival/2015-showcase-winners.
Join us on January 24, 2015 to see "The Goblin Baby" at the Rosebud Film & Video Festival in Arlington, VA. Details to follow soon! See images from the selected films on Facebook.
Rough cut of :The Goblin Baby' complete! Thanks to help from resident goblin (pictured).
And...that's a wrap! Goblin Baby Team completes final day of shoot.
A skeleton crew -- Writer/Director/Producer Shoshana Rosenbaum, DP/Co-producer Aaron Shirely, Gaffer Thomas Fant, Sound Recordist J. Walter Swartz, plus a few little goblins, completed the final day of shooting the film. Thanks to photographer Karen Rosenbaum for capturing some of the shoot!
Congratulations to The Goblin Baby actors who are on House of Cards this season, including Oriana Oppice, Michael Gabel, Kim Tuvin and Kathryn Browning!
Tonya Beckman in "Yellow Face"
The Washington Post loved Goblin Baby actor Tonya Beckman in her performance in Theater J's "Yellow Face".
Palisades News features "The Goblin Baby"
The Palisades News featured a full page article on "The Goblin Baby", see page 4.
Women in Horror Month features "The Goblin Baby"
Women in Horror Month featured an interview with "The Goblin Baby" writer/director/producer Shoshana Rosenbaum. Thanks, WIHM head Hannah Neurotica!


Founded in 1981, CAPA was formed by concerned neighbors who joined together to address the uncertain future of their neighborhood. As the economic woes of the 1970s brought about a need for low-cost housing, many of the Cathedral Area's majestic, single-family homes were divided into small rental units. As a result, the character of the neighborhood began to change – no longer could residences be described as owner-occupied, single-family homes. Instead, the neighborhood was becoming a collection of illegal, multi-unit rental properties owned by careless absentee landlaords. In an attempt to preserve and protect the Cathedral Area from further deterioration and decline, neighbors formed CAPA.
Today the CAPA membership numbers have increased tremendously. Thanks to the hard work of hundreds of dedicated homeowners, volunteers, City officials and others, Joliet's Historic Cathedral Area is one of the best-preserved historic neighborhoods in the area. Since the early 1990's, 1,300 properties have been down-zoned to restore the single-family character of the neighborhood and property values in the area have appreciated 75% since 1990. the housing stock is remarkable and the preservation and restoration efforts of those who live here is unmatched. The members of CAPA and those who live in this neighborhood all share a similar philosophy of historic preservation combined with good, old-fashioned neighborliness. In 2005, CAPA's membership eclipsed 600 residents, friends and supporters of historic preservation.
As the University of St. Francis, First Presbyterian Church, and other neighborhood "cornerstone" institutions have expanded in recent years, CAPA has collaborated with others to help the neighborhood grow and also preserve its finest and most admirable characteristics. As CAPA continues to develop a prosperous community, our energies will no doubt remain focused on the philosophy of historic preservation and the appreciation of historic homes. All of this is done in an effort to create community and form partnerships with others for the benefit of all who live in this special area.
CAPA continues to have monthly board meetings on the second Monday of every month at 6:30pm. Meetings are held at the First Presbyterian Church at 805 Western Ave. All are welcome to attend.
Monthly Board Meeting May 13, 2019 at 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm First Presbyterian Church, 805 Western Ave, Joliet, IL 60435, USA All are welcome to attend.


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